{"id":34166,"date":"2026-05-08T05:53:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34166"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:53:33","slug":"unintended-consequences-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34166","title":{"rendered":"Unintended consequences&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;with the idiot trump causing the biggest energy crisis in history, one of the unintended consequences is that the rest of the world is now racing to build out the renewables that he hates to get out from under the oil blackmail&#8230;and this is just another incidence that proves the rule that everything the idiot trump touches turns to shit&#8230;he has tried and tried to reward his buddies in the oil business for giving him billions of dollars to get him elected but he really has just accelerated the move to clean energy after his debacle in Iran&#8230;and the smart move is to build out as much renewables as you can&#8230;after all, the price of battery storage has dropped 93% since 2010 as has solar cells at a 90% decrease along with wind power dropping 70% in the same time, making these sources the cheapest energy in the history of the world&#8230;along with the benefit of putting no carbon in the air and wrenching control of energy back from OPEC and the rest of the middle east&#8230;and we know that one of the idiot&#8217;s reasons for this stupid war is to take Iran&#8217;s oil when oil is quickly heading to the trash heap of energy history&#8230;just like what has happened to coal&#8230;so the guy who hates renewable energy is going to be the biggest factor in it&#8217;s adoption&#8230;pretty cool irony, huh? Geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with the idiot trump causing the biggest energy crisis in history, one of the unintended consequences is that the rest of the world is now racing to build out the renewables that he hates to get out from under the oil blackmail&#8230;and this is just another incidence that proves the rule that everything the idiot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unintended consequences&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4290,3102],"class_list":["post-34166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-iran-war","tag-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34167,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34166\/revisions\/34167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}