Posted on 12/09/2024 9:53:03 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Most Americans don’t understand the risks of renewable energy or view traditional energy sources like oil and gas as essential to their livelihoods, a new poll found, as a Republican trifecta in Washington prepares to pass an extensive energy agenda early next year.
As many as 57% of US voters are not aware that the “United States is at an elevated risk of energy shortfalls,” compared to 43% who were well privy to elevated risks of energy shortages, according to a poll from the American Energy Institute exclusively shared with The Post.
About two-thirds of US grids have been vulnerable to energy shortfalls in the past, per data from the US Energy Administration Agency, and the institute has noted that “regions with higher reliance on renewable energy are at an even higher risk.”
Meanwhile, only 41% of US voters were aware that fossil fuels can be used to preserve baked goods, 46% were aware they can be used to formulate medicines like Aspirin and 49% knew that they can help create ammonia for fertilizers.
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Ignorance is bliss I hear. More than enough to go around as well. No such thing as ‘netzero’. Just like no such thing as transgender.
Bingo
The US economy does not need something as non-useful as plastic, right?
We never use the stuff, right?
/Sarc
PLASTICS
MAKEUP
FERTILIZER
TIRES
CLOTHING
There are literally hundreds of products other than gasoline and diesel fuel made from Petroleum and Methane(natural Gas).
So, burning less oil and gas would mean less would be available for other purposes? Not sure I follow the train of thought here. The fact that we burn less coal today has not led to shortages of coal. Quite the contrary in fact.
From the Google/US Energy Information Agency(EIA).
Key points about petroleum usage:
Gasoline dominant:
Gasoline accounts for the largest portion of petroleum used for fuel, making up roughly 43% of total petroleum consumption.
Diesel fuel:
Another significant portion of petroleum is used for diesel fuel, which constitutes around 20% of total petroleum consumption.
Jet fuel:
Jet fuel represents a smaller but still notable percentage of petroleum usage.
Its worse than that, the MSM along with social media, etc have been aggressively labeling, "fact checking", and outright censoring anything critical of "renewables" and "climate change".
I can't tell you the number I times I have been tagged (and probably had posts shadow banned) an fact checked by the fascists on Facebook.
You might wonder why I bother, and its because it's the only remote chance I have to present counter arguments and information to my otherwise unreachable friends and family members on the otherwise taboo topic of "Man Made Climate Change".
I was really hoping in that scene that instead of a rattle snake she would have stumbled over a dead bird or bat.
That may have been too much for Taylor Sheridan. Showing that those turbines kill thousands of birds and bats.
The Dims “Green” agenda is a Pol Pot style agenda - literally destroy the economy so it can be rebuilt in a “Green” utopia.
It was a great scene. Especially the part about infrastructure and if the oil companies thought they were the future they’d be everywhere.
You are correct.
That not the issue.
Artificially restricting US fuel production , as the Biden Regime tried, in order to push “Green Energy” exponentially increased costs not only for internal combustion fuel, but also for all the other things these fuel are used to do.
The base of the Cost Push inflation the world has suffered since Jan 2021 is driven by this artificial constriction on US Fuel production via Government regulation. The Biden’ regime theory is not only would inflating gas and oil costs make “green energy” more competitive but it would also force a reduction of US Consumerism and thus “save the planet”.
That’s right.
Thanks for your post. This thread needs worldwide circulation.
Agreed.
Yep basically since 0bama, the dogma of the Alt Left running the US Democrat party is “there is too much consumerism going on out there”
That not the issue.
Artificially restricting US fuel production , as the Biden Regime tried, in order to push “Green Energy” exponentially increased costs not only for internal combustion fuel, but also for all the other things these fuel are used to do.
The base of the Cost Push inflation the world has suffered since Jan 2021 is driven by this artificial constriction on US Fuel production via Government regulation. The Biden’ regime theory is not only would inflating gas and oil costs make “green energy” more competitive but it would also force a reduction of US Consumerism and thus “save the planet”.
It’s not just energy shortages, either.
Business and industry depend on almost 100% reliable power. How do you run a factory, an office building, a hospital, a retail center, a city or a home on intermittent power? Think what happens if the power goes out every day for 30 minutes. Or even if the power went out once a week for an hour or two. Industry depends on high quality power — what if the power quality is degraded (voltage, harmonics, frequency)? Or if there is a major regional grid collapse like the Northeast power blackout of November 1965 that affected 80 million people in the US and Canada.
Our national productivity, output, and quality of life would be greatly diminished.
Nobody is telling the people this.
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