How to drive fossil fuels out of the US economy, quickly The US has everything it needs to decarbonize by 2035.

vox.com ^ | 8/6/2020 | Dave Roberts

[Fiddlstix]

........ FDR got way too much credit for our postwar growth, while he was largely to blame for prolonging the depression.

VERY TRUE
Bears Repeating!

[Salamander]

What do I put in the Hemi?

Crisco??

[EagleUSA]

Oh, shit...who left the cage door open again??

[kiryandil]

The operation where they cut off the top of Dave Roberts’ skull, scooped out his brains, and then shat in the newly-empty space before sewing it up must have been cringe-worthy to watch....

[Salamander]

May the odds [and the winds] be ever in your favor.

[kiryandil]

Liberals’ Teslas can’t move one inch without petroleum. What do they think tires are made of? There are thousands of essential products made from petroleum-derived hydrocarbons. So-called “fossil fuels” are essential to everyday life, even if we never used another drop as fuel. So, libs can never get rid of them, but what the fools can do is make all of the petroleum-derived products we use (plastic, anyone?) vastly more expensive.

Dave Roberts would soil himself if someone filled his gas tank with corn syrup...

[Paladin2]

LOL, I’d stick that out the window to charge “stuff”

It’d be like a dawg having movin’ fun.

[I’ll stipulate that having some eye salve is warranted should one try to emulate the dog on the train [[and other vehicles.... [Because personal experience....]]

[Lockbox]

It’s all about the BTUs. Oil / Natural Gas are Kings.

[roadcat]

Liberals’ Teslas can’t move one inch without petroleum. What do they think tires are made of?

And roads. and about 6500 other products from petroleum processing. No oil, no paved roads. No paint. No lubricants. No insulation. And so on...

[SmokingJoe]

Decarbonize the economy huh?
To what end?
Reduce America to abject poverty and bring in even more riots, looting and anarchy?

[The Pack Knight]

They aren’t idiots. They know exactly what they are proposing. This heading from the article explains it:

There’s no way to accomplish a rapid energy transition with market-based policies

The “transformation” will be accomplished through Soviet-style five-year plans. Which is, of course, the point of all this.

[higgmeister]

Vox Sox!

[Cobra64]

Well first of all, anyone who refers to petroleum as a “fossil fuel” is a flaming moron. The unwashed have no idea how many products rely on petroleum.

[AlaskaErik]

vox.com...that’s all I need to know.

[Charles Martel]

In a pinch, we could always go back whale oil.

[Paul R.]

A similar effort, huh? Does this idiot author even begin to comprehend the enormous economic sacrifices most US families made as part of the war effort? And he wants to try to implement & sustain that for 30 years? OMG!

[kennedy]

Who needs petroleum? All those electric cars will be powered by rainbows and unicorn farts.

[Paul R.]

Absolutely correct. We were left with massive manufacturing capability, desperate need outside the US, and virtually no competition.

I suppose that if we could ward off the “incoming” easily, we could bomb most of the rest of the world to hell, and it’d all work again...

[roadcat]

I suppose that if we could ward off the “incoming” easily, we could bomb most of the rest of the world to hell, and it’d all work again...

Let's tweak that a little - if we could bomb most of China, then there would be little "incoming" while the rest of the world would clamor for our goods.

[servo1969]

I’m not reading Vox.
Is there anything in the article about replacements for diesel fuel, Jet A, and motor oil? That would be fun.