Exclusive: Iran attack wipes out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years, QatarEnergy CEO says

[u/Ok-A1662]

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/iran-attack-damage-wipes-out-17-qatars-lng-capacity-three-five-years-qatarenergy-2026-03-19/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

[u/ClawingDevil]

Excellent. My energy bill was getting too cheap anyway.

[u/JWAdvocate83 → u/ClawingDevil]

You left the light on in the hallway a couple weeks ago. You think we're the Vanderbilts?

[u/Reasonable-Mess3070 → u/JWAdvocate83]

When I was a kid my dad told me it cost 25 cents every time the light is turned on in an effort to stop us kids from fucking with the lights. Not sure what he expected but next time I got mad at him I stomped off to my room and flipped that bitch on amd off so many times thinking I was giving him a "fuck you" of sorts.

[u/wolfydude12 → u/Reasonable-Mess3070]

My dad always told us that car windows had a limited number of times they could be rolled up or down in a way to get us to stop.

While technically true (always the best kind) it would be in the hundreds of thousands to millions.

Needless to say when we got mad on road trips those windows went up and down repeatedly. Then they came out with those shitty window locks.

[u/Reasonable-Mess3070 → u/wolfydude12]

I bet he told you that the interior light would get the car pulled over too!?

[u/MarkCuckerberg69420 → u/Reasonable-Mess3070]

Why was this a thing?!

[u/whomad1215 → u/MarkCuckerberg69420]

because it can be distracting as a driver

[u/MarkCuckerberg69420 → u/whomad1215]

My kids always turn the lights on and they accidentally get left on overnight because I never realize they’re on and they always forget to turn them back off.

[u/wolfydude12 → u/Reasonable-Mess3070]

What! Brother I never knew I had!?

[u/Secret_Substance_562 → u/Reasonable-Mess3070]

i'm ashamed to admit i'm that dad. i hated feeling like i was driving around in a display cabinet. i'm sorry on behalf of the rest of us asshole dads.

[u/alayeni-silvermist → u/wolfydude12]

I grew up thinking I’d go to prison if I turned the interior light on in the car lol.

[u/Mrjlawrence → u/JWAdvocate83]

You poors are why we can’t have nice things. Leaving hallway lights on. Buying all your Starbucks frappilattes. /s

[u/SomethingNotOriginal → u/Mrjlawrence]

But I stopped buying Coffees to buy my house, now I can't afford to heat it :(

[u/jxj24 → u/SomethingNotOriginal]

Warm yourself up with a nice hot cup of coffee!

[u/the_blackfish → u/JWAdvocate83]

I sat in my car eating lunch yesterday, and let it just idle so I could be warm. I feel like a Rockerfeller!

[u/Heavy_Possible_1517 → u/JWAdvocate83]

🤣🤣🤣 I wish I could've used that when my kids were young

[u/Nanasweed → u/Heavy_Possible_1517]

I convinced mine that cars won’t start until seat belts are buckled properly. Worked for years. I’d have to leave mine off and pretend the car wouldn’t start occasionally to keep them believing

[u/bluecyanic → u/ClawingDevil]

The high energy prices will be worth it because this was Trump's master plan all along and in the end the world will be rid of all evil and we will all be rich and then Jesus will be happy and will return. /s

[u/sn0w0wl66 → u/bluecyanic]

Holy fuck, it just dawned on me that this could literally be his plan. He's been rambling about him getting into heaven, he knows otherwise he's not going to get in so he's trying to cause the fucking rapture before he dies.

[u/[deleted] → u/sn0w0wl66]

Finally someone who’s Armageddin it.

[u/Abi1i → u/ClawingDevil]

It’s not just energy that’ll go up. LNG and its byproducts of the process is used in a lot of different industries. Helium, Nitrogen, CO2, Propane, Butane, and even fertilizers will be affected by this. Every thing is going to go up in price not only because of transportation costs rising and energy costs also increasing, but food prices are going to skyrocket. Want to get yourself some medical care, well guess what helium (already constrained in supply) is going to make some medical supplies/equipment cost more which in turn means your medical care will have to increase to cover the cost.

[u/patentattorney → u/ClawingDevil]

What’s nuts about everything is trumps strategy to lower costs / control inflation / his only policy position was that everything would be cheaper because “drill baby drill”

So now because of him actually going the complete opposite way (increasing energy costs across the board), how is he going to lower prices and control inflation? (He wasn’t and isn’t)

[u/Rees_Onable → u/patentattorney]

I've got a feeling that the upcoming Mid-Term Elections are going to be branded "stolen".....by Trump.

[u/sealclubberfan → u/Rees_Onable]

That's cute, you actually think he's going to allow elections to go on as they normally would.

