Eliminating crude oil, earlier than a substitute is in place, would rid the world of planes, airports, ships, medical, social media communications, bathrooms, and extra.
Printed October 2, 2023 on the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow https://www.cfact.org/2023/10/02/the-dangerous-delusion-of-a-global-transition-to-just-electricity/
Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior coverage advisor on power literacy for the Heartland Institute and CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated ebook “Clear Power Exploitations.”
World leaders proceed experiencing a “harmful delusion” of a world transition to “simply electrical energy” that that they consider will remove the usage of the crude oil that made society obtain a lot in a number of centuries.
Crude oil is the premise of our materialistic society as mentioned in an training and entertaining 27-minute podcast interview between Ronald Stein and Armando Cavanha in Brazil.
It’s stunning that the general public has purchased into the present rhetoric “lock, inventory, and barrel” to STOP THE USE OF FOSSIL FUELS, which simulates the resurrection of the 1978 mass murder-suicide of spiritual cult members of the Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, Jonestown, Guyana?
In September 2023 , 45 years after the Jim Jones tragedy in Jonestown, President Biden used his government energy to set up the American Local weather Corps, which is able to make use of and practice 20,000 younger individuals within the work of local weather resilience with out fossil fuels.
When this writer watches the TV protection of protesters, each politicians and youngsters, carrying indicators to STOP THE USE OF FOSSIL FUELS, what he SEEs on these posters is:
RID THE WORLD OF AIRPORTS, JETS, SHIPS, SPACE PROGRAMS, and STOP SOCIAL MEDIA, and THE PRODUCTION OF CELLPHONES, COMPUTERS, and PORCELAIN TOILETS which might be depending on the derivatives manufactured from crude oil!!
Shockingly, only a few dad and mom, lecturers, college students, politicians, and people within the media, have any clues or understanding concerning the foundation of the merchandise in our every day lives from crude oil! Power Literacy at its finest!!!
As John Stossel so typically stated, “give-me-a-break”!
From the proverb “you’ll be able to’t have your cake and eat it too” tells us that:
- you’ll be able to’t rid the world of crude oil and
- proceed to benefit from the merchandise and fuels which might be presently manufactured from crude oil.
Only a few hundred years in the past, earlier than oil, when the world’s inhabitants was round only one billion, the world was unspoiled, decarbonized, and dominated by mom nature and the wild animal kingdom. Within the 1800’s there have been no airports, vehicles, vehicles, planes, cruise ships, coal fired energy vegetation, pure gasoline energy vegetation, electronics, or area applications, because the Beverly Hillbillies had not but found oil!
Fossil fuels make merchandise for humanity and assist extra bountiful harvests and a measure of meals safety that allowed time and power for innovation and the onset of the Industrial Revolution that allowed the world to populate from 1 to eight billion in 200 years as a result of oil could be manufactured into 1000’s of usable, life-enhancing and life-saving merchandise.
Then again, renewables can solely generate occasional electrical energy, however can’t manufacture something for humanity, whereas fossil fuels manufacture the whole lot for humanity.
A pair centuries in the past, there have been fewer people competing with the animals as a consequence of humanity’s restricted capacity to outlive what mom nature supplied. Earlier than oil, life was laborious and soiled, with many climate and illness associated deaths.
World leaders usually are not cognizant sufficient to acknowledge that there aren’t any plans for the substitute of the merchandise and fuels now manufactured from fossil fuels, that are the premise on each infrastructure phase which might be supporting the 8 billion on this planet!
The three fossil fuels of crude oil, coal, and pure gasoline, do various things for society. Crude oil is the one one seldom used to generate electrical energy as it’s primarily used to fabricate fuels and merchandise for society which might be the premise of the worldwide financial system.
- Crude oil: primarily used for transportation fuels, street asphalt, aviation gas, however lower than one p.c for electrical energy technology.
- Coal: primarily used as gas to generate electrical energy, coal additionally has a myriad of different makes use of, together with in cement manufacturing, carbon fibers and foams, medicines, tars, artificial petroleum-based fuels, and residential and industrial heating.
- Pure Gasoline: generate electrical energy, heating, and industrial makes use of for manufacturing of chemical compounds, fertilizers, hydrogen, and many others.
Eradicating the world of crude oil utilization, with out first having a substitute in thoughts, could be immoral and evil, as excessive shortages of the merchandise now manufactured from fossil fuels will end in billions of fatalities from ailments, malnutrition, and weather-related deaths, and may very well be a larger risk than local weather change to the world’s eight billion inhabitants.
This Epoch Instances TV 1-minute video concerning the lack of a backup plan to switch oil is brief, academic, and entertaining. The video has already been considered by greater than 834,000 on social media at https://www.youtube.com/shorts/stf2YrznkZU.
In contrast, “transitioning” humanity to only electrical energy means changing to wind and photo voltaic methods that may manufacture not one of the important merchandise now being utilized by humanity. That may very seemingly trigger the demise of BILLIONS of individuals from ailments, malnutrition, lowered dwelling requirements and weather-related disasters, whereas projections of tens of millions of fatalities from “carbon emissions” and local weather change are primarily based on laptop fashions that take none of those realities into consideration.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping are nice World Battle I and II historians. They each know there is no such thing as a substitute for fossil gas product dominance within the foreseeable future, even on a longer-term horizon. To consider a transition to only electrical energy from renewables is feasible from the merchandise now manufactured from fossil fuels and act accordingly is suicidal for humanity. As former Congressman Don Ritter of Pennsylvania wrote “It’s the actual “existential risk.”
Occasional electrical energy from renewables can’t run trendy civilizations households, companies, hospitals, militaries, area applications, jets, and cruise ships, and no merchandise and fuels that are actually primarily based upon crude oil!
The silence is deafening from billionaires like Invoice Gates, John Kerry, Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, President Biden, and the media that continues to chorus from asking a John Stossel styled “give-me-a-break” query: Are you able to think about our world with out jets, airports, service provider ships, cruise liners, militaries, hospitals, social media communications, area applications, and bathrooms?
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