Whether you like it or hate it, the war in Iran has definitely had the effect of exposing some of the ridiculous fantasies in the world to a serious dose of reality.
Consider the UK. After implementing an expansive welfare state in the latter 20th century (e.g., free health care for all!), the UK since 2000 has gone all-in on the idea of an energy system free of hydrocarbon fuels. The 2008 Climate Change Act — passed with an overwhelming majority including support from all major political parties — committed the UK to 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. That mandate was then amended in 2019 to make the legally-binding target for 2050 what is known as “net zero” carbon emissions. That change got passed essentially unanimously in Parliament, without even a recorded vote.
Here in the 21st century, the UK has pursued its net zero fantasy with a vengeance. Wind turbines and solar panels now cover the countryside. Many power plants that use coal or other fossil fuels have been closed. Perhaps most important, the UK has banned essentially all exploration for and development of fossil fuel energy within its own borders, including offshore in territorial waters. Although there are large shale-gas formations beneath the UK, the practice of “fracking” to exploit them has been subject to a moratorium since 2019, and the current Labour government has vowed to make that moratorium permanent. The current government has also not issued any new licenses for drilling for oil or gas in the North Sea, and says it will continue that policy, although a small amount of drilling continues under pre-existing licenses.
The logic of these policies appears simple: carbon emissions damage the environment, and after all, we can get all the energy we need from the free and abundant wind and sun.
Into this mix has dropped the Iran war, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Maybe things were not as simple as they had seemed.
In the past few days, a serious shortage of aviation fuel has arisen in the UK. The shortage is not limited to the UK, but apparently is particularly acute in that country. From the Daily Mail today:
[The] Iran war has continued to wreak havoc on the aviation industry, and the UK could soon be experiencing a jet fuel shortage. The last known shipment of jet fuel to Britain from the Middle East is expected to arrive within 48 hours amid alarm over shortages within a week. Data providers Kpler and Vortexa say the consignment on the Libyan-flagged Maetiga vessel is expected to reach the UK from Saudi Arabia on Thursday. The blockage of the Strait of Hormuz due to the ongoing conflict means no other cargoes heading to the UK from the region can be seen on the water, they added.
What, you mean the wind and sun aren’t going to work to fly the airplanes? It’s almost impossible to believe how naive and detached from reality these people are. The wind and sun are also not going to work to run industry, agriculture, or ground transportation. And for that matter, they are not going to work to provide continuous, reliable electricity, which is the only type of electricity worth having. But the immediate crunch is hitting the aviation fuel business.
President Trump reacted with a message that you may have seen, telling the UK and other European countries to “Go get your own oil.”:
They have been living in a fantasy world, where the U.S. defense umbrella has meant that they never have had to face reality. If this turns out to be the event that breaks the net zero nonsense, so much the better.
Every watt you get for free, from sun or wind, is one you don’t need to get from the Middle East. Sort of simple. A lesson the third world countries are picking up on. And who gains from this, China, making solar panels at K-mart prices.
A clever genius is behind this plan, I think.
Every watt you reduce your reliable electricity supply by, takes you closer to grid collapse.
Middle east is mainly oil.. very few countries use that for electricity.
Main post a couple of items ago shows one of the major problems with solar.
The watts from solar and wind are not free.
They are very expensive to extract and distribute and are deeply unreliable.
And, of course to anyone with half a brain, wind and solar energy causes immense ecological damage.
More like useful idiots, like you, are behind this plan.
Sort of oversimplified like a lobbyist would say it or a non profit agenda group or agenda media team.
It really is sad how this lie keeps getting repeated over and over again.
Wind and solar result in little if any savings in terms of fossil fuels.
The reason is simple, much like the morons who keep pushing the above myth.
Actual fossil fuel plants need to be kept in warm to hot standby so that they can take over on short notice when wind and solar fail. Which they do quite frequently.
It is really sad that you have no study backing up your claim.
There have been hundreds, some of which are linked in this article:
cliscep.com
/2026/02/18/the-case-against-net-zero-a-fourteenth-update
Still no hard numbers on your little to no savings claim. And I’m not going through dozens of third site links to find there may be one.
The burden of proof lies with you and others who make the claim that wind and solar will be cheaper and better.
Don’t expect LoserNames to ever give up. He actually believes whatever his handlers tell him to believe and ignores everything else.
It’s good that a few alarmists show up here. Watching them get roughed up is good training for me, living here in an ocean of alarmists and wokesters of all sorts- not that I seek arguing with them, but if they push me, I can push back with what I’ve learned here.
Well of course not!!! Its easier to claim none exists isn’t it?
First off, reality doesn’t need a study to prove it’s existence.
Are you actually stupid enough to believe that wind and solar are capable of delivering power 100% of the time?
Are you actually stupid enough to believe that you can just throw a switch and a fossil fuel power station, from a cold start, will start producing power?
As to how large this effect is, there are dozens to hundreds of studies detailing that.
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It is really sad that you have no study backing up your claim.
Curious why you would need a peer review study to back up his claim?
What he stated is the basic facts that everyone knows or should know. Its basic to the manufacturing process, engineers, accountants, maintenance staff, production staff, Most likely, even the secretaries know basic engineering and physical science.
