Denis Tegg

Apocalyptic economic fallout. NHK confirms Trump's disastrous war has completely paralyzed India's massive textile industry. With 90% of their LPG imports choked off at the Strait of Hormuz, HALF A MILLION workers just lost their jobs. The global supply chain is collapsing.

Still okay with Musk's decision to support Trump? Tesla showrooms and other assets in the Gulf states are on an Iran list of potential US company targets. @farzyness" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">electrek.co/2026/03/31/tes… @wholemars @herbertong

Extremely powerful footage from the archives. A Ukrainian FPV operator spares the life of an unarmed Russian enemy who was abandoned to his fate by his comrades, instead dropping him water and a note on how to surrender. This is peak humanity.

🚨HOLY SMOKES: Trump spent weeks calling on Iranians to rise up and overthrow their government. They didn’t. Instead 8 million Americans rose up against his. In 3,000 cities. On the same day. The regime change he wanted happened in the wrong country’s streets. Iran’s Foreign Minister said the people being killed are dying because Trump wants to have fun. 8 million Americans said they’re not having fun. Philadelphia. Atlanta. Dallas. DC. San Francisco. New York. London. Tel Aviv. Scotland. San Diego. The uprising came home.

Is the fuel crisis a tipping point for electrification? Here’s our interview with Mike Casey from Rewiring Aotearoa. youtu.be/X5RXdQyqikM?si…

NEWS: GO Rentals in New Zealand has announced that it's spending $2.3 million to purchase 51 brand new 2026 @Tesla Model Y Premiums for its rental fleet, more than doubling its existing fleet. "GO Rentals is about to become New Zealand's largest Tesla rental operator. We're seeing strong and sustained interest from customers who want to try an EV during their trip around New Zealand. The Tesla Model Y delivers the range, comfort and technology that modern travelers expect, and expanding our Tesla fleet allows us to meet that demand while continuing to offer a premium rental experience." evwire.com/p/tesla-for-bu…

@kellyenz As an economist you would know that a sensible EV owner would leave home with a full charge at very cheap Night rates and on the return journey would only charge sufficient to get home

As an economist I’m not surprised.

@Patriot__au @sydney_ev Does your math have $300 for diesel being lower than $50 for electricity? Just who is the dipshit here?

@sydney_ev 35 tonne baahhhhaaaaa. So you need 3 of them to haul the same load a real truck can move. You dipshits should have paid more attention in maths and science.

Interesting convo with someone who usually hates #EV and renewable tech, 400Km non stop EV truck trip with 35ton, $50 vs $300 for diesel, QUICKER! as EV trucks dont slow on hills. electrifying urban truck fleet leaves more fuel for remote and farms youtu.be/58eRPmDqjyY?si…

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan. Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters. This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth. Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining. Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper. The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military. The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar. Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Next time someone asks which English speaking talk hosts I respect the most, the answer is ridiculously easy. @ryanjespersen in Canada @RealTalkRJ and Great Britain’s James O’Brien @mrjamesob

@wholemars That Trump has lost control of the war in Iran. Iran holds the cards.

What was the most interesting Tesla / EV / AI news of the week?

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

The truth has gone viral. thanks to technology - Mehdi Hassan

@wholemars Trump wrecking supply chains and the global economy with the war on Iran

What was the most interesting Tesla / EV / AI news of the week?

The owner of the largest Navy in the history of the world would like sailors from other countries to die in a war he started without consulting anyone. Pass, thanks.

#irancrisis: read this important trail from Senator Murphy. Be concerned. Be very concerned.

@JoeTegtmeyer @Tesla You may wish to revisit the suggestion that a competitor will take years to catch up to Tesla. In this video Wayve took just 4 months to integrate their tech into a Nissan in Japan and get a smooth drive. Sure, more testing to do but ....? - youtu.be/DdtcBShrIQA

The @Tesla Popup event in downtown Austin is on and many awesome displays, Cybercabs, Optimus serving drinks, & self-driving demos! This event runs all day today and tomorrow at the Foreground Austin!

