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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bonus: Trump is starving China of petroleum. First Venezuela and now Iran.[/quote]

China has cut their oil demand by 30% because of their adoption of EV, has been buying oil for its reserves for years(keeping a floor on the market) and oil is a commodity.

This last part is what maga people like yourself do not understand. There is no starving china of oil. Oil prices will go up and China will stop filling its revenues. High oil price means gasoline price in the states will rise.

Better fill your car up now because on Monday gasoline prices go up. [/quote]

A Chinese friend of mine just came back from visiting his brother in Beijing, he hadn't been back to China in over 10 years and was shocked at how much the air quality has improved, how much cleaner and nicer things had gotten, how hardly anyone drives gas vehicles anymore, and was impressed at how they have built out their renewable energy infrastructure to include reservoirs and pumping stations for energy storage - they fill the reservoirs when they have excess energy and use hydro when there is extra demand, filling their gaps and reducing need even for gas peaker plants.  We are falling behind and are stuck on external dependencies like oil that will hurt us badly.  And it's ALL because of Trump and Republicans.[/quote]

Agreed.   We need to stop burying our heads in the sand and insist on “we are the best” at everything and instead look for examples of where other countries do it better.  That is what has made America great - our embrace of diverse and innovative ideas and I think since FDR we have pushed back on new ideas or dismantled them. I read an article a year or so ago about how Chinese leaders often have engineering backgrounds and the US our policymakers are often lawyers.  That kind of summed it all up for me.  We don’t need a law or act, we need actions that solve problems.

Trump is horrible and it’s sad human lives are being taken.  And it’s painful to see how Congress is letting him proceed running this war illegally.  But we are now in it.    Let’s hope Israel’s intelligence is as good as we think it is and Iranian hardline leadership is removed swiftly and there is a non religious nut job available to step in.  A lot of ifs though.   [/quote]

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