The only question why you dont understand
Per Google AI
Gas spinning reserves (usually natural gas turbines) ramp up to back up wind power frequently—often on a minute-to-minute or hour-to-hour basis—to manage the rapid volatility, unpredictability, and sudden drops in wind generation. These units typically need to respond within 10 minutes, or even seconds for frequency regulation, with requirements rising as wind penetration increases. SYSO Technologies
Key Aspects of Gas Backup Frequency:
As renewable integration grows, the need for these flexible, fast-acting gas resources for balancing wind variability increases.
Every Watt you get from Sun or Wind you may not get when you Need it but when Nature decides to make it available. Sun and Wind only produce Dim Watts.
Oil and coal are just as free as the sun and wind, as are all iron ore, rare earths, and all raw materials. If you want to turn them into useful materials, you need to expend time, energy, and resources.
Even sailing ships don’t get free wind. They need masts, spars, rigging, and crew, and a captain who knows where to find the best wind.
About the closest you can get to free wind and sun is what you enjoy at the beach; but someone has to maintain that beach, you have to get there, and guess what — more time, energy, and resources spent just so you can relax at the beach and enjoy a nice sunny breeze.
You are about the dumbest troll on here.
“Even sailing ships don’t get free wind.”
And don’t be in a hurry if on a sail boat while keeping in mind that for most enterprises time is money.
Dolldrums demonstrate how unreliable wind is for sailing vessels.
No problemo- they’ll just have to bring along some oars, like a Roman Galley.
Similar. They put longboats in the water and the crew rows to tow the ship.
Doldrums demonstrate how unreliable wind is for sailing vessels.
As a sailboat owner myself, I would bet that the great majority of the world’s small marine diesel engines are to be found aboard the world’s fleet of 30-foot to 50-foot privately owned sailboats.
Anyway, sailing against the current on the Columbia River on a windless day just isn’t easily done. Nor is installing the 30,000 megawatts nameplate of wind and solar projected by the PNUCC to be needed by the year 2035 easily done.
Modern container ships can carry 15,000 – 25,000 twenty foot containers or 7500 – 12,000 forty foot containers. Think of all the sailing ships that would be required to replace just one container ship!
They started decades ago and now they are winning. The west could have had that, but the fossul fuel lobby got heir wish.
Every facet of western society depends totally on the use of fossil fuels.
It is not the FF lobby getting their wish..
It is EVERY person in western society.. even you.
There is very little wind and solar energy used on this planet compared to the use of fossil fuels.
Figures you’d show an image of a happy dictator. In the early ’40s, you’d be showing a happy Hitler laughing at a book with FDR on the cover- or Churchill.
And he would be claiming that Hitler was winning.
“It is really sad that you have no study backing up your claim.”
Xi is laughing at the clowns who bought the solar harvesting and wind harvesting parts he sold them, while China’s coal consumption continues to soar. And adding more at the rate of two new coal plants per week, in 2025. While the subsidy harvesters are laughing at all of us tax and rate paying schmucks.
The US and Israeli air forces carved up Iran’s Chinese-made air defenses like they weren’t there. Yeah, Xi is laughing at Trump.
According to CREA/Global Energy Monitor’s second half yearly review of China 2025
“New and reactivated coal power proposals surged to a record high” with “78 GW of newly commissioned coal power capacity”
“in one year alone China commissioned more than India’s net coal power capacity increase over the 10 years 2015-2024 despite India operating the world’s second largest coal fleet”
In total “China added 161 GW of newly proposed or reactivated coal power”
But… but… but… this absolutely PROVES the race to ruinables is winning.
This post is an intentional deflection from the content of the article.
Winning means losing money faster than everyone else.
Just exactly the reaction I would expect from a devout Communist/Socialist/Marxist upon reading a book about a Capitalist!
Yes, it’s clever for China!
Just curious if you have ever been yo a third-world country or are just spouting off your first-world limousine-liberal b@llsh!t.
I have lived in a 3rd world country and I’ve learned many lessons about power, poverty and liberals… They are so entwined, that he would shit a brick if he got out of his limo. Such an ignorant fool. The biggest lesson learned is that true libs are seriously delusional.. and I absolutely despise them… and their limos.
So you are saying I can go outside, hold out my hands and collect sunshine and wind and then open the batteries on an EV and pour those watts in?
Care to make a demonstration?
guessing you missed the part about powering vehicles, farms, and industries with intermittent wind & solar which isn’t possible – nothing projects power like having to ash your enemy to sell you some jet fuel so you can attack- the next century will be dominated by the country with the power
Yes, the UK is now a major energy exporter, filling this gap. The Gays of Hormuz are also stepping up to save the world energy supply.
You can’t manufacture, transport or install solar or wind installations without fossil fuels. You can’t mine the raw materials, either.
Every watt you get for free, from sun or wind,
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Like the fisherhuman that spends $1 million on a new boat, the first fish cost $1 million, the rest are free.
Now that’s funny…sad, true…but funny.
Patrick F McManus was an outdoor humorist.
Reminds of one his stories. A friend decided to take up hunting to get “free meat”. Pat told him that first he’d need to buy a hunting license, a deer permit, hunting clothes, a gun and ammo, etc.
After all that expense, he asked Pat, “So when do I get my free meat?” 😎
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In the third world, what does it mean to be reliable? Many areas have no power at all. So having 10 hours of solar power a day, that’s reliable. And distribution problems are only a problem if you plan to distribute the power.
Putting first world constraints on third world power, that is your problem.
My 5 year old van system, with 2x175W panels and a 100 Ah battery, paid for itself in two years. Now it’s free.
I guess going from no power to unreliable power is an improvement. Not much of one, but enough to impress the easily fooled.
