Without products and fuels made from crude oil, the energy policies of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will pose a real existential threat to billions of people on the planet.
Ronald is an engineer, senior policy advisor for energy literacy at the Heartland Institute and CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book “Clean Energy Development.”
Posted on August 19, 2024: America's Loud News
https://www.americaoutloud.news/harris-walz-are-oblivious-that-the-us-economy-can-not-exist-without-crude-oil/
“Renewable energy sources” such as wind turbines and solar panels are only used to generate electricity occasionally during favorable weather conditions because they cannot make tires, toilet paper, iPhones, or any of the products or transportation fuels that support lifestyles and economies around the world!
Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor Minnesota Governor Tim Walz realize that space ships, electric vehicles, more than 50,000 commercial ships, more than 20,000 commercial aircraft, more than 50,000 military aircraft, and 23,000 private jets and 33 million cruise ships have all their parts manufactured from products based on derivatives made from crude oil.
Additionally, all of these merchant ships, commercial and military aircraft, private jets, and cruise ships use transportation fuel made from crude oil.
Additionally, everything that requires electricity to function, such as iPhones, iPads, TVs, computers, data centers and X-ray machines, are made from petroleum derivatives made from crude oil.
Shockingly, neither Harris nor Walz understood that electricity was developed after the discovery of crude oil. Without the parts that produce electricity, such as insulators, copper wires, computers, control panels, and air conditioners, none of the six methods of generating electricity, including coal, natural gas, and nuclear power, will produce electricity.
Surprisingly, neither Harris nor Walz is energy literate enough to guide policymakers on energy policy!
What policymakers don’t understand is that crude oil is never actually used to generate electricity, but when it is made into petrochemicals, these petrochemicals are the basis for more than 6,000 products, nearly everything that supports hospitals, medical equipment, appliances, electronics Product based on product.
Additionally, crude oil is the basis for a variety of transportation fuels in our materialistic society that did not exist before the 1800s and are now used in infrastructure such as transportation, airports, recreational aircraft and ships, the space program, and the military.
None of today's readers were from 200 years ago, but the world already experienced a net-zero environment centuries ago. Before the 1800s, before oil was discovered, there was no crude oil, obviously no products or transportation fuels, no electricity, and no Tesla! Life is hard and short.
Neither Harris nor Walz understands that no one uses crude oil in its raw form. “Big Oil” only exists because of humanity's addiction to petroleum products and fuels to support today's lifestyle and economy!
Enforcing “net-zero” emissions without a back-up plan to support the material needs of societies and economies around the world for all products and fuels made from crude oil is frustrating, and countless wind and solar “green” power initiatives The entire industry has been paralyzed.
Furthermore, mandating “net-zero” emissions is even more frustrating when these “regenerative solutions” require the same crude oil to make all the parts for wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles. Mandating the use of electric cars and generating electricity from wind turbines and solar panels forces the use of more crude oil. Harris, Waltz and their followers failed to realize that electricity emerged with the discovery of oil 200 years ago.
One issue Kamala Harris and Tim Walz don't want to discuss without alternatives to support demand in the product and fuel supply chains is that crude oil is the foundation of our material society because it is the basis of everything human today. and products and fuels needed by economies around the world, which currently feeds 8 billion people – ten times the population before the Industrial Revolution.
If Harris and Waltz had read and understood the recent books, ““The Exploitation of Clean Energy” – Pulitzer Prize nominee to help citizens understand the environmental and human abuses that support clean energy. They will not support China and Africa's continued exploitation of people with yellow, brown and black skin, nor will they support China and Africa. Africa continues to exploit yellow, brown and black skinned people and degrade the environment onto “their” lands, just to make wealthy developed countries go “green”.
The book discusses the lack of transparency about the impact of the green movement on human exploitation in developing countries, which are mining the exotic minerals and metals needed to create the batteries needed to store “green energy.” In these developing countries, these mining operations disproportionately impact low-income communities, exploit child labor, and cause the worst violations of the human rights of vulnerable minorities. These actions also directly damage the planet through environmental degradation.
It is unethical to continue to financially encourage China and Africa to exploit “their” yellow, brown and black poor people and financially support the environmental degradation of “their” landscapes just to enforce EV mandates and subsidize wind energy , turbines and solar panels in the “backyards of rich countries” that are immoral and hypocritical!
When Kamala Harris and Tim Walz look beyond the United States and the handful of rich countries trying to go “green,” they will at least see 80% of humanityor that there are more than six billion people in the world Living on less than $10 a dayLiving with billions of people almost no electricity. Today, politicians in a handful of rich countries are pursuing the most expensive ways to generate intermittent electricity.
The World Health Organization estimates that 2 billion people in developing countries still use open fires or stoves that burn wood, coal and animal dung to cook. These fuels produce harmful indoor air pollution