Post by @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works

@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works

2026-09-28 13:53 UTC

It’s doubly bonkers because a strong EV push would be one of the big things that can actually make consumers far less sensitive to the price of oil. Like, the regime literally has a policy they could use that would significantly improve public sentiment on this shit. “Normal” republicans would tie that up into strategic independence and so on. But the regime is just too fucking stupid and gung-ho on Exxon et al to take that course.

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@Freeposity@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 14:11

It’s more corruption than incompetence, though there’s a lot of incompetence too. The oil companies paid Trump a lot of money to protect their stranglehold on the American economy.

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@ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-28 14:11

Its also crazy because they could spin it as its American Made Energy or Homeland Energy. Really drive home that it makes us independent and less reliant on “brown people” oil. Even when there is a clear path to be racist and evil they choose the one that requires collaboration but then at the same time shit on them. Its insanity, plain and simple.

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@Signtist@bookwyr.me 2026-09-28 17:16

But how does that make them more money? It’s not a joke - they literally became politicians for the purpose of making money from bribes. They do what they’re paid the most amount of money to do, like modern day mercenaries.

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