That is more like from no power to reliable power to unreliable power.
I saw a while back that the third world uses in kerosene for heat and light about as much kerosene a year as the US does jet fuel.
And they have had years of experience with Tilley lights and such and kero stoves and in keeping them reliable.
So are not going to be happy with reduced ff usage.
There are reports surfacing of such communities abandoning installed small wind and solar power systems and agitating for “real electricity”
I read somewhere that solar panels often get “requisitioned” for use as walls, roofs, fences or such.(not connected or producing anything.)
Don’t know how they would use a junked wind turbine though
Ceiling fan? 😉
Powered by the solar panels, of course.
What can you use intermittent unreliables for without usable backup..?
Pumping water, so long as you have some storage, is about all I can think of.
If its windy, you could have lights at night.. but from solar, you can’t.
Can’t run a fridge, because all the food would spoil on a windless light.
Maybe drive a tool or two during the day, but would also need non-power tools, so a waste on what little money they might have.
Nope.. no wonder they reject unreliables.
That’s interesting. I had a 100 W panel on a trailer RV with smaller batteries which was useful for utilities without motors. They must be much better now, suggest you get in touch with Wooden Boat Magazine which has had a few articles on electric boats which they have found are only useful for certain limited operations. They are interested and open minded about such boats.
The third world countries as you label them have far more existential threats from authoritarian regime cycling, massive corruption, and unsustainable handouts from former colonialists with demonstration projects. The common denominator is no followup reporting.
When all you need to power is LED lights.. so what !!
LEDs require hydrocarbons/coal in the manufacturing process.
Telling Third World Countries they CAN’T have what first world countries have thanks to reliable FF Generation… That’s your problem!
It even sounds racists to me telling those nations that they must be pure with “clean energy”. Without all the corruption in those nations, they by now would have a lot more dependable and affordable electricity.
Why do you think he has a problem telling it, rather than not trying to tell? Are you projecting?
You can’t run industry or farms on intermittent unreliable electricity. Stores can’t run cash registers and refrigerators on unreliable electricity. Hospitals without reliable electricity are pretty worthless.
You really hate third worlders, don’t you? Leave them in the dark, in a poor fragile subsistence economy, with no medical care.
Not sure if africa or trumps america.
The TDS is strong in this one, Obi-wan.
To The Dark Side he has turned.
The only reason why wind and solar don’t work, is because Trump has willed it to be so.
All they have to do is get rid of Trump and all their plans will start coming true.
/sarc
Unaffordability of medical care in USA is due to Obama-doesn’t care…
Obama invented a system that destroyed any possibility of affordable medical care.
but.. but.. with only green energy they’ll have sooo much virtue- being in touch daily with the dirt and diverse wildlife. 🙂 /s
This post is an intentional deflection from the content of the article.
Good for you…now go drive it in, say, Mexico or sumsuch cartel run area Or the South Side of Chicago!
“In the third world, what does it mean to be reliable? Many areas have no power at all. So having 10 hours of solar power a day, that’s reliable.”
I see your problem. You actually believe that (one a clear day) having 10 hours of power in a 24 hour day fits the definition of “reliable power”.
Europe is lost in social spending benefits land in more ways than the doubled down policy mistakes in energy. They’re hopeless.
In comparison “President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it’s “not possible” for the federal government to fund Medicare, Medicaid and child care costs, arguing that it should be up to the states to “take care” of those programs while the federal government focuses on military spending.”
So which is more hopeless spending money on child care and health benefits or on bombing innocent civilians back to stone age? I know which one I would prefer to spend money on. And which should be the goal of the government.
Every government’s first & foremost duty is to assure the sovereignty of their nation.
Which means maintaining a formidable military force to defend its borders and citizens from those who would take advantage of the nation from without and within.
Once that is achieved, living standards of the citizens can be progressively improved as affordable, sustainable taxes will allow.
No nation owes its citizens or foreigners a living.
lol – Sovereignty.
” We went to war because Israel started bombing”
Narco Rubio
” America is a thing that can be easily moved ”
US president Satanyahoo, 2001
” The congress is Zionist occupied territory”
Pat Buchanan 1990
You bomb and kill all around the world except the one country
that bombs you(USS Liberty, Levon affair,)
steals your most critical nuclear secrets
and has a extensive blackmail network around your political class,
that got Pam Bondi replaced for her handling of the Pedo-Files
by Todd Carte Blanche for the Epstein class,
and a president who is repeating Satanyahoos 30+ year old lies 1:1
that it makes Mrs Trilby look like a harbinger of Autonomy.
The scale of nonsense in this comment section is so out off the scale that one doesn’t know where to start.
All the European countries in Ressource guys context have Universal healthcare and all of them combined only have the fraction of US debt,
because they don’t have this absolutely crazy and ineffective military spending(13 mio per Thaad interceptor. 30 hours maintenance for 1 flight hour f35,
2.3 trillion for a war that was just justified with a single person(Bin Laden – a former employee of US intelligence)
800 military bases around the world = that’s not sovereignty.
That’s occupation and globalism.
Sovereignty : US tells India to stop buying Russian Oil – Modi stops buying.
4 weeks later it tells India.
Iraqs Oil revenue is controlled by the NY FED.
Venezuelas Oil?
Sanctioning countries into oblivion?
