A few thoughts about all of this:
I think green power (solar, wind, etc.) will become dominant in the future, but right now, it isn't. Hybrid, Plug-in hybrid, and all-electric cars are now (according to the feds) about 4% of cars. Electric generation is now about 17% renewable. By 2030, it'll be 24%. For those of you interested in making a few bucks, Exxon is now selling at $36 and has a better than 9% return in dividends. That will slowly change, but not in the next couple of years. Over the next couple of years, I expect its price will go back to the pre-covid level, in the 60s. You heard it here first.
IMHO, the future of clean energy is probably nuclear of some variety, but not fission. At least not for a long time.
We have several members here who belong to the Trump cult, and arguing won't change that. The attachment is not a rational one, but one of faith. It's like arguing to a devout Christian that there is not God. Doesn't work.
Pardons are generally the result of application and investigation, with the occasional corrupt pardon, like Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich, essentially the result of a bribe. Trump, of course, is in the process of setting the gold standard for corrupt pardons; a recent story somewhere in the MSM said that he was fascinated but the idea of pardons, these get-out-of-jail cards that he could pass out as favors to people who might do him some good in the future. Richard Nixon was never charged with a crime, and was preemptively pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford. Most presidential historian think the pardon was a good idea, although Ford was voted out of office, partly because of that pardon. (Ford was a president who was seriously damaged unfairly by the MSM.) In any case, the Nixon pardon demonstrates that a preemptive pardon is apparently legal.
