Yup. When the cost of fuel goes up, everything does. I wish so badly that we had invested more in nuclear energy rather than other nations having us over a barrel ba dum tss
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You expect trucks and planes to move around with nuclear reactors or something? I guess electric cars are a thing, but if you think everyone would shift to electric cars, then the entire electric grid would need to be upgraded. Which is a 20+ year project. Never mind the obviously added reactors etc to keep up with the demand.Yup. When the cost of fuel goes up, everything does. I wish so badly that we had invested more in nuclear energy rather than other nations having us over a barrel ba dum tss
The price of fuel affects almost everything. Transport of goods - deliveries. Heating. Industrial processes. Growing food, packing and shipping food. Fuel and energy prices affect all of it.
Yeah I’ll just admit a lot of this is out of my league lol. However I have one crazy take that I think could work: if oil is so important, don’t leave it up to private interests who can price gouge. Nationalize some oil drilling and just go crazy. Within environmentally friendly parameters of course, nothing reckless like the Soviet onion did.
The biggest price gougers of oil ARE nationalized oil companies.
Yeah that's not going to work when you expect the private interests to fund 10-20 year long projects in Venezuela, upgrading the infrastructure there and taking all the risk etc etc. Especially when they've been fucked over by doing exactly that in the past w/ Chavez and the US government basically told them "tough luck" back then.
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Your faulty assumption was that the state (or leaders/politicians) are benevolent or act in the public's best interest.
Populism is one of the most extreme versions of democracy. It's literally playing to the commoners' demands for votes (honestly or dishonestly is besides the point).
Part of the problem is there are different types of Oil and the kind of Oil the US has is not the kind the US can refine.
It seems to work very well in practice when you look at the countries that are closest to it (e. g. Switzerland has managed to stay out of the EU).
Switzerland is a country of less than 10 million, mostly high educated individuals, with extremely strong fiscal discipline. In the US (and most countries let's be realistic) most people don't even know what they're voting for half the time.
Agreed, of course, there's nuance. I was talking about energy production, not really gas for cars.
They are pretty average compared to european peers (like netherlands and france) wrt. education, and the fiscal discipline comes from the semi-direct "populistic" democracy you're complaining about.
The Gas is the one that directly affects people in terms of Food and uh..Gas.
The fiscal discipline comes from their constitution, everything else is secondary. In the US that could never work, and you can see it as just about most of the country asks for more money and less taxes. I'm all for less taxes, but then you gotta kill social security, medicare/medicaid, welfare, gut federal jobs, the military, stop subsidizing farmers etc etc etc.
Yes, I was largely replying to the person saying we should do nuclear, in that message.
We do have quite a number of oil burning power plants which could be mothballed in favor of nuclear.