An article i read states that with China and India fully investing into EV technologies, we could see oil demand peak in 2030 and:

“The tragedy is that we’re fighting over barrels that look huge on spreadsheets but shrink rapidly when confronted with physics, economics and time,” said Guy Prince, the head of energy supply research at the thinktank.

I’ve always said, “you can’t logic someone out of a position they didn’t logic themselves into”.

I agree on just about everything, except:

At this moment, Europe’s the only real democracy left on the planet that can’t be taken over through social media targeted ad brain washing like the US.

I wouldn’t be so sure:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/29/number-people-britons-must-be-born-in-uk-rising-study

I can grant that the UK isn’t “Europe”, but this kind of mentality is rising all over.

I’d also say that it’s really about billionaires subjecting the working class to their will. I think they salivate at the idea of Chinese or Russian type government, implemented everywhere. Unruly or undesirable populace? Round the whole lot of them up and send them to a work camp! Hell, they are already doing that in the US with amendment 13. Not too big of a leap if they are already rounding people up and deporting them to random ass countries they had no affiliation with.

And if they get their data centers built, they’ll be able to “parse” through all this data they’ve been collecting and storing on us for over a decade now. That parsing will be AI based but will it really matter if it gets it wrong and the wrong person gets caught up in it?

Thank you for putting these links together! I’m about to be in the market for a truck and have been researching current models, and noticed the trend of larger and larger vehicles for a few years now, and wondered why. It couldn’t just be because of lifted truck culture. I’m about to just go to a junk yard and try to restore an old one.