Has anybody ever seen this documentary?
Really made me realize how crazy dependent America is on oil. Doing further research made me realize how much oil companies control our politics.
Americans use about twice as much energy as other first-world citizens.
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>Really made me realize how crazy dependent America is on oil.
I know.. must be for this reason that you shitty companies fucked Petrobras and the brazilian democracy in 2016 to put their dirty hands in the biggest oil reserves in the world here in Southeast Brazilian Coast
Oil controls a lot of our foreign policy. See: Libya, Iraq, etc.
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>Still believing America is dependent upon on just oil
Come on. It's energy, debt, and the military. Focusing on just one makes you come off as ignorant.
Yet we have gotten no good oil deals from these countries. Libya and Iraq are about disrupting the Middle East for Isreal. If it was as simple as a single resource we'd at least get something from it right?
I think he was too pessimistic about alternative energy sources. He really believed the world is going to disaster in 10-20 years because oil runs out.
I’m not pessimistic on alternative energy, but I know that Republican Americans try really hard to fight alternative energy or anything besides oil. They even
For example the Koch Brothers are huge political campaigners and are always fighting anything that could reduce our oil consumption. They run Reason, Cato Institute, Americans for Prosperity, and a large part of the GOP.
Who are you quoting? Certainly not me.
No hard feelings bro amerimutt
Your people is not responsible by the shit of the CIA
I like americans, but not redneck from the South
I also think it’s odd how far-right Americans say they hate Islam but are more than willing to ally with Saudi Arabia (which practices an extremely oppressive form of Islam) because they sell us oil.
more importantly, Iraq and Lybia were the strongest advocate of a non-dollar oil market
the other one is Iran by the way
strange things happen to countries that want a non-dollar oil market
It's funny because we're not even near peak oil yet. There are a lot of untapped oil reserves all around the world.
When was that film made? The 2000s? I remember a lot of people on TV having freak outs about peak oil and then nothing happened.
Collapse ain't coming from oil. It's coming from divisions inside the US.
>More than willing
Says who? Why do you take stances from political whores and then generalize a whole people?
Saudis are willing to let Israel be, Iranians are not.
Yeah I'm qouting you. Oil is so mid 2000s. Sure it contributes to decisions but to believe that it's the sole reason for actions taken by the US is being blind to other influences on American politics.
I don’t know or care if we’re near peak oil but the point is that we’re incredibly dependent on oil when we don’t need to be. We are dependent upon that oil because the oil companies are very politically active. For example Trump appointed an oil exec to be Secretary of State.
Says the Republican Party. And these days with them worshipping Trump there’s no chance of them adopting a smart energy policy.
You should check out the Koch Brothers. They are by far the biggest political donors in America and they run our largest private company, which sells oil and asphalt.
When you go to America and wonder why there’s no decent transit or train systems, it’s mostly because of the Kochs.
If we weren’t dependent on cars to get around, we would buy less oil from the Kochs. 1/3 of American energy is used in transportation and 90% of that energy comes from oil.
What if Fletcher Prouty was right? Interesting desu.
You could say the same shit about corn, Isreal, and media companies.
Sure oil has influence on American politics but scape goating it as the only cause of shit is pretty asinine.
Are you stupid enough to believe that the common Republican agrees with Saudi Arabia being an ally? Just because a ruling class makes decisions separate from the people doesn't mean the people believe in the same allies.
What would you even call a smart energy policy? No one's willing to open any nuclear power plants and no one is going to make drastic changes to American infrastructure in the current political climate.
Lol’d. I’ve seen that guy.
Something about oil makes people adopt really crackpot ideas.
There was a really good book called Hot Flat and Crowded about how America could actually improve its economy by adopting sustainable energy technology and weaning off fossil fuels. Makes sense because energy ain’t free.
>why there’s no decent transit or train systems
Because the train lobby was systematically dismantled and then replaced by car lobby. And don't for a second think the train lobby was any better than them.
>when we don’t need to be
What resource would you use instead?
Is it crackpot? Using oil as a vector for a global currency seems right in line with your points.
That's at least the main thing I got from him.
People have been saying that we're at peak oil since at least the 1960s
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>What would you even call a smart energy policy?
For starters I'd stop spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing oil, and then I'd stop spending 400 billion taxpayer dollars per year building highways.
Oddly the GOP and libertarian think tanks raise no objection to that because it sells a lot of oil (they even pave with asphalt, which is an oil by-product) but think it's different to implement a bus or train system which costs a lot less and earns revenue.
If you believed in a free, competitive market you'd object to the socialism we have for oil. Reason (which is run by the Kochs) even campaigns against private companies building high speed rail. It's weird that they present themselves as "free market".
>to believe that it's the sole reason for actions taken by the US
Who said it was? No one's said that ITT, I just read over the whole thread. You should too.
>no one is going to make drastic changes to American infrastructure in the current political climate.
Couldn't agree more! Republicans aren't going to upgrade our infrastructure because that would seriously cut into oil profits; modern infrastructure uses a lot less oil.
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That’s why the US keeps invading the miluleest