Or the Sovereignty of stealing Oil tankers
or destroying Europes North Stream, forcing them to buy US gas for loanshark prices
and now using this artificial dependence to blackmail Europe into a ruinous trade deal (15% tariffs for European goods, 0% tariffs for US) or don’t get gas, right after provocating the Hormuz closure – and then being so sociopathic to tell them to get their own oil from there(4 weeks AFTER declaring victory over Iran).
I think you’ve been skipping your meds.
No, just a not so closeted Nazi.
You are correct but will pee off the forever Trumpers who are willfully blind to any data that interferes w their lunacy.
It’s pathetic and constantly displayed on this platform, like the equally lunatic Climate Alarmists.
Same process, same kind of ideologues.
Two delusional guys in one thread.
A mutual admiration society.
Seems you are ok with giving 50% of your earned income to an anonymous bureaucrat to throw away?
Europe said, “not our war.”
DJT said, your oil problem is “not our war.”
Europe said, “not a reliable ally.”
DJT said, We asked you to assist us in getting your oil for you. You said no. Who is the unreliable ally?
Local communities and the states can take care of social needs- especially if they reduce excessive and overpaid bureaucracies. Here in Wokeachusetts, I know state burro-crats earning a 6 figure income who are morons and who produce nothing. Then they get to retire at 80% of what they were “earning”.
But you will use citizen’s money to go to war with anyone not complying.
Which in fact weakens US sovereignty.
It’s all propaganda. Youve been fed this kind of slop for at least 30 years.
And it continues to backfire.
Real power is when others comply out of choice and good prospects, not by threatening them with war.
The US will go down in the same way the UK has gone down: overreach, overstretch, arrogance and violence.
The signs of a falling hegemon.
You’re Delusional.
Socialists live in a world where the best way to assure peace is to get rid of the military. They also believe that the best way to get rid of crime is to get rid of the police.
They also believe men can get pregnant.
They also can’t define what a woman is, which fits nicely into item 1.
They also believe naturally occuring trace gases in the atmosphere are pollution.
These are not made up observations. Leftists say these things every day.
I guess if you don’t care about an Islamic terrorist country firing nuclear missiles at you…
… everything will be ok for you.. !!
His faith that that won’t happen is like his faith in green energy.
Propaganda.
Um, erm, I work in that area. It is not propaganda.
The IAEA reports 450 kg of 60% enriched uranium. Commercial use is 3% to 5% including medical. IAEA reports a tidy amount of 80% enriched, sufficient for 11 atomic warheads. 80% makes the bombs heavy. 90% is the norm. 60% can have a large bomb in a ship.
Iran demonstrated a 2 stage solid rocked hypersonic vehicle, range 2000 km.
The scary part is the hypersonic maneuverable payload. Most interceptors rely on a predictable ballistic trajectory..
US recently bombed the Iranian heavy water facility. That delays further enrichment. When the British bombers took out the German heavy water facility,, it delayed Germany by 6 months. Fortunately the war came to an end before the Germans got the bomb.
What you don’t know, I do know.
But you will have faith in your beliefs regardless. Your loss.
And once again, anything that runs counter to the socialist narrative, is just propaganda. Next you will be demanding that those who disagree with you must be punished.
Those must be some interesting shrooms.
We get it…you like the Obama approach of droning brown people
No reason the states can’t take care of their own social needs. You obviously feel real bad that the Iranians can’t develop a nuclear bomb in the short term. Must be painful.
Propaganda
When you have nothing to say, just say “propaganda”. 🙂
Propaganda sums it up. When you are a captured mind you have armed yourself so you dont have to deal w any counterfacts.
I see this US propaganda from a mile away. I know where it comes from. You are fed on it. You don’t know any better because you are conditioned to be blind and not noticing this process.
It is based on a construct of lies.
And that is why i merely state:’propaganda’.
I could say ‘ neocon propaganda’ but it is much more widespread and includes the Cheney loving Democrats.
Trump was supposed to go against this.
But he clearly didn’t. He is the King of the Swamp. A delusional joker, manipulated by those getting rich on the backs of the american people.
The Traitor in chief..
The TDS is strong in this one, Obi-wan.
Unfortunately, all my surviving friends, here in Wokeachusetts, have TDS. I have 2 buddies I haven’t seen in years stopping by my place today. They both have it. I’ll make a point of just not talking politics. They absolutely do not listen to any alternative views.
My wife has TDS. We talk no politics.
The latest conversation, she said she would rather spend on space launches than ball rooms. [Note $20B versus $400M.] I responded that I would rather spend on space launches than wars. She agreed.
As an aside, I do not like wars, but I recognize the need. I just wish it wasn’t so commonplace in today’s world.
She’s not spending a penny on that ballroom. Entirely privately donated.
War has been with us before we were humans. Maybe when AI takes over it’ll find a way to stop war. 🙂
Most of my remaining leftist friends want me to eat their mushrooms with them so we can sing and dance while standing in a field.
When I decline, they say I’m no fun anymore. I don’t know where they get that idea, I can sing and dance while standing in a field without eating mushrooms.
The problem with ‘shrooms is you throw up before you get high. That doesn’t work for me. I don’t care for throwing up.
Again, TDS runs in both directions. You are in denial and will be trying to cope w Trump’s loss soon.
And like Trump it will be:’ mistakes were made. .but not by me.
Together w:’ if only we had used more force sooner’. Another canard.
Pathetic..
I was fed propaganda living my entire life in Wokeachusetts. Only after I started paying attention to what others are saying in more conservative parts of America did I realize I had been brainwashed. Yak all you want about Trump- now let’s get back to saving the economies of the world with abundant and low cost fossil fuels and nuclear, while saving the landscape from the devastation of wind and solar “farms”. All the crying over trivial changes in the weather show who is really “mind f*cked”.
