The US's dependence on oil is counterintuitive.

[Dragonlady]

Your thinking that forcing electric vehicles on people is the right thing to do counterintuitive, which is what the Chinese government can do to its own people.

Nobody was "forcing" electric vehicles on people. You're the like the morons who, seeing an automobile on the streets would yell "Get a horse!".

You'd be wailing about all of the blacksmiths and carriage makers being put out of work, and screaming that cars will never be practical until there are gas stations on every corner. Run out of gas in the middle of nowhere and then what do you do.

Green energy is the future, and Donald Trump is taking your economy backwards.

 

[Nostra]

Nobody was "forcing" electric vehicles on people.

GelBoi Newscum tried in KKKalifornia, stupid. Another topic you know nothing about.

Go fix your shithole country.

 

[Dragonlady]

There is no such thing as re newable and nothingto replace oil

You need a better education. Solar power is endless, as long as the sun continues to shine, and it's doesn't cost anything. Ditto the wind. This is the part that oil companies hate.

When I was staying with my friend off grid, we used to laugh when the electrical power went out in the valley. Because even when it's cloudy, there was still enough sunlight to power our solar.

 

[Dragonlady]

GelBoi Newscum tried in KKKalifornia, stupid. Another topic you know nothing about.

Go fix your shithole country.

Are you 12 years old? Stupid insulting nicknames, and calling others "stupid".

Yours is the "shithole country". You get lamer and more pathetic by the day. Solar and wind power is the future. You don't have much of a future with Trump destroying it every day.

How many of Trump's policies got blocked by the courts this week.

• Tariffs Ruled Illegal (Supreme Court): The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that using the IEEPA to impose tariffs violated the Constitution's separation of powers.
• Refugee Funding Freeze Blocked: A court ruled against the administration's attempts to halt federal funding for USAID refugees.
• Harvard Funding Freeze Deemed Illegal: A federal judge in Boston ruled against the administration’s attempt to freeze over $2 billion in research funding for Harvard University.
• Halt to Deportations (Migrant Children): An emergency order was issued by a federal judge to stop the deportation of roughly 700 unaccompanied migrant children to Guatemala.
• Restriction on Alien Enemies Act: An appeals court panel ruled against using the 18th-century Act to expedite the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
• Military Usage in Los Angeles Ruled Unlawful: A federal judge in California found the administration acted unlawfully by deploying the military to fight crime in Los Angeles.

Losers gotta lose.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

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

lol China uses a lot of coal. The commies sniveled about coal and ended up increasing the use of oil with their dumbass energy policies. they're idiots, and people should just stop listening to their moronic drivel. They don't know anything.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Are you 12 years old? Stupid insulting nicknames, and calling others "stupid".

Yours is the "shithole country". You get lamer and more pathetic by the day. Solar and wind power is the future. You don't have much of a future with Trump destroying it every day.

How many of Trump's policies got blocked by the courts this week.

• Tariffs Ruled Illegal (Supreme Court): The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that using the IEEPA to impose tariffs violated the Constitution's separation of powers.
• Refugee Funding Freeze Blocked: A court ruled against the administration's attempts to halt federal funding for USAID refugees.
• Harvard Funding Freeze Deemed Illegal: A federal judge in Boston ruled against the administration’s attempt to freeze over $2 billion in research funding for Harvard University.
• Halt to Deportations (Migrant Children): An emergency order was issued by a federal judge to stop the deportation of roughly 700 unaccompanied migrant children to Guatemala.
• Restriction on Alien Enemies Act: An appeals court panel ruled against using the 18th-century Act to expedite the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
• Military Usage in Los Angeles Ruled Unlawful: A federal judge in California found the administration acted unlawfully by deploying the military to fight crime in Los Angeles.

Losers gotta lose.

Yes. There are still far too many Democrat judges around. They need to be RICO'd off the benches along with the rest of the criminal syndicate posing as a 'Party'. Thanks for pointing that out, halfwit.

 

[Dragonlady]

All this goes away to:

Only thing I can see that we don’t need is cancer drugs since Tater cured cancer.


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Your source isn't valid and your list is bullshit. .

 

[Mick2]

Nobody was "forcing" electric vehicles on people. You're the like the morons who, seeing an automobile on the streets would yell "Get a horse!".

You'd be wailing about all of the blacksmiths and carriage makers being put out of work, and screaming that cars will never be practical until there are gas stations on every corner. Run out of gas in the middle of nowhere and then what do you do.

Green energy is the future, and Donald Trump is taking your economy backwards.

Then win the free market. Gasoline powered engines provided faster, easier travel and quickly became plentiful, affordable and dominate the market as a result. The government wasn't involved other than providing options.

The consumer will always gravitate to the better option. Always. Nutjobs who can't win that market resort to mandating the opposition out.