Presumably Trump thought, like some 1950s McCarthy buffoonish cartoon character, that he was going to violently corner oil, by deploying the U.S. military to take it all over like a gangster.

Predictably, that hasn’t worked. The stability of oil is gone forever. Chaos of Trump has become permanently attached to any concept of “centralized” fuel distribution like oil, because he is such an archetypical villain of centralization. Decentralized, sovereign, energy is on the table like it’s the 1900s again.

At COP30 in 2025, co-sponsors Colombia and the Netherlands announced the First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels. It will be held in Santa Marta in Colombia from 24-29 April.

“There is a clear momentum to phase out fossil fuels, and now is the time to capitalise on it,” said the Netherlands’ Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Climate Policy and Green Growth, Sophie Hermans.