Yes. Unfortunately for majority of voters, unless it impacts them directly they won't believe it.

I hope countries (or rather, voters) around the world are waking up to just how helplessly dependent they are on a resource they do not own and have to beg and scrape from others.

▲ mgkimsal a day ago | parent | next [-]

> unless it impacts them directly they won't believe it.

They may end up believing they are being impacted, but many will still deny or argue the root cause.

▲ fortedoesnthack a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The USA is a net exporter so technically if export restrictions are put up the Americans will likely be fine. The rest of the world, not so much. I live in Japan and I'm definitely worried about the rest of the year.

	▲	JumpCrisscross a day ago \| parent [-]
		> technically if export restrictions are put up the Americans will likely be fine Technically no. The oil we export isn’t a fit for the oil we refine. We’re slaved to the global market, though our exports do give us a tool. (Unfortunately, it requires taxing oil production (since we can’t tax exports [1]) to pay for, ideally, a monthly cheque to every American, and less ideally, a refiner credit to push down domestic gas prices. [1] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C5-1/...

▲ JumpCrisscross a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Do we have evidence of polls moving in favour of renewables?

	▲	defrost a day ago \| parent [-]
		Sure. Pakistan is a slam dunk for renewables, it's ground swell and up there given the lack of decent state level delivery infrastructure. It's a similar story across much of the developed world, easy to build out renewables from the ground up and good deals from China for countries of interest to the Belt and Road intititives. In Australia: `73% support renewables and batteries as the fastest way to lower people's power bills, compared to just 16% for nuclear reactors and 8% for new coal power` and `In 2018, 84% of Australians said the government should focus on renewables, even if we need to invest more in infrastructure to make the system more reliable.` are typical bites from leading poll agencies. In the USofA ... dunno, that's more your sandbox - I suspect many hearts and minds have been captured by 50 years of the Koch Bros dunking on AGW and public transport leading to a broad excess of rolling coal types being mind tweakled by the Heritage Foundation and / or Taylor Sheridans Landman windmill rants, etc.