JD Vance has said Americans should comfort themselves with the fact that allies are "suffering more than we are" from soaring gas and oil prices.

The worst and most stupid bit is this:

Speaking to crowds on Wednesday, vice president JD Vance said US allies are “suffering from this, frankly, more than we are.”

He claimed this was because they had “focused on a lot of green energy scams and they’re hurting a lot more than we are.”

Vance continued:"As much as we’ve got to focus on getting these gas prices down, the reality is overseas they’re feeling it far worse than we did because we’ve taken the steps to protect our energy economy.

  • humanspiralEnglish
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    4 days ago

    because they had “focused on a lot of green energy scams and they’re hurting a lot more than we are.”

    More green energy focus would have meant hurting a lot less, although last 2-3 years has seen EU fossil electricity drop 10% each year. The first shock to EU energy prices was supporting US war on Russia, including the sabotage of Nordstream. LNG from the US is very expensive, and produces more emissions than local coal.

    A new spike from US/Israel current contempt for the world is definitely US extortion’s fault, and not “too much green energy” fault. Current NG prices in Europe make just the fuel cost of NG electricity between 12c-24c/kwh (depending on peaker vs expensive plant)

    EU member state incompetence has led to emergency measures of cutting fuel taxes (please use more fuel to drive price higher) instead of massive solar orders and emergency projects.