Guess who will sell the world all the solar, batteries and EVs.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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The country where the government prioritised strategic foresight over the short term profits of legacy industries?
one silver lining about this new oil crisis is that we might see much less carbon being dumped on the atmosphere.
If the reduced usage isn't offset by the burning oilfields, at least.
Yah but we get that reminder like every 2 years. Technology is slowly catching up though.
The technology for renewables is not the main limiting factor anymore. In recent years the economics have changed. Renewables are the cheapest form of power today and dominate (90-almost 100%) new global energy capacity because it's so cheap. Grid scale batteries have become viable and are starting to be a significant portion of grid power in many countries
We haven’t gotten a reminder remotely like this since 1979. This one is only getting started, and some say it will be worse than the last.
We got one in 2020 to 2022. And then it went down so people forgot. As people we learn, as a species we do not.
I don’t think you looked into how bad it was in 1979. People couldn’t get gas for love or money. Many states set up rationing laws such that you could only get X gallons, and only every other day. At gas stations, cars lined up on the street for hours to get any. For the first time ever, the industry designed cars for their fuel efficiency.
A number of countries did speed up their roll out of renewables because of that, though
The amount of oil supply removed is significantly larger this time. With the war in Ukraine there were also some more obvious places to get oil from instead. It's less obvious this time