@benroyce

Ukraine is leading the way on freedom from fossil fuel fascism...

https://fortune.com/2026/03/29/russia-oil-prices-iran-war-putin-ukrainian-drone-attacks-export-capacity/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qdwpnwzwpo

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-oil-drone-attack-fire-export/33719116.html

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-used-storm-shadow-to-strike-the-most-irreplaceable-weapons-factory-and-why-it-matters/

https://wesodonnell.medium.com/ukraine-just-turned-russias-oil-windfall-into-a-fire-sale-b205959ec5cf

Excellent! Keep hitting Russia's oil infrastructure until Ukraine is whole again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/30/ukraine-russia-putin-zelensky-drones/

Good job!
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/least-40-russias-oil-export-capacity-halted-reuters-calculations-show-2026-03-25/

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russias-Baltic-Ports-Burning-Again-as-Ukraine-Drone-Campaign-Enters-Third-Day.html

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260330-russia-expels-uk-diplomat-on-spying-allegations

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/30/exiled-intelligence-expert-andrei-soldatov-jailed-4-years-in-absentia-for-breaking-foreign-agent-law-a92376

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-gives-russia-yet-another-pass-says-its-fine-for-putin-to-break-cuba-oil-blockade

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/30/zelensky-russia-iran-war-ukraine

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/100-Oil-Is-Solving-Russias-Budget-Problem.html

@Npars01 @benroyce

Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2025/10/19/uruguays-renewable-charge-a-small-nation-a-big-lesson-for-the-world/

@roblosricos @Npars01 @benroyce Good for them, but here is the big 80-point asterisk. Renewables are cheaper if you do not have any fossil fuels. Which the article points out, they don't.

For Russia or the USA, not so much.

We should still be putting solar on everything flat, just because it's silly not to at this point.

@mike805 You mention Russia as if anyone here had even the faintest impression that they are part of this discussion.

This is about bombing the shit out of Russia's oil infrastructure, not asking what *they* think about renewables.

@roblosricos @Npars01 @benroyce

@Photo55 A blown up barrel of oil has a value of zero dollars, so I agree with you there!

@mike805 @roblosricos @Npars01 @benroyce

@txtx @Photo55 @roblosricos @Npars01 @benroyce Not only that but they are going to pump another barrel somewhere to replace it. So you double the environmental impact.

Probably more than double. There is no clean tech on an explosion.

@mike805 Well Russia should stop their stupid war then shouldn't they — Putin can then unleash the environmentalist hidden deep inside him and stop pumping all that extra oil.

@Photo55 @roblosricos @Npars01 @benroyce

@txtx @Photo55 @roblosricos @Npars01 @benroyce Yeah, not likely. There is no environmentalist inside Putin. He is the best current example of a hard power, militarist, fossil fuel dinosaur powered leader.

Green utopia, if it ever exists, will have to figure out how to defend itself against such people. Because both warlike pricks and the dinosaur juice to power their forces will always exist.

@mike805 @txtx @Photo55 @roblosricos @Npars01

fuck green utopia

we're just talking about transitioning off fossil fuels, which will never be 100%

please stop using some vision of perfection as a basis for your words. it's not honest about what the real topic is here

if we make russia be able to field only 10 tanks instead of 100, that matters. that's the point of *transition*. fuck perfection

@benroyce @txtx @Photo55 @roblosricos @Npars01 My point is, installing solar panels is all well and good. But anyone who actually gives up producing and refining fossil fuels is militarily at the mercy of anyone who does not do that.

Using solar for civilian power to free up oil and gas for military preparedness is a good idea.

This fuel shortage will make small scale panel and battery systems very popular in places where people used to use generators. That will have benefits after it's over.