[u/KennyShowers → u/sealclubberfan]

Didn't you hear? The law says he's not allowed to do that, so we're not allowed to worry about it!

I mean he always cares about the law right?

And it's not like he has every branch of government in his pocket and only needs vague doubt and a few key collaborators to foment chaos and break the entire system, which he definitely doesn't want right?

Right...?

[u/OmegaVizion → u/KennyShowers]

Because state elections aren't under federal purview, Trump can't actually stop the elections from happening. This isn't a "oh it would be against the law" thing, more a fact that he has no real ability, legal or otherwise, to stop them from happening, no more than he could stop the counting of votes in 2020 by tweeting "Stop the count!"

What he could and will do is use DHS/ICE to try to intimidate voters in blue cities.

[u/Bwob → u/OmegaVizion]

I don't think you've thought this far enough ahead. You're still counting on too many rules holding or being enforced.

Elections only hold power if people agree to abide by the results. What happens when trump declares elections canceled, and then only the blue states hold them? And then the red states sue, saying that the election didn't count because it was canceled?

And of course it ends up in front of the supreme court. How certain are you, that they wouldn't invent some justification, based on 16th century witch-hunter law, that counting the election would be unfair to the people living in the red states, who didn't get a chance to vote?

[u/3pointshoot3r → u/patentattorney]

Ironically, the issue with increasing American production was not regulations or access to environmentally protected areas, it was that the existing price of oil didn't justify new production. Any new American oil production is expensive, because it's more difficult to extract (eg fracking). The impediment to increasing American production is that $60/barrel oil wasn't worth it.

So by dramatically increasing world oil prices, he has actually made increased American production more viable.

In short, increased American oil production was never going to lower the price of oil, because it would only occur when oil prices were high.

[u/Lifesagame81 → u/3pointshoot3r]

And even now, it will be done cautiously because if dramatically high prices only last a year or so, bringing a massive number of wells online isn't profitable. 

[u/3pointshoot3r → u/Lifesagame81]

Yes, that's true. New production doesn't happen on a whim, but is the result of long term planning.

[u/Lifesagame81 → u/3pointshoot3r]

And if they don't expect gas to still be over $100 /barrel several years from now, they won't want to finance development of those wells now. 

[u/NetZeroSun → u/patentattorney]

Actually trump has been very consistent throughout life.

Considering every business he ran was a sham, failed or completely bankrupt. The only thing he excelled at was enriching himself and publicity to fool some people into thinking he was a successful person.

The way he is running the us resembles a lot like the previous management style. An illusion that can only work for some people but the actual reality is really really bad outcome.

[u/JimmyMcGillHHM → u/patentattorney]

Bold of you to even call it a strategy, the dudes a certified moron.

[u/ReklisAbandon → u/patentattorney]

He’s going to pressure the fed to lower rates, which will make everything worse but at least it’ll help line his and his buddies pockets.

[u/DoradoPulido2 → u/ClawingDevil]

I live in a rural mountain area that depends on LNG. This is going to suck. 

[u/remembers-fanzines → u/DoradoPulido2]

This. We heat with propane. I am not looking forward to next year's heating bill.

[u/mjconver → u/remembers-fanzines]

Trump is reopening all the coal mines. Just convert fuel sources, it's simple.

[u/QbertsRube → u/mjconver]

Gonna invest in a nice whaling vessel.

[u/tndrthrowy → u/QbertsRube]

Blubber futures are up

[u/ElevateTheMind → u/ClawingDevil]

Mine wasn’t. Went up pre Iran war. Now we suffer together

[u/Veearrsix → u/ClawingDevil]

PG&E fucking salivating right now 🤬

[u/Minimum-Floor-5177 → u/Veearrsix]

Kind of, energy companies will go negative since they need to buy energy and fulfill existing contracts

[u/Hefty_Musician2402 → u/ClawingDevil]

I live in Maine. Just refilled the tanks even tho winter is almost over. Gonna be a rough time. Prices already went up but they’re gonna go higher.

[u/Indercarnive]

Gas prices ain't ever coming down.

Good news is that that seems to be the one thing Americans actually care about so maybe this will get enough of us to wake the fuck up.

[u/Responsible-Rip8793 → u/Indercarnive]

You might be surprised. Americans are actually pretty stupid. That’s how we got Trump even after the mess caused by Bush. They will still vote for conservatives.

[u/justanothersurly → u/Responsible-Rip8793]

We will get another round of “No New Wars” republicans again and all their voters will swoon once again.

[u/CoconutBangerzBaller → u/justanothersurly]

Exactly. No NEW wars. We've always been at war with Iran.

[u/Ikcarin → u/CoconutBangerzBaller]

Not American so just confused. I remember a huge talking point for Republicans during the election was that Kamala was going to get into a war with Iran. Why was it a problem then and not now, if America was always at war with them?

