I wouldn't say this title is a failure but someone did arrange a bracket for people to vote for the best among funny headlines like these on the fediverse. I wish I remembered who it was.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This occurred to me as well, but since Ukraine is destroying refineries etc, this ultimately just accelerates the switch to renewables.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

More like it accelerates the oil market of the US.

Russia down and out from sanctions and bombed refineries. The middle east is out from the strait being closed. That leaves the US, the largest producer of oil products in the world, plus its newly stolen oil situation in Venezuela. Indonesia, for example, has already said it will increase imports of US oil.

Because of labor and other costs in the US, oil prices have to go up for extraction to be profitable here. With the strait closed, exactly that is happening right now. Creating the desired conditions for the US to produce even more oil products and simultaneously lock in positions as a world supplier by fucking with every other country that could lower the price. Its quasi-monopolistic

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 1 month ago

If the goal is to support Russia while looking like supporting Ukraine, bombing Iran is a good way to go about it

[–] Marduk73@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

What?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

In a roundabout way, perhaps.

But I also anticipate Ukraine significantly stepping up petroleum infrastructure attacks against Russia, so we shall see how long that lasts.