Trump officials bracing for nightmare scenario of renewable energy and end of global hegemony.
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One idiotic move administration has made is to increase ethanol content of gasoline. Ethanol is corn based in US. Cost of corn is fertilizer based. The futures price of corn has only increased about 10%, while fertilizer costs are up 100%, and so no logical reason to plant corn that has been losing money for farmers for last 5 years.
Easiest plan to bring down energy prices would be to import chinese solar tariff free, to use on ethanol corn fields in Nebraska. Leaving room for Corn between panel rows when it is viable to grow corn for food again. There's even a path towards 0 cost electricity for 24/7 datacenters or other loads. https://lemmy.ca/post/59615557?scrollToComments=true
Your linked AI slop post has a LOT of assumptions and it's kinda expensive. If the total system capex is 50k for 1 kW load, it'll be 500 million for a modern 10MW data center. Then covering the deficit off employee BEVs for peanuts a kWh: That assumes you have enough employees for that and that they're willing to wear their batteries for this.
But yes, the whole ethanol requirement is stupid for a country that has its own oil anyway
You're right about cost assumptions of renewables. Like I said, tariff free Chinese costs + 30% local premium results in 0 electricity costs if $2/kg hydrogen revenue. Higher costs would still pay off at 10c/kwh from datacenter/other sales.
It honestly makes me sick that this appears to be the line for most Americans. Fuck this country.
$ is the only thing sacred in america, always has been
No one cares about victims of rape and pedophilia, that's other people, caring about other people is un-American.
To be fair, once fuel prices go up the cost of EVERYTHING also goes up. So no it's not just about pain at the pump, it's pain at the grocery check out. Pain when the oil truck comes to deliver your liquid heat. Pain when you buy anything plastic, anything grown with fertilizers. People don't realize petroleum is in almost everything! And if it doesn't use a petroleum product in manufacturing, it certainly does in shipping.
Prices for the kinds of fuel ocean going ships burn have increased 25%-35% depending on the port.
Yep and the same cart of groceries I spent 100 bucks on last year is about 200 now :( Trump was right. So much winning we'll get sick of it. Trouble is only the billionaires are winning, at our expense. I'm not having fun anymore.
The only thing that keeps most people complacent is they can manage to scrape by with their meager salary buying crappy goods. Take that away and Americans might get more revolutionary.
"americans are 3 hot meals from a revolution" is the saying I think.
Yeah, but I don’t think America existed when that phrase was first said. More like “The people are…”
West coast will run out of jet fuel in 2-3 weeks. US politics are so hateful, Texas will likely refuse to ship any by truck to say that this is "woke green policies" fault.
What exactly are they “bracing” for? Not a single one of them has to pay out of pocket for it.
They are bracing for the voters to finally turn on them. Commit fraud? It's fine my gas is cheap. Sex with children? Eh whatever I don't want to consider if that's true or not as long as my gas is cheap. Bomb a school overseas? Whatever you've gotta do to keep my gas cheap. GAS PRICES ARE UP?! WTF IS THIS ADMINISTRATION DOING?! VOTE THEM OUT.
It's sickening, but it seems the price of gas is really all that matters to the Republican voter.
To be fair, a coal rolling Duramax is pretty expensive to feed.
This country has done nothing except wait for someone else to solve the “trump problem.” Protests are great to show unity and dissatisfaction, but I don’t think the regime cares. Protests are not force, and the only thing, if it isn’t obvious, this administration understands is abuse and use of force. They’d probably be fine with a Tiananmen Square scenario in the US, it would justify the final grab for power.
That said, I hope you’re right and gas is finally enough to force change. Hopefully we don’t replace one idiot with another.
Its simply time to disobey. If you live next to an AI Datacenter now is your chance to shine.
Isn't the US a net exporter of oil. Can someone explain to me why this wouldn't benefit them? Sell oil an increased cost with increased demand globally, cover costs at home with supplying the locally refined stuff for the population.
Anyone more in the know able to explain the gaps in my understanding?
You're not wrong. The US could do that. But in the US there is no forcing function to make the companies subsidize the oil locally and they would rather make more profit by selling oil at the market price.
The more exports of US oil/lng the higher the price for Americans. It's not as though oligarchy pays taxes, so when you say America makes money, there is no trickle down to Americans.
My theory, it's not the government that has the oil, it's the oil companies. And because this is capitalism, the oil companies will charge as much as the can. So even if it is made here, the drastically reduced supply globally means the companies can change more, and so they will.
My theory, it’s not the government that has the oil
That is not a theory, that is just a fact.
In theory the government could and should impose price controls, for the common good. But Trump and Republicans are obviously not going to tell the oil oligarks that they can't have lots of money.
Yeah, fair enough. I am just not very informed on the oil industry, so I didn't want to sound like I did in case I was talking out my ass. Good to know I was correct in my assumption.
I am just not very informed on the oil industry, so I didn’t want to sound like I did in case I was talking out my ass.
No no, I am not criticizing. I am all for using the correct level of qualifiers when speculating about things you know you don't know with certainty.
If only the people talking out of their ass about the current conflict in the middle east would do the same...
who do you think gave this admin their orders to kick the ME hornetnest? oil barons are making a killing right now
Part of it has to do with the fact that most of the oil we extract in the US now is shale oil, which is lighter and thinner than what they pull out with traditional extraction. Most of the refineries in the US are not equipped to process shale oil, so we export most of it, and import what we can process.
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