Now, we are kissing Venezuela’s ass again… We have the oil right here, right now and we are talking to Venezuela! We are led by nimrods. My hope for peace is extinguishing quickly.
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Yeah.
Well. The best way to make one thing (Electric Vehicles) look feasible is to make something else look unsustainable (petroleum products) by creating false inflation on the primary source, which at this time is petroleum products.
Just like they did with coal during the Obama admin in order to make wind and solar look more feasible.
“Don’t let a crisis go to waste”.
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I’ll pose a scenario.
A missile lands just over the border in Poland and kills a dozen people. Its believed to be Russian, but cannot be confirmed and both sides deny it. What happens then?
I feel the longer the conflict goes on, the more likely this becomes. How should/would the world respond?
I just heard that the Biden administration has set a goal to have 50% of US made cars to be electric by 2030. There aught to be a rule that no administration can set a goal with a completion date past the time it will conceivably be in office without at least setting a subgoal that has a deadline that it can actually be held to.
As in, I get that we need to set long term goals, but I also want to know what the Biden administration is committing to meet by 2024 (20%, 30%, 5%, whatever). Without that, it’s worse than an empty promise. It’s an empty promise that you expect to hold someone else to account for without giving that party the resources to actually meet the goal.
I’m not saying that I’m against drilling, though. The canard that we can get rid of Russian oil by going green is really tired. Europe did that harder than we ever did and they are more dependent on Russian oil than we are. But if you want to claim that electric cars are the answer, set a goal that you will meet in the relevant future.
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I don’t think this is quite as plausible as you think. At least not in the way you put it. If this is either a long range missile or something coming from aircraft, then it will be highly unlikely we don’t know exactly where it came from.
If it’s some short range missile from a portable source, then it’s actually relatively easy to ignore. The question sort of becomes about what was hit. Hit a bus or something and it’s probably just seen as collateral damage from a war. Also, if we were to believe it was Russian, that would require that there be Russian forces within a few km of the border.
In short, I think short range stuff is easy to ignore and long range stuff is easy to identify and blame.
All presidents do this and they do so on purpose. It’s so that they look good for taking the initiative, but never have to deal with the blowback of a failed policy… California is a literal living example of decades of these practices - it’s overregulation hell.
I agree with your sentiment here
This is exactly the problem with wars. They are partly unpredictable. It was the right call for example to cancel the testing of the American nuclear missile last week. It’s very important to avoid such mistakes as you described. Everyone must be extremely careful to not unintentionally escalate.
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Outstanding. Then we can just set absurd standards for imported cars to deal with in order to come here, and allow the market to price the 50% of American cars that aren’t electric. Then, both gas and electric cars will soon be unaffordable for all but those that deserve anything that helps make life anything but 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’…and it will be due to market forces…at least, that’s what we’ll tell the rubes.
And why both sides being armed is important. Otherwise, “Russia” could use nuclear weapons against civilians and claim it actually saved lives. “They’ve” done it before.
I heard this silly pandering from both Buttigeg and Kamala. What bullshit. They have no idea what they are talking about. Just imagine if everybody could simultaneously buy an electric car with the infrastructure as it currently is. The grid would collapse and there are no where near enough charging stations. But hey what does reality matter, in the face of their agenda.
Why is covid gone? Because they can scare the shit out of everybody with Russia. Except they have this idiotic belief they can control this and maintain “limited war” as a means for this globalist horseshit they believe in. Except China, which is essential to that vision, isn’t playing nicely with others. And they chose Russia as their most important strategic partner.
I don’t see them getting that China is not our friend and never was. And why is Russia, China’s most important strategic partner? They want Taiwan.
Yeah, especially if the world get’s bombed back into the stone-age, I don’t see this happening. The arrogance and hubris they have is what gets me. They really believe they can control this war. They really believe they have this situation under control. They knew Russia was going to invade, we practically dared them to do it. Why? Because covid has out lived it’s usefulness and they needed a new hysteria.
The good side effect to all this, is at least, people are not going to so openly be waving the sickle and hammer like they were in 2020. All things Russian, including Russian people are now verboten. And they don’t see themselves as being childish. Unreal.
That’s why I have been saying, I don’t know who the good guys are here.
50% are full plug in electric, or does hybrid count?
I’m so fucking happy that the commander of the Ukrainian Mykolaiv front is Korean, as it pisses the Russians off who are extremely racist towards all Asians (Russian defence minister Shoigu has to constantly atone for not being 100% white).
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Semi related here… As much as I fault people for virtue signalling dumb shit like “thoughts and prayers”, I find the corporations withdrawing from Russia to be rather satisfying. I’m not talking about ‘condemning’ them while still making money off the country, I mean the corporations that are pulling out of russia altogether.
It must sting a bit to find your own citizens upset by the lack of western businesses available to them.
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Yes, but it all comes to down to P&L. Mother Russia brand is now so toxic that any profits from its market would be offset by a potential boycott in other countries, not to mention the legal issues of sanctions.
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Saw this while strolling through the news, figured it’s worth a share
Oh the irony. Lol.
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That so much of the country is in Asia?
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I almost tore my shoulder patting myself on the back for calling this one.
Just sayin… 
Btw, Where TF is @Mufasa?
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