> the drug dealer that knows you don't consumer your own supply unless you must

So true. There's nothing incompatible at all with: a) realizing that earth has gifted you with a valuable but limited & polluting energy source b) realizing that you'd be foolish to get you own country hooked on it, but it's not a bad business if you can get other countries hooked on it.

Instead we get oil rich areas seemingly determined to show off how much of their oil they can waste.

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rob74 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Wow, so now the US oil barons who lobbied Trump to kill renewables and EVs are even worse than Mohammed "Bonesaw*" bin Salman Al Saud? That's really something, if you look at it that way...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog...

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deaux 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yes? I don't think you can argue in good faith that the latter causes more total harm and damage than the former. It's really quite something to look at it in a different way..

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jacquesm 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Either you're too smart for me or I just can't follow you, but could you please expand a bit on your comment? I find it hard to link it to the parent, but I realize that may be on me.

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rob74 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Sorry, it was referring more to the grandparent comment, that referred to Saudi Arabia behaving more responsibly than the US, and Mohammed bin Salman is of course the crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia.

	▲	svpk 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They're comparing Saudi Arabia to a drug dealer; I don't think they're ascribing any moral virtue to the Saudi regime. They just believe the Saudis are acting more intelligently.

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Retric 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How you use worse implies a wider judgment than how someone behaves on a single issue. Real people are more complicated than Disney characters.

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raw_anon_1111 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How many people have Trump’s wars in Venezuela and Iran killed?