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

[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

reuters.com

(www.reuters.com)

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

[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