Posted on 06/15/2019 4:01:57 PM PDT by rktman
Fossil fuels generates large employment and incomes in flyover country.
https://www.energy.gov/downloads/us-energy-and-employment-report
The market for petroleum products is huge. Starting in 2020 US will be a net exporter of energy. Steel for new plants, pipelines, wells, and ships for exporting. Wall Street big holder of Energy equities.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/PET_SUM_SND_D_NUS_MBBLPD_M_CUR.htm
Please make this an issue in 2020 campaign, I beg the left, please!!!!!
[people literally freezing to death in their homes as green electric heat would fail]
Obama’s $535-million-dollar Solyndra to the rescue!!
Oh, wait....
Eliminating fossil fuels would not risk a descent into darkness ... it would absolutely create a descent into darkness.
North Korea??
We have been house hunting there and easily half the houses you see on the realty pages, when they show the basement, shows the electrical panel and right next to is is a full house generator hook up.
I also see the nor'easters playing a role in it.
We went to visit my son for Thanksgiving a few years ago and a nor'easter hit on the Tues/Wed before. Knocked the power out for almost a week where he was. And when we went outside to look around, the sound of generators running was everywhere.
They want population control.
What better way to get it than to kill people off somehow?
If someone openly set out destroy the United Mine Workers, would that be some sort of violation of law?
You've got the correct response to the folly of wind and solar replacing oil and coal; they won't.
This goes beyond mining and creating steel. Electrical, from wind and solar, will not do the heavy lifting of refining ore, transport of heavy materials, and production of modern materials. And the big elephant in the room that the greenies won't discuss, are the more than 6500 modern materials made from oil that are necessary to make life possible today. Materials like asphalt for roads, roofing materials for millions of buildings and homes, solvents for machinery, paints for protecting all materials, chemicals for all sorts of things like medical goods and medicine, textiles, glues, fertilizers and the list is extensive.
Solar and wind cannot replace fossil fuels; fossil fuel use will never be eliminated, or we return to the dark ages without not just modern conveniences, but to an age of mass starvation, poverty and death.
For lots of reasons the frequency of power outages has increased over time, and in response people have started buying their own temporary generators.
People and the free market are a lot smarter collectively than guys like Bloomberg. We may well end up with a lot of renewable energy supplies, with intermittent outages. No problem, we will all just run our generators, obliterating any supposed pollution reducing effects of the renewable energy sources.
Or burning wood from the trees sitting on our own property.
The elderly and young children will die in the heat.
They sure would: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave
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Something akin to the Dark Ages...
As a wonderful side effect we, and our animal friends, get to enjoy the forests as they grow to provide us wood, warmth, and a beautiful environment.
Hydrino.
Look to the Hydrino as an alternate to what we have now ...
The measure of a civilizations advance is how cheap the energy is.
An easy measure is how many hours of labor does it take to buy a kilowatthour (kwh)?
In the U.S.A., it is about ($50K average income, or $25/hour, about $.12/kwh, or about .29 minutes of labor.
In Australia, about the same income, $.30/kwh or about .72 minutes of labor.
The measure of a civilizations advance is how cheap the energy is.
An easy measure is how many hours of labor does it take to buy a kilowatthour (kwh)?
In the U.S.A., it is about ($50K average income, or $25/hour, about $.12/kwh, or about .29 minutes of labor.
In Australia, about the same income, $.30/kwh or about .72 minutes of labor.
no such thing as a fossil fuel. Oil is a naturally recurring resource.
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