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What could happen if we just stopped oil? Six billion might die
Yahoo!, The Telegraph ^ | 12/19/23 | Neil Record

Posted on 02/16/2024 11:40:39 AM PST by DallasBiff

Many of us have been exasperated by the antics of Just Stop Oil protesters. Now, I believe that these are well-meaning and committed to their cause and I am sure that they think that they are trying to save the planet in the best way they can think of – gain publicity, get people talking and influence politicians.

But what would happen if we literally just stopped oil tomorrow and did without the natural resources on which the world, its economies and populations depend? The answer: most likely six billion people would die within a year.

I am going to assume the “oil” in Just Stop Oil means fossil fuels – so oil, gas and coal. I am also going to assume that we have today’s technological knowledge and infrastructure, so we are talking about stopping fossil fuels now, not at some unspecified time in the future.

Day 1 – no more mining of coal; the world’s oil wells shut down; the world’s gas fields likewise. The first to feel the change would be gas users.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: leftists; nooil
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To: DallasBiff

(Just Stop Oil)

Some of the stupidest people, EVER, on planet Earth

It boggles the mind how people could possibly be that stupid


21 posted on 02/16/2024 12:28:25 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: DallasBiff

“I believe that these are well-meaning and committed to their cause and I am sure that they think that they are trying to save the planet in the best way they can think of”

No, no they are not.

They are delusional pricks that should be beaten within an inch of their lives, in front of the POS delusional parents that raised them.

They are wrong. They are mentally confused, and unstable. They are infringing on everyone else’s rights. They are damaging public/private property.

Do not entertain their delusions.


22 posted on 02/16/2024 12:32:30 PM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: DallasBiff

>>Six billion might die<<

That will certainly cause climate change


23 posted on 02/16/2024 12:43:00 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Very likely. They don’t look as though they would do very well in a primitive environment.


24 posted on 02/16/2024 12:45:09 PM PST by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: TigerClaws

What ever happened to the Georgia “guide stones” investigation? Someone destroyed it with a IED and the feds don’t look into it? Seems strange to me.


25 posted on 02/16/2024 12:58:20 PM PST by Farmerbob
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To: DallasBiff
That's a feature, not a bug.

(re. The Georgia Guide Stones.)

But at least the chem trails would turn off...

~Easy

26 posted on 02/16/2024 1:10:32 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-A)
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To: DallasBiff

That is the WEF plan...


27 posted on 02/16/2024 1:11:55 PM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Pontiac

“…but he is probably correct that in their own minds they believe that their cause is just and they believe that they are doing good….”

That’s the problem, they are entirely in ernest and will stop ant nothing to bring about their promised land. They’re fecking crazy, in short.


28 posted on 02/16/2024 1:11:59 PM PST by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: silent majority rising

Starve 2/3, abort the rest, and then leave the whole world for the 300,000 that are left.


29 posted on 02/16/2024 1:13:03 PM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: DallasBiff

Talk about “unintended consequences”!


30 posted on 02/16/2024 1:14:18 PM PST by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: 353FMG

That is the reason for the Climate Change fraud, just to get rid of most of the population so these “entitled pr*cks” get a bigger piece of the world.


31 posted on 02/16/2024 1:15:27 PM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: DallasBiff
The end of "fossil" fuels is the end of food.


32 posted on 02/16/2024 2:21:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: packagingguy

There is a Los Angeles politician running for office. In her commercial she is supporting the banning of urban oil drilling!

This would raise the cost of gas even more. Most times it already is twice as much in the rest of the country.

Los Angeles is on a sea of oil both onshore and offshore.
The drill rigs are hidden for the most part.

The old days:

Photos: Dark beauty in the oil fields of old Southern California
https://medium.com/timeline/photos-dark-beauty-in-the-oil-fields-of-old-southern-california-f8aea365d38d


33 posted on 02/16/2024 2:21:40 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: TalBlack
That’s the problem, they are entirely in ernest and will stop ant nothing to bring about their promised land.

The promised land of these Eco-Utopians will bring about is one that they will in which they will not be able to survive.

I doubt that most of them realize this to be the case.

I doubt that most of them have never held down a full time job or paid bills.

People that do those things don't have time to do protest like these.

34 posted on 02/16/2024 2:30:20 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: packagingguy
“Six billion might die”

That’s kind of the whole idea.

Bingo. Post of the day.

That’s exactly the plan of the scum sucking global elites. The Georgia Guidestones, before someone knocked them down, pretty much said it, when it said the world’s population should be 500 million. Since 6 billion people are not likely to commit suicide, how will they kill off that many people? This is one way, whether it even works or not.

35 posted on 02/16/2024 2:31:08 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: SaveFerris
It boggles the mind how people could possibly be that stupid

Why?

The public schools have been teaching stupidity for decades.

The mainstream media has been pushing this crap on the public for decades.

If you don't believe this crap and you talk about it you are ostracized and maybe screamed at.

The believers in this science fiction can be quite emotional when those beliefs are challenged.

I have been challenging this crap in public for a long time and I can tell you I have brought several to the point of rage and close to violence.

36 posted on 02/16/2024 3:01:56 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

yeah


37 posted on 02/16/2024 3:43:20 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: minnesota_bound

I lived in Long Beach from 1980 until 1989. I used to drive through Signal Hill regularly and remember those oil wells, which were so incongruous in a large beach-side town.


38 posted on 02/16/2024 3:53:18 PM PST by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: C210N

“depleted” oil wells refill themselves after time.”

Explain how you mean that...


39 posted on 02/16/2024 4:18:44 PM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦...Motels for Migrants give legitimate addresses for mail-in ballots.)
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To: Does so

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=depleted%E2%80%9D+oil+wells+refill&ia=web


40 posted on 02/16/2024 4:20:53 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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