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Still_Study_6059 t1_is027te wrote

Reply to comment by Occma in China’s Electric Trucks May Well Pull Forward Peak Oil Demand by PeteWenzel

Putin's gas is a bigger driver of change, but it did rear some heads how reliant we've made ourselves on despotic regimes that don't necessarily have our best interests at heart. So there's been a perception-change with regards to oil too. Especially when OPEC is jacking up the prices by lowering production.

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Scope_Dog t1_is1s89o wrote

These European countries knew it was a terrible idea to be reliant on Russian gas and oil they just chose to shrug their shoulders and move on.

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Still_Study_6059 t1_is1ueja wrote

Also true. And if they didn't early in the millennium the start of the invasion of Ukraine should've tipped them off. Or the Georgian invasion before that. We've made ourselves a play-thing for these despots.

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