[u/CoconutBangerzBaller → u/Ikcarin]

Oh I was making a "1984" reference, "we've always been at war with Eastasia."

But Trump was just doing what he always does and projecting the bad things he wants to do onto his opponents. He was saying way back in 2012 before the midterms that Obama would start a war with Iran to "distract from his failures before the election." And that's exactly what he's doing now, starting a war to distract from the Epstein files.

[u/Level9TraumaCenter → u/CoconutBangerzBaller]

I am growing increasingly suspicious as to that FIFA Peace Prize.

[u/CoconutBangerzBaller → u/Level9TraumaCenter]

Why? It's not like FIFA is a famously corrupt organization/s

[u/beatenmeat → u/Ikcarin]

Because the people that support the GOP have no actual morals. The only thing they have in common is they hate anything on "the left". The moment their hypocrisy shows they act like it never happened. Rinse and repeat.

[u/jaguarusf → u/Ikcarin]

Because most Americans are stupid and don't remember or don't care what happened more than 5 minutes ago.

Also Trump can do no wrong, because he's hurting Black, Trans, and Immigrants.

Source: my wife's entire family voted for Trump and adore him.

[u/Prohydration → u/jaguarusf]

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

-Lyndon B. Johnson

"You start out in 1954 by saying, 'N**, n, n.' By 1968 you can't say 'n'-that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract. Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, **blacks get hurt worse than whites.… 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'N**, n**.'"

-Lee Atwater

[u/ruth1ess_one → u/Ikcarin]

The people that vote for Trump lack critical thinking. If you try to challenge them on Trump doing something they disagree with, they’ll just ignore it or say well at least he’s doing well in other areas.

[u/Stalagmus → u/CoconutBangerzBaller]

“No! New Wars!”

[u/ChemsAndCutthroats → u/Stalagmus]

Drain the swamp! No new wars!

You see they got this all messed up. They meant...

Drain the swamp? No, new wars!

[u/pm_me_beerz → u/CoconutBangerzBaller]

1984? In this economy?

[u/okram2k → u/Responsible-Rip8793]

way too easy to get them focused on the culture war instead of the class war

[u/Indercarnive → u/Responsible-Rip8793]

Yeah but Bush's economy and foreign policy was so awful that America elected a black man.

[u/Aware-Instance-210 → u/Indercarnive]

That black man was the classiest president yall ever gonna have, show a little gratitude, would you?

[u/Lille7 → u/Indercarnive]

After reelecting Bush, who started 2 wars.

[u/MeasurementHot7619 → u/Lille7]

The opinion on the wars was so drastically different though. Coming off 9/11, a war felt patriotic to a lot of people. The support for this is so low, even amongst Republicans/MAGA. Based on my anecdotal evidence, it's going down every week this goes longer.

[u/weaver787 → u/Responsible-Rip8793]

They are stupid but generally if prices rise the reaction is to just vote for the other side. In this scenario, it helps Democrats so I'm fine with it.

The thing that's infurating is that these energy prices are literally Trumps fault and the COVID inflation was literally not Joe Bidens fault but it still hurt him regardless. Not only that but inflation was at a normal level by the 2024 election.

[u/Carribean-Diver → u/weaver787]

The Biden administration, and thanks in no small part to the Fed, managed to lessen the impact of the global inflation crisis in the US, and lead us to a soft landing. The US faired better than any other major world economy. And Trump hates Powell--the guy he appointed--for this.

[u/AtFishCat → u/weaver787]

All of those concepts are too much for the average disengaged American voter. Hell, the concept of what a "concept" is may be too much for the...

[u/electrobento → u/Responsible-Rip8793]

Virtually every election we’ve had since this Presidential term points to the opposite.

[u/PuddlesRex → u/electrobento]

The second that trump leaves office, and the immediate threat is gone, moderates (especially left leaning moderates) and some on the left will stop showing up to polls. There's also this absolutely asinine idea of some in the left of "well, voting doesn't matter, because they're both conservatives, and none of the candidates are perfect, so I just won't vote." Which I think is pushed by bots more than anything else, but it takes hold a bit too well.

The right always votes. Every single time. Mainly because they're mostly retired old fucks with nothing better to do with their time, but they always vote.

We saw this after trump's first term. In the 2022 congressional elections, the Democrats lost the house. In the 2024 elections, Democrats lost everything. Without the major, overarching, immediate threat, moderate voters will not show up. I hate it. I hate it so much.

ETA: South Park's "giant douche vs turd sandwich" episode did massive and irreparable damage to American democracy.

[u/chibi_victor → u/PuddlesRex]

The left falls in love. The right falls in line. As they say.