Here is yr brain. it goes like this:
If you are in any way against anything that Trump does you are A: suffering from TDS by default and B: MUST be a lefty commie bastard Democrat.
It leaves NO space for discussion.
You are trained and corrupted to intuitively react like that..
Here’s a newsflash: i applaud Trump’s stance visavis Climate Change and energy and to some degree his anti immigration policies which i regard overblown in certain aspects.
See, these are positives. But i highlight negatives as i see then. I don’t turn a blind eye.
The forever trumpers themselves have TDS.
Hero worship. Pathetic..
Really? I’m actually closer to the “middle of the road”. Registered independent. I personally only throw out the TDS thing when someone really seems to be so infected. I voted Dem most of my life here in Wokeachusetts. It was the climate BS that really turned me into an independent. No hero worship for me. In fact, I dislike all politicians.
But, you’ve been rather insulting on this site to many people- yet now you’re a crybaby ’cause somebody said you have TDS.
Yup, any facts that run counter to what you want to believe are just propaganda. No need to think for yourself (not that you can), just declare everything the party disagrees with to be lies.
That is the right argument. And by default will upset the forever Trumpers here. Because they dont consider the american people’s wishes important.
They have proven this time and time again. They salivate like Hegseth at the prospect of war. They are morally corrupt un-americans..
The American people VOTED for Trump. Everyone thing he’s doing he said he would do. People who think “let’s just not have any wars” are like 3 year olds, thinking there aren’t any nations out there looking to expand THEIR nation’s power. Trump is right calling Europeans cowards. They’ve had it too good the past 80 years under America’s umbrella, allowing them to afford all the goodies they brag about. Now that Trump has pushed them out of the nest, they’ll have to fend for themselves- they may find fewer goodies in their lunch pails. 🙂
Europeans have these goodies because socialists fought for them – something the American bootlicker can’t comprehend.
And you can afford them by spending so little on your military. America also has some pretty decent social benefits too. By the way, your hatred of America is so extreme, it might be worth considering having you blocked from this site, though it is fun knocking down your idiocy. 🙂
The poor in the US would be middle to upper middle class in most of Europe.
They fought to gain the power to steal money from those who work, so they won’t have to.
Exactly what wars did socialists fight in to win their prized goodies? How many Americans died so France could be free after WW1. How many Americans died so France could be free after WW2? How many Americans died to free all the countries in Europe?
You can call us bootlickers now, but when the crap hits the fan, don’t be looking this way for help again. Socialists can’t stand up to bullies, we can!
Europeans have “these goodies” because Capitalism Works and the USA has enabled Capitalism to thrive. Something the Communist/Socialist/Marxist Lint Licker can’t comprehend.
Delude yourself some more. You seem to be good at it.
You are right about one thing, though:
The europeans ARE cowards. They used to have strong leaders who often clashed w american leaders but/ and were respected for it. Up until the end of the cold war there was an understanding that cooperation through debate was the way forward. Sparks would fly but considered part of the game. Even between Reagan and Thatcher.
But since the desolution of the Soviets US arrogance has ruled and from then on it was the US hegemon who played Top Dog. And the europeans had leaders believing in that story and basically rolled over. It was all going to be great.
Well, it clearly wasnt.
And now we are paying the price of total system corruption w a delusional cheerleader surrounded by wormtongues carressing his ego and telling him:’ you are the Man..’. Meanwhile the moneymen who dealt with him all these years spotted their chance.
I could go on..
But that is why:’ propaganda’ suits..
Man, you’ve got the biggest collection of conspiracies I think I’ve ever seen displayed by one person.
It’s standard fare for the true believers.
They have to come up with ever more fanciful explanations as to why socialism just keeps failing.
Now, now, now Socialism has only ever failed in…every place it has ever been tried, never lasting more than about 80 years at most.
Thank you. I will stand on that hill proudly.
Me deluded? I was self employed for exactly 50 years. Impossible if deluded. Thatcher? She was on the same wave length as Reagan. You don’t seem to grasp that there is always going to be a Top Dog. Apparently, you’d rather it be another nation. Fine, try to make it happen. Time for the Europeans to “man up” but nah, now that they’re under the thumb of Islamists.
“person up”, please Joseph.
🙂
Even though Thatcher was indeed mostly on the same wavelength as Reagan economically , they had frequent encounters visavis geo politics.
But you wouldnt know that. Because you are shallow.
You americans are fed on a zero sum game diet. You need an enemy to support yr idea of Empire.
And by the way: you assume i am pro Islam( ist). This couldnt be further from the truth. I am against forced ‘progressivism’.
But you can only think in binary terms.
Time to retire..
There you go again, BellyNelly, with the insults- yet if someone says you have TDS, you cry like an infant.
You got it wrong. Trump did not say States should pay for Medicaid and Medicare.
He did say States should be responsible for paying any Day Care. I agree with Trump. Day Care is not an essential service. People can get by without Day Care. They can’t get by without medical care.
You need to stop listening to CNN if you want to know the truth.
My understanding of ObamaCare is that he squibbed on his promise of delivering free universal medical care, and instead cheaped out by lumping a basket full of treatments onto existing privately funded medical care plans.
Which has resulted in the worst of both worlds – inadequate access, confusion, and downright cheating all round.
Is this the general conclusion of most US citizens?
