With friends like the United States who needs enemies?
“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
― Henry Kissinger
I don’t understand the motivation here - isn’t the US an exporter? Surely high prices benefit the green line
There are real shortages at this point, and the US doesn’t produce nearly enough diesel to cover the shortfall. The US is looking at an economic crisis at this point with diesel going through the roof. Much of the transportation and farming depend on it. There’s absolutely going to be a cap.
He is trying to temporarily lower diesel prices before the midterm elections.
What they aren’t talking about is that trump also has drained the US strategic petroleum reserve. When they stop drawing that down, things will get really ugly.
speedrun to crash the global economy
I suspect the global economy is kind of like a chicken running with its head cut off at this point. The energy shortage is structural and cannot be fixed in the near term. And the effects of that have been masked by the fact that tankers were already out when the war started, and took some time to get to their destination, then by countries opening up the reserves. Now both of these amortization measures are exhausted, and we’ll see the real price of energy take effect.
i fully expect the brunt to be felt after the midterm elections – sparing trump and his ilk from the worst of the fallout.
yeah an energy crisis right before the election would be a disaster for them
Hey! You over there! Yeah, so we started a fight we can’t win and it cost us all our gas reserves. Give us yours now. Oh you had nothing to do with it? Who cares, gimmie gimme gimme!
they sanctioned and condemned iran for defending itself. lol
and that’s on top of the sanctions that they’ve already been complying with for decades.
in reaction to the US attacking iran, germany sanctioned iran. so, y’know…
nothing to do with it? lol, they are perpetrators of genocide, murder, rape and pillage.
Did I miss a story where France and Germany attacked Iran and interfered with a massive traffic lane of diesel? This is all on the US.
they sanctioned and condemned iran for defending itself. lol
and that’s on top of the sanctions that they’ve already been complying with for decades.
Yes, you missed the fact that European governments, EU and NATO provide both verbal and material support to US wars of aggression. Europe is complicit in genocide and deserves everything that is coming to it.
Merz did say Israel is doing Europe’s or Germany’s dirty work by attacking Iran
