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The strikes on Iran show why quitting oil is more important than ever (theconversation.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by vividspecter@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

500billion for the military could have been spent on solar, wind, and batteries. Oh and create tons of jobs.

But nah let's bomb the shit outta people and trash the economy.

[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

And destroy the natural environment at the same time so that land, water and air are poisoned as has happened on Palestinian lands

[–] blind3rdeye@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"Replace war with free everything"

Certainly an enormous amount of work and resources are spent on war and defence against the risk of war. If those resource were instead spent on useful basics... well... yeah, everyone's basic needs could be met with no extra cost.

Unfortunately, there is no easy transition from where we are to that type of utopia.

[–] violentfart@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Like fighting over a dwindling stash of AoL discs with “1 free month” codes for dialup.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nawwww man. They got Venezuela now. World’s biggest oil reserves. Don’t need the Middle East any more!

What do you mean Infrastructure? It just comes out of the ground right?

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

It doesn't really bother me, high energy prices push people further towards renewbles (see South Australia)

Same thing with oil prices, higher petrol prices at the pump, more EV adoption

The impact of energy prices on electric vehicle adoption: From a perspective of consumer expectations

Empirically, the study quantifies the relative influence of gasoline prices, which are found to have a significantly larger impact—approximately 3.5 to 6 times greater than electricity prices—on consumer adoption behaviour.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188825000073

It's sadly a balance for me, higher prices give Russia more money but also encourage EV adoption, lower prices give Russia less money but slow adoption

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a weird thing, e-cars have little to do with going Green (that's public transport, trains, bicycles, escooters etc) but are excellent for energy independence and economically for balance of payments etc You'd think hawkish or fiscal Australian conservatives would be all over the push for ecars. Instead they are too busy sucking the oil tit of Saudi Arabia, Russia etal. It's beyond my understanding

Another example, Hanson bangs on about anti muslim and yet is all for buying Oil off the middle east ffs ?

performative stupidity or just outright stupidity, hard to tell sometimes.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, in the 70s due to the oil crisis then again during the Bush years conservatives were all about energy sovereignty. How quickly they forget.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Okay, forget the timeline, what is the objective!