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I watched most of that debate last night and it was actually Trump who said that Joe Biden would "kill off the oil industry", as usual trying to capitalise on Biden's comment that the oil industry has to change. Biden could've easily lied re the issue in the way that Trump consistently does it but he followed on from Trump's scathing remark, "He's gonna kill off the oil industry", to explain that the industry would be gradually phased out through time and encouraged to progress to a more eco friendly operation that would embrace renewables, solar energy, effectively providing clean energy on a mass scale. I think he responded properly to what is indeed an intractable issue that has to be redressed and Trump is not gonna do that. I pray that most Americans watching last night's debate finally realise that climate change is not a myth as preached by Trump often enough. Biden's push for radical change has to be applied together with returning to the Paris Accord as Biden intimated rather than "burying one's head in the sand". Enough climate catastrophes have already happened in California, the southern states etc (and globally!!!) to enlighten most Americans that these extreme incidents are not coincidental. Joe Biden "laid it on the line" fairly eloquently in the fact that "time is running out" on climate change and people in the USA have to heed the warnings. He will never convince everyone re this particular issue and if he loses Texas then it is clearly down to "vested interest" within the fossil fuel industry - that is the way it goes but hopefully he draws the majority of Americans who see exactly where he is coming from. I agree that he had a solid debate last night and, overall, he did more than enough although I didn't personally like his response on fracking. I didn't think Trump was as good as some American media people were intimating (see the above Independent article re the perception "Trump sees no problems" - delusional/in denial comes to mind! And Biden rightly hit him him hard on his "no plan/strategy for this current pandemic" and all his unfulfilled promises of "it will all be over soon"; same on his tax evasion issue - full of denial and promises to reveal all but never does; same hard hitting re Putin non-action and embracing political thugs who have a nuclear capability; separating kids from their families for months and not "batting an eyelid" - an embarrassment to a country like the USA!! He did alright and responded well to the personal attacks and other stuff without being flustered at all.