Super El Niño (should it be called El Hombre?) + no gasoline + ai bubble bursting + hantavirus pandemic + renewed shooting war with Iran + what did I miss? = cool zone? 😎
i think there will be gas available, but critical dependence on it will jack up the price beyond what many may be willing or able to pay.
if it were a normal country there would be a crash program for supporting transitions to remote work where possible and some major public investments in transportation/electrification infrastructure where remote work is not possible to try and soften the blow by shifting as much low hanging fruit from petroleum dependency. it would still be a total shit show, but the foundation for a transition would be there and maybe the underlying infrastructure of society (schools, hospitals, logistics) could be kept above water as things are reoriented.
but i am fairly sure there will be none of that and the decision makers are going to ride the dragon directly into the wall at top speed to ensure a crisis allowing the largest capital formations yo hoover up more critical assets for pennies on the dollar.
supporting transitions to remote work
my girlfriend is still starving hardly able to eat with anxiety over her job “RETURNING TO OFFICE” despite NEVER BEING IN OFFICE which I feel should be patently illegal like, in and of itself
and all of that is happening WHILE THIS IS GOING ON with gas prices
FOR NO REASON
and I’m like so close to crashing the fuck out over this shit, like, how is this legal even under fascism, you’d think the government which has an interest in not running out of fucking gas would jump on shit like companies wanting workers to waste gas for literally no fucking reason whatsoever, what are they gonna do if they run out of gas to do fascism with
what are they gonna do if they run out of gas to do fascism with
They’re going to chain people to pickup trucks and force them to pull them.
its ridiculous. i was hired into a fully remote job. was promised fully remote. the dumbass in charge decided that was all over… in the middle of winter. when you definitely want more cars on the road. the union has taken it to the labor board, the labor board ruled in the unions favor. the asshole in charge is dragging it out with constant emergency appeals to stay the board’s order to go back to remote and bargain. we should get a ruling this summer.
but its ludicrous. they don’t even have the space for all of us to be in office, people with obvious hardships (like living hours away) are allowed to be remote for a year. all our jobs involve working with remote partners so we’re just taking remote meetings all day stacked up in an old building with crazy environmental problems like asbestos and mold.
its like the bosses have lost all grip on reality. like all this was stupid dick measuring before Operation Imperial Implosion. now it’s recklessly depraved.
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this just infuriates me. i was forced to commute for 2 hours daily because fucking boss wants to lord over us, but my job was literally about SSHing into remote servers. they even wanted me to work remote on weekends.
fuck these petty bourgeois motherfuckers with a cactus.
what are they gonna do if they run out of gas to do fascism with
Find new, creative ways to ensure that the line continues to go up
no, the poor people in asia will
Figures I am finally taking a better angle on my life, eating better, doing therapy and everything goes to shit.
The world going to shit is no excuse for us to go to shit.
Things getting difficult gives us all the more reason to be on point.
Keep it up, twin. We got people counting on us.
You get to feel like you’re doing better than the world around you. I hope that makes it feel more affirming.
Yeah same like i quit drinking and shit in part to save money and oh look there goes the u.s. dollar and my partners job
I make almost 2x an hour what i did 6 years ago but have even less money to actually spend on shit that isn’t food
Super El Niño (should it be called El Hombre?)
some guys at a government agency called NOAA, what do these guys even do, NOAA? anyway they told me there’s a bad hombre headed our way and you know i don’t like the sound of that, so you know what happened? i cut their funding by 10 billion dollars and gave it straight to ICE, that’ll show the eggheads what happens when you let bad hombres into our big beautiful countryThey said this bad hombre was gonna make everything super hot, so I gave money to ICE to keep things nice and cool instead.
usians about to find out how bad of an idea suburbs are.
TEN DOLLARS A GALLON
TEN DOLLARS A GALLON
TEN DOLLARS A GALLONif the U.S. figures out a way to mine methane from bullshit, it’ll become self sustainable for an eon.
There’s enough obnoxiously juicy farts from congress everytime they speak to keep us afloat anyway.
There are methane digester toilets. Some of them are even well-integrated with buildings.
But even between humans and all lifestock there isn’t enough bullshit to fill up the American demand level. And methane wouldn’t supply the broad range of hydrocarbons that crude oil supplies for industry.
If we were intelligent and adaptive and forward-thinking, we would retool our industries to run on solar and wind, with biogas to shore up the base rate and fill demand spikes.
I love how the commenter you’re replying to is making a joke about America’s culture of blatant lying, and you’re making a serious analysis of using waste and farts as fuel. God, I love Hexbear sometimes.
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And methane wouldn’t supply the broad range of hydrocarbons that
it would help the fertilizer problem though since that’s what we need for industrial scale nitrogen fixation
If we’re collecting human and livestock waste, we could just as easily use a bunch of the urine as well, and use manure directly instead of capturing the methane and using the methane to power the Haber-Bosch process + supply the central CH2 group.
It’s much easier to imagine agriculture without oil than it is to imagine heavy industry without oil. Relying on plant/bacteria nitrogen fixation is something we need to pivot back to anyway. Marg Bar America means no longer flooding the landscape with more synthesized urea than it can handle, it means any given region living within its means, ecologically and biogeochemically.
And I’m saying all this as Hexbear’s resident composting toilet proselytizer.
The US remains a net exporter of oil. They are the largest producer of oil, accounting for something like a fifth of oil produced annually. The US is not running out of oil because of this.
The issue is not that the USian citizen is going to actually turn on the nozzles and air comes out, the issue is price.
AFAIK the USA doesn’t export the kind of oil you can use for cars, trucks, or airplanes.
More specifically the US isn’t setup to refine the oil it exports. It would cost many billions of dollars to convert. I’m not real knowledgeable on the topic, but the US seems to be a real pro at kicking itself in the balls. Dumb yankees. I hope it hurts.
The oligarchs are real good at maximizing profits for themselves.*
They dont give a fuck if it destroys the country. They’ll just move somewhere else and keep going.
the USA is a net exporter of petroleum products but is actually a net importer of oil. natural gas is the big difference
Yeah we have big refineries here. Lots of heavy crude coming from Canada, and its also why the USA had to get rid of Maduro before starting war with Iran. Oil imports are the highest they’ve been since 2019 from Venezuela.
and the proms tomorrow!
are you thinking… what I’m thinking…?
MAAAAKEOOOOVERRRRR
If it was a functioning country, no definitely not. With these prices long term, we have fracking, which takes a long time to start up. We will just destroy the shit out of North Dakota, and gas will be fairly expensive, not apocalyptically expensive.
But it’s not a functioning country so it’s anybody’s call.
Extremely funny that the timing lines up with the 250th anniversary of this kursed kountry
Edit: Also don’t forget private credit collapsing
and probably some water crises in the southwestern states.
Dame más gasolina
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