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.
In Spain, for example, electricity prices remain low thanks to renewable energy. This guy is stupid.
He is not stupid. He is deliberately deceiving his voters.
Why not both?
UK - petrol prices are rising.
Electricity prices are falling because most of our energy is from renewables and british/european gas.
Sucks for me because my car is a petrol one. My wife’s is electric and it costs about £4 for her to charge up overnight and that gets her about 250-280 miles of range (£0.01 per mile).
My car costs £55 to fill up for 400 miles per range (£0.13 per mile).
Although my car is cheaper
Edit - changed currency symbol…realise 0.01p isnt the same as 1p…
What car does she have? Mines costing about 2p/mile in summer and a whopping 2.9p/mile in winter
A mini.
I might have the sums wrong, but we are on the octopus EV tariff so electricity is dirt cheap overnight.
Also 0.01p is 1p. Should have put the pound sign instead lol
But yeah, its insane how cheap it is.
The only kicker is her car costs £100 a month in payments more than mine.
It’s interesting seeing how mine, ionic 5, compares to others in real life. Only reason I got mine was is was one of the few cars somebody could sit behind me, with seat front seat Ben comfortable for driving.
I’ve got the first service 40k miles soon, compared to my wife’s at 10-12k, but realistically 6k for the oil, stupid HDi diesel engine
She has the Aceman that is 5-door so I think you can sort of fit people in the back seat but it isnt comfortable for tall people. No boot space at all though.
But it is very fun to drive!
“We created an unnecessary serious problem, but it causes more grief for you than for us! So why don’t you come help us fix it (at our direction of course).”
Gee, can’t guess why that might get some allies p.o.'d…
TIL US imports 97% of crude oil that Canada produces which is 60% of all US crude oil imports.
Allies? I though we made it clear that the us has no allies in this war. Nobody want ww3 only to distract the brainwashed population of an awful pedophile from a list that he will do anything to hide it. At this point they are alone with the mess, deal with it.
He does a North Korea.
The US has allies??
trump has, which is mostly PUTIN AND MSB.
Not after this we won’t.
US does not have allies. US & Osreal created the Iran war, US can clean up the mess.
Havent noticed any price changes yet. Also whos a bad ally now
I’m pretty sure he thinks allies of the US are beta males that follow the US alpha male…
Stupid toxic masculinity and their constant attempts to cover up their weakness and insecurities by pretending they are ‘real men’. And ‘real men’ don’t have empathy. So they behave like self serving pricks.
Why do people vote baby brained bullies into positions of power?
I’m pretty sure he thinks allies of the US are beta males that follow the US alpha male…
Vance said Trump was “America’s Hitler”. Before Vance realized that he could get power by supporting Trump.
You seem to be using “he thinks” in the sense “Vance genuinely believes”. I am not convinced Vance believes anything, his actions look like pure opportunism.
Before
VancePeter Theil realized that he could get power by [making Vance] supportingTrump.The fact that Vance actually said that shows just how shitty of a person he is. If he recognizes the kind of person Trump is and still tries to use him to get into a position of power is scummy af.
Oil / Gas is a global commodity, shipped around the world on tankers. If prices are higher in France, someone will take cheaper oil/gas from the US and ship it to France where they can make more money.
In the short term, maybe the US suffers less. But, in the longer term prices well even out as people will sell wherever they can get the highest profits.
US oil export terminals are operating near 100% capacity. The US can’t physically export more than they’re doing already. I think that’s the main reason for the WTI and Brent gap.
Countries with higher gas taxes are going to have higher prices than the US.
I cannot even begin to parse how he thought any of those words were a good idea, let alone in that order.
This is genuinely one of the dumbest things I have ever heard a human being say. Not only is it ludicrously, hilariously wrong, but even if it wasn’t, why would that be a good thing? Why would you want to proudly declare how much you fucked over your allies?! Does he know what the word “ally” means? Do any of them know?
Because punching down is the American ethos. On a macro and a micro level.
Who is his target audience with this speech and why would this impress them?
That’s what allies usually look for, suffering.
Oh, we’re just getting started.
does he also have a brainworm now or is he just as dumb? Can he explain like in what correlation does the buildout of greenenergy make one more dependent on oil?
I can only assume the brain worms are being handed out like it’s season five of the Strain.
Because you need fossil fuels as feedstocks for everything material and physical? How do you fertilize crops with electricity?
Using green energy for everything else frees up more fossil fuel for things that need it.
Just because we use natural gas to make nitrogen fertilizer doesn’t mean we have to; you electrolyse water for your hydrogen instead and you’re off to the races
You realize please smart guy. Explain how you fertilize them with oil.
That’s actually how we get a fair bit of artificial fertilizer. With petroleum and natural gas byproducts.
https://www.ucs.org/resources/whats-wrong-fossil-fuel-based-fertilizer
That being said, organic fertilizers aren’t gone, it’s just more expensive and less damaging to the environment in the long term
JFC are you truly this pig ignorant about how the world works? Do you think the grocery store is a Star Trek replicator?
Why do you think there are EIGHT BILLION people NOW when we had renewable wind and solar since the ancient Egyptians?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
UFOs or massive MASSIVE amounts of fossil fuel inputs??
Bro… What?
