This is what I've been saying as well. For ages now. However I was listening to pre election political debate with parties on TV and everybody just kept talking about oil, oil and oil. Nobody even mentioned alternatives or anything else at all. And we even have a prime minister coming straight from electric energy distributor. So I'm not putting too much fate here.

One of the biggest advantages to EVs is that they can can get their power from anywhere. And even if the current power generation is from fossil fuels, as that changes so does the overall carbon "usage" of the vehicles.

The difference is also striking when you just look at energy conversion from the fuel source in the vehicle. That EV is around 85% efficient overall at turning that electricity from the wall to movement. For a gas car, you're looking at between 12-30% of the energy in the fuel tank being converted.

It's not ironic at all.

To him they are not allies his allies are on the Bored of Peace.

This is a great question that I'm kinda raging about.

I'm Australian. Our fuel prices have increased by almost 50%. Inflation for this year is projected to be 5%.

This is a ridiculous, unnecessary war, serving the interests of a despot we have had no business in supporting.

I imagine that our Prime Minister would say, we were USA allies for 100 years before Trump, and will be for 100 years after he's gone. It's true that our alliance runs deep. The current AUKUS agreement concerns building submarines in partnership over several decades.

However, I'm peeved that our Prime Minister is tip toeing around avoiding saying anything mean about the pedo in chief. Trump has thrown us all under the bus for his own reasons, and absolutely deserves to be called out.

Believe it or not there was a time before Trump.

FTFY:

Why are they still allies when spoken to and treated like this?

Fear.

Ey, go ally yourself, pal, arite?

They're US allies, and they know Trump is an old, increasingly demented man sinking his entire political party.

Od from fent you mean

We can thank Peter Thiel for that.

I think you mean restraining order from his couch

If a maga Republican is saying something, it's usually the exact opposite of what they are saying that is true. Look it up, this is not a joke.

They even lifted sanctions on Iranian oil

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-sanctions-iranian-oil

They're doing great

Didn’t know WaaS was a thing. This timeline is just asS.

Oil prices are pretty global. If you look at the prices for European oil (Brent crude) and US oil (West Texas Intermediate), then they are $14 apart. Which is not nothing, but WTI is still up by 63% from pre-war. That is still going to hurt the US economy, a lot.

Also, in the US the oil price windfall is privatized, while the oil price pain is socialized. So the US will still feel almost the full pain.

Let's not forget all the Venezuelan oil that the execs said was to expensive to drill, higher price might just make it lucrative.

However, for the corporations that have to use oil instead of sell it, profits get eaten up by oil price rises. So this isn't a simple benefit for billionaires. Some of them must be absolutely furious at Trump right now.

Because punching down is the American ethos. On a macro and a micro level.

Who is his target audience with this speech and why would this impress them?

That's the Republican's whole shtick "Vote for us, we'll make those people you don't like hurt worse than we make you hurt"

He is not stupid. He is deliberately deceiving his voters.

very very American.

This is the correct answer

It truly should be a learning experience. But I genuinely don't think Republicans in the US are capable of learning anything, especially not something as narratively inconvenient as this.

I don’t need gas or oil to cycle.

Well, technically, it really helps to have a teensy bit to lubricate your bicycle's bearings. But that's all.

I've heard more than enough of it. They just repeat the same lies over and over

My father ran me through it one day. It involves Al Gore proposal to sell carbon tax credits.

I think this was such a repellent thought to oil companies that they scorched the very thoughts around it.

Too bad about that election.

Not mention they didn't even tell them they were going to do it before they did it. Why should allies trust Trump's America when they stabbed them in the back at every turn?

Not after this we won't.

trump has, which is mostly PUTIN AND MSB.

Supposedly it has Israel, but they haven't offered to send any help. Seems like that relationship just goes one way.

I’m pretty sure he thinks allies of the US are beta males that follow the US alpha male…

Vance said Trump was "America's Hitler". Before Vance realized that he could get power by supporting Trump.

You seem to be using "he thinks" in the sense "Vance genuinely believes". I am not convinced Vance believes anything, his actions look like pure opportunism.

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