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Cut Off From Fuel, Cuba Is Still Surviving
(www.nytimes.com)
Fuck USA, not just Trump but USA.
Trump's foreign policy being the main driving force for global decarbonization was not on my bingo card for this year.
They are swapping their gas-guzzling 1950s American cars for electric motorcycles and rickshaws from China; importing hefty lithium batteries to keep televisions and fans running through blackouts; jury-rigging generators to run on more accessible natural gas; and installing solar panels on rooftops and even vehicles.
As a result, Cuba has been powering its electric grid solely with domestic oil and gas and a growing network of solar parks sponsored by China. Together, they are enough to support roughly half of Cuban demand, according to Jorge Piñón, who studies Cuban energy at the University of Texas.
It's China. Glad to see them materially helping. If the US does not invade, Cuba may be in for a new beginning.
Here's to a solarpunk-ish Cuba
Definitely not the ideal way to implement a transition off of oil but inspiring nonetheless.
I do wonder why Cuba didn't make greater efforts to turn to solar in years past. If they had, they could have avoided some, though probably not all, of this pain.
My uneducated take :
The US is turning against pretty much every allies they have.
China sees this and swoop in with human aid where it's needed, creating an influence there for future favors.
China is the factory of the world and a military super power. They see the US burning their ammo in Iran and Russia has shown that they were not that great of a power to begin with. China can get cheap resources from countries they helped.
So China is simply setting itself as the next world super power since Trump has made sure that the US is losing influence pretty much with everyone.
I do wonder why Cuba didn't make greater efforts to turn to solar in years past. If they had, they could have avoided some, though probably not all, of this pain.
I imagine that it wasn’t about will but more about having a neighbor making life hard for them to trade for decades
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
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