Monderegal » 08 Nov 2023, 8:03 pm » wrote: ↑
ALL? Really? I'm not advocating for the complete end of oil. Alternatives? For some use yes. I think that's reasonable.
There is as much oil beneath the ground as there is water above it, Oil is liquid carbon - it's what everything on the planet is made of. The planet used more oil from 2010 to 2020 than in its entire previous history - and finished the decade with more known, recoverable reserves on the books than it started the decade with. The same was true from 2000 to 2010. And from 1990 to 2000.
Since humanity discovered that oil would power locomotion, not one decade has passed that humanity did not use more oil in that single decade than had ever been used in all previous decades combined. Not just more than the previous decade - but than
all previous decades combined. That is some incredible exponential growth. And after each of those banner decades, we had more recoverable oil on the books than we started the decade with.
So there isn't any shortage. There isn't any big push to find another source of power from THAT direction.
That said, oil is heavy to haul and is a pollutant/fire hazard if spilled during haulage. So that is an incentive to use oil at point of production, creating oil-based products. The very best use a country can make of its excess oil is to manufacture it - not sell it on the open market as a raw resource for some OTHER country to transform into value-added products. Why ship jobs overseas?
Enough of that - let's address the elephant in the room. The earth is at an historic low regarding atmospheric C02. At 400 ppm, the earths vegetation is starved, stunted and struggling. When photosynthesis was evolved, the atmosphere was between 1600 and 2000 ppm C02. Many of the fruits and vegetables you enjoy are hot house grown under carbon enhanced conditions. If more carbon got into the atmosphere, plants would thrive, life would thrive. More carbon means more life. Carbon IS life. You are made of it.
All climate alarmists are pseudo-science believing cultist whack jobs. They are literally members of a death cult, And too stupid to know it.
There are some good reasons to stop using oil - just as soon as a replacement shows up. I've heard rumbles about AI energy, where they focus multiple lasers and create an artificial star in a bottle or some ****. If that pans out, we'll have ourselves a new energy source. Until then, thank God for oil.
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