AI6YR BenWell, that's ONE way to cause a massive increase in gasoline prices. Because "affordability" is very important to voters.
BBC: Fire at UAE port after drone attack as Trump says military targets on Iran oil island 'obliterated'
Janice in GA@ai6yr Dammit, I already lived through gas rationing and long lines at the pumps in the 70s! I shouldn't have to do this again!!!
DianeElectric cars available in the USA are already vastly superior to the ones in the 1980s. And China is currently producing even better vehicles
Taran Rampersad@alienghic @Archergal @ai6yr in #trinidadandtobago people are driving loads of #byd vehicles.
#China is definitely going to win the #iranwar.
Without a shot fired.
Γιανίρης@iriyan @knowprose @Archergal @ai6yr
Yeah decarbonization isn't happening nearly fast enough
largely because there's a bunch of countries who's state budgets are significantly funded by fossil fuel sales, so they keep blocking binding treaties.
As a result, China which doesn't have a lot of oil, just really polluting coal, has had the most motivation to develop renewables to cut their dependence on untrustworthy partners like Russia and the middle east.
@iriyan @knowprose @Archergal @ai6yr
There is an alternate unpleasant decarbonization plan where so much keeps getting destroyed by war and weather disasters that it becomes impossible to continue to maintain fossil fuel infrastructure.
@ai6yr @alienghic @iriyan @Archergal yup. The fossil fuel economy supported by both parties.
3 would be harder to lobby.
@knowprose @ai6yr @iriyan @Archergal
Exactly who "we" is in this situation is quite debatable.
This plot is what fraction of a countries population would be willing to contribute 1% of their income to stopping global warming.
The resistant groups look to be the USA, Canada, Russia, UK, Japan, Egypt, Kazakstan, and Pakistan.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01925-3/figures/1
@alienghic @ai6yr @iriyan @Archergal the 'do as we say, not as we do' group.
That's pretty much the theme. Mia Motley, PM of Barbados, points that out a lot.
Islands see it much more differently. 🙃
Subservient obedient pups who betray their people don't deserve to have their name repeated. She was nobody and will continue to be nobody.
Cuba is an island, big enough not to have to depend on US or Venezuela for survival. They've had 70 years to figure it out, it is insulting to say they are in distress because Russian of Venezuelan oil is not coming.
Venezuela is beyond any excuse ..
You can't use the word socialism and have some form of claim that capitalist markets will recognize a right to participate in them. It is hypocritical, despite of whether we like to support and be on their side.
We can all do better than that.
@iriyan @alienghic @ai6yr @Archergal you think Mia Motley is a subservient pup?
On that we disagree. She's one of the few vocal critics who has stood at the UN and made the same damned points you are making here.
So... I'd reassess your assessment. 🤣
My mistake, I was thinking of Trinidad/Tobago being the local extension of the 4th Reich ... and there seem to be more SW of Venezuela ... butt kissers of the the Fuhrer
Apologies for Mia, she seems to be having a spine unlike some others.
@iriyan @alienghic @ai6yr @Archergal well, Trinidad and Tobago, definitely. I presently live there. Here. Whatever. They're definitely orange cheerleaders.
In fact, them winning the election last year has some locals... suspicious of external support.
Cambridge Analytica involved all the major player in both countries. Wink wink.
Barbados is quite different. Mia Motley is a rare bird. Worth paying attention to.
Probably the only voice of the Caribbean I recommend. 🙃
@knowprose @iriyan @ai6yr @Archergal
I wonder if a pan carribean civil society group could provide better & more trustworthy social networking and collaboration tools than trusting the USA
What if #Venezuela hadn't kept oil as a national treasure but as a regional, S.American collective commodity for all S.America to defend and use. Maybe then it wouldn't have been as easy to be taken, and they knew there was plenty for all.
What did Mexico ever gain from passing out all Gulf oil to US oil companies? Better catering at state receptions?
DanieruOtakuBoy@iriyan @alienghic @knowprose @ai6yr @Archergal
That would not have been possible; Venezuela's gross domestic product or source of income has always been primarily oil. And during the last 27 years with multiple oil corruption scandals and expropriations, More than a regional treasure, it would have been an even worse plot of manipulation and corruption.
@danieruotakuboy @iriyan @alienghic @ai6yr @Archergal venezuela, like all countries in the region, has internal issues.
Again, like all countries in the region.
There are deep divisions on incentives, etc.
And Venezuela did share to an extent, despite that. Ask Cuba.
Imperfect situation. The real world.
(Well said Danieru)
True, Cuba doesn't fit the model Caribbean nation I describe, they fought hard to keep it that way and very few recognize the sacrifice. Especially after 1990 Cubans became extremely lonely in a hostile remote controlled world. Whether Venezuela assisted and shared can also be explained in also trying to rub-off a bit of revolutionary character and share some of the solidarity of the global left (what is left out of the left). Unfortunately rubbing goes both ways, with tourism being passed to Canadian and Euro exploiters within a mixed Cuban economy.
Those tiny little oases of resistance in the dried up rock called earth seem to have been an immediate goal of the empire, as most is never enough for them. The notion of #Brics as a new form of resisting the Hydra seems to be evaporating as Trump's dozer moves on. What will be next for totalitarianism, human/political rights of communities within controlled states?
I do like to split things in elements, more than summarize them as a single entity. The US state inwards, the US military machine outwards, and the federated western capital are not exactly one. So everything above this needs to be re-examined through this triple lens.
@iriyan @danieruotakuboy @alienghic @ai6yr @Archergal the trouble with the categorization is that they are really axes. And Caribbean nations largely do not fall on one side or the other.
Who feeds the inmate in the cage has sway.
Haiti, Cuba: different.
Jamaica: somewhere closer. The escaped slaves had more land.
Trinidad, Suriname, Guyana: Indian diaspora from indentured labor (in most local discussions, they are included as Caribbean)
So. It's not a matter of simple classification.