What are the options for the United States as it faces up to the deeply-felt cost of fuel in the midterm election rout of the Republicans? Could it rejoin the world at COP31?

I spent most of November 4 watching the full day’s coverage of the US elections.

It was an amazingly detailed and choreographed entertainment featuring literally hundreds of interviews with people at voting centres.

Apart from the odd comment that was obviously a party slogan, the vast majority of voters talked about the cost of fuel destroying their budgets – at home and work.

They also hated the Middle East war that made the oil price so hurtful.

No one mentioned that the Democrats had a policy to fix this situation because they didn’t have one. The public seemed to just want to send a powerful message to President Donald Trump that he caused the issue through the Middle East war.

Climate change was not on the agenda either, as noted by the NY Times. Even the Democrats said nothing about solutions to climate or oil.

The only suggestion I heard was that maybe Trump would drop a nuclear bomb on Iran to fix the oil situation. And the only mention of Elon Musk was that he lost many millions on the campaign to save some Republicans – and........

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