Gas prices may have dropped temporarily, but I've already been hearing stories locally and abroad of gasoline shortages, proving that you can't just drop the price of a limited thing and expect there to be no ramifications.
If you've got some medium to long term storage capacity, you might want to top it up now before prices really start to shoot up.
If you've got some medium to long term storage capacity, you might want to top it up now before prices really start to shoot up.
Thing is, they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. You've got incredibly tight Capital conditions for exactly one thing because investors have stopped worrying about making money and now they seem to be under the impression that they're supposed to swoop in like Superman and save the world.
Imagine the hypocrisy of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund divesting from all fossil fuels. Doesn't that seem a little bit like "fuck you, got mine"?
Imagine the hypocrisy of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund divesting from all fossil fuels. Doesn't that seem a little bit like "fuck you, got mine"?
Unfortunately, public policy is a non-starter until policymakers get their heads out of their asses and start focusing on what is true rather than what they'd like to be true.
At the moment, the public policymakers are pursuing genocidal policies. They are pushing for magic environmentalism boxes that don't do fuck all instead of actual solutions, while actively working to reduce production of actual useful fuels. They're actively pursuing policies that are reducing the amount of food being grown on the edge of global food shortages. The global food shortages themselves are in part caused by worldwide central control of the economy due to covid.
We're going to use up every ounce of fossil fuels and we won't be ready, but we'll have lots of trinkets we dyed green and covered in "save the environment!" logos.
At the moment, the public policymakers are pursuing genocidal policies. They are pushing for magic environmentalism boxes that don't do fuck all instead of actual solutions, while actively working to reduce production of actual useful fuels. They're actively pursuing policies that are reducing the amount of food being grown on the edge of global food shortages. The global food shortages themselves are in part caused by worldwide central control of the economy due to covid.
We're going to use up every ounce of fossil fuels and we won't be ready, but we'll have lots of trinkets we dyed green and covered in "save the environment!" logos.
Government doesn't have that sort of resolution. For example, where I live the money to buy these magical environmentalism boxes was torn from the pockets of the poor. The middle class and the rich were able to afford alternatives using fossil fuels directly, but the poor just had to sit and deal with it, so they pay hundreds of dollars every month just for the privilege of not dying of the elements, but they do get to feel very good that magic environmentalism boxes that literally don't do anything 9 months of the year when they need that power are installed on someone's roof somewhere.
On the upside, even though all the poor are getting absolutely raked over the coals, our politicians are getting very rich. So I guess they are accountable, just to the ultra rich.
On the upside, even though all the poor are getting absolutely raked over the coals, our politicians are getting very rich. So I guess they are accountable, just to the ultra rich.
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There's more than one set of vultures picking our corpse clean. Oil is one, but the environmental industrial complex is the current grift. They're looting the poor because the poor can't fight back.
So you're probably on the right track in many ways, but it's time for democracies to meet the standard of conduct we expect from other fiduciaries. We should start arresting politicians for corruption when there's even an appearance of conflicts of interest.
So you're probably on the right track in many ways, but it's time for democracies to meet the standard of conduct we expect from other fiduciaries. We should start arresting politicians for corruption when there's even an appearance of conflicts of interest.