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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H/T Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.
Seems like a huge part of the pinko goal of eliminating humans (too many people) hinges on this green agenda. Starve us out, then they can rule over tue remnants.
We’re a danger to their Pleasure Planet.
Carbon in oil out.....God given energy , can’t put it anymore simply than that.
Except for thousands of Monarch butterflies flapping wings at once?
World population 8 billion!
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Good analysis, but you are missing on one thing.
According to the radical enviros, that’s too much.
They want to reduce number of the people to the more manageable 0.5 billion.
Then we can go back to the medieval economy of horse carriage and walk behind plow. Straw huts, or comfortable caves.
But, rejoice, the few who would survive, would have all organic food!
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Without large scale demand for fuel made from crude oil, the price of fuel for “essential” transport of food and certain supplies, will be much higher.
Farm tractors cannot practically tow large battery packs along with ag processing equipment . . . and remain on the fields without several recharges. The load has to be spread out over an area, so the rig does not sink down and acquire increasing resistance against forward movement.
18-wheelers with 50,000 lbs of freight will become 18 wheelers with 35,000 lbs of freight plus 15,000 lbs of batteries. So, what 1 18 wheeler now accomplishes, will require an additional truck rig of some type.
And, all the machinery used for raising crops, animals, and processing, then transporting, will still require grease - lubrication that is durable and long-lasting.
“Then we can go back to the medieval economy of horse carriage and walk behind plow. Straw huts, or comfortable caves.”
This is a point the simple-minded environmentalists and woke politicians do not get. With 500 million people you don’t have iPhones and the modern technology to go with them. You are correct, we’re back to the medieval economy where life was “solitary, nasty, brutish and short”.
If they were fully committed they would have mass Suicides, there by saving the planet........ for US 🤣
Don’t forget about fertilizers... which is used to feed all the electrical users worldwide.
I wonder if that will cause a hurricane on the other side of the world? 😂
“Life longevity was around forty years of age”
Eradicating childhood illness is the main reasons lifespans almost doubled.
Of this, I learned recently that most of towns by me are 12-15 miles apart as that was a day’s travel via horse.
Simple lubrication seems to be the one central item they ignore.
WAGON trains in the 1800’s in America could travel about 10 miles a day average.
The socialists will just say ‘does not matter, we know better!’
None have any skills in running anything except the economy into the ground.
COROLLARY: The end of “fossil” fuels is the end of food.
The leftys are anti freedom; not anti oil. Notice they are only going for the ICE.
It’s interesting.
Plus, a lot of the same towns were revolutionary war towns here-
I never thought of them as a day’s ride apart-it makes so much more sense to me now.
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