Posted on 07/02/2015 5:20:44 AM PDT by thackney
While the energy history of the United States is one of significant change, three fossil fuel sources—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—have made up at least 80% of total U.S. energy consumption for more than 100 years. Recent increases in the domestic production of petroleum liquids and natural gas prompted shifts between the uses of fossil fuels (largely from coal-fired to natural gas-fired power generation), but the predominance of these three energy sources is likely to continue into the future.
For the first several decades of American history, families used wood (a renewable energy source) as a primary source of energy. Coal became dominant in the late 19th century before being overtaken by petroleum products in the middle of the 20th century, a time when natural gas usage also rose quickly. Since the mid-20th century, use of coal increased again (mainly as a primary energy source for electric power generation), and a new form of energy—nuclear electric power—emerged. After a pause in the 1970s, the use of petroleum and natural gas resumed growth. Petroleum consumption decreased in recent years, but natural gas has continued to provide a greater share of U.S. energy consumption. In the late 1980s, renewable energy consumption (other than wood and hydroelectric) began to appear, increasing significantly in the mid-2000s. In 2014, the renewable share of energy consumption in the United States was the highest (nearly 10%) since the 1930s, when wood represented a larger share of consumption. Renewable energy is a small but growing piece of the U.S. energy mix. The greatest growth in renewables today is in solar and wind power, which along with geothermal and biomass, are included in other renewables.
Once again the controls freaks are spewing more malarkey as usual...... They want to scare you! “were all going to run out of oil and die!!!!!” B.S.
No one really knows where petroleum oil originated.
One theory is that it’s bug excrement. Which would make more sense than “fossil” fuel rubbish.
One thing for sure energy only transforms and does not leave the Earth.
The Leftist always wants to scare their gullible dumb@ss followers into submission.
Articles and charts like these point out the impossibility of the goals of the “get rid of oil and coal” crowd, and the implications of their desired goals. The only viable energy options at this point are goal, oil, gas and perhaps nuclear. Renewables are a tiny, expensive, inefficient fraction of the nation’s entire energy needs. They won’t be viable for decades, if ever. And the Libs don’t want to promote nuclear energy. So what are we left with? Conserve? Is that going to cut energy use in half? Or with the war on coal, are we simply going to get rid of it with no replacement? What do people use then? We can’t go back to wood.
Crude oil actually contains fossils and is only found sourced to sedimentary rock.
USING MICROFOSSILS IN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/ONeill.html
It’s all theory...., and not fact as bad as the Leftist at Berkley wish was the case.
Trust me I have researched this subject. You are wasting your time.
Trust me, I have researched this subject, as well as worked in the industry for a couple decades.
And it certainly isn’t just researchers at places like Berkley.
It is a real world business practice. Not fiction or theory.
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