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Last month, Trump also threatened a 25 percent “secondary tariff” on any country that buys crude oil from Venezuela, giving them an April 3 deadline to halt such trade with the South American petrostate.

They’re being held in a petrostate for the third year in a row and are again awash with fossil fuel lobbyists.

University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael E. Mann was even more blunt than Kalmus, saying that Trump will turn America into a “petrostate.”

“And if Trump dismantles our democracy, as many fear will be the case, and the world’s greatest power, the U.S., becomes — in essence — a petrostate, it’s game over for climate action full stop for the foreseeable future, unless the rest of the world unites and takes bold action, including potentially the most punitive possible sanctions against the United States.”

“I think the anger, to be righteous in nature, has to be directed at the bad actors who have blocked climate progress: fossil fuel executives and petrostate authoritarians,” Mann said.