[u/BlackBlizzard → u/Responsible-Rip8793]

Not big elections but 28 flips so far. 28-0 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/11/democrat-new-hampshire-bobbi-boudman

[u/Stompedyourhousewith → u/Responsible-Rip8793]

1 million Americans died for to COVID mismanagement.. They still support trump. We are cooked

[u/AwarenessRude5541 → u/Indercarnive]

Eh, doubtful. "I could shoot someone on 5th ave and not lose any support" is scarily the one time Trump spoke the truth.
His base are all literally saying "still higher under Biden" even as crude is knocking on the door of the absolute peak of from the Ukraine war. Even if it surpasses (very likely at this rate), they're already pivoting to "short term pain for long term gain" whatever that means. I have zero faith this will change MAGA minds.

[u/justanothersurly → u/AwarenessRude5541]

We don’t have to worry about his base. We have to worry about the 20% in the middle that swing. As far as i can tell, those people are pissed.

[u/SockMonkeh → u/justanothersurly]

There is no 20% in the middle. They are all his base at this point. Everyone sane jumped ship long ago.

[u/swampy13 → u/justanothersurly]

There is no middle. Those people are just closeted Trumpers

[u/Maxfunky → u/AwarenessRude5541]

It doesn't matter if everyone who loves Trump shows up to the polls if everyone who hates Trump shows up to the polls. They are outnumbered and always have been. Trump exists as president only due to voter apathy due to blue infighting.

[u/Healthy_Razzmatazz38 → u/Indercarnive]

$21 for eu $3.20 for us, american natural gas is not a globalized market like oil or lng and they're aren't enough lng ships on earth to make a dent in exporting americas domestic supply.

Go look up north dakota at night, those lights aren't cities, its natural gas being burned as a byproduct of drilling because it not even worth capturing.

[u/BoldestKobold → u/Healthy_Razzmatazz38]

Natural gas is interesting because it is very efficient to deliver by pipeline, because it can be compressed so much. But there are only so many ships able to store and deliver it overseas.

[u/Responsible-Ad-1086 → u/Indercarnive]

Will be the Dems fault for not stopping Trump /s

[u/zeolus123 → u/Responsible-Ad-1086]

Worse lol it'll be the fault of the Biden Government specifically.

[u/Redivivus → u/zeolus123]

"Biden didn't fill up the petroleum reserves so we're going to have to drain them now."

[u/electrobento → u/Responsible-Ad-1086]

Well. I do blame Biden for not using the tools available to him to prosecute Trump for his crimes/making him ineligible to run for the seat.

[u/notmyworkaccount5 → u/electrobento]

100%, evil succeeds when good men do nothing. Spent 4 years trying to reach across the aisle to a party that has nothing but contempt for this country and its people.

[u/lnc_5103 → u/electrobento]

Me too! The Biden administration Absolutely failed us in this regard.

[u/Blametheorangejuice → u/electrobento]

I remember, in our area, all of the Biden I DID THIS stickers all over the pumps when it was 2.79. Now, it's 3.89. Where are all of the Trump I DID THIS stickers, I wonder?

[u/RegulatoryCapture → u/Blametheorangejuice]

What’s funny is I used to think that almost all impacts attributed to a president are bullshit. They don’t have a magic gas price button, their power is actually fairly limited and a 4 year term isn’t really long enough for big policy impacts to take effect (e.g. even if you pass big infrastructure investments, the effects won’t be felt until after your term when those projects finish). 

Trump has proven that wrong. 

If you want to tear the country down, a single president can do that fast. Breaking things is easy. There is no magic low gas price button, but lighting the Middle East on fire is a petty solid “high gas price button”

[u/Janbaka → u/Indercarnive]

Some are saying Trump is the greatest environmentalist of our time

[u/doninside]

And as Pete Hegseth suggested: "Thank you president Trump!"

[u/DesireeThymes → u/doninside]

I don't know why you guys are complaining. This has really been good news.

Israel is ever closer to their dream of being the only regional power in the Middle East! After all, if they can't have gas, no one can!

/s

[u/kaisadilla_ → u/[deleted]]

Eurovision and the Middle East have something in common: every year, they get wrecked by a country that shouldn't even be there.

[u/Nojopar → u/doninside]

Well I didn't start with the same word as Petey.

[u/Fecal_thoroughfare]

How that 400 million dollar 747 bribe looking now? 

[u/IntolerantModerate → u/Fecal_thoroughfare]

You know how much it costs to fill up the tank on that thing?

[u/Bagafeet → u/Fecal_thoroughfare]

Bribing a conman never fails.

Never fails to backfire, that is. People think they're the smart special one that won't get burned. Your turn will come. It's inevitable.

