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Without Crude Oil, There Can Be No Electricity
heartland.org ^ | 10/17/2023 | Ronald Stein, P.E.

Posted on 10/17/2023 10:25:03 PM PDT by bitt

All the parts to generate electricity, and all the components needed to use electricity, are all made from the oil derivatives manufactured from raw crude oil.

Over the last 200 years, after the discovery of crude oil, the world populated from 1 to 8 billion. Today, all the electricity generation options available, such as wind turbines, solar panels, nuclear, hydro, coal, and natural gas, are all dependent on the products and components manufactured from crude oil to be able to generate electricity.

Looking back, the history of the petroleum industry illustrated that crude oil was virtually useless, unless it could be manufactured (refineries) into oil derivatives that are now the basis of chemical products, such as plastics, solvents, and medications, that are essential for supporting modern lifestyles. The more than 6,000 products being used for humanity needs and the generation of electricity did not exist a few short centuries ago.

Today, we have more than 50,000 merchant ships, more than 20,000 commercial aircraft and more than 50,000 military aircraft that use the fuels manufactured from crude oil. The fuels to move the heavy-weight and long-range needs of jets moving people and products, and the merchant ships for global trade flows, and the military and space programs, are also dependent on what can be manufactured from crude oil.

For the aircraft and ships, just like that for the various options for the generation of electricity, they all utilize parts and components made from the oil derivatives manufactured from raw crude oil.

Mankind in the pre-1800’s set the stage for the fantastic growth after the mankind’s discovery of crude oil:

Life longevity was around forty years of age and people seldom travelled more than one hundred miles from where they were born.

A world population of about one billion people.

No electricity, as all generation of electricity is only possible with the parts made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil for wind turbines, solar panels, and the coal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydro power plants.

The following infrastructures were not around a few short centuries ago, because they all need components and parts that were NOT available in the pre-1800’s.

Transportation

Hospitals

Medical equipment

Appliances

Electronics

Telecommunications

Communications systems

Space programs

Heating and ventilating

Military

Today, a few centuries after the discovery of crude oil:

Everything that needs electricity, and every infrastructure, is made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil, from the light bulb to the iPhone, defibrillator, and all the parts of EV’s, toilets, and spacecraft.

Weather related fatalities have virtually disappeared with all the products and medications available today that were not available a few centuries ago.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: civilization; crudeoil; electricity; energy; oil
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To: bitt

I’m pretty sure I heard them say all everyone with an EV had to do was plug their fully charged cars into the grid to energize their homes.


21 posted on 10/18/2023 1:38:05 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Trump accomplished more for America in one 4yr term than any President in your lifetime)
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To: bitt

The coup regime and the wef know this, its corral time agenda 21/30.


22 posted on 10/18/2023 2:20:49 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: bitt

Electricity is so, like, last century. /s


23 posted on 10/18/2023 2:28:18 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: bitt

bkmk


24 posted on 10/18/2023 2:50:40 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: linMcHlp

every unit of economic output is powered and facilitated by a unit of energy


25 posted on 10/18/2023 3:00:36 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: bitt

if you think houses are expensive just wait until you see the future prices of caves to live in.


26 posted on 10/18/2023 4:02:58 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Freest Republican

There’s a city in Michigan called NOVI. It was the sixth stopover point for the stagecoaches between Detroit and Lansing, the state capitol.

No VI Number 6 in Roman Numerals

Here’s another one I recently learned. Old two lane roads up hills tend to go uphill then plane off, then continue uphill.

That was to allow the horses an opportunity to rest up before resuming the uphill pull.


27 posted on 10/18/2023 5:59:03 AM PDT by cyclotic (It's a great time to live in America. It's like the collapse of the Roman Empire except with wi-fi)
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To: ridesthemiles

Their wind turbines take 450 gallons of fuel oil. And it leaks.


28 posted on 10/18/2023 6:36:31 AM PDT by GailA (GMOs have a new name 'BIOENGINEERED' read labels. Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: minnesota_bound

Look up NET ZERO LIVING.


29 posted on 10/18/2023 6:38:48 AM PDT by GailA (GMOs have a new name 'BIOENGINEERED' read labels. Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: bitt

I recently had open heart surgery. Without all the medical devices made from plastics this could not have been done. I would be dead. I like plastic.


30 posted on 10/18/2023 6:55:02 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluiids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: Lockbox

Oh you know how it is! They’re too many of US, they’re fine. They’re the good ones that can stick around… 🙄


31 posted on 10/18/2023 1:02:14 PM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: minnesota_bound

The socialists will just say ‘does not matter, we know better!’
None have any skills in running anything except the economy into the ground.
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Quote of the Day above.


32 posted on 10/18/2023 1:25:51 PM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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