In reference to the video I’d mentioned. There was a big cancel movement on him a few years ago because of some really weird amateur video he’d put out before becoming famous that included a bit about fucking a baby. It was in incredibly poor taste, and I didn’t find the attempted joke all that funny, but even with the context you’ve given me it’s pretty clear that nothing was meant to be taken seriously.
It’s not insinuating that at all, in fact the article is pretty clear that this isn’t some sign of things to come, it’s pretty much only because OPEC and the US have been increasing supply of oil even though demand has been fairly stagnate or dropping. OPEC usually will slow production when prices get too low so there’s a good chance prices will start going back up again soon. The only reason this would be sustainable is if they chose to continue this level of production which they’d only do if they felt it could benefit them long term (for example if they think lower gas prices will prevent an increase in EV purchases, which is possible but not likely at this point).
This article is about a 19% drop in the last 2 months. Alternative energy methods didn’t increase in popularity/use enough in the last 2 months to cause that much of a drop. The article uses a decent amount of actual data analysis and sources and shows a pretty clear causality between the growth of supply and the stagnation of demand that led to the price drop.
Renewable energy has definitely led to an overall drop in price over the last 15 years but it wouldn’t cause a drop this drastic without a huge increase in use or improvement in technology.
The high prices in Europe due to Ukraine really lit a fire under everyone’s asses to switch energy sources. Useful, even if a lot of people suffered because of it.
tbf, the actual analysts usually have much more complex models. It’s the people who are explaining the analysts’ work that leave all that out, probably because americans tend to have the attention span of a rabid barn swallow, so you don’t want to bore them with too much detail.
If he wasn’t a racist piece of trash, I’d totally agree to you. He found the exact tool needed to ‘engage’ that audience. Makes me ashamed that the vapid racist population represents enough of a voting block that it was successful the first time.
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