Stop thinking anything is free. No free green energy and no free medical care- and no free lunch. Time to get back to the topic of energy- America has lots of it, Europe doesn’t. Europe can choose to go green and lose its industries and have a far lower standard of living and a devastated landscape, or it can get back to common sense and use more fossil fuels and nuclear. Arguing about other social policies is irrelevant here.
Europe could have lots of energy, if they ever allowed development again.
I agree
Obama knew that America was not ready for fully government run health care. Which is why Obama Care was designed to collapse private insurance so that government could take over.
Parents should be the ones taking care of their children.
It’s much too easier to have schools babysit them.
Sad but true.
Medical care is necessary, which is why having it run by the government is a bad idea.
And also stop listening to Fox
Typical, only listens to sources that tell you what you want to hear.
Yep. Step out of the echo chamber entirely. Talking heads everywhere are brought to you by the fine folks who advertise the same stuff on all media outlets everywhere. Then they think they are TV stars, or journalists or some other famous person other than the slanted copy readers that they actually are.
Read the Constitution. The answers were written 250 years ago.
While you are at it, take a course or two in economics.
If you read the constitution you will know that it supports the people against dictator kings. Now look at Trump.
Do you see a pattern?
If you really had studied economics you will know that in the west we left classic economics behind a long time ago.
Neo liberal bullshit is what we got and it’s dying because of its consequences.
However, there are 2 big countries still doing classic economics. Can you guess which ones they are?
The State HAS to play a part. Because it has been clear that A: the market cannot solve every problem and often leads to desasterous results and B: neo liberalism has led to gangster corporate raiders milking the system and countries’ resources which corruption even trumps communism.
We are in interesting times.
In my eyes the west has to build a new system, a Bretton Woods 2 if you will. But i fear a sensible way of coming to an agreement will be halted at every turn by those who ‘manage’ the financial system.
Not only that: conflicts are on the rise and the dying hegemon is lashing out. It doesnt want to give up the petrodollar. It is not cooperating, it is trying to force compliance. It is only succesful w underlings like Europe who have been well trained. The rest of the world is moving on bit by bit and the US by its actions is steadily losing control.
It might push the destruct button. It has that element. That is my ultimate fear.
Lunatics at the helm..
Funny how presidents using executive orders to run the government is only a bad thing when Republicans do it.
Ah yes, the old the only reason a military exists is to attack people who were just standing around doing nothing, argument.
Breaking>>> Story Tip –
There is speculation that Lee Zeldin current Administrator at the EPA has been mentioned in discussions about potential cabinet shifts. Reports indicate President Trump has privately considered or discussed replacing Attorney General Pam Bondi with Zeldin.
Zeldin IMO has been a standout in the Trump administration, he will be sorely missed at the EPA if he is confirmed as the new AG.
Is the Endangerment Finding still in existence ?
No doubt Zeldin will inform Trump who can be trusted leading the EPA and continue with his excellent work.
Except, Zeldin is staying at EPA given that Todd Blanche, serving as interim, gets the nod.
No done deal here.
ALL energy is free. Collecting energy is not.
Intermittent renewable energy (IRE) has brought home this fact with perfect clarity, except for those few who committed themselves utterly to a delusion. For example, using the simple LCOE metric, Emblemsvag (https://doi.org/10.1080/14786451.2024 .2355642) showed that Germany could have had reliable base energy using nuclear plants for 1/3rd the amount spent to provide failing IRE.
IRE has bereft Germany of its industrial base and degraded the country to the second rank with a worse future. But, a law was passed. Rescinding an inane law requires admission of the error and firing the politicians.
Those politicians who decided to shut down nuclear power in Germany knew full well that after the passage of enough time, it would become technically impossible to restart those shuttered plants.
And they also knew that ending nuclear power in Germany would cause the loss of Germany’s nuclear operational support infrastructure and its trained nuclear workforce — which would foreclose the nuclear option in Germany for a long, long time to come.
They were 100% successful in their plans. Nuclear is not now, and will not be in the future, a means of quickly restoring energy security to their nation. And, as of yet, they have not been fired.
I adore abstract concepts acting here. A law came, knocked on the door and was passed. Then IRE came, kicked the door and began to disassemble factories.
If any creature on two legs with flat nails is to blame in this mess, that’s because they were not using tambourines and salt circles properly.
I see “the politicians” are clearly implied to be hired jobs here. Perhaps we can agree on something! The next step, however, is to spell out who is that enigmatic actor required to fire them, and therefore is the one who supposedly made the error of hiring them to begin with.
The amount of articles on this topic…I guess the donors of those writing them are getting nervous. Oil and gas face structural demand destruction as people move on to renewables.
Is the american envious?
I’m American. I’m not envious. All my needs are taken care of.
Yes. I take care of my own needs. That’s not the govt’s job. It’s job is to provide a framework in which people and businesses can prosper. It’s not supposed to be a jobs progam.
You can keep your Bird Choppers (wind turbines) Bird Cookers (Ivanpah) and part time power (solar) I’ll take all the Gas/Coal/Nuclear my President can get passed the Yahoos.
In the 1960s and before, there was no such thing as “health insurance” aka medical insurance. We managed just fine. I am a pre-ACA survivor along with millions of others.
And once again, anyone who disagrees with the socialists is being paid to.
There is no such thing as free health care, it all has to be paid for.
The only difference is instead of paying for it yourself, you hire government to steal the money from someone else.
Socialism is nothing more from organized theft from those who work to those who don’t want to.
