The final results are in and the winner of the Iran War is...The oil companies.

[mokhtarstork@zirk.us]

@petergleick They should pay more taxes?

[chemicaleyeguy@mstdn.science]

@petergleick The ‘campaign contributions’ of #BigOil to #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump have paid off *bigly*. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-executives-campaign-finance-00157131

Stop the #FelonsCrusade in #Iran.

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@petergleick Republican Party donors and VVP ftw

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@xerge @petergleick You ever seen that dude, usually in a giant truck, who drives on the shoulder to get to the front of a slow line of traffic and get to an exit sooner? That guy?

He thinks we'd do it too if we were as smart as him--we'd all do it if we were as smart as him. He gets to go to the front of the line because he's smarter than the rest of us waiting in traffic. That's what he thinks.

But really, it's just because no one has ever punched him in the face for being a total asshole.

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@petergleick And they're making a killing from insider trading: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/grand-theft-oil-futures

These people aren't complex. They want all the money. They make soldiers die to get more money. They spend billions of our tax dollars to juice up their investments in military industrial companies. They put thousands of us in private prisons that they have significant investments in. They give huge contracts to AI companies (the type of contracts that make up 50% of their revenue) they've invested in.

[ezpen@mastodon.social]

@shwell @leeolds @petergleick

Jeffrey Epstein had plenty to do with Russia... among others he was a spy as well... the double kind

[xerge@mastodon.nl]

@clonedhuman @petergleick perhaps the US justice system will one day be able to punch Don the Con in the face, but I'm not holding my breath.

[cynaq@beige.party]

@xerge @clonedhuman @petergleick better odds on cold fusion

[perrin42@mastodon.social]

@petergleick

The calculation shows the true winner is
.. 71077345.

You just have to hold the calculator upside down.

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@petergleick Gasoline prices will not go down once they go up. Oil companies are finding out how much they can get away with once everyone's standards have been lowered, just like every other time the price has gone up.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@Amorpheus @petergleick

The windfall profits to the fossil fuel industry is estimated at $30 million an hour for the war on Iran.

The personal profits to GOP donor, Ron Lauder, for the Ukraine minerals shakedown is unknown.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/world/europe/trump-lauder-ukraine-lithium.html

The personal profit to Paul Singer & John Addison for the Venezuelan oil attack is unknown because it's laundered through Qatar.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Venezuela-Lands-Billions-in-Oil-Deals-as-Industry-Rushes-Back.html

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/venezuela-oil-exports-brought-18-billion-2025-central-bank-says-2026-03-24/

Oil revenue to petrostate despots Putin & #PrinceBonesaw is unknown.

[evoscale@c.im]

@petergleick

Hint:

Communism = too little is never too little

Capitalism = too much is never too much

Democratic Socialism = YOU.. a RANGE/SCALE in the MIDDLE of extremes, like birth~death.

The math of physics doesn't have to be all that difficult, all the time. Your children don't have to be brainwashed into single solve mindsets, making them subservient to the abusers who know how to 'keep you/yours in range', by oppressing/suppressing to minimal returns, while giving more and more.

REPLACE ABUSIVE POWER WITH ETHICAL SCIENTISTS

#DemocraticSocialism NOT #TechBros #FossilFuels #ecocide #genocide #AbuseOfPower

[johnniemac@mastodon.scot]

@petergleick And the first runners up, the EV companies. Interest in EV and PHEV has been rekindled.

[suenethercott@spore.social]

@petergleick they got a very good RoI for the $1bn (or lsess) they paid Trump.
https://web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news/this-article-is-more-than-2-months-old-trumps-1bn-pitch-to-oil-bosses-the-definition-of-corruption-top-democrat-says/

[tyzbit@toot.now]

@petergleick you're telling me these companies are raising these prices above what they need to cover the increased costs due to the war and the strait being closed? who would do that? charge more just because they can?

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@petergleick My current mood is strongly marked by the total absence of any and all flabbergastedness.

[herman@mastodon.world]

@petergleick These #bigoil f*ckers must be taxed to hell.

[cosmiccactus@mastodon.social]

@petergleick Oil company stock prices seem to tell a different story for the past month. But maybe they will catch up.

[mxu@fosstodon.org]

@Guillotine_Jones @petergleick That's a great bumper sticker right there!

[pleasedodisturb@mastodon.social]

@petergleick @briankrebs ahah, damn, again

fooled us twi.. three billion times minimum