Posted on 10/02/2015 8:43:03 AM PDT by rktman
One of the more prominent among the manifold idiocies of the environmental left is the idea that oil is evil. Recently, according to a press release from the Western Energy Alliance, a non-profit trade association representing more than 450 companies engaged in exploration and production of oil and natural gas in the West, more than 400 groups converged on the White House to demand we keep fossil fuels in the ground.
They did this, of course, while waving signs made of plastic and having driven or flown in fossil fuel-powered vehicles to Washington. And probably while drinking from plastic or aluminum water bottles, or while sipping an extra-soy-macchiato latte, all of which require fossil fuels to produce. These are the same sorts who tried to block offshore drilling in the Arctic by blockading a harbor with kayaks and canoes made of plastic.
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Most of them are too ignorant to realize how many petroleum products they use every day...and even if they did, these rules are for others, not them.
What a fantastic proposal, I would love to see some hippies actually take on this challenge.
They portray it as evil as a part of the larger “plan” to establish the NWO. Al;so, the Quixotic quest for clean energy is a lie and used to allow for monetary manipulations under the Save the Planet lie
It is all a shell game as T^he Pyramid shuffles the players and some move up, some down, and some just disappear...
The Progressive Machine is stalled and may be out forever if we stay the course and ever go back to compromising Politicians and sell outs like Bammy
They would basically have to live in a tree naked and hungry because fuel is required for most everything.
I agree .. let them try to live without PLASTIC.
Too funny.
I think most eco-nuts know this. The point of their screed is for you and I to live that way so that they can continue use of fossil fuels to live better lives without burdening Gaia.
True enough.
Set an example.
Live the way you want to force us to.
ya, most.. strike that.. all lefties are hypocrites.
Nothing like trying to get away from petroleum products. No car, no plastics, about half the otc medications out there, mineral oil in cosmetics and lotions, synthetic clothing, fake leather shoes (hope she’s not a vegetarian, or she will be wearing fiber sandals); kapok or feathers in her pillows (hope she’s not allergic to feathers), no refrigeration, no computers, no smartphones, heavy glass eyeglasses in wire frames...
“What a fantastic proposal, I would love to see some hippies actually take on this challenge.”
I think the only person on the left ever to do this was Ed Begley Jr.
You forget. How do they make the glass? How about the wire frames? See, it goes a lot deeper that anybody thinks about. Kinda like to pull a naked and afraid on their lame asses. Drop ‘em nekkid in the middle of the Amazon and see how they embrace mother erf.
No, I didn’t forget. Just wanted to shorten the post a bit. The List would fill several pages of single-spaced copy. I Have already written about the uses for petroleum and derivatives in several blogposts. But thanks for calling that to the attention of the readers. Virtually no modern manufacturing could go forward without oil in some form. (Lived in the Oil Patch for years. Love the stuff! Smells like MONEY!)
And no 3-in-1 oil, no wd-40, no lemony fresh wood polish, etc. The millions of ancillary product from lighter fluid to pharmaceuticalls to industrial lubricants. Just where do they think plastics and polymers come from, anyway?
Compile a list of all the wild eyed leftist environmentalist’s from Sierra Club, Green Peace, Earth First.... SHouldn’t be too tough to do. Then ALL The OIL Companies need to band together and create a NO ELECTRONIC ACCESS list to every last person on the list Nationwide.
Force them to pay CASH FOREVER!
I think the only person on the left ever to do this was Ed Begley Jr.”””
Even he didn’t do that well.
He rode a bicycle-—which also takes fossil fuels to produce.
How toilet paper is made.
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Toilet-Paper.html
Raw Materials
Toilet paper is generally made from new or “virgin” paper, using a combination of softwood and hardwood trees. Softwood trees such as Southern pines and Douglas firs have long fibers that wrap around each other; this gives paper strength. Hardwood trees like gum, maple and oak have shorter fibers that make a softer paper. Toilet paper is generally a combination of approximately 70% hardwood and 30% softwood.
Other materials used in manufacture include water, chemicals for breaking down the trees into usable fiber, and bleaches. Companies that make paper from recycled products use oxygen, ozone, sodium hydroxide, or peroxide to whiten the paper. Virgin-paper manufacturers, however, often use chlorine-based bleaches (chlorine dioxide), which have been identified as a threat to the environment.
The Manufacturing Process
Trees arive at the mill and are debarked, a process that removes the tree’s outer layer while leaving as much wood on the tree as possible.
The debarked logs are chipped into a uniform size approximately 1 in x 1/4 in. These small pieces make it easier to pulp the wood.
The batch of wood chips—about 50 tons—is then mixed with 10,000 gallons of cooking chemicals; the resultant slurry is sent to a 60-ft (18.3-m)-tall pressure cooker called a digester.
During the cooking, which can last up to three hours, much of the moisture in the wood is evaporated (wood chips contain about 50% moisture). The mixture is reduced to about 25 tons of cellulose fibers, lignin (which binds the wood fibers together) and other substances. Out of this, about 15 tons of usable fiber, called pulp, result from each cooked batch.
The pulp goes through a multistage washer system that removes most of the lignin and the cooking chemicals. This fluid, called black liquor, is separated from the pulp, which goes on to the next stage of production.
The washed pulp is sent to the bleach plant where a multistage chemical process removes color from the fiber. Residual lignin, the adhesive that binds fibers together, will yellow paper over time and must be bleached to make paper white.
The pulp is mixed with water again to produce paper stock, a mixture that is 99.5% water and 0.5% fiber. The paper stock is sprayed between moving mesh screens, which allow much of the water to drain. This produces an 18-ft (5.5-m) wide sheet of matted fiber at a rate of up to 6,500 ft (1981 m) per minute.
The mat is then transferred to a huge heated cylinder called a Yankee Dryer that presses and dries the paper to a final moisture content of about 5%.
Next, the paper is creped, a process that makes it very soft and gives it a slightly wrinkled look. During creping, the paper is scraped off the Yankee Dryer with a metal blade. This makes the sheets somewhat flexible but lowers their strength and thickness so that they virtually disintegrate when wet. The paper, which is produced at speeds over a mile a minute, is then wound on jumbo reels that can weigh as much as five tons.
The paper is then loaded onto converting machines that unwind, slit, and rewind it onto long thin cardboard tubing, making a paper log. The paper logs are then cut into rolls and wrapped packages.
Kinda like the “pollution free” tesla. Well, except for all the pollution from the manufacturing process, lubes, tires, blah, blah, blah. Guess folks will need a certified master electrician to fix one. Or and elon musk trained techie. Funny (not) thing, a lot of the casinos here in town have installed charging stations to show their support for a more eco friendly presence. Odd, I don’t see any gas pumps for those of us who drive standard vehicles. LOL!
/johnny
I think they are terrorists who justify their fossile fuel usage on some militarist like activity.
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