I have not once questioned your credentials. Just the framing of ethane as waste. Evidently I do not hear myself as you do, as you do not hear yourself as I do. I will do some introspection. Congratulations on your accomplishments.

I believe your point was supplies of methane and ethane are not independent. That's a problem because markets for each do their own thing. Good point. Waste sends me elsewhere. Waste utilization has been long seen as responsible industry goal, but here was framed as negative, thats where you lost me

Details matter. There is a lot of waste in fracking that we do nothing with sulfur compounds, brine, sometimes CO2, but every extractive industry tries to maximize the value of the process because all have complex streams to deal with. Cradle to grave laws may help. I will never trouble you again.

Uh - because they didn't and the parts they did suck.

Sorry, not to be contentious. I think it is unhelpful to your argument to call it waste. It can be used in a higher value product or it has the same rough heating value as methane. Making ethylene or if that market is saturated adding to a fuel stream is not waste like a flare or Fracking fluid is

As an aside ethylene and hence polyethylene can be made from alcohol from fermented biomass for example. So there are non petrochem routes, just not profitable ones in the current system. Unless of course you count the petroleum consumed to grow the biomass which you should.

The only point being ethane isn't a waste problem. Ethylene is the worlds biggest chemical commodity. But the ethane would be used in a different way if polyethylene magically disappeared. That's generally true for plastic. No issue with your bigger point, just think getting the details right helps

Not exactly true. Plastic precursors could easily be used as fuel. Ethane, is recovered, cracked to make ethylene, and polymerized. The smaller molecule methane is used as fuel as is the next larger molecule propane. Ethylene is also used to make ethanol, glycol, ... higher value than fuel.

Fund Science? Then we might have to act and we can't have that can we?

No doubt. It's funny cause its true.

Those French are a riot!

No worries. I'm sure he will just replace controllers with some of that absolutely foolproof self-driving car software he's been bragging about for years. I'm sure it works or he wouldn't do it, right?

Threaten to invade Gaza and commit war crimes, fire everyone at USAID and then threaten the jobs of everyone at the CIA on the same day. Couldn’t write a script more dangerous to Americans and favorable to the nations who wish to see us destroyed if you tried.

I'm jealous. I remember doing that with my kids. So cozy.

The basic premise of capitalism and it connection to our "pursuit of happiness" is deeply flawed. Every time they say our productivity goes up I think really? That sounds terrible.

And so we want more and more because the acquisition causes us but a brief moment of joy that recedes. Eventually you end up a broken soul like trump and Elon if you crave it too much for too long.

They don't think soft power is a thing and have no sense of the benefits we derive from having it.

It was always written in the cards - they just refused to believe it.