[ExI] Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

[John Clark]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 10:52 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> Those who write articles should focus on the means to charge the
> batteries.*
>

*It's clear you have not read the article that you're complaining about
because it says that  "54% of new cars sold in China were either
battery-powered or plug-in hybrids. These vehicles are powered not by oil
but by domestically generated electrical power that comes from coal,
nuclear, hydropower, solar and wind". The article also mentions that China
has 40 new nuclear power reactors under construction, the US has zero. And
China is building a dam in Tibet that will produce three times as much
electricity as the Three Gorges Dam, currently the largest single power
generating facility in the world. It also says that **China is on track to
reach peak oil consumption next year. *


> *> the current conflict over Greenland becomes clearer:*
>

*Indeed, things have become very clear, Alzheimer's disease has taken hold
and our 80 year old king has become mad.  He's not even sure what country
he wants to invade, in the speech he gave in Switzerland yesterday he
talked about Iceland instead of Greenland in three adjacent sentences. If
anybody listens to any of his recent speeches for more than five minutes I
don't see how a rational being could reach a conclusion other than there is
something very wrong with the man's brain. *

*> it is an ideal place to set up nukes and coal plants.  Plenty of land up
> there, very sparsely populated, with nearly all the population right along
> the coast.  It would be a great place to set up nukes and coal burners off
> the grid to run data centers.*
>

*But there is no need to invade Greenland! Right now if any company wants
to invest money in Greenland to do any of those things there is absolutely
nothing to prevent them from doing so, but nobody wants to. And Spike,
doesn't it get exhausting making excuse after excuse for that petty little
man? *

*> So put the wind turbines on private land with private funding.
> Governments cannot cancel those. *
>

*Our Mad King has ordered the construction of all wind farms be stopped
even if they are financed completely with private funding, he claims he has
the legal authority to do that because of "national security concerns" and
maintains that he has no need to specify what those concerns are.
Companies are challenging that order in the courts but once it gets to the
Supreme Court they will probably decide in favor of the king as they always
have, although for the last few months his actions have been even stupider
than usual so maybe they will figure that enough is enough.*

*John K Clark *
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