At a federal level the US is moving backwards. But at a local and personal level, for the first time in generation, a huge number are waking up to the direct consequences of their dependency on the global oil markets and it's impacts their daily lives.

People in the US still don't like feeling like hostages, and this episode is a stark reminder of that.

The last geopolitical oil shocks of the 1970s resulted in huge efficiency increases in transportation and energy - this will likely do the same, but with current technologies.

From the stats I've seen, people in the US are doing it. A huge amount, and more each year.

The economics of it are just too good. Adding grid connectivity seems to be the bottleneck right now.

It will again eventually, will just take more time than it otherwise would've taken.

https://electrek.co/2026/03/25/eia-new-solar-wind-storage-ca...

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-manufactur...

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/balcony-solar-tak...

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/were-harvesting-t...

https://www.brightsaver.org/publicly-filed-states

Solar power is 10000x as hard to permit where I live. I was able to connect to the grid without anyone looking at it. Laterally just hooked up a 200amp secondary connection straight to the grid without anyone from the government batting an eye and on the power in the house went. If I wanted even a 200W solar panel it requires a code inspection, a marked roof plan (my house doesn't even have building plans, so how to even do this?), license, special solar bond, and a special warranty and then clearance from the power company.

Fuck that.

Many counties have made it so that solar only makes sense if you are wildcatting it out in some remote place where the planning and zoning fascists won't find you out. In such case you can install it for an order of magnitude cheaper and then it actually makes sense.

Meanwhile I can build a 200 foot tall oil derrick on my land with NO PERMIT WHATSOEVER because of course the oil companies had the political influence to exempt oil related infrastructure from requirements.

UK petrol prices (at time of comment) of ~£1.50/l are equivalent to $7.50/USgal.

People around me are expecting to see diesel at £2/l soon.

It all depends on how long they remain that high. After reading [1] this i would not count on it.

[1](https://archive.ph/NLJWJ)

The Greenest President Ever!

The World works in mysterious ways.

If it were to be so I would exclaim "What a poor vessel have we found to do this work." Sigh..

Similar to how Hitler ushered in a whole generation of liberal demacracy and human rights protection across the world.

So these two are definitely amongst the biggest, but let's not forget about the Russians literally murdering our neighbors.

Lol every single comment in your posting history is one sentence that includes the world Israel.

This account has only left comments blaming Israel. Also not a single reply to any of the top-level comments.

100% sure this is a bot, set up by some hater.

If your energy policy was "hope the Ayatollah doesn't have a bad hair day", you didn't have an energy policy.

Europe could have left their nuclear power plants turned on. Or drilled in the north sea. Or built LNG import terminals. These were all policy choices that had nothing to do with the US or Israel.

It's incredible how social media addiction warps peoples minds. The US is not only the EU's largest trade partner but they're considerably freer and richer than the EU, showing a path forward for the continent. The US is not a "threat for their way of living" lol, especially when Europe is currently fighting a war in Ukraine and struggling to handle mass middle-east immigration

Honest question, how often do you drive 1100km?

1 in 4 vehicles sold globally last year were EVs, and they are >50% of the monthly sales in China, the largest market in the world. EVs are mostly solved, even though they will continue to rapidly improve, both range and charging infrastructure. Norway is at ~100% monthly EV sales, other countries will get there eventually.

Importantly, we should expect to go faster as EV sales reach a point where combustion sales have declined to a level where they can no longer support combustion vehicle manufacturers as a going concern. Peak global combustion auto sales occurred in 2017.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459145 (citations)

A complete 900W solar setup you can put on your balcony, plug into an outlet and cover a good chunk of your energy needs costs 200 Euros: https://shop-sicatron.de/products/sicatron-910w-balkonkraftw...

It's thoroughly practical, especially with energy prices being what they are now.

Unclear what Apple's pricing policy has to do with this,.

I have a set of solar panels and a "hydronic" heat pump, despite living all the way up at 56N in the maybe-Europe UK. We also have access to both cheap Chinese EVs and the increasingly acceptable EU ones, like the Renault 5.

The only reason people skip the iPhone here is because it is directly associated with being an asshole. Sent from my heatpump-heated home in the Julian Alps.