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"... as long as US economy is based on oil and coal - 70% of its energy sources, that's enormous - it will tend to seek wars over oil and coal. The Venezuelan issue is about this.

In my opinion, if US ... were aligned with the Paris Agreement - that is if they were to completely replace that 70% of its energy with clean energy - there would be no wars."

#GustavoPetro, President of Colombia 2026

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8c49

#podcasts #BBC #TheInterview #USForeignPolicy #LatinAmerica #Colombia #war

BBC

BBC World Service - The Interview, Gustavo Petro, Colombian President: US military action is a real threat

Ione Wells speaks to President Gustavo Petro about concerns over US-Colombia relations.

Indieterminacy

@indieterminacy@social.coop replied · last week

@strypey Shit, since Nixon left the Gold Standard the Federal budget is precipitated on the Dollar having a monopoly as an oil trading currency.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · last week

@indieterminacy
> the Federal budget is precipitated on the Dollar having a monopoly as an oil trading currency

True. But I'm guessing the vast majority of US foreign spending is on oil and coal, because their domestic extraction doesn't come anywhere near covering what they use. So replacing fossil fuels would allow them to survive the end of the petrodollar, which is most likely going to happen anyway.

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