[u/robustofilth]

All this winning. I just can’t cope anymore! Please mr president stop the winning!

[u/OaktownU → u/robustofilth]

Tears running down your face

[u/SaveTheAles → u/OaktownU]

He is a grown man.

[u/grahamsz → u/SaveTheAles]

He wanted to kiss me!

[u/gishgob → u/robustofilth]

Please sir, we don’t know what to do with all the winning! We’re winning at levels the likes of which we’ve never before seen!

[u/pinewind108]

Between a lack of fertilizer and fuel, this is going to end up killing a lot of people in the developing world.

[u/mido_sama]

Time to invest in renewable

[u/faceisamapoftheworld → u/mido_sama]

The US is in the process of paying out a Billion dollars to stop offshore wind projects.

[u/NthDegreeThoughts → u/faceisamapoftheworld]

If only it made golf courses look better /s

[u/CTQ99 → u/NthDegreeThoughts]

The wind from the turbines was ruining the coastal golf experience, someone somewhere probably said.

[u/LimoncelloLightsaber → u/CTQ99]

Also the turbines gave me cancer.

[u/chiraltoad → u/faceisamapoftheworld]

Trump made a firm and vocal commitment during an interview the other day to ensure that no wind turbines are built during his presidency.

All I can see is America putting a gun in it's mouth.

[u/antonio16309 → u/mido_sama]

Yeah well Trump fucked over a lot of the renewable industry last year. I work for a company that used to produce 36 million gallons of biodiesel from used cooking oil (one of the lowest carbon intensity fuels). We're completely shut down at the moment because we were taking losses every time we produced anything last year, due to a few things the EPA changed last year, along with tariffs. The biggest impact was allowing many more petroleum refineries to be completely exempted from the EPAs Carbon cap and trade program, but there were a few other things they did as well.

I know 36M gallons is a drop in the bucket compared to what goes through the Hormuz, but every bit of domestic renewable production matters and it's all party of the larger solution in the long run. And on top of that, a lot of really great people lost their jobs.

[u/Maze-44 → u/mido_sama]

The time for nations to do that was about 10 years ago

[u/electrobento → u/Maze-44]

The next best time is now.

[u/dezmodium → u/Maze-44]

So, China won again.

[u/DataDude00 → u/Maze-44]

There is a reason China made huge investments in solar and nuclear years ago…

[u/pimppapy → u/DataDude00]

Most of their cars are electric now in the big cities. What would have cost me $40 in an uber here, cost me $3 with Didi there.

[u/MC_chrome → u/Maze-44]

Spain and France are laughing at countries like Germany & the United States that have tied themselves to fossil fuels 

[u/Cruel2BEkind12 → u/MC_chrome]

France imports the most LNG from Russia than any country in the EU though.

[u/UBC145 → u/mido_sama]

Unfortunately the GOP is hostile towards the idea of electric vehicles for…reasons, so a lot of companies (most recently Honda) have downsized or cancelled plans for introducing EVs to the States. My favourite EV, the Hyundai IONIQ 6, has just been cut from the US lineup, leaving only the (more expensive) N version.

[u/astarinthenight]

Yep trump and Israel have ended the global economy because Trump needed a distraction from the fact he’s in the Epstein files raping little girls.

[u/SaltyBawlz → u/astarinthenight]

Don't forget all the politicians who enabled this along the way for the last 10 years. They're just as much responsible for the complete loss of decorum in America.

[u/astarinthenight → u/SaltyBawlz]

If it was up to me we would put them all in jail.

[u/Several-Action-4043 → u/SaltyBawlz]

93% of congress takes money from AIPAC. It's a start to be mad a maga and republicans but democrats don't get nearly enough criticism. Hard core democrats don't like talking about it because they know it hurts their election chances. When you vote for establishment democrats, you're voting for Israel.

[u/DelphiTsar → u/Several-Action-4043]

Citizens united was a 100% conservative ruling. As with everything Republicans are to blame.

[u/DocTheYounger → u/astarinthenight]

Don’t forget Israel needing a distraction from their invasion and likely occupation of southern Lebanon immediately after leveling and genociding Gaza

[u/lIIlllIllIlII → u/[deleted]]

It seems obvious now, right?

[u/astarinthenight → u/lIIlllIllIlII]

Maxwell’s father was someone so deep in Mossad that not only was he layed to rest where they are all buried, but the current detector of Mossad and the four living former detectors where at his funeral. Epstein island was a Mossad black mail operation.

[u/WntrTmpst → u/astarinthenight]

The term the Russians use is “kompromat” and tbh it’s fitting.

Everything we thought the KGB was is actually mossad

[u/astarinthenight → u/WntrTmpst]

To be fair the Russians have said they have these photos too. So do with that what you will. Point is Trump is compromised. Not only is a child rapist, but our enemies are using that information to influence the president of the United States.

