Posted on 04/01/2026 5:31:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Whether you like it or hate it, the war in Iran has definitely had the effect of exposing some of the ridiculous fantasies in the world to a serious dose of reality.
Consider the UK. After implementing an expansive welfare state in the latter 20th century (e.g., free health care for all!), the UK since 2000 has gone all-in on the idea of an energy system free of hydrocarbon fuels. The 2008 Climate Change Act — passed with an overwhelming majority including support from all major political parties — committed the UK to 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. That mandate was then amended in 2019 to make the legally-binding target for 2050 what is known as “net zero” carbon emissions. That change got passed essentially unanimously in Parliament, without even a recorded vote.
Here in the 21st century, the UK has pursued its net zero fantasy with a vengeance. Wind turbines and solar panels now cover the countryside. Many power plants that use coal or other fossil fuels have been closed. Perhaps most important, the UK has banned essentially all exploration for and development of fossil fuel energy within its own borders, including offshore in territorial waters. Although there are large shale-gas formations beneath the UK, the practice of “fracking” to exploit them has been subject to a moratorium since 2019, and the current Labour government has vowed to make that moratorium permanent. The current government has also not issued any new licenses for drilling for oil or gas in the North Sea, and says it will continue that policy, although a small amount of drilling continues under pre-existing licenses.
The logic of these policies appears simple: carbon emissions damage the environment, and after all, we can get all the energy we need from the free and abundant wind and sun.
Into this mix has dropped the Iran war, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Maybe things were not as simple as they had seemed.
In the past few days, a serious shortage of aviation fuel has arisen in the UK. The shortage is not limited to the UK, but apparently is particularly acute in that country. From the Daily Mail today:
[The] Iran war has continued to wreak havoc on the aviation industry, and the UK could soon be experiencing a jet fuel shortage. The last known shipment of jet fuel to Britain from the Middle East is expected to arrive within 48 hours amid alarm over shortages within a week. Data providers Kpler and Vortexa say the consignment on the Libyan-flagged Maetiga vessel is expected to reach the UK from Saudi Arabia on Thursday. The blockage of the Strait of Hormuz due to the ongoing conflict means no other cargoes heading to the UK from the region can be seen on the water, they added.
What, you mean the wind and sun aren’t going to work to fly the airplanes? It’s almost impossible to believe how naive and detached from reality these people are. The wind and sun are also not going to work to run industry, agriculture, or ground transportation. And for that matter, they are not going to work to provide continuous, reliable electricity, which is the only type of electricity worth having. But the immediate crunch is hitting the aviation fuel business.
President Trump reacted with a message that you may have seen, telling the UK and other European countries to “Go get your own oil.”:
They have been living in a fantasy world, where the U.S. defense umbrella has meant that they never have had to face reality. If this turns out to be the event that breaks the net zero nonsense, so much the better.
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Gaia Worship, Open Borders and Socialism are the holy trinity for western elites.
Very true.
They’re doing their level best to destroy America, next.
The US unilaterally created a problem for Europe and now begs Europe for help, while at the same time the US claims it doesn’t need Europe’s help.
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I see others have corrected you, on this, so I won’t pile on.
Hee hee! Europe’s Deep State/s is/are having kittens!!!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l9dmj7mplo
Damn, this is a great time to be alive...
Thank you again, Mr. President!
God bless you and our republic.
Nonsense. We are not “begging” them to help. We invited them to join because it is in their best interests. They refused so Trump told them do it yourselves then.
The shortage of fuel is affecting other countries drastically. While we complain about $3.60 gasoline or $5.75 diesel they have NO gasoline in Thailand.
A friend is married to a woman who legally moved to the USA ten years ago from Thailand.
Her relatives back in Thailand said that there is NO gasoline available.
They get their gasoline from......
CHINA.
China is keeping what gasoline they make in their refineries in country. They are not shipping it to Thailand and other countries too.
Therefore, a country of twenty million people and an ally of the USA in SE Asia is back to riding BICYCLES.
The gulf export crisis has revealed that oil is not just petrol. It is chemicals essential for modern industry, fertilizer and pesticides
And the transport that delivers all of these things
A great unwinding is in process for the people who really wanted a world with “ no oil”
This is spot on.
The British Aristocracy was and still is a human breeding program that’s a thousand years old.
Look at the newspaper ‘SOCIETY PAGES’ of years past and you will always notice the word “breeding” included as one of the attributes of the ‘Coming Out’ debutants, as well as in wedding announcements for high society members.
A breeding program not much different than the ones for thoroughbred horses, or dogs, cats, chickens, etc.
This is why all their wedding arrangements need to be approved by the Crown, the Royal Family, to make sure the inherited genetic codes remain unsullied by inferior commoners.
This concept of the European aristocracy being the thoroughbred humans, like greyhounds at the race track, has never been fully understood or dealt with by modern societies, and it persists just below the surface of everything they contemplate.
They cannot help looking down their noses at America, and cannot, under any circumstances (Churchill excepted) admit that we developed a far better system of governance.
They actually believe that they are ‘better’ human beings than the rest of us, thereby entitling them to govern without interference from lesser creatures.
One of the most brilliant aspects of our Constitution was the ban on Titles of Nobility, a dagger through the heart of a thousand years of tyranny (and nonsense).
As President Trump so rightly stated, they are committing suicide, and the only thing that will save them is another D-Day Invasion, this time starting with the UK.
hear! hear!
In the real world they don’t have the firepower, will, leadership or resources to challenge Islam. They have submitted. They are conquered.
What gives you any indication Trump and Rubio are “ begging” for help from Europe?
More like this war was a “ stress test” on the NATO alliance, which they are failing, and being replaced in the middle east colonial/empire that Great Britain and France created …….by Gulf nations forming up to protect themselves..becoming more than “ tribes with flags”
It rather seems the Gaia worshipping majorities will starve to death while worshipping.
O.K.
Trump didn’t cause the problem.
He revealed it.
L
😎 Thanks for the link.
I have an idea 💡. If Europe goes completely green, they won’t need oil! BRILLIANT!!!
we power our fleet of pickup trucks the same way; the fuel savings is incredible for such a small initial investment:
OK, “cajoling.”
And for a European, it’d be a stress test for a problem of our own making.
In both Iraq wars and in the Afghanistan one, the US actively recruited their support before hostilities by making the case for armed intervention.
This time around, it was treated as an afterthought.
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