In 2019 I wrote the kinder gentler version of this blog post. You want the happy version? Read that. I still believe in the vast majority of it.

But in 2026 — Fuck Energy. I’m so fucking tired of the fucking oil and gas business driving the terminology bus. This rhetorical spin of “Energy” and “Energy Superpower” is a fucking con-job, and I am so done.

Energy from oil and gas means burning shit. It means putting carbon in the air, or spending more energy to sequester the carbon as you burn it. It means dirtying up your air! It means living a shittier life, spending your (personal or societal) wealth pumping up the bank accounts of oil producing nations.

I THINK HUMAN THRIVING IS CONNECTED TO OUR ABILITY TO HAVE ENERGY BUT I AM ALSO AGAINST OIL AND GAS.

HUH. ISN’T THAT A NUANCED TAKE.

Technology Connections had a banger of a video talking about this in January (pre-Hormuz Cluster Fuck), and the point stands. You spend money on oil, you use it, and it’s gone. You spend money on Solar, Wind, Geothermal… and it’s there for the lifetime of that asset.

Why do we accept this rhetorical con-job? OH RIGHT OIL PRODUCERS HAVE MONEY AND A VESTED INTEREST IN CONFUSING THE ISSUE. Honestly, I’m really fucking disappointed in the Canadian Government for normalizing this bullshit.

Here’s a thing: Most countries on earth are oil importers. Most countries on earth are getting an object lesson in what it means to be beholden to world markets.

If I take any solace in the absolute bullshit of our present, it’s that the lessons of Hormuz are going to make a whole bunch of places realize that they should be looking elsewhere. I live in an oil producing area, and I have to say… methinks there’s a fucking train called electrotech coming for us, and when our province is fucked over by this… well, anyone who says “who ever could have seen this coming” should be laughed out of a room.

The world is going to be a better place when oil and gas are dethroned. I can’t fucking wait.