Scott P ✅
Дими́трийread this somewhere:
"the money spent going to war for oil could have been spent eliminating the need for oil."
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur@saltywizard
This^^^!!!
This^^^!!!
sleepfreeparent@saltywizard yes true but that would benefit YOU rather than further concentrating wealth for THEM
Edelruth, PBS Passport HolderYe, but Lockhead! Think of their needs!
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GhostOnTheHalfShellIt’s really so crazy too because now more than ever we need to do those things that we really haven’t especially in the United States at least not in earnest and to the degree we need to.
Building car free neighborhood and cities, restoring watersheds, relocalizing farming and small plot, multi crop farms that can recycle organic waste from communities, car free can be much greener as well.
These measures could eliminate 90% of our costs supporting transportation
John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️@saltywizard there was a graphic going around illustrating that the cost of 1 LNG tanker produces N PWh electricity...once...while that $ spent on solar produces that same N PWh electricity... every year for 25+ years.
JackMexTrue.
But then oil companies could not fill their pockets with blood and pollution money.
Nazo@saltywizard I feel like it would take more on the order of one fourth that amount. If even that much...
The rest could have been spent housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, funding research into diseases (CURING diseases I mean! Get that RFK Jr idiot out of power for the love of whatever!), and probably a bit left over for fixing some other things or something.
Jimmy@saltywizard Yeah, but... THINK OF THOSE POOR,STARVING ARMS MANUFACTURERS!😭 😭 😭
Graydon@saltywizard Society exists to make you buy gas.
And the people who get the money from you buying gas are going to keep it that way no matter what it costs anyone but them.
Leanne J@saltywizard Yep. Like @documentally’s newsletter tonight, I know where my money will be spent. The sooner we (UK and everywhere) can get away from that dependency the better.
@FourQ ♿@saltywizard Whoever came out with this, I salute you.
C.S.StrowbridgeEven if we just cut the demand in half, it would remove the power some of these oil nations have.
A_Minion@saltywizard Exactly, Now they are trying to bring back Nuclear Plants. What it really is if they loose Oil and can build Nukes they are still in charge of production. Which means they can keep control of the world. With Solar/Wind every one, every town, every city can have their own means of production. In a "Democracy" they dassent give the people power & control. Greedy F-ers.
Mastodon MigrationWe will get there, but it is certainly not a straight path.
Mike Fraser@saltywizard They didn't go to war for oil, they went to war on vibes. It would've made more sense if they went to war for oil.
Ooze 𓁟@saltywizard I am hoping somebody realises that the cost of rebuilding all the destroyed fossil fuel infrastructure would be better spent on renewables.
Assimilateborg@saltywizard just a cupple of toots from yours, I saw this link, which is probably what you have read.
https://newrepublic.com/article/207946/iran-war-oil-hormuz-price-energy
https://newrepublic.com/article/207946/iran-war-oil-hormuz-price-energy
Stargeezer Smith@saltywizard
I've felt that the oil magnates have missed it all along. For some years now they could have been investing in clean energy and become the magnates of clean energy, still rich and powerful, but so what, they wouldn't be polluting the world.
But no, they couldn't see that, they had to stick with dirty energy.
Pretty short term thinking.
@stargazersmith @saltywizard Alternative energy doesn't make rich people richer, and alternative energy doesn't win wars.
We might have a green utopia someday, but there will NEVER be a green empire.
War is powered by oil, and that is why oil still matters.
bstow@saltywizard but that’s not what the oil investors paid for when they bought all those cheap politicians
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