Sad Joe Biden

Yep . . . which pretty much sums up leftist foreign policies . . . in a nutshell.

I was being nice. If most Americans can’t afford electric cars and green everything. The rest of the world dies of starvation if we make these things the standard. Before they starve to death, we get nuked.

Well said.

This stuff has to be incremental. Perfect hybrid technology. Cars that get 100 miles+ per gallon. Over time, everyone gets to adapt. You can’t say my way or the highway. You can starve. Everyone needs to make money. Everyone needs to eat. We need someone who can make deals that take that into account.

Gas burning vehicles were banned? This is news to me.

Stop trolling, please. Because if you're not, well... I don't want to get thrown into imgflip jail, again.

Correlation doesn’t equal causation.

The rift between SA and the US doesn’t stem from how much oil we import. In fact, the amount of oil we’ve purchased from SA has been going down since 2006 while we’ve been trying to become more oil independent and not from an increase in bans of gas cars.

Almost every European and North American country has made a claim to phase out gas cars by early to mid 21st century.

Even China has a very similar timetable to the US to phase them out so it isn’t that.

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-ban-gas-powered-cars-effect-on-oil-market-2017-9

So that isn’t why SA is buddying up with them.

SA has actually been more impressed by China’s diplomacy more than its commitment to gas powered cars.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-moved-saudi-arabia-to-embrace-china/

The article does note that China does purchase more oil than the US from SA, but it’s far more likely they’re unimpressed with our overall foreign policies. Not just from Democrats or Republicans, but from both parties.

Excellent reply, Gumshoe. (I always try to keep it real)