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Post #712373

2026-03-20 16:56 UTC

read this somewhere: "the money spent going to war for oil could have been spent eliminating the need for oil."

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  • @saltywizard@beige.party This^^^!!!

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  • @saltywizard@beige.party yes true but that would benefit YOU rather than further concentrating wealth for THEM

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  • @Edelruth@mastodon.online 2026-03-20 19:06

    @saltywizard@beige.party Ye, but Lockhead! Think of their needs! /s

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  • @johnefrancis@cosocial.ca 2026-03-20 19:18

    @saltywizard@beige.party there was a graphic going around illustrating that the cost of 1 LNG tanker produces N PWh electricity...once...while that $ spent on solar produces that same N PWh electricity... every year for 25+ years.

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  • @JackMexa4@mastodon.social 2026-03-20 19:32

    @saltywizard@beige.party True. But then oil companies could not fill their pockets with blood and pollution money.

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  • @sjcooke66@mastodon.social 2026-03-20 20:18

    @saltywizard@beige.party Yeah, but... THINK OF THOSE POOR,STARVING ARMS MANUFACTURERS!😭 😭 😭

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  • @graydon@canada.masto.host 2026-03-20 21:54

    @saltywizard@beige.party Society exists to make you buy gas. And the people who get the money from you buying gas are going to keep it that way no matter what it costs anyone but them.

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  • @LDJ@mastodon.green 2026-03-20 22:10

    @saltywizard@beige.party Yep. Like @documentally’s newsletter tonight, I know where my money will be spent. The sooner we (UK and everywhere) can get away from that dependency the better.

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  • @FourQ@mastodon.online 2026-03-20 22:47

    @saltywizard@beige.party Whoever came out with this, I salute you.

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  • @saltywizard@beige.party Even if we just cut the demand in half, it would remove the power some of these oil nations have.

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  • @saltywizard@beige.party We will get there, but it is certainly not a straight path.

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  • @mike@thecanadian.social 2026-03-20 23:46

    @saltywizard@beige.party They didn't go to war for oil, they went to war on vibes. It would've made more sense if they went to war for oil.

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  • @Ooze@wirejunkie.net 2026-03-20 23:55

    @saltywizard@beige.party I am hoping somebody realises that the cost of rebuilding all the destroyed fossil fuel infrastructure would be better spent on renewables.

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  • @assimilateborg@kind.social 2026-03-21 00:14

    @saltywizard@beige.party just a cupple of toots from yours, I saw this link, which is probably what you have read. https://newrepublic.com/article/207946/iran-war-oil-hormuz-price-energy

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  • @saltywizard@beige.party I've felt that the oil magnates have missed it all along. For some years now they could have been investing in clean energy and become the magnates of clean energy, still rich and powerful, but so what, they wouldn't be polluting the world. But no, they couldn't see that, they had to stick with dirty energy. Pretty short term thinking.

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  • @bstow@beige.party 2026-03-21 02:26

    @saltywizard@beige.party but that’s not what the oil investors paid for when they bought all those cheap politicians

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  • @saltywizard@beige.party I guess it was this one? https://mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/116263513441763825 @climatenewsnow@mastodon.social

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