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

[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

[tdpsk@sueden.social]

@petergleick they did promise to forward 100% of cash rebates and discounts to their shareholders. They kept their words.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@petergleick

for now. long run, they die as people turn in droves to renewables and we finaly build walkable cities.

Idiots

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@clonedhuman @xerge @petergleick

Well nobody ever punched him correctly with the heel of their flat open hand to knock his nose back into his stupid brain and turn it off.

[rastal@mastodon.social]

@petergleick Let's be fair, in the final results the winner of Iran war is [or will be] Iran.

No American on either side of the political aisle will ever be able to deal with that, so for the Left oil companies and their American investors won; for the Right America [somehow] won because the orange baboon says so.

#iran #iranwar

[biglinter@mastodon.social]

@petergleick in a total surprise to literally nobody

[faab64@todon.eu]

@Rastal

@petergleick

I don't fully agree with that.

Maybe IRI is looking like a winner, but the blockade is crushing Iranian economy badly.

The rial have reached it's lowest level in history down to 1.9M rial to a dollar, a 50% loss in 6 months.

Prices are increasing daily, it's so bad that restaurants purchase their items at night or evening because they know the price will be higher the next day.

For US, the government is enjoying the massive increase of arms sale as well as massive increase in export of oil.

And Europe, China and Asia are suffering, which is working great for the US long term plans.

Another month of blockade will hurt people in Iran extremely bad so with Europe and Persian Gulf countries.

And of course tRump and his criminal gang are making ridiculous amount of money manipulating the market and gambling when the orange shitler plays the market by his shit posts.

2 months, if we can handle it, will collapse Iran into mass protests and infighting for survival.

[missconstrue@mefi.social]

@Rastal @petergleick

I disagree with your premise. I think most educated Americans realized the day the war started that Iran had won. Anyone who has read history, or understands geography knows *why* we never kicked this hornet's nest before.

You cannot take Persia. You can't. Not without genocide.

The Iran war was cover for a couple of things.

1.) #Israel attacking, invading and occupying enough of #Lebanon that a MILLION people were displaced.

2.) Jared and Bibi's plans to overland route oil through the #Sahara to #Gaza, turning the Gazan coast into Dubai. Without all those pesky brown people. (An utterly bonkers idea, for so many reasons.)

Bibi ran an op on DiaperDaddy and it worked. Because Trump is a fucking moron who's never cracked a book.

But I've yet to meet anyone, on any political spectrum, of any education level, who thinks attacking #Iran was going to be a win for #America.

[vpermar@mastodon.online]

@petergleick @lednaBM