Nope. We are going to sell the EU and England all the LNG and oil we can produce. Guess at the cost and who benefits most?
A word of truth from the great leader, Donald J Trump!
Agreed, a word of truth; it makes a change.
Shame about all the other nonsense.!!
Hail Caesar? Or hail Caligula?
Perhaps you hail Xi and Putin.
In my book they are better choices.
Based and stable leaders looking at long term prospects. We have the opposite in the west. Clownshow.
I dont want to live in either Russia OR China. Or the US for that matter.
I want to live in a free and prosperous independent (to some degree) Europe.
I am proud of our social democratic heritage that was built as a counter force against extremes. FDR and JFK were on the right track. In a way Reagan also. They were connecting w others.
But the US has become a bully. It used to offer opportunities. Now it is simply strongarming everyone. Art of the deal? My arse.
Russia and China offer much better deals and all without strongarming.
It is a better choice and the US cannot stand that. That’s why all the hubris.
But it’s all theatre..
“the UK has banned essentially all exploration for and development of fossil fuel energy within its own borders”
certifiable insanity!
There is no renewable energy! The manufacture of green energy devices such as solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles requires large amounts of critical metals, some of which only occur as rare trace byproducts in the mining of base metal deposits (e.g., Se, In, Cd, Te). Once a mineral deposit has been exploited, new ones need to be explored and developed. There is nothing renewable about them! A recommended source is https://www.sciltp.com/journals/hp/articles/2603003359
Much of what goes int WTGs and especially SV is not recoverable. Not to mention toxic and poisonous.
1: the Greens are pushing the idea that this crisis is exactly why the world has to come off ‘fossil’ fuels. Note to readers: i am NOT advocating for that.
2: because of Trump’s actions he has not only turned most of the world against the US but also at least 75% of his own base.
3: because of erratic and contradictory behaviour trust in any negotiation in regards to anything has eroded.
4: because of ‘might is right’ and forcing the issue there is in fact less appetite to comply because of:
5: this forcing is seen as an indication of diminishing power, the opposite of the desired effect
6: adversaries bind together strategically doing the opposite of devide and rule.
The King has no clothes.
He is overstating US power.
He is enslaved by his handlers some of which are foreigners.
He will be toppled the more reality is hitting the people.
He will be procecuted.
Only idiots maintain the frail propaganda and the flawed desired endpoint.
Forever Trumpers are delusional. Just like the Climate Alarmists.
I will take any thumbs down as badges of honour..
“because of Trump’s actions he has not only turned most of the world against the US but also at least 75% of his own base.”
Only in your fevered imagination.
Everybody he knows hates Trump. Doesn’t that prove that the whole world hates Trump?
A group of Trump’s latest ratings …
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2026/04/02/donald-trump-approval-rating-what-the-latest-polls-show/89442938007/
The forever trumpers do not want to know..
Don’t want to know what? That opinion polls about Donald Trump are meaningless because he can’t run for election again?
Badges?
We doan need no steenkin badges.
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You have some points that are accurate and others that are fantasy or media propaganda.
You have made up your mind and closed it, so it is a waste of innocent electrons trying to explain what you are missing.
Ah, i see what you are doing there. You have used my accusation as a weapon against me. But, realistically, i have in fact opened my mind because of what i see in the real world namely contradictions in words and actions, an increasing series of things that don’t add up and do not make sense.
This is so obvious to many previous Trump supporters that they, like me, are having a hard time figuring out why it is that people still support him.
But i have come to the conclusion that it is the same ideologues that hold on to a fantasy like Climate Alarmism.
They too have a grand plan. They too are pig headed and vacuum pumped and fossilized non thinkers.
It’s like they are in love with an idea and when facts contradict any aspect they wave a magic wand in which data magically disappears or is re-directed.
I hope you see what im getting at.
I don’t expect you to agree of course.
But maybe in time some light will come through the cracks.
Socialists have always hated successful capitalists. Heck, they hate anyone who has succeeded.
Socialists have always been convinced that everyone is secretly a socialist, it’s just that those evil capitalists are bribing them to say otherwise
Your post has nothing to do with me..
If you believe that Iran would never have closed the Strait of Hormuz at some point unless outlandish “taxes” were paid, then you are delusional.
Joker..
Stinking troll.
TDS is in fine form today, reading from the script like compliant drones of the Borg collective.
Quite so. They have been assimilated.
Maybe, maybe consider that saying TDS in fact isolates you from investigating.
Like: ‘the consensus says..’.
That that in fact might be deliberate.
Or, like the Israeli speciality: accuse the opposition of which you are guilty of yourself.
And maybe you are yourself part of a Borglike mindset and simple not being aware of it, again as in the way good propaganda works.
As far as im concerned: TDS runs in both directions.
Whoever did that intro picture decided that plants grow as well in the shadow of solar panels as in full sunshine?
AI hallucination, no doubt.
Just a tip if you want to follow what’s really happening in Iran with Epic Fury follow it here with Myahar Tousi in London-
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His Iranian father is in Tehran and although he hasn’t seen him for some 20 years he is in touch sporadically by phone every few days. As well TousiTV has access to video footage and stories out of Iran before the MSM so much so that he’s already had invites from MSM like CNN and Fox News.
PS: Try again-
President Trump is so way ahead of leftist liberals thruout the would. He is always 3 steps ahead of them, and he knows how to show how badly they are wrong on the key issues.
