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Trump's dumb misfire shot a gaping hole in his billion-dollar grift
What happened
RawStory argues that the “misfire” was a war-driven energy shock that pushed consumers and governments away from oil, undermining the fossil-fuel interests Donald Trump had promised to serve. The article says oil prices had recently eased as Iran allowed tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, while an International Energy Agency report found global oil demand had fallen 2.5 percent that year.
The reported result was faster adoption of alternatives: the IEA expected electric vehicles to reach 29 percent of global car sales that year, compared with 5.8 percent in the United States…
The skinny
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