"Zelensky says allies asked him to scale back attacks on Russian energy"
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Yeah, fuck that
Fuck any country in Europe still stuck on #oil and #gas
Fuck bigot Americans in giant low fuel economy pickup trucks whining
Fuck you India, Fuck you China
Fuck you all
All countries:
Get the fuck off oil and gas. Period. End of story
Addressing the #climatecrisis and defunding vile regimes is job #1
#Zelensky:
Pulverize #Russia's #energy sector to oblivion
Zelensky says allies asked him to scale back attacks on Russian energy
Ukraine's president says partners asked if the attacks could be "reduced" as prices soar due to the Iran war.Vitaly Shevchenko (BBC News)
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES • • •Ukraine is leading the way on freedom from fossil fuel fascism...
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Excellent! Keep hitting Russia's oil infrastructure until Ukraine is whole again.
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Good job!
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rob los ricos
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Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
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Nicole Parsons
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Democracy continues to ignore how far the fossil fuel industry is willing to go to keep its customers trapped.
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mike805
in reply to rob los ricos • • •@roblosricos @Npars01 Good for them, but here is the big 80-point asterisk. Renewables are cheaper if you do not have any fossil fuels. Which the article points out, they don't.
For Russia or the USA, not so much.
We should still be putting solar on everything flat, just because it's silly not to at this point.
txtx 🇪🇺
in reply to mike805 • • •@mike805 You mention Russia as if anyone here had even the faintest impression that they are part of this discussion.
This is about bombing the shit out of Russia's oil infrastructure, not asking what *they* think about renewables.
@roblosricos @Npars01 @benroyce
MidgePhoto
in reply to txtx 🇪🇺 • • •txtx 🇪🇺
in reply to MidgePhoto • • •@Photo55 A blown up barrel of oil has a value of zero dollars, so I agree with you there!
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mike805
in reply to txtx 🇪🇺 • • •@txtx @Photo55 @roblosricos @Npars01 Not only that but they are going to pump another barrel somewhere to replace it. So you double the environmental impact.
Probably more than double. There is no clean tech on an explosion.
txtx 🇪🇺
in reply to mike805 • • •@mike805 Well Russia should stop their stupid war then shouldn't they — Putin can then unleash the environmentalist hidden deep inside him and stop pumping all that extra oil.
@Photo55 @roblosricos @Npars01 @benroyce
mike805
in reply to txtx 🇪🇺 • • •@txtx @Photo55 @roblosricos @Npars01 Yeah, not likely. There is no environmentalist inside Putin. He is the best current example of a hard power, militarist, fossil fuel dinosaur powered leader.
Green utopia, if it ever exists, will have to figure out how to defend itself against such people. Because both warlike pricks and the dinosaur juice to power their forces will always exist.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES
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fuck green utopia
we're just talking about transitioning off fossil fuels, which will never be 100%
please stop using some vision of perfection as a basis for your words. it's not honest about what the real topic is here
if we make russia be able to field only 10 tanks instead of 100, that matters. that's the point of *transition*. fuck perfection
mike805
in reply to ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES • • •@txtx @Photo55 @roblosricos @Npars01 My point is, installing solar panels is all well and good. But anyone who actually gives up producing and refining fossil fuels is militarily at the mercy of anyone who does not do that.
Using solar for civilian power to free up oil and gas for military preparedness is a good idea.
This fuel shortage will make small scale panel and battery systems very popular in places where people used to use generators. That will have benefits after it's over.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to mike805 • • •Keeping fossil fuels in use for national security reasons doesn't make a nation safer.
It makes a nation's national defense vulnerable to the whims of petrostate despots & megalomaniacal oil oligarchs.
Murderous thugs like #PrinceBonesaw & Putin use fossil fuel supply to manipulate elections.
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Pearl Harbor was triggered by an oil embargo.
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mike805
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •> doesn't make a nation safer.
Depends on if your nation has domestic oil and gas, or not.
If you do, then being able to pump and refine the oil, and run the Haber process using the gas, allows your nation to be a military power.
If you do not have fossil fuels then your military power is fragile and dependent on imports. UK going to oil-fired ships in the early 20th century got the whole Middle East oil politics problem started. 1/3
Nicole Parsons
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There's a dozen oil-producing nations that would differ with the idea of "fossil fuel means national security".
