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Meanwhile we won't impose oil/gas restrictions and the price of oil soars which Russia can use to fund the war. You want good grassroots resistance? Kneecap the

Meanwhile we won't impose oil/gas restrictions and the price of oil soars which Russia can use to fund the war. You want good grassroots resistance? Kneecap the government's source of revenue. We need to push on the Saudis to increase production and start dumping our strategic reserves to collapse the price of oil. While I hate the shale/fracking in North Dakota and its pipelines, we should have subsidized a base level of production so we could open the floodgates as a strategic weapon. As I understand it those wells were capped and they can't be easily started up. The need to heavily incent EV / PHEV is even more apparent. Oil enables dictators, and that destabilizes the world and our security. It's not just global warming, it's good old fashioned international conflict security.

southerntofu 5y ago
I understand your point, but i disagree with the conclusion. If anything, this shows that we need to use less energy overall and invest in durable infrastructure/lifestyles. There's no magical energy source that's going to make you fully self-sufficient (as a territory) without fucking up your local environment. We have such an abundance of energy and it's wasted on such bullshit, it's incredible. And by this i don't just mean people who buy IoT or take the plane, i do mean that most of the waste comes from our industrial system favoring private competition and planned obsolescence instead of resource efficiency and a repair economy.