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

[lukefromdc@kolektiva.social]

@petergleick Iran had it right in 1953 with nationalizing oil.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@petergleick

Koch Network paid $550 million to get this kind of oil war & profiteering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

We don't know what Putin & #PrinceBonesaw paid.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/how-the-iran-oil-shock-left-vladimir-putin-a-winner/106547558

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Saudi-Pushes-White-House-to-Prolong-Iran-War-as-Brent-Tops-100.html

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/10/all-the-pretty-koch-suckers/

https://mymotherlode.com/news/national/10797987/trump-administration-moves-to-block-minnesota-climate-change-lawsuit-against-oil-companies.html

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/11/the-reputation-launderers

https://www.businessinsider.com/koch-brothers-data-firm-i360-2014-12

https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/

Billionaires know that mass unemployment feeds fascism.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

Lol. What a set of hypocrites. Principles!?!
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/05/06/becoming-a-principle-driven-leader-chase-koch-on-top-principles-for-human-progress.html

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@Npars01 @petergleick I like your referencing. Without any at hand, I wonder, does a price increase of fossils bear any positive effect? Where is the long-term profit?

[gvs@rebelbase.site]

@petergleick Not sure where you live, but in Belgium and The Netherlands, fuel prices are mostly made up of taxes (Belgium 70%). Big winner is the government.

[ezpen@mastodon.social]

@leeolds @petergleick

As long as Trump provides, Putin will keep his part of the deal... making sure his private Epstein files stays... «private»!

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@petergleick Yes.. Where's the windfall tax?

[ezpen@mastodon.social]

@xerge @petergleick

I wouldn't say he's a genius. More like a monster, ready to «activate» situations killing thousands of people and the use of tons of American taxpayer money... all to hide his «exotic» interest for little girls and boys!

[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.