top | item 40939046 (no title) alanwreath | 1 year ago Oil dependence is a risk. Chinas capacity to remove it makes them a more resilient. I wish the US would act accordingly. discuss order hn newest bnchrch|1 year ago In the US's defence they are a net producer of Oil. So they are already resilient in a sense.edit: my opinion is that they should still transition away for other ecological reasons nojvek|1 year ago Innovator’s dilemma for US. Although they are a producer, the oil industry lobbies hard, they fund elections. They are deep.US is too addicted to cheap oil, that we hamper ourselves away from cheap solar/wind energy.Arizona, Florida, California … southern states of US ought to be having the cheapest electricity but we have one of the most expensive.China spends a fortune importing oil and coal. If they can get cheap energy, which they likely will, they leap frog ahead.China is playing the long game, while the boomer governed US is only thinking for their lifetimes. janalsncm|1 year ago It’s better than being a net importer but we are still completely exposed to global oil prices which are manipulated by a cartel of not super friendly countries.
bnchrch|1 year ago In the US's defence they are a net producer of Oil. So they are already resilient in a sense.edit: my opinion is that they should still transition away for other ecological reasons nojvek|1 year ago Innovator’s dilemma for US. Although they are a producer, the oil industry lobbies hard, they fund elections. They are deep.US is too addicted to cheap oil, that we hamper ourselves away from cheap solar/wind energy.Arizona, Florida, California … southern states of US ought to be having the cheapest electricity but we have one of the most expensive.China spends a fortune importing oil and coal. If they can get cheap energy, which they likely will, they leap frog ahead.China is playing the long game, while the boomer governed US is only thinking for their lifetimes. janalsncm|1 year ago It’s better than being a net importer but we are still completely exposed to global oil prices which are manipulated by a cartel of not super friendly countries.
nojvek|1 year ago Innovator’s dilemma for US. Although they are a producer, the oil industry lobbies hard, they fund elections. They are deep.US is too addicted to cheap oil, that we hamper ourselves away from cheap solar/wind energy.Arizona, Florida, California … southern states of US ought to be having the cheapest electricity but we have one of the most expensive.China spends a fortune importing oil and coal. If they can get cheap energy, which they likely will, they leap frog ahead.China is playing the long game, while the boomer governed US is only thinking for their lifetimes.
janalsncm|1 year ago It’s better than being a net importer but we are still completely exposed to global oil prices which are manipulated by a cartel of not super friendly countries.
bnchrch|1 year ago
edit: my opinion is that they should still transition away for other ecological reasons
nojvek|1 year ago
US is too addicted to cheap oil, that we hamper ourselves away from cheap solar/wind energy.
Arizona, Florida, California … southern states of US ought to be having the cheapest electricity but we have one of the most expensive.
China spends a fortune importing oil and coal. If they can get cheap energy, which they likely will, they leap frog ahead.
China is playing the long game, while the boomer governed US is only thinking for their lifetimes.
janalsncm|1 year ago