Especially since oil supply is being consolidated into fewer & fewer hands.
Nigeria still got bombed.
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Venezuela had their president kidnapped.
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Canada & Greenland are threatened by Putin's "joint arctic energy projects" with Trump's fossil fuel billionaires
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mike805
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •The first two are basically colonies. Their oil was for export, not domestic power. And yes a technologically superior power (with its own fossil fuels) can attack you from the air. Oil is a prerequisite for empire, not a guarantee of security.
Canada, is too big and too right next door for the USA to actually invade and occupy. Their best move right now, if they take the threat seriously, would be to fully embrace American style gun rights.
mike805
in reply to mike805 • • •@Npars01 @txtx @Photo55 @roblosricos Japan tried to become an empire without domestic oil. When the USA embargoed their imports (due to photo evidence of atrocities in China) they were screwed and had to make what everyone knew was a stupid strategic decision to avoid instant defeat.
USA and Russia are two nations that can be empires because they have oil, gas, and most of the minerals they need, without requiring sea transport.
There is no military power without fossil fuels. 2/3
mike805
in reply to mike805 • • •@Npars01 @txtx @Photo55 @roblosricos So far nobody has an all -nuclear or all-electric economy. Maybe someday someone will synthesize all their liquid fuels and lubricants. We know how.
But war is a quantitative economic exercise (and a stupid waste, but that's beside the point) and you can lose on the numbers even if you're technologically superior. Ask the Germans about that.
So you have to use the fast easy method, externalities be damned. And right now that is oil and gas. 3/3
txtx 🇪🇺
in reply to mike805 • • •@mike805 Here we agree, but how do you write this up and still argue against Ukraine smashing Russian oil infrastructure?
It's like you have all the right ingredients to bake an excellent cheesecake, but are somehow trying to turn them into a hamburger.
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Nicole Parsons
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Ukraine is defending itself by going after the fossil fuel funding of Putin's wars. A just act.
Trump is defending the funding behind his fascist movement. An unjust act.
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The fossil fuel industry funds war & ecocide.
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LukefromDC
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @txtx @mike805 @Photo55 @roblosricos I hope Ukraine manages to kill ALL of Putin's oil export while crude is trading so high, so as to maximize the lost opportunity caused by Putin's imperialism.
If Trump doesn't want $10 a gallon gasoline prices he can stop his war on Iran at any time.
rob los ricos
in reply to LukefromDC • • •@LukefromDC @Npars01 @txtx @mike805 @Photo55
why do people think that causing other people to suffer will somehow affect the dictator they are forced to live under?
like the iraq war - generational pain and suffering for common people, because the leaders of a few countries had a squabble over this or that.
fuck - nationalism is for sadists...
txtx 🇪🇺
in reply to rob los ricos • • •@roblosricos Russia is the aggressor state. Ukrainians have a right to defend themselves. Russia can go home and stop the war any day they choose. It is 100% up to them.
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mike805
in reply to txtx 🇪🇺 • • •@txtx @Npars01 @Photo55 @roblosricos I am not opposed, on military strategic grounds, to Ukraine blowing up Russia's oil infrastructure. Of course you do that in war. It's an obvious essential target that self-destructs once hit.
Just saying it sucks for the environment and for the rest of the world that could use the fuel.
And I am surprised that the green movement is not applying its moral weight toward trying to end all three of these wars on save-the-Earth grounds.
Nicole Parsons
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Greenpeace
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in reply to mike805 • • •txtx 🇪🇺
in reply to mike805 • • •The Green parties in some European countries, such as Germany, have been key in getting Ukraine support and weapons.
As of now, Ukraine is what's keeping Russia from continuing its war further west into the EU/UK. If we let Ukraine fall, the ecological disaster will eclipse anything happening in Russia right now.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to txtx 🇪🇺 • • •A lot of what's going on in MAGA world can be seen as a fossil fuel industry determined to keep its hegemony.
Wars that profit donors & personal profiteering
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The public corruption to pick the 'winners' in the economy
Wednesday briefing: How did Russia become the unexpected beneficiary of the Iran war?
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MidgePhoto
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Worth looking for fights within it as well.