Comment by evklein
4 hours ago
"Interests." I'd love to know what the price per barrel the U.S. has paid in the last few years when you factor in additional costs incurred due to involvement in Iraq and Syria.
4 hours ago
"Interests." I'd love to know what the price per barrel the U.S. has paid in the last few years when you factor in additional costs incurred due to involvement in Iraq and Syria.
While oil is a major interest its hardly the only one.
USA is still playing at being world hegemon in competition with china and to a lesser extent russia. Maintaining alliances is a part of that.
> USA is still playing at being world hegemon in competition with china and to a lesser extent russia. Maintaining alliances is a part of that.
The US has been actively disrupting its most critical alliance, NATO, recently. Threatening to invade an allied nation's territory or force them to hand it over to us to prevent an invasion. Now threatening to block trade with NATO nations. The current administration is doing a terrible job of maintaining alliances.
I didn't say they were doing a good job at it.
I would agree, american foreign policy and especially how it is communicated has been all over the place.
We're certainly paying more than it'd cost to just drive EVs.
Retail fuel prices are already higher than that, even ignoring subsidies, military operations and environmental externalities.