No blood for oil. It was evil and stupid in the 00s, and it's worse today now that oil is increasingly replaceable
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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Meanwhile, China has been hard focused on renewables and lowering their need for oil.
Good plan Lindsey...if it was 2006 not 2026.
These old fucks are still thinking like it's 1986.
They have a big focus on nuclear power as well, they have 59 operating nuclear power plants with over 28 under construction. Nuclear is just as important as renewables at this current time in our technological evolution. We need better energy storage technology for pure renewable to work well.
It would also be sick if nuclear fusion becomes a reality and makes all other power generation obsolete, generally.
BUY A BIKE!!!
Fuck you "we." "We" who!? When oil companies profit "we" don't see a fucking dime of that money.
Well, he means himself and his friends, which is what all politicians have always meant when they say "we" are going to benefit from their decisions.
We're expected to believe Graham was speaking in metric?? Fake news!
For the longest time, I only heard about "Kia Stahma" on UK panelshows. The first time I saw his name in print ("Kier Starmer") I was llke - wait - not one, not two, but THREE r's??? WTF! lol
I still feel weird when I head a American broadcaster talk about "Kier Starmer". It just sounds wrong to me. heh.
But yeah, as the other person replying mentioned, it's Al Jazeera, so they heard "tons" and wrote "tonnes". I'd almost not even call that an error, just an accidental choice. Transcription gets rough. You think "How hard is it to transcribe?" but written and spoken language are VERY different, even before you get into regionalization and accents. :)
"Kier" is not a common name, nor is "Starmer." So at a certain point, it's just a bunch of syllables and you have to just do the best you can.
I knew a Japanese person who, upon hearing former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's name, couldn't hear anything except a common phrase in cooking recipes, "golden brown."
The source is AlJazeera so even tho Graham likely meant tons, the source took it as metric tonnes.
A simple error.
I believe that was the joke.
Profits over people once again.
Republicans are genuinely traitors to the US. It’s hard to put into words how much I hate them.
Remember when we joked about america invading anything for oil and then we all stopped for a bit because they tried to convince us that there was more to the US than being the state equivelent of a crackhead with a dozen shotguns? And then they launched a self described war to bring about the apocalypse and also steal all the oil... can we stop pretending everything is ok!?
This is China’s nightmare
Forget everything else, this is the essence of it.
The one thing you want even less than the Near East dominated by US oil interests is a Near East dominated by the Chinese.
Then maybe the West shouldn't have spent 50 years selling the PRC the rope they're using to hang them with.
Even some of the near east is starting to think about what happens when the goo runs out. Only the US is doubking down.
Aaaannnddd there it is!
As if there was any pretext before
It's all the American government has ever cared about.
Assault! Homicide! Blood for money, money!
Believe in the underpants gnomes theory!
- Invade Iran at an estimated $1B a day and service men dying. And do that for several months (I hope not longer)
- ....
- Profit!
Again, this is standard wealth transfer to corporate America. All that cash goes into these senator's pockets via the MIC.
Who do you think that billion dollars a day goes to?
Is step 1 also Profit!?
Profit every step of they way.
And it's the same people. Who are also clever enough to profit from a bull market or a bear market. Who cares, just as long as one or the other doesn't stay too long so they can profit off the swing.
We're going to have the HOTTEST economy ever! - MAGA
Petroleum based economy and governmebt craves petroleum at any cost.
And ironically seek to make the economy even more petroleum-dependent even though alternatives have gone from barely workable to actually superior.
Americans, for a ton of money they will sell their own mother, zero morality.
But please do remember that there's a difference between the average American^[not counting MAGA] and our oligarchs…