OMG, SHUT DOWN DOGE: A DOGE official in his 20s testified today that he canceled federal research grants based on personal judgment. No peer review. No subject matter expertise. No formal process. Just him. And books he had read. He flagged a grant studying HIV in prisons during the Reagan and Clinton era — decades of academic research — as “one of the craziest” because it mentioned LGBTQ in the description. He flagged a grant examining the military service experiences of Black, Native American, female, and immigrant veterans as crazy. His qualification for making these calls: “A person can have enough judgment from reading books.” He was then asked if he regretted cutting programs that may have led to people dying. “No.” Did DOGE reduce the deficit? “No.” A person in their 20s. Reading books. Canceling peer-reviewed academic research. Deciding what knowledge the American government is allowed to fund. No experience. No regret. No results. Under oath.

JUST IN: Iran moved its uranium into a mountain. The biggest conventional bomb on Earth cannot reach it. Fox News reported on 11th March, citing US intelligence, that Iran has relocated its remaining enriched uranium stockpile to the facility known as Pickaxe Mountain, Kūh-e Kolang Gaz Lā, a tunnel complex buried 80 to 100 metres deep in granite bedrock one mile south of Natanz. CSIS satellite imagery from February confirms accelerated construction: multiple tunnel portals, concrete sarcophagus shields over entrances, security walls, heavy machinery, and spoil piles indicating rapid interior expansion since the 2025 strikes destroyed Iran’s above-ground enrichment infrastructure. The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, the weapon that hit Parchin, weighs 30,000 pounds. It penetrates up to 200 feet of earth or 60 feet of reinforced concrete. Granite is neither earth nor concrete. It is igneous rock with a compressive strength that exceeds both. One hundred metres of granite is 328 feet. The GBU-57’s maximum earth penetration is 200 feet. The uranium sits 128 feet beyond the reach of the most powerful conventional weapon the United States possesses. Fourteen GBU-57s were dropped on Iranian nuclear sites during Operation Midnight Hammer in 2025. The strikes destroyed centrifuge halls. They did not destroy the programme. They taught Iran where the ceiling was, and Iran built beneath it. Every bomb that hit Fordow and Natanz was a lesson in depth. Pickaxe Mountain is the final exam: a facility designed specifically to survive the weapon designed specifically to destroy it. The IAEA estimated 440.9 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium before the war. After the strikes, Grossi assessed approximately 200 kilograms may remain. That material, seven to eleven nuclear weapons’ worth at one week’s further enrichment, is now inside a granite mountain that no bomb can penetrate and no inspector can enter because Iran has denied IAEA access to every site struck since 28 February. The war’s existential minimum was defined by Defence Secretary Hegseth: no nukes. The nuclear infrastructure must be destroyed with or without regime change. The GBU-57 was the instrument. Pickaxe Mountain is the limit. The instrument has met a material it cannot defeat. The existential minimum has hit a ceiling of stone. What remains is a decision the United States has never made in the nuclear age. The material cannot be destroyed from the air. It can only be reached through the door. Special forces insertion into a tunnel complex defended by IRGC units operating under the Mosaic Doctrine, with sealed orders, inside a country whose 31 autonomous commands have been firing continuously for fourteen days. The Pentagon is weighing this option. Fox’s Jesse Watters reported it as a “near-impenetrable site requiring potential special forces insertion.” The language is careful. The implication is not. A ground operation to seize enriched uranium from a granite bunker inside hostile territory would be the most consequential special forces mission since Abbottabad. Except Abbottabad was one compound, one target, one night. Pickaxe Mountain is a tunnel system buried under 100 metres of rock, defended by a military that cannot surrender because its commander is a wounded man issuing orders from a hospital bed through a television anchor, and its doctrine was designed to fight without him. The bomb cannot reach it. The inspectors cannot enter it. The Supreme Leader will not open it. The material inside is seven days from becoming a weapon. And the mountain does not negotiate. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

For those at the back with the red hats who are rejoicing at spending a billion dollars a day to commit war crimes. Please be aware that the last week has been the most expensive week in American military history. And that’s after deducting the billions Hegseth spend on king crab, strip steak and a iPad or 6, while SNAP payments are being denied to hungry American children. If that wasn’t enough to cheer about, there’s always the study from The Lancet Journal about how many deaths the U.S. is responsible for between 1971 and 2021. So that’s before the estimate 600,000 Trump has chalked up since he returned to the White House after gutting USAID. America sure is a Godly nation. I’ll let Professor John Mearsheimer explain. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRHeLN4p/