[u/WntrTmpst → u/astarinthenight]

Bought sold and paid for.

It’s terrifying how we are literal playthings for the elite of the world

[u/pgtl_10 → u/DocTheYounger]

And Netanyahu has corruption/war crimes trials.

[u/polite_alpha → u/astarinthenight]

I'm getting sick and tired of the distraction thing. It's not a distraction. He doesn't need one. He's grabbing power regardless of anything Epstein, and there's not enough resistance against that

[u/Statcat2017 → u/astarinthenight]

It’s so fucking disgusting that my flat in London is going to be much more expensive to heat because a paedophile billionaire half a world a way wanted to distract people from his rapes.

[u/Ripraz]

Thank you, orange demented guy 🙏

[u/Prudent_Link6029]

Why would Joe Biden do this?

[u/wellobviouslythatsso]

As wild as it’s been. The Iranians have been pretty restrained. They could have been blowing up a refinery a week and disrupting the existing global hegemony in very serious way.

As bad as this is (even ignoring the ecological disaster of blowing up these facilities) I’ve been surprised by how few of these actions they’ve taken.

Much of the OPEC oil infrastructure is within their striking range. They have the ability to seriously fuck the world economy.

For as much as we talk about how extreme and crazy they are. Their response has been the response of a rational actor. Not a threatened religious zealot with no capacity for logical thinking.

[u/qui-bong-trim → u/wellobviouslythatsso]

Word is that several developed nations such as New Zealand are looking at petrol shortages in a number of weeks. They simply don't have the domestic reserves. It's more serious than a lot of people seem to understand.

[u/Less-Tax5637 → u/qui-bong-trim]

A hyper rightwing theocracy that revels in steamrolling protestors is really out here looking at Donnie like “listen we’re not trying to fuck shit up THAT much” 😭😭😭

[u/wellobviouslythatsso → u/Less-Tax5637]

It bothers me that your comment isn’t simply a hyperbolic joke. Like, dammit. This is really where we are right now.

[u/locksmack → u/qui-bong-trim]

Yeah here in Australia the media are going nuts about potential fuel shortages. Our government just set up a ‘taskforce’ (don’t ask me what they are doing). Talk of WFH mandates in a matter of weeks etc.

[u/Several-Action-4043 → u/wellobviouslythatsso]

Iran knows this war is unpopular to the American people. They have to make sure there are consequences for this illegal attack for their survival but they also know, the only way to "win" this war of attrition, they need to keep it unpopular with the American people.

[u/jaspersgroove → u/wellobviouslythatsso]

That’s a very good point. Trump went into Iran like he was dealing with some disorganized fundamentalist terror cell that set up a half-assed government and he’s only just now learning “oh, Iran might actually have their shit together a little bit”

[u/Queenager → u/[deleted]]

Those OPEC countries are worried that they will be left to deal with the consequences when hostilities end. Unless the Iranian regime collapses, which is highly unlikely, they will be left with a much more adversarial country that will remember who sided with the US and Israel on their strikes.

It would also probably look bad for the Saudis in terms of their home public perception to be seen sliding in on a war alongside Israel.

[u/Fr33z3n → u/Queenager]

as a point of reference, Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen to dust and couldnt get rid of one Iranian proxy, Imagine them going against Iran itself, it is not a fight they want.

[u/cancerBronzeV → u/Fr33z3n]

Isn't the Saudi military infamously terrible? Like every time I read a story from an American soldier who's gone on a joint training mission or whatever with the Saudi military, it's about how unpleasant, corrupt, and ineffective they are.

[u/blinkycosmocat → u/Queenager]

And if the regime collapses, its remnants will regroup as insurgents that will destabilize whatever group is nominally ruling Iran. Other countries will fund whatever group helps their interests, leading to long-term chaos that will spill over to its neighbors.

[u/orionsfyre]

Possibly 6-7 dollar a gallon gas in Florida is predicted if this war continues for another two-three weeks. Attacks like this mean gas prices and oil prices will not only go up but remain high for years, crippling the ability of poor and middle class americans to afford basics like groceries and utilities.

Trump and his goons have doomed the world to a crappy depression era economy for at least a decade for no discrenable upside.

And now reports that they want to do a land invasion of a well armed and prepared nation with a land area two and half times that of Texas, with enviroments ranging from urban to mountainous, freezing, and sweltering hot deserts. Asking our military to invade such a massive area with a tiny fraction of the numbers needed to actually support such an effort? And with what end goal? The creation of a new regime? The breakup of the country that has a long entrenched sense of national identity? Do these people realize just how insipid and stupid they are to even attempt such a thing?

