Why do people keep helping him???
Why does the rest of the world keep rolling over to his idle fucking threats???
Why do people keep helping him???
Why does the rest of the world keep rolling over to his idle fucking threats???
no, he didn't beg
he threatened to stop selling US energy to EU
He'd be a moron to do that tbh. Right now the US is massively profiting off the high energy prices. Not its people but its oil companies at least.
The art of the deal bro. You clearly just aren't business savvy. 😜
if the goal is to further disrupt the EU then it would be a smart next step
oil prices for Americans are of no consequence anymore too
oil prices for Americans are of no consequence anymore too
Wat
I believe they’re saying that “no one in the USA gov’t cares about the consequences of raising the cost of gas to US consumers”
the Americans have a government that doesn't need to be elected anymore
they don't have to care about Americans which is why oil prices for Americans aren't a problem
Have you guys noticed that all of the craziest things he does always hit on a Friday? Just in time to harvest the changes if the atickmarjet but always late enough for the international markets to have closed?
Donald Trump is a rapist. All this is happening because Donald Trump forced himself on little children.
So it's the Group of Seven again when he wants a favor, huh? Why didn't he just ask his G8 buddy Putin?
Prices would plummet tomorrow if he got the fuck out of Iran.
I don’t know about “plummet” as they always seem to fall like a feather if that’s the trend, but you are otherwise right.
Which is fair, because there's a good chance we'd be back at it in three days.
Also, prices will never be the same, because the risk calculus for the Strait of Hormuz has changed forever. Insurance premiums for shipping through there will never go back down.
Completely agree. I am leaning harder into renewables as the dino-fuel prices will never be what they used to be. Maybe this is the push the world needed...? Sure is ugly though.
One of the few reasons I haven’t installed solar this year is simply that i want to stay close to my savings in case of job loss.
But imagine buying a petrol car in this economy. I’d rather have a used Musk car
I understand. I was able to muster enough to set some solar up and am happy about that. I am due to replace my vehicle and I am no longer looking at petrol autos and instead am trying to tell myself that the loss of privacy going into a newer EV might not be so bad? Maybe...? I do not like the choices, but am fortunate to even have those.
The loss of privacy has nothing to do with EVs that's the same on all modern cars.
Regarding privacy, I'm pretty sure Google is harvesting all of that through my phone anyway, so I consider it sunk cost.
I'm genuinely asking, would getting the fuck out be enough?
He would need to capitulate. He would need to acknowledge his fuckup, to the satisfaction of Iran. I don't think he's capable of that. Not simply that he doesn't want to, although that's also true. I mean he's not equipped to negotiate an end to this hostility.
I'm not even sure that's true. It kind of seems like Iran is pressing for regime change in the US: https://img9.irna.ir/d/r2/2026/09/29/0/173138753.pdf
But they did. G7 releases emergency reserves - The Guardian
Of course my representatives are cowards like usual. No wonder the far right gains more traction here every day. I'm not fooled by them, but when the actual leadership is this retarded it's not hard to fool most of the idiots.
"in 4 months" kicking the ball forward until November, ...when GTA6 comes out.
The European barrels are expected to hit the market over the next four months.
We just need a month for paperwork and stuff, we'll start around middle of November. Hope this helps!
Serious question: if Europe were to fully commit to installing renewables, how much dependence on diesel would it maintain in, say, one year? I mean really putting it all in, like a war economy but with this
The whole transportation business run on diesel. There are currently no good truck EVs and if there are they will require special charging stations, so it would be very difficult to change to renewables and EV overnight.
We will still be dependent on petrol though, but much less, but petrol is needed in the chemical industry for the production of plastic, for plane fuel, etc.
What about trains, can't those be electrified?
No. If you're going to spend the time and money (a significant amount of both) to run catenary lines and set up power stations, you might as well replace the diesel locomotives with electric, instead of converting them.
Not the whole transportation business. Most of it perhaps, but not all.
https://www.scania.com/ie/en/home/products/trucks/battery-electric-truck.html
Depends on how much society is willing to sacrifice. One year isn't long, but you could conceivably get just about every car and van off diesel, get just about everyone off heating oil (which is just diesel), go crazy on electric trains, dramatically decrease construction and electrify what you can there, and switch backup generators to gas (which doesn't really help the climate of course but helps with no diesel). The biggest near term issue is likely heavy transit. You could displace some with trains and petrol/electric vans, but there's going to be serious rationing going on and supply chains will be hanging on by a thread. Farming equipment also a big issue. Hydrogen might be able to start replacing diesel for these uses but within a year is crazy ambitious. This would be hard to do in a decade.
Regardless, we need to approach this from a "war economy" standpoint, so I like the question.
A lot. EU has fairly shit power generation. For example if France and Spain citizens had access to window air conditioners it would have overloaded the grid by like 2x. Now you want to plug in a hundred thousand cars that are way worse?
What's the source for this? I didn't realize the power grid was so fragile in the EU. I thought most EU citizens with cars these days drive EVs already.
Of course I can't speak for the entirety of Europe, but EVs have not taken over. They are more common in some places rather than others and they're slowly getting more popular, but they're not the majority.
Also, at least at a local level, the power infrastructure is not really a problem and is improving. In my particular city, where it used to be confortable enough during the summer to not require AC, people have been installing AC units en masse some years ago, creating a sudden load on the network and causing outages. Over the past few years they're getting less and less frequent. This summer the power didn't go out once. Now the cost is another matter entirely, due to idiotic decision by several incompetant politicians.
Didn't both countries generate an energy surplus large enough to export energy?
Spain's a lot mostly due to solar and wind generation: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Spain/electricity_exports/
And France even doubles that due to relying in Nuclear power as their backbone:
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/France/electricity_exports/
I know that without the energy France sells to my country, Italy, we'd be fucked. And much of our goods are (idiotically) transported on the road via semis, so no diesel would be a disaster. And making new railways is an... interesting challenge in a country that's mostly mountains.
WSJ/US press repeating them, are pretending that 90% of prewar transit has occurred this one time at band camp. If it were true, China would be buying it and getting massive refining profits from exports. Iran has hit over 7 ships in last 2 weeks attempting to transit without its permission. Even if they were getting out some oil, region needs ships to go back into SoH.
Thing is... they folded. I wonder if it has to do with the number of US military bases on EU soil.
😂😂😂😂😂The man is a fool 🤡
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