Gee, it sure sounds like Trmp is threatening to #nationalizeBigOil

Trump wants low oil prices. The leaders of the oil majors want higher oil prices. He wants them to invest heavily. They’re all about economizing on investment and cutting risk while rewarding shareholders with dividends and share repurchases.

Now the two sides are at an impasse. Trump will either create incentives for oil companies to invest in Venezuela or punish them for holding out. And the conflicting priorities will inform what happens next.

“We’re not going to aggressively put lots of extra barrels into an oversupplied market,” Vicki Hollub, the chief executive of Occidental Petroleum, told securities analysts on an earnings call in November, well before the White House meeting with oil executives on Jan. 9.

Mike Wirth, the chief executive of Chevron, bragged on a November earnings call that the company had gotten good at eliminating marginal investment projects. “We’re killing things earlier,” he said.

#NationalizeBigOil
#PolluterPaysPrinciple

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...(What the study only touches on peripherally is that energy demand is also growing disproportionately.)

In fact, I'd argue that the positive incentive and drive that eminated from the Paris COP far exceeded any negative external shock in recent decades, maybe comparable to the negative one of the 1970's #OilPriceCrisis in magnitude.

https://eciu.net/analysis/reports/2025/10-years-post-paris

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@forthy42 @Bellingen

10 Years Post-Paris: A decade that defied predictions

The 2015 Paris Agreement changed the course of climate politics. On its 10th anniversary, we look at progress across clean energy, policy, emissions, jobs and more.

Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit

#NationalizeBigOil
#PolluterPaysPrinciple

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...#StromkosteAusgleichsgesetz2025:

https://kontrast.at/strompreis-gaspreis-oesterreich-regierung/

And these "shocks" do not necessarily have to be negative: as the #ECIU in London recently analyzed in a report, ten years after COP 2015, the world is in some respects already further ahead than it “should” be in 2035: 41% #renewableenergy vs. a forecast 38% in 2025...

@forthy42 @Bellingen

Mögliche Preiseingriffe, Sozialtarif beim Strom: So will Regierung die Energiepreise senken

Die Energiepreise sind in den vergangenen Jahren stark gestiegen und treiben weiterhin die Inflation in die Höhe. Für viele Haushalte bleiben Strom und Gas eine große Belastung. Die Bundesregierung setzt deshalb acht Schritte, um Energie günstiger zu machen: von künftigen Preiseingriffen, niedrigeren Netzkosten bis zu günstigeren Sozialtarifen für ärmere Haushalte. Im Interesse aller: Energieversorger müssen […]

Kontrast.at

#NationalizeBigOil
#PolluterPaysPrinciple

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...the lowest-income percentiles of a population the hardest, as they spend more on consumption than the richer percentiles. In economic terms, it is regressive.
Just look what happened to grain exports to Africa, when Ukraine could not deliver due to the war.

Take #Austria as a postive counter example. It even strives for more social equality regarding energy prices with a comprehensive new law, the...

@forthy42 @Bellingen

#NationalizeBigOil
#PolluterPaysPrinciple

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...price shock, the war in #Ukraine and the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline let energy prices peak in the #EU. Another example was the major disruption of global supply lines by the #Covid-19 #pandemic.

And even a planned "#ShockTherapy" does not bode well for many economies, here's a look at the disastrous #Russian 1991 example of #BorisYeltsin:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110486678385992086

Also, (sudden) price hikes usually hit...

@forthy42 @Bellingen

RE: https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110486678385992086

#NationalizeBigOil
#PolluterPaysPrinciple

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@forthy42

"Anyone who owned these stocks was colluding."

Morally, yes, maybe. In the criminal justice systems I am (rather superficially) aware of, ownership in a legal enterprise, in particular one quoted on a public stock exchange, is never a crime.

" And a shortage of oil also sends a sense of urgency."

Yes, this will happen, however, as we all saw by the most recent external energy-...

@Bellingen

@Saket

Absolutely correct.

Also, because #BigOilKnew I'm therefore demanding to make them pay for the cumulative damages they've been causing to our #biosphere and humanity:

#NationalizeBigOil!
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112010551583333178

@rahmstorf

#Klimakrise
*#BigOils Verrat an der Menschheit *

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...die sie verursacht haben.👈

Es ist an der Zeit, dass sie für alle Schäden nach dem #VerursacherPrinzip haften!

Alle westlichen Öl-Multis sollten deshalb 👉nach dem norwegischen Modell verstaatlicht werden, da ihr Vermögen für die kumulierten Schäden kaum ausreichen wird👈:

👉 #NationalizeBigOil👈

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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110260341715481960

Hier...

The sheer unadulterated balls of this.

#ExxonMobil CEO, enjoying record profits, says you and I are not pulling our weight when it comes to addressing the #climatecrisis. I swear I am not making this up.

#MakeThemPay. If they don't pay, #NationalizeBigOil and do it that way. #ExxonKnew

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/04/exxon-chief-public-climate-failures

@environmentalecon @environment @climateemergency

@ClimateNewsNow #environment #environmental

Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures

Darren Woods tells Fortune consumers not willing to pay for clean-energy transition, prompting backlash from climate experts

The Guardian

@thehill

#Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO #DarrenWoods should be the final CEO of that corporation.
#NationalizeBigOil!

#ExxonKnew and is one of the major culprits that intentionally caused the #ClimateCatastrophe:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110680669265721701