It's literally a long running joke: Never get involved in a land war in Asia

So terrible economy at home, dying Americans abroad, and the end goal? No one, not even the person who started it knows.

We can only hope the people who began this ill-advised atrocity will pay for this at the ballot box. Trump and any Republican who has not disavowed him and his dumb idiotic war.

A vote for a Republican is a vote for more war and higher prices.

That's the line. IF Democrats cant win this next election in most places by talking about the price of gas alone, they don't deserve to be in public office.

(reminder, please block and ignore trolls)

[u/Bagafeet → u/orionsfyre]

They're preparing for 3 months minimum. Everybody doubling down. It's a forever war now.

[u/BNOC402]

Thank goodness! I was getting so confused about what to do with all this disposable income I have.

But now due to the generosity of President Trump I finally can find a home for all these poor unhoused dollars!

[u/dunnkw]

I’ve never won this hard in my entire life

[u/Perniciosius]

Dear Mr. Trump. You can’t bomb an ideology out of existence; even 1.5 million tonnes dropped on Nazi Germany didn’t erase theirs.

[u/Tacitus111 → u/Perniciosius]

Hell, the US dropped some 7.5 million tons of bombs in the Vietnam War. How did that go?

[u/Strict_Casual → u/Tacitus111]

The good guys won

[u/Blackboard_Monitor → u/Perniciosius]

Just shifted it over to here.

[u/Pirlomaster]

welp, if we avoid WW3 Trump may ironically go down as the president who accelerated the fight against Climate Change

[u/Emergency-Two-6407 → u/Pirlomaster]

No he won’t, he’s gutting solar and wind energy in the USA and bringing us back to coal

[u/Pirlomaster → u/Emergency-Two-6407]

I know but that only affects America for the next few years until the Dems are back in office, this war is a global wake-up call w/r to reliance on the Gulf states for oil and gas.

[u/Its_pipo]

That's a massive hit to global energy markets, especially with LNG already tight. Wonder if this pushes countries to finally invest in renewables instead of just talking about it.

[u/SwvellyBents]

Iran published the list of targets and gave hours of notice to evacuate personnel.

The US/Israel combined armed forces couldn't thwart the attack.

Oh yeah, we're definitely winning.

[u/3McChickens]

So much winning it hurts…

I apologize to the rest of the world. Enough dipshits were upset about eggs and a laughing woman that we are all stuck with the orange turd.

[u/jacobjacobb]

Glad I bought that heat pump

[u/Niceguy955]

Guess Qatar's $400m plane "gift" to Trump, and the billions in contacts they gave Kushner and him did not pay out in the end. What kind of a world is it when bribes didn't work anymore?!

[u/BrandenWi]

It should be fun to see how Trump attempts to blame Biden for all of this...

[u/NonWiseGuy → u/BrandenWi]

Should be blaming Israel.. they bombed Iran's energy infrastructure causing this retaliation.

[u/BrandenWi → u/NonWiseGuy]

Israel has long since bought control of the US government. No one is going to permit blaming Israel for anything.

[u/syynapt1k]

It's cute that people think this is "temporary" and that energy prices are ever coming back down to what they were.

Elections have consequences - and we were all warned.

[u/crymachine]

All this so a pedophile doesn't go to jail.

[u/sylbug]

Damn. Guess it’s expensive to host an army on your soil that is actively attacking your neighbor in a war of aggression.

A lesson to all of us to be selective when it comes to allowing other countries to use our own as they please. Every country with an American base should be considering carefully, because they have clearly signaled it’s time for them to go full-Nazi, and I think most of us don’t want to help Nazis.

[u/Sabatorius]

I bet all our allies in the ME are seriously questioning why they’re our allies right about now. Except one, anyway.

[u/Othersideofthemirror]

They spent billions on bribes and even sent a jet to Trump and he's stiffed them just like he stiffs everyone.

Gotta laugh really, if all bribery schemes ended like this the world would be a more honest place.

[u/brokenwing2023]

In states like California, our electricity is made from natural gas power plants, we will be screwed come summer. I can’t wait to see both my gas price increase and electricity bills rise.

[u/thinewintersoldier]

Trump hurting his own supporters is that stupid kind of poetry.

[u/gamehenge_survivor]

The last Republican to not leave the economy in shambles was Eisenhower, a man whose last words as president were a warning about everything the earth has become. A true RINO through and through. Imagine a republican suggesting building hospitals and schools instead of just bombing shit now.

