We know what the decarbonized world of the 1800’s was like, so how about proving the new parachute, i.e., the replacement for crude oil, works before we jump out of the plane?
Clean Energy is only Clean ELECTRICITY.
Those clean renewables, like wind turbines and solar panels, can only generate ELECTRICITY,
and intermittent electricity at best from available breezes and sunshine. The indisputable science
is that renewables CANNOT manufacture any of the oil derivatives that are the basis of the
thousands of products that are the foundation of societies and economies around the world.
In fact, these renewables cannot exist without crude oil as all the parts of wind turbines and solar
panels are made with oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.
Crude oil is useless unless it can be manufactured into something usable like the fuels for the
heavy-weight and long-range transportation infrastructures of ships and jets and the derivatives
that make the thousands of products that have made our lives more comfortable. But wind and
solar cannot manufacture anything for society. Before we jump out of an airplane without a
tested parachute, we need to be able to support the demands of all the infrastructures that exist
today that did not exist a few hundred years ago.
The Supreme Court just confirmed that the EPA cannot pick winners and losers to meet
the electricity and products demanded by society. Clean Energy is only Clean
ELECTRICITY.
Those clean renewables, like wind turbines and solar panels, can only generate ELECTRICITY,
and intermittent electricity at best from available breezes and sunshine. The indisputable science
is that renewables CANNOT manufacture any of the oil derivatives that are the basis of the
thousands of products that are the foundation of societies and economies around the world.
Without a backup plan to replace crude oil, ridding the world of crude oil will be depriving
citizens of the more than 6,000 products that were non-existent before 1900, made from the oil
derivatives manufactured from crude oil. Ridding the world of oil, without a replacement in mind
is immoral and evil, as extreme shortages will result in billions of fatalities from diseases,
malnutrition, and weather-related deaths.
The domino effects of tinkering with the supply chain of fossil fuels, is supply shortages and
soaring prices for not only electricity, but for the thousands of products that support the entire
medical industry, all branches of the military, airports, electronics, communications, merchant
ships, container ships, and cruise liners, as well as asphalt for roads, and fertilizers to help feed
the world.
Having confidence in humanity’s ability to adapt to climate changes, like they have done since
the beginning of time, in my heart of hearts I dream of the day when the public recognizes
climate change will not bring on an end of the world as we know it, or even a long-term net
decline for human civilization.
However, efforts to cease the use of crude oil could be the greatest threat to civilization’s eight
billion, and may result in billions, not millions, of fatalities from diseases, malnutrition, and
weather-related deaths trying to live without the fossil fuels that have been benefiting society.
Here is a reminder of what wind turbines and solar panels CANNOT manufacture, as these are
all manufactured from crude oil. These manufactured items from oil did not exist before 1900.
Most importantly, they are needed to support the growing demands of the world’s economy and
for the health and well-being of the world’s eight billion residents.
Fuels for the;
50,000 heavy-weight and long-range merchant ships that are moving products
throughout the world.
50,000 heavy-weight and long-range jets used by commercial airlines, private usage,
and the military.
The 290 million registered vehicles in the U.S. as of 2021, that were comprised of
about 56 percent trucks, 40 percent cars, and 4 percent motorcycles.
The cruise ships that now move twenty-five million passengers around the world.
The space program.
Oil derivatives to make thousands of products such as:
Tires for the billions of vehicles.
Asphalt for the millions of miles of roadways.
Medications and medical equipment.
Vaccines.
Communications systems, including cell phones, computers, iPhones, and iPads.
Water filtration systems.
Sanitation systems.
Fertilizers that come from natural gas to help feed billions.
Pesticides to control locusts and other pests.
Wind turbines and solar panels as they are all made with products from fossil fuels.
Life Without Oil is NOT AS SIMPLE AS YOU MAY THINK as renewable energy is only
intermittent electricity from breezes and sunshine and NEITHER wind turbines, nor solar panels,
can manufacture direct energy for society. Climate change may impact humanity but being
mandated to live without the products manufactured from oil, will necessitate lifestyles being
mandated back to the horse and buggy days of the 1800’s and could be the greatest threat to the
planet's eight billion residents.
Everything that needs electricity, from lights, vehicles, iPhones, defibrillators, computers,
telecommunications, etc., are all made with the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.
There would be nothing to power in a world without fossil fuels!
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
Banks and investment giants that are driving today’s Environmental, Social and Governance
(ESG) divesting in fossil fuels are all the rage on Wall Street to divest in all three fossil fuels of
coal, natural gas, and crude oil. It is appalling that both President Biden and the United Nations
support allowing the investment community to collude to reshape economies and our energy
infrastructure.
Before divesting in all three fossil fuels of coal, natural gas, and crude oil, where is the
replacement or clone for crude oil, to keep today’s societies and economies running in the
healthy and wealthy developed countries?
--By Ronald Stein Pulitzer Prize nominated author, and Policy advisor for The Heartland Institute on Energy