The UK logic that we can get all the energy we need from the free and abundant wind and sun, shows that the UK is OBLIVIOUS to reality that wind turbines and solar panels can ONLY generate ELECTRICITY.
Wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity but CANNOT make any products or transportation fuels for life as we know it.
An Energy “REALITY” Reminder to the UK:
Today, we have 6 ways to generate electricity by coal, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, wind, and solar, but ALL the components such as wire, insulation, computers, etc., are MADE FROM fossil fuels, Ridding the world of crude oil would eliminate electricity and we’re back to the 1800’s.
Here is my prediction for the future:
— Trump will pound the hell out of Iran for the next two to three weeks. He will then declare victory while leaving a defanged Islamic regime in place. The political and military realities don’t allow for a more ambitious set of goals.
— Iran’s larger hegemonic ambitions for the Middle East will have been thwarted for another one to two decades, allowing time for other regional nations to form the alliances needed to resist Iran’s ever-present hegemonic ambitions.
— European and Asian nations now face a clear and unambiguous fork in the road. Those nations will either commit to Net Zero, or else will recognize the reality of the world’s energy situation and will continue to rely on fossil fuels as long as those fuels still remain economically available.
— Europe will double down on its Net Zero programs and will continue its downward slide into economic and cultural oblivion.
— Asian nations and the developing nations will continue to use fossil fuels as long as it makes sense for them to do so, while gradually moving towards a nuclear powered energy future.
I would not be too surprised myself if Donald Trump began taxing the export of American LNG as a means of paying down the national debt, assuming he can find a way to do that legally.
I agree w the first part. Only, Iran won’t be ‘defanged”( whatever that is supposed to mean) but its neighbours will be. The gulfoil states for starters. And Israel has to gve up its ambitions of a greater Israel. It is running out of weapons due to overstretch (just like the US) and it is still getting hit by iranian missiles, despite what western media say, especially in the US.
They will again have to leave Lebanon, just like last time.
Trump will have to leave with his tail between his legs but will no doubt still claim victory for the cameras and gullable audience. The image of a defeated US will again be boistering Iran who will continue to control the persian gulf, a bit like the Suez canal. It will start the end of the petrodollar system, the real reason why the US/ Trump went to war with the opposite result.
This has been a disaster..
Trump has made the US weaker and its system more fragile
It will be in denial for quite a while and trying to cope. The Dems and the people will blame it all on Trump and have hopefully learned what not to do.
They will take the midterms and Trump will be a lame duck. The GOP will not recover..
Sure, for the short term future, things might turn out the way you predict. Or things might instead turn out the way that I predict. Or things might turn out to be something in between.
Whatever …..
But, for the mid to long term future, those nations which intend to rely on the Gulf oil states for a good portion of the fossil fuel energy supply will have to learn how to deal with the energy security risks their reliance involves.
The Gulf oil states and Israel will have to learn how to deal with an Iran whose regional hegemonic ambitions have been thwarted in the short term, but which are likely to reemerge in the long term.
As for Europe, it’s my opinion that the process of economic and cultural deconstruction has already gone too far to easily reverse, if it can even be reversed at all.
We will be seeing the Europeans double down on Net Zero with predictable mid-term and long-term adverse consequences for their energy security and national security interests.
Unless of course, the sociopathic overlords who control Europe’s politics are booted out of office, somehow, some way. Something which I wouldn’t bet on at this point.
[ “Iran won’t be ‘defanged”( whatever that is supposed to mean)” ]
‘Defanged’ means to make something harmless or less powerful.
To remove the fangs from (something).
I agree, this Israeli / US carpet bombing has made more enemies, not friends. The population would rather be abused by the mad clerics than by some Johnny foreigner.
Oh, i know what it means all right. It just doesnt apply to Iran.
I think the result will be that Iran will come out stronger from this conflict.
Because A: it diminishes the power of the lesser gulf states. B: there is a high probability that it will be problematic f american bases to exist in those countries, C: both the US and Israel are running out of defensive missiles, also due to the conflict in Ukraine. Iran is playing the long game and will take any offensive attacks the US ( and Israel) will make. It won’t change the reality on the ground. And that is why the US will pull out.
D: Iran has the backing of both Russia and China in terms of info, weapons and resources, just like Ukraine had with the US and Europe (past tense).
So, ‘defanged’? I think not..
It has been hurt. No doubt. But maybe its enemies more.
I think the result will be that Iran will come out stronger from this conflict.
All going swimmingly for the death cult-
Kids with guns and preparing for a ground invasion. What people in Iran say is happening
The only point you missed was Iran closing the Strait and forcing Europe to pay through the nose for oil. Guess who wins? The U.S., sorry Europe.
Canada has ample oil reserves that can quickly be produced.
It is exporting more now from the west coast as the TransMountain Pipeline was enlarged. Dredging of Vancouver BC harbour to allow tankers to be full has been approved. TMP has ways to increase pipeline capacity further such as a few shortcuts or local enlargements of pipe, adding compressors, and adding a friction reducer to the oil.
Political fight over proposal to export oil from the north coast, Premier of BC is adamantly against it even though significant production comes from NE BC, Premier of Alberta is vociferously promoting it, federal government is talking but weak.
A notion is being floated to build a pipeline from AB to Hudson’s Bay, would be costly and need icebreaking fleet to have reasonably long shipping season (as is done for the St. Lawrence seaway in eastern Canada).
LNG is now being exported from the coast of BC, more to come over next several years. Ample reserves in NE BC and NW AB.