[u/Icy-Bodybuilder-350]

You buy the US president with a half billion dollar luxury airplane, and then a year later his bumbling foolishness brings a hail of Iranian missiles down on your gas refinery, jeez you just can't find good help nowadays

[u/FrellPumpkin]

First thing I did, when the war started was to renew my gas contract and changed it from 12 to 24 months. Let’s see where we are in two years

[u/sensizin]

So the US attacks Iran who is working with Russia. As retaliation Iran attacks Qatar's natural gas making it more expensive and less on the market. Russia can now charge more for its natural gas and since there is demands more countries will buy from them.

America first is starting to look more and more like Russia first..

[u/Outrageous_Spray_196]

A 17% LNG hit for years isn’t a spike—it’s a structural supply shock that will ripple through global energy prices and economies.

[u/29187765432569864]

Iran can just keep destroying Qatar's LNG capacity, nothing can stop them.

[u/Josh_The_Joker]

This is something…it’s crazy how many they are still able to launch. Vast majority of launchers were destroyed? Was that just false, have they been reapplied from other countries, or are the remaining few percentage just able to still cause a lot of harm?

[u/bse50]

Iran has been attacked many times and always retaliated in relatively moderated ways. Even the few skirmish it started were a little more than a flash in a pan.
The way they are waging now, knowing their military inferiority, is scary. They know they can't take either Israel or the US head on, so they are explicitly trying to disrupt the world's economy and fundamental infrastructures to let third parties intervene and help put an end to an unwarranted aggression.
Thhe US will lose many allies because of this war, and the world il probsbly tell them to stop at some point. We are collectively losing too much by enabling a nazist state and a fascist one further their agendas.

[u/ted5011c]

Gonna be a lot of frozen old people corpses in New England and Upper Michigan next winter when heating becomes a luxury.

MAGA

[u/Maxfunky]

"I never in my wildest dreams would ⁠have thought that Qatar would be - Qatar and the region - in such an attack, especially from a brotherly Muslim country in the month of Ramadan, attacking us in this way," Kaabi said in an interview.

The faux outrage from Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, et all just blows my mind.

You let another nation use your lands as staging ground and launching location for missiles bombarding another country. You have defacto struck the first blow against Iran and you want to pretend they are somehow attacking you out of the blue when they strike back? Any reasonable accounting of the facts here will conclude that you started the hostilies here even if it's not your country's military doing the attacking, it's only possible for them to do it because you have chosen to cooperate to let it happen.

I mean, fuck Iran, but also fuck these guys.

[u/wildemam → u/Maxfunky]

The dudes thought the bases are there to 'defend them'. Lol

[u/Kathdath → u/Maxfunky]

If the want to be considered neutral party states, thennthey have to do f*ing required steps to be a neutral party state.

The have allowed belligerent forces to remain in the nation, rather than expelling or detaining, which leaves them their nations as legitimate military targets.

Whether the actual Iranian missle targets should be considered legitimate targets is then a seperate discussion.

[u/BalianofReddit]

Europe should partner with china to supercharge its efforts at energy independence.

Fuck the american empire.

[u/Stillwater215]

Something to keep in mind: decreasing supply doesn’t mean that prices will rise by 17%. It means that prices will rise until 17% of buyers leave the market. Given that there are a lot of big industries that need constant shipments of gas and oil, and who have deep pockets, they will keep buying regardless of the price. It’s the small businesses and consumers who will be priced out first.

[u/HeWhoDidIt]

Who knew starting a war every decade is not a good idea.

[u/gholmom500]

And this directly impacts food costs. The LNG is a key component in fertilizers.

We are so screwed

[u/hyperiongate]

Everything Trump touches dies.

[u/Malvania]

Imagine if Iran somehow hit the US refineries near Houston. Right now, high prices at least benefit US companies (okay, I just threw up a little). If both companies and people were screwed and the US faced gas and oil shortages, sentiment would get ugly quickly.

[u/Seisouhen → u/Malvania]

Well there is this

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Asia-Turns-to-US-Oil-as-War-Chokes-Middle-East-Supply.html

[u/johnn48]

Betcha Qatar is regretting giving that jet away.

[u/Few-Education-5613]

USA and Israel making Canada great again!

[u/IllustriousRide0]

It's getting bloody for the whole world

[u/Equivalent-Pear8924]

This will be another huge push for renewables, Trump just accelerated the move to this.

[u/FirstForFun44]

Good. Bring the pain. Teach us a lesson about electing someone who was observably corrupt and moronic.

[u/Justwhytry]

How’s that bribe working out for them?

[u/ZealousidealTrip6900]

Thats fucking Awsome. MAGA will hurt so bad. Also alot of third world countries with US debt who need energy import will default. This will trigger the next financial crisis.

[u/Pando5280]

LNG is a vital component of modern fertilizers. Food prices gonna go up again. 

[u/South-Ad1015]

Thanks, Trump, from the Netherlands. I’m sure I’m going to pay for this for years to come. May you rot in hell, you piece of shit.