Lmao if that really happened, people better work really fucking fast on moving to electrical everything.
We’re so good at working together at literally anything. Look how well the world handled covid! We all stayed home for just two weeks and didn’t totally have a global pandemic that’s lasted six years now.
Let me reiterate that:
We couldn’t be asked to stay home even for a measley two weeks to eradicate a
G L O B A L
F U C K I N G
P A N D E M I C
THE ENTIRE P L A N E T
but yeah. No more oil? What could go wrong weeeeeee
The global economy is dying?
Good. Let it die.
https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/theory/economy-suffering-let-die/
It’s really not just oil. The oil gets more expensive, but it becomes impossible in the short and medium term to source other petroleum byproducts, which are required components of an astounding number of other items.
Then, there is the LNG shipped through the Strait. This is used for energy in even more areas and applications than crude oil is as a fuel source and necessary aspect of oil he production of other items (e.g. the drying and curing of textiles).
Finally we come to what is most worrisome, fertilizer. The lack of such will cause famine-like conditions in entire swaths of the globe and if they don’t get out during the planting season, there is not a recovery possible — think mass starvation in a large number of densely populated regions.
This is getting a lot worse before it gets better.
I don’t think there’s a huge amount of fertilizer going through the strait, saudia arabia is the only producer that would need to do that, and while they’re in the top 5 fertilizer producers, they are #5 by a fair amount.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/fertilizer-production-by-country
Natural gas byproducts are the single most in-demand precursor for agricultural fertilizer manufacturing.
You had separated the two in your argument, so I focused on the fertilizer aspect which you had indicated as the most impactful. Regarding LNG, all of the countries combined that could be impacted by the strait’s closure would only just pass Iran itself to hit the #3 spot, and that’s mostly from Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
All of them combined, including Iran, produce less than Russia alone, and nowhere close to the US. It’s not so much that there will be shortages due to lack of supply, there will be shortages because it will get so expensive that poorer countries won’t be able to afford it.
Or they start trading with Russia, giving them more funds for their invasion of Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_gas_production
Remember those “I did that” Biden stickers that dumbasses put on all the gas pumps a few years back?
I’ve been thinking about those a lot lately.
The Trump ones are funny because they use the pic of him looking into the eclipse without eye protection:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1842758474/100pc-trump-i-did-that-stickers-gas-pump
Lmfao oh fuck is that where that picture’s from?! Oh god I think I remember that, now that you mention it. He was standing on some balcony right?? I totally forgot
Edit: https://imgproxy.newswav.com/1000x0,q50=/https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/trump.jpg
HAHAHAHAHA
Interactive version, so you can be as destructive as you know you want to be: https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs
holy shit i loved that so much
Why is this so entertaining?
Well, that’s one way to speed up EV adoption.
the very thing (along with renewables in general) he torpedoed hard last year…
burning bridges is idiotic… burning bridges you still need to cross is going full MAGA
Trump truly cares about climate change 😍
Nothing wrong, the price will rise the rich get richer. Its by design.
I accept donations via a GoFundMe to help rise above the threshold.
“I did it!”
At last, comrade Trump has assaulted capitalism! Long live he who prepares the world for the great decoupling of fossil fuels
Honestly, I’d pay good money - all my money - if this ended capitalism (especially this late stage shit we’re in), killed off corporations, and ushered in an era of progressive steps towards communism…
Me too. I only briefly entertained any delusions of being permitted to live a comfortable life in this system.
Just like your delusions about opossums eating ticks, amirite?? LOL gotem!
That’s not true I’m subscribed to opossum facts now!
Unsubscribe!! If you keep trying to better yourself this cyber bullying campaign of mine is going to fail!!
We’ve spent nearly 100 years ignoring the problem and refusing to develop the alternative systems that would lower our reliance on oil. The modern society will never be able to move fully away from oil, there’s hardly a better solution for energy density.
But we could have still built the public rail systems to move people, built housing that was very energy efficient, designed our communities to be walkable, put solar panels on every rooftop etc. knowing that oil pollutants were a problem for the environment and a massive crutch that once broken, would collapse modern life.
