quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 03, 2026 10:56AM

Where I live, between 7 AM on March 1 and 4 PM on March 2 gasoline prices went up 16% to 18%. They never had reached Trump's delusionally low numbers though they were at some of the lowest in a couple of years.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 03, 2026 11:12AM

Only a few % of world supply comes out of there. And considering how much oil US and Israel are going to burn, the price should be going down. Solar is still a delusion in our lifetime.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 04, 2026 11:57AM

Solar and wind (which is a product of natural solar activity) are more efficient and, for all practical purposes, eternal. Fossil fuels, burning things for energy, is inefficient caveman technology using finite sources of fuel. Oil prices are determined by the world market while wind and solar can mean energy independence right down to the individual. I just saw this this morning: [youtu.be]

quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 04, 2026 11:21PM

Just saw this little tidbit. [youtube.com] I can remember fuel shortages, fuel rationing, and reduced speed limits in the 1970's. Are you ready for that, Woberto?

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2026 02:57AM

Renewables are the logical future, no doubt. The delusion is thinking it can happen now. It's a 100 year plan and if we all get on board and aim for practical milestones, we will get there.

I live in the Top End so shortages are a way of life. Eventually a lack of diesel will fuck it completely up here however. I will be OK.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2026 11:50AM

We won't get there if all these dumbfucks who want to walk away from it have their way. If it advances as quickly as computer technology has we might yet see it in our lifetimes. When my father was born horses were the main form of personal transportation, the roads were mostly dirt messes, and automobiles were for the wealthy who could hire people to tend to them. A couple of weeks after dad entered the world, Ford Model T's began rolling off the assembly line making cars available for average people and the infrastructure and tech followed as demand grew. He lived long enough to see the moon landings, the space shuttle, and the dawn of home computers. Despite your MAGA buddy naysayers, Woberto, the demand and technology are increasing even if it's China leading the way because Trump is ceding U.S. innovation for a quick buck.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: March 05, 2026 12:17PM

It's almost impossible to wrap your head around but some mathematicians out there can probably do it for us.
If a solar panel was magically manufactured, then we have already won.
But the materials and the energy required to make a solar panel make it a net loss every time.
You might as well try and invent perpetual motion. It ain't gonna happen.

BUT we won't be able to do without it in the future, when the dinosaur juice runs out.
We will then have a few hundred years to figure out the next thing to replace copper, silver and gallium arsenide.

So I am all for adopting renewable energy but I refuse to sacrifice my current standard of living.
If you think that is selfish then you are a fucking communist.
Or a lefty lib-tard that does not need to work to live and therefore has plenty of time on their hands to tell other people how to live.