Peter Zeihan

So the idea that Saudi Arabia is an ally in any way requires an immense stretch.

Unless...

You go back to the Cold War when we needed Saudi crude to fuel the tanks of Germany and Italy and Britain and Japan and Korea and China in order to fuel the alliance.

So if you want to rebuild that world, Arab oil to fuel an alliance to fight whoever, there's a conversation to be had there on strategy.

But anything else, this is not a country that has been our friend for a very long time.

wow what do you make of the future of energy ev demand slowing a little bit shale production and stuff's going on nuclear renaissance what's the future of energy look like in your opinion any country where evs are not subsidized there are no evs so uh that hopefully would tell you everything you need to know about that supply chain um

That doesn't mean that all green tech is stupid, just that one piece.

As for green tech writ large, if you're in a sunny place, put up solar.

If you're in a windy place, put up wind.

I would like to think that that's not a particularly complicated conversation.

If you're not in a sunny place,

Maybe you shouldn't put up solar.

Why people have trouble with that statement bothers me.

I mean, I live at 7,500 feet above Denver.

I get 330 days of sunshine a day.

Of course I have solar panels on my roof.

But if I lived outside of Toronto, I would get one fifth solar radiation per year.

Why would I be so stupid as to put solar panels on my roof in Toronto?

It's like this idea that the technology works everywhere is really a problem.

And that goes for the others too, natural gas, oil, nuclear, all of them.