Sweet

It’s not a taboo here either. We weren’t friends with the guy, it was the first time we ever met him. My wife made the mistake saying she thought Trump was ok, and an previously friendly conversation turned into immediate moralising and lecturing for 15 minutes about Trump killing kids and you have to be evil to vote for him etc etc. I lost my temper listening in on the conversation, and I had to tell him to shut up, that I didn’t know him, and I didn’t care what his F’ing opinions were. I don’t mind talking politics, but in nearly every case all the people who want to openly talk politics and moralise are liberals. And sometimes when you give your honest opinion they take offence and think you’re an awful person, which when I was younger used to make me feel shitty for a day or so - not so much now. So they don’t mind you talking politics provided it’s conforming. I felt bad being rude to him but I was told later that he was one of these guys who has nothing else going on in his life and conversing with politics was all he ever did. Just such a boring way to live. Didn’t feel so bad after that.

I hate those guys who just want to talk politics. Met a guy at an event one time, he found out my wife was American and started roasting her about Trump. I had to tell him to stfu.

The future of the country depends on its people. Change enough of the people, or the values of enough of the people, and the constitution won’t much matter.

The UK, and yes, the change has been noticeable but not large in my normal haunt.

Agree. We need to be honest about the problem. And just accept that we need to discriminate such that only those entering and living in our countries share our values. I don’t know what area you are in, but I genuinely surprised you can’t see a change in the demography in 10 years. It’s everywhere.

Agree, sadly. Haven’t bought anything for coming on 8 months.

There is almost no circumstance where I would buy cardinal from an admittedly brief look. Everyone has their own criteria though, yours differs from mine.

These guys drill loads of wells when the times are good and sit on these uncompleted wells. Even when prices are below ‘break even’, they can still turn an operating profit because the costs for drilling (maybe 30% if break even costs) are already expensed in a prior quarters or years. This is a long way of saying that completing and operating a well can be a lot below the theoretical break even and it’s why oil can continue to flow when prices are supposedly lower than what producers can tolerate. So yeh, I’m with Dalal, I really need to see stupid prices to get into this sector again. Whilst a made a lot of money last time, it wasn’t an enjoyable experience.

Not sure what this post means. However, you’ve been long oil for as long as I remember. At the peak of the post covid rebound it made sense to get out. There is no real reason to get in here unless things get absurd again which I don’t think is likely.

Of course there are politicians I mostly support. I’m mostly supportive of the EU project, I’m not mostly supportive of the nitwits running it and their idiotic policies.

Sometime in the last 25 ish years, don’t know when exactly, the EU and European leaders just went nuts. For a long time the EU actually worked, we were an economic power equivalent to the US, at one point larger on purchasing parity. I don’t know what changed but something did, and something again needs to change to get the Europe going again. We have string of data points that shows failure in regulation and leadership and so many Europeans (for reasons I just don’t get) just shrug their shoulders at it all.

So we have to see harm before it’s ok to roll back legislation? Come on, the goal of legislators is to be thoughtful, it should not be to cause harm. The regulation should be flipped, let the companies do what’s they want, but tax ICE cars or incentivise the electric car so you aren’t destroying an important industrial base.

Why would any serious company do business here. Even the so-called ‘right wing’ conservative in name only party, slapped huge levies on oil companies because they when they started making money after Covid - when they lost money hand over fist. Labour are doing it with banks. I want Rolls Royce to set up here in the UK, but if there are better opportunities in the US they should go there and do what’s best for the company.

OK, so we agree the mandate is doesn’t make sense and isn’t possible. So what’s our critique of the EU who has enacted this ludicrous regulation? At what point do you, Loss Horizon, just think this is sheer incompetence and something needs done?

Holy crap, these people are utter clown: “ The European Commission has watered down its plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2035. Current rules state that new vehicles sold from that date should be "zero emission", but carmakers, particularly in Germany, have lobbied heavily for concessions. Under the European Commission's new plan, 90% of new cars sold from 2035 would have to be zero-emission, rather than 100%.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk78y7k8ezo

lol! I don’t believe Islam should be in the West.

More needed but a start https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/eu-poised-water-down-landmark-2035-ban-new-diesel-and-gasoline-cars.html

Idiotic post.

For me hyperbole is not slapping on a 2-3 extra zeros! I don’t get why he does it. Nobody believes it, it’s a source of ridicule and easily mocked… unless he actually believes that’s the figure. Don’t get it.

18 with a T not a B. Sureeee.

Mostly correct I’m afraid to say.

I don’t think Ireland’s a good example, only because Ireland deliberately have a business policy which is to lure EU investment and companies i.e it’s tax policy. It’s doing so well because so many companies that want to operate under the EU umbrella place themselves in Ireland. Still they’ve done a great job of have a strategy and a executing that. Part of my work covers some EU policy, one day I had a look at the comparable US policies and they weren’t nearly as complicated. I don’t share Dalal’s pessimism since there are reasons to be optimistic, but there needs to be serious deregulation.

Thought you were mixed race cubs?

That’s not the White House website John! If we are going to start picking at logic, let us start with Dealraker pretending not to understands the meaning of Greg’s post.

Pretty sure you aren’t living under a rock, so you really should know this stuff: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/393049-the-strategic-blunder-of-trump-as-hitler/amp/