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PATRICK

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2. So the oil industry gets to play fellow victim

Reply to SamuelTheThird (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 01:32 PM

Mar 29

and actually get others to pay for the "recovery" and damage while governments must simultaneously pony up for new sources without charging any accountability to big oil for climate change. Which last is what they have been saying and testifying everywhere of late, finally stopping their won climate denial efforts(while their best paid goon is still doing the old job in the US).

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The Strait of Hormuz Energy Shock Is About to Head to the West [View all] SamuelTheThird Mar 29 OP

It Appears We Didn't Learn Anything From the 1970s Oil Embargo modrepub Mar 29 #1

Humans don't change behavioral patterns until forced to do so misanthrope Mar 29 #3

So the oil industry gets to play fellow victim PATRICK Mar 29 #2

3 days OC375 Mar 29 #4

If this keeps going south (escalates), people are definitely not prepared SamuelTheThird Mar 29 #5