The US's dependence on oil is counterintuitive.

[berg80]

OMG I can't believe we have a former fox news host, reality tv con man, mma fighter, heroine addict and couch f'er running our country.

Aramco CEO Warns Of 'Catastrophic Consequences' If Iran War Continues​

The CEO of Aramco, the world's top oil exporter, on Tuesday warned there will be "catastrophic consequences" if the Iran war drags on, describing the current disruption as "the biggest crisis the region's oil and gas industry has faced" by far.

The effective shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz, where normally about 20% of the world's oil supply passes through daily, poses a significant challenge.

"There would be catastrophic consequences for the world's oil markets and the longer the disruption goes on ... the more drastic the consequences for the global economy,"

heroine addict?

 

[berg80]

The solution is to incentivize the Energy companies to develop alternative energy sources while still being less dependent on foreign sources. Punishing / Restricting domestic energy companies with more regulations and taxes accomplishes nothing but hurt the economy.

So on top of subsidizing their legacy energy businesses we should subsidize their shift to alternative energy? Doesn't that fly in the face of conservative, free market orthodoxy?
Personally, I think it makes sense for the government to speed the shift to renewables. But R's say it's "picking winners and losers."

 

[22lcidw]

They all sound great. Why didn't anyone else try this before? We shall see. Or, we are seeing why now. Same reason Bush 2 should have never went into Baghdad. His father even warned him. Rumsfeld under Bush 1 knew better. Why did Rumsfeld under Bush 2 not know? Because Chaney's company Haloburton was going to clean up on perpetual war. This is just another grift. Israel's in on it. I hear my MAGA friends. They are PISSED. Perhaps you think they'll get back in line for the midterms. If we have midterms. Or if they aren't rigged. This is scary times we are living in. I wonder how bad things would have to get before you guys would admit this is a shit show. It took you over a decade to realize Bush lied you into Iraq. You voted for Trump who was saying that on the campaign trail.

And you put the onus on deplorables voting. These are the people fronted to us. And we found out what they think of us from their animosity towards Trump. There was loyalty at the time for these men and women. Damn near every form of entertainment was anti Republican and vicious on how they treated their leadership people. Those involved sold us out. There are too many people that want to suckle on the tit and there are only so many tits to go around to suckle off of. And you guys are a hundred times worse as you throw away people for just having a different view on just one of your hundreds of agendas. So, laugh and mock and even destroy people like the Tea Party was trying to do. The common man running for office as you Making your jokes as your corrupted lifers on your side were winning elections like Coons of Delaware and so many more.

 

[Mac1958]

Countries with emerging economies in need of more power will ask why they shouldn't use the cheapest, dirtiest forms of power generation available and comply with the Paris standards when the US isn't.................................thanks to Dotard.

Yep. When the most powerful country in the world drops its standards, it just gives excuses for everyone else to do so.

Another example of that is the drunk Hegseth mocking traditional rules of engagement. That attitude will now be used on us.

 

[berg80]

Yep. When the most powerful country in the world drops its standards, it just gives excuses for everyone else to do so.

Another example of that is the drunk Hegseth mocking traditional rules of engagement. That attitude will now be used on us.

I haven't seen much made about Pete eschewing internationally recognized prohibitions on military engagement. It just shows how the regime disregards the well being of those US troops on the battlefield. Like discussing attack plans on a Signal chat.

 

[Mac1958]

I haven't seen much made about Pete eschewing internationally recognized prohibitions on military engagement. It just shows how the regime disregards the well being of those US troops on the battlefield. Like discussing attack plans on a Signal chat.

Unfortunately with this President and this group, very little can be fully examined before the latest helping of insanity occurs. It's like trying to catch raindrops in a hurricane.

Seems to me the only story that has persisted, among thousands, is Epstein. Now, maybe, the war.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Lefties, cease using all oil derived products. Dont be hypocritical.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

China is eating our lunch right now on renewables, power storage and electric cars. Their tech is AFFORDABLE.

Doesn't matter if the green idiots force us to depend on wind and solar.

 

[80zephyr]

We could have taken on Big Oil? Only in your dreams.

Then we deserve our fate.

 

[August West]

Then we deserve our fate.

Yes, we do. I`ve worked with people who lived 40-50 miles away from their workplace. Worse than the gas, they spent too many hours of their lives in a car. We can waste money, food, gas, etc. and it means nothing. But the time you spent in a car is gone for good.

 

[LeftofLeft]

So on top of subsidizing their legacy energy businesses we should subsidize their shift to alternative energy? Doesn't that fly in the face of conservative, free market orthodoxy?
Personally, I think it makes sense for the government to speed the shift to renewables. But R's say it's "picking winners and losers."

Subsidizing means funds and resources are being provided by the government to sustain persons or entities in which the government does not get any return. An incentive such as lower taxes on the condition that the person or entity invests (takes risks) money and resources to create an outcome with a positive return for both the entity and government such as a energy alternative, more jobs.

 

[sealybobo]

Venezuela was isolated and under embargo, they were getting more and more repressive, and Russian sanctions hurt them.

Iran has lost most of their proxies due to October 7th, also sanctions against them and the other BRICS nations weakened them, and their own economic hardships have made their people turn against them.

Cuba's situation is created by the Above. with Russia busy with Ukraine, maduro out in Venezuela, and Iran decimated by the after effects of October 7th They are in a losing situation to continue with their dictatorship.

You can make an argument about a lot of other countries. I'm sure that's what Hitler did as he invaded them. Demonized them. Like remember Republicans were suggesting Ukraine were the bad guys? Run by Nazi's? Remember Republicans and Russian sympathizers were claiming that?

