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It's so odd to me that people think the cost of oil going up is universally bad. It's good both morally for me and financially for many people.
by mrits 5mo ago
It's so odd to me that people think the cost of oil going up is universally bad. It's good both morally for me and financially for many people.
- hgoel 5mo agoThe consequences to everyone that isn't as well fed as yourself are also good for you morally?
- mrits 5mo agoNothing keeps the people well feed like the inability to grow crops.
- Detrytus 5mo agoFunny that you say that, because LNG exports from Persian gulf being blocked will result in fertilizer shortages and potentially a famine.
- mrits 5mo agoMore short term thinking
- Detrytus 5mo agoWell, it seems to me that the liberal left agenda was kind of hijacked by big corporations. It used to be that Democrats cared about things like equal pay, labor conditions, education costs. Now it is all about abstract things that don’t matter in the real world: animal rights and carbon emissions. The “long term thinking” you allude to is just a mind trick to keep you at bay.
- AlexCoventry 5mo agoI think people are more concerned about the massive deindustrialization and famines which could result from the Strait of Hormuz being chaotically strangled, not the hit to their pocket books at the gas pump
- vixen99 5mo agoMe too. I'm surprised those in the Green Movements generally, haven't been celebrating. Not a whisper. Makes one wonder.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 5mo agoIt is nice to be rich. People in India and Asia are heavily reliant upon oil and gas coming through the strait. When prices shoot up by a multiple, guess what happens? The poorest people have to do without cooking gas. “Rationing” is a cute word to mean the poor take the hit on the chin. There is enormous, real suffering hitting those who can least handle it. Edit: I would add that those in the renewables industry are absolutely making lemonade off the situation. Energy analysts agree that short term profits will go up, but long term, everyone is going to be running to renewables. No country wants to have this existential fuel disruption risk hanging over their heads.
- epistasis 5mo ago"Green movements" look for a planned transition away from oil that doesn't cause worldwide economic disaster. The whole motivation is to prevent human suffering, not increase it. That this makes you wonder indicates that you fundamentally misunderstand the entire point of environmental movements. Further, even if there was "celebrating" how would you know? Are you involved with the groups politically working towards those ends? Perhaps you should question your information diet, rather than assuming that your information diet is representative of reality.
- joquarky 5mo agoWhat's it like living without worry?