You can’t introduce facts such as you mention, into a discussion about energy with the liberals.
I had a discussion with someone about electric cars recently.
I told him that it’s not all cut and dried that electric cars would cut back pollution and help global warming and all that.
I told him that if we suddenly had millions of electric cars on the road, that we would need to be generating huge additional amounts of electricity to recharge all those car batteries. And that in much of the country, electricity is generated in coal fired power plants.
Well, he got flummoxed about these points. He said that the car itself is pollution free, and that we need to develop new technology to generate electricity, increase battery life, yadda yadda yadda, so that this would no longer be a problem. And then he threw in how Exxon Mobil is the biggest company in the world and has interfered with research into alternative energy.........
To liberals, electricity is created "somewhere else" and delivered at little cost in unlimited quantities to their electric outlets.
Poppa used to say, “Intrigue only begat intrigue.”
For so many people there is a conspiracy behind every tree when their utopian dreams are challenged. Conspiracy can be the only reason because they can never be wrong.