*The irony being that oil and gas production surged under Biden-Harris with the US producing more fossil fuels than ever before with an arguably more stable administration.
In fact, the only people with a shot of getting Trump to rethink the tariff is probably the US oil and gas industry. Famously, the golden rule of capital is don't touch the money -- and fossil capital is particularly sensitive about this.
The oil and gas industry has historically sought to nurture and spread free market economics to sustain itself and avoid exactly this sort of thing - for more, see the second instalment of this investigation by @amywestervelt.bsky.social and myself:
The oil and gas industry would lose so much business if we the people stopped buying the gasoline. The transportation alternatives to automobile dependency is improving, but we need to turbo-charge the transition
Yeah if Trump isn’t gonna listen, I imagine a whole lot of R senators and representatives are gonna start getting angry calls from the constituents (their rich donors) that they cannot afford to ignore if they wanna get re-elected. Never seen a President go against the capitalists like this.
And god damn it why does it have to be Trump going against the capitalists wants when he’s not doing it for any good intention and is only going to hurt us all bc it’s all a game to him
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they needed ALL of it