Which, by the way, is THE ENTIRE FICKING POINT OF THE RESERVES IN THE FIRST PLACE

for graceful demand destruction and rationing to take place before it runs out. Because if you don't do that everything breaks...

I think the logic is that ridiculous gas prices will encourage people to reduce consumption on their own. But the reality is nobody really has a choice but to use at the same rate and simply pay, so the boosted fuel cost doesn't curb demand and is no different than the toilet paper profiteering during the pandemic. Either way, it's looking to be about time for the US to cut Iran a sweetheart deal to fix their colossal fuck up.

That would require our government to have even the slightest amount of self-awareness. And that's just not in the Trump administration wheelhouse.

wait until the cult of vroom - the pavement princesses and motorheads whos trucks, race cars and hogs consume ridiculous amounts - have to put their toys away because their man trump, who hates them, but hates wind and decency more, decided he could figure out MIDEAST PEACE BY WAY OF BOMBS because he's so fuckin clever.

fuck 'em, but unfortunately the hits to fertilizer and the poor will hurt a lot more than their bullshit.

I mean, if you believe in capitalism as many of our dear leaders do, you wouldn't feel a need to "ask people" about limiting usage. As a product becomes more expensive, eventually people will naturally limit usage and purchase another cheaper product.

Not saying that's correct or how it works but might explain the behavior.

In Canada we called that a "Bennet Buggy". Named after the Prime Minister at the time.

Powering AI Datacenters probably

E: oh been on lemmy 3 years now, happy fuck spez day to me!

RASCOE: And people around the world are facing higher fuel prices and inflation because of the war in Iran. Could Venezuela help fill that gap? Like, does it have the capability to do that?

VIGIL: If you take a step back and look at the global oil picture, what Venezuela is producing, which is just over a million barrels per day, is a very small amount of the global oil demand. So it's about 1%, even though for Venezuela, it is a lot. Like you mentioned earlier, it's a seven-year high. But because it is such a small amount, it's not going to meaningfully change the shortages because of the war in Iran.

Before the war, 20 million barrels of oil passed daily through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway off Iran’s southern coast. That amount has plunged to “a trickle,” the I.E.A. said in its monthly report, since Iran warned that ships passing through were at risk of attack.

I don't know exactly how much oil per day the Iran War has prevented, but it seems like Venezuela can't cover all the losses. The NPR article says most of their oil is going to the US and India if you're still curious about that.

Or he trespassed to prospect and came up with that story before the owners found out about it

Oh we're definitely getting solar. Even with all the red tape around its installation and tax money spent oil subsidies, it's getting to be so cheap that few of the roadblocks matter. There is very little even the oligarchs can do at this point to stop it's adoption.

funny enough, this hand-grenade to the world petroleum foundation may be the thing society needs to realize IT'S FUCKING TIME TO FIGURE OUT GRID SCALE 100% WIND, SOLAR AND BATTERIES on a scale that even China didn't anticipate.

Accelerationists are starting to realize that maybe "blow it all up and start over" isn't as simple as they make it out to be.

If only there were people around to tell them that before saying and doing stupid shit.... Oh wait.

There will never be an apocalyptic collapse that Judeo-Christian societies are prone to envision. Life just doesn't want that way...

I'd rather survive

They're closed. The lid moves up and down to deal with changes in pressure as tanks are filled or emptied, without having to add air into the mix.

I always think about Peter Cushing...