JD Vance has said Americans should comfort themselves with the fact that allies are "suffering more than we are" from soaring gas and oil prices.

The worst and most stupid bit is this:

Speaking to crowds on Wednesday, vice president JD Vance said US allies are “suffering from this, frankly, more than we are.”

He claimed this was because they had “focused on a lot of green energy scams and they’re hurting a lot more than we are.”

Vance continued:"As much as we’ve got to focus on getting these gas prices down, the reality is overseas they’re feeling it far worse than we did because we’ve taken the steps to protect our energy economy.

  • Mark@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Gas lighting… Fact is, they have oil in the ground. We do not. (Or unwilling to mine it at that scale) In the past decades, the american oil companies made sure we are still dependant on oil (yes the few EU ones as well).

    But I am grateful towards Trump. If anything he woke (he he) us up. We are now moving towards renewables whether we want to or not. Simply to be more independent.

    It will be painful, but that path will lead to the EU being better of, and the USA to end up at the bottom of the world. Even China realized this.

    • Renohren@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      Even if you have oil in the ground, you still are subjected to the price of oil and gaz, your area’s prices, sure, but it’s going up across the board.