I didn't know Venezuela was becoming more and more oppressive. Sounds like bullshit to me. Candidate Trump said he would be a master negotiator. Only a weak and ineffective negotiator and leader would do what Trump is doing.

I just didn't know the world was burning. Until Trump set it on fire. Thanks for educating me.

Now who's next after Cuba? Can you name the fires Trump needs to put out? Because in 2024 you didn't say anything about Venezuela, Cuba and Iran regime change. What about North Korea?

 

[sealybobo]

heroine addict?

You didn't know?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spoken openly about his 14-year struggle with heroin addiction, which began in his teens following the assassination of his father and lasted until he was 29. He has stated that he has been in recovery for over 40 years.

 

[Nostra]

Every country that draws from the bathtub suffers from price shocks, but the United States suffers more than its peers. The U.S. economy has a high oil intensity; it consumes a lot of oil to produce each dollar of its gross domestic product. America’s economy is more than 40 percent more oil-intensive than China’s, even though China is a net oil importer and sources much of its oil from Persian Gulf countries, including Iran. The European Union’s economy is half as oil-intensive as America’s. Even Russia, a petrostate, is about 20 percent less reliant on oil per unit of economic output than the United States is.

China is still a developing country in many ways. Developing countries tend to consume more oil than fully industrialized ones. But China also recognized its strategic vulnerability to oil shocks years ago and has been methodically decreasing it — not with warships but with electric vehicles and high-speed electric rail. Chinese gasoline consumption appears to have peaked in 2023, far earlier than analysts expected. According to an analysis by BloombergNEF, some two-thirds of electric vehicles sold worldwide are purchased in China, and within the next year, China’s E.V. sales are projected to exceed the entire U.S. car market.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/opinion/iran-war-trump-oil-prices.html

The solution to this problem isn't more oil production. It's less oil consumption. Less oil consumption being the opposite of trump's goal. He of the "drill, baby, drill" camp.

Is it surprising he has positioned the US in exactly the wrong way? No. Because when it comes to strategery (thanks George) Don's tends to be impulsive, self-indulgent, ignorant, and non fact based. But he does know his bread has been buttered by legacy oil company donations. Remember his offer during the campaign?

Trump pressed oil executives to give $1 billion for his campaign, people in industry say​

Former President Donald Trump asked oil industry executives last month to donate $1 billion to aid his campaign to retake the White House, three people familiar with the conversation told POLITICO — a request that campaign finance experts said appeared troubling but is probably legal.

The request, first reported Thursday by The Washington Post, occurred during a meeting of industry executives at the former president’s home in Palm Beach, Florida.

The oil industry has a long list of policy actions it would want Trump to take, including dismantling parts of President Joe Biden’s green agenda and rolling back pollution regulations that threaten to crimp their profits. As POLITICO reported Wednesday, oil executives are also preparing some highly specific requests for Trump, including executive orders they hope he would sign if reelected.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-executives-campaign-finance-00157131

This moron thinks we wouldn’t need oil if everyone bought a Tesla.

You can’t build a Tesla without oil, along with thousands of other products.


‘What a dumbass.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

We could have been building renewable energy for decades. But the cave dwelling climate deniers wanted to drill for more oil.

This renewable energy is exponentially more toxic to the environment. It destroys soils, ecosystems, water supplies, flora, fauna, gulf deltas yet the ignorant green cheerleader keep pushing this absolute nonsense. It's an amazing thing to watch the glowarmers believing these lies. Sad really.

 

[martybegan]

You can make an argument about a lot of other countries. I'm sure that's what Hitler did as he invaded them. Demonized them. Like remember Republicans were suggesting Ukraine were the bad guys? Run by Nazi's? Remember Republicans and Russian sympathizers were claiming that?

I didn't know Venezuela was becoming more and more oppressive. Sounds like bullshit to me. Candidate Trump said he would be a master negotiator. Only a weak and ineffective negotiator and leader would do what Trump is doing.

I just didn't know the world was burning. Until Trump set it on fire. Thanks for educating me.

Now who's next after Cuba? Can you name the fires Trump needs to put out? Because in 2024 you didn't say anything about Venezuela, Cuba and Iran regime change. What about North Korea?

Argumentum ad hitlerm.

Try again.

 

[berg80]

Unfortunately with this President and this group, very little can be fully examined before the latest helping of insanity occurs. It's like trying to catch raindrops in a hurricane.

Seems to me the only story that has persisted, among thousands, is Epstein. Now, maybe, the war.

Which is the design behind "flooding the zone."

 

[berg80]

This renewable energy is exponentially more toxic to the environment.

Fatuousness like that can only be the result of legacy energy's anti green energy propaganda campaign.

 

[ThisIsMe]

What is the source for those chicken scratchings?

Well, I went out and figured out how much electricity would be needed to charge EVs if we swapped to all electric, then figured out how many windmills it would take to produce that much electricity, then how much land it would take to hold all those windmills.

So my source is my own research. Or are you going to say since it didn’t come from CNN, it’s not viable?

 

[Mac-7]

Let's imagine Democrats are in charge right now. Republicans would be screaming for them to make the oil companies sell us oil directly, rather than selling it on the open market.

I heard the ABC News woman/piggy/dummy say "but the USA has to sell our gas on the open market with whatever the prices are blablabla" in other words, sorry folks. We can sell it for more on the open market. Especially with what's going on in Iran. Rather than really sock it to the deep state globalist oil companies and insist they sell it to us here for $2.99 a gallon, no more.

Why not?

and insist they sell it to us here for $2.99 a gallon, no more.

I can’t see any pointy-headed government worker managing the oil industry by setting prices and production quotas

The private sector always makes better decisions