Posted on 02/17/2024 9:55:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It is now popular to talk about leaving fossil fuels to prevent climate change. Pretty much the same result occurs if we run short of fossil fuels: We lose fossil fuels, but it is because we cannot extract them. Practically no one tells us about the extent to which the current system depends upon fossil fuels, however.
The economy is extraordinarily dependent on fossil fuels. If there are not enough fossil fuels to go around, there is likely to be fighting over what is available. Some countries are likely to get far more than their fair share, while the rest of the world’s population will be left with very little or no fossil fuels. If losing fossil fuels completely, or nearly completely, is a risk for some of the world’s population, it might be useful to think through some of the things that go wrong. The following are some of my ideas about things that change, mostly for the worse, in a fossil fuel-deprived economy.
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machines need lubrication
Any brain-damaged idiot who advocates for the elimination of “fossil fuels” should immediately have their access to “fossil fuels” cut off in any way, shape or form.
Whale blubber. Oh - save the whales.
Ok - human fat.
I always get a kick out of the people protesting some oil rig or ship leaving port, paddling around in their plastic kayaks.
And wearing their nylon bathing suit or neoprene wetsuit, and using a carbon fiber paddle, and drinking from their plastic water bottle. And when they are done they put the kayak on top of their SUV and drive home.
Good article, but, surprisingly the author doesn’t mention war. Lots of war. LOTS and LOTS of war.
The nations that give up fossil fuels will become weak and easy pickings for the nations that grow their fossil energy production and utilization. China has been gobbling up minerals and energy reserves all over the globe. If the USA gives up fossil fuels, we we think the Chinese won’t march in and take our reserves?
You might say “we are militarily too powerful for them to do that.” Not if we depend on electric tanks and electric airplanes powered by windmills and solar cells recharging their batteries. We are already classed as “weak” militarily. We would have to hand the keys to the USA to Russia, the NORKs, Iran and China.
I cannot believe how these utopian, pie-in-the-sky idiots have grabbed so much power and everybody bows down to them.
Of course, you can argue that a World War that kills two or three billion people is the ultimate goal of the globalist powers that be.
Some new and better form of nuclear power — perhaps even a variety of “cold fusion” — is likely to supplant fossil fuels some day.
The illusion is that the whole world, ALL the other countries and all the other individuals, including the self-appointed elites, will give up or be willing to give up the luxuries they enjoy which require fossil fuels for production.
That just isn’t going to happen. There is virtually NOTHING in our lives today that cannot be tied to fossil fuels in someway, either in manufacture, production, transportation, cleaning, maintenance, whatever.....
Regular congestion of organisms will ultimately result in regular defections.
“”I always get a kick out of the people protesting some oil rig””
At the beginning of the movie Armageddon, Bruce Willis is on a deep sea oil drilling platform, hitting golf balls at a Greenpeace ship protesting the drilling. One of his golf balls gets very near the Greenpeace leader, and the leader states something like: “C’mon, Man, that was close!”. Then Willis yells ‘do you know how many gallons of fuel your ship burns every hour?’
As I have mentioned previously, we have only drilled a few miles into the Earth. There are thousands of years of hydrocarbons under our feet.
And it’s not just generating power from oil and gas or powering transportation, either. Petroleum is the primary chemical feedstock for every product you use. Most of the nitrogen fertilizer used in the world is derived from natural gas. No gas, massive worldwide starvation.
That’s right. The clothes we wear, the cleaning supplies, medicines, rubber, plastics, synthetic anything, .....
Nobody seems to mention all of the products derived from crude oil. Fertilizers, medicines, paints etc. etc,
EV’s should not be allowed rubber tires.
Or synthetic fiber seats, plastic panels, tires, any metal or mineral mined with diesel powered equipment. And they most certainly should not be allowed to drive on petroleum-derived asphalt roads. Or concrete roads because the kilns used to make cement are fired with oil.
“Whale blubber. Oh - save the whales.”
Got into an argument with a local university professor who was touting the clear advantages of socialism, citing Norway as an example of its success. I asked her if she understood where Norway’s wealth came from. Her verbatim answer, I kid you not and unbelievably (or believably, really) was “Whaling?” I swear this exchange occurred.
This is what we’re up against, and they’ve filled the minds of our young adults with rotting mush for a couple of generations now.
For energy, yes. But, we'll still need plastics and lubricants.
There aren’t ten reasons, there’s ONE: Most of the things that make life easy and amenable and safe and secure and simple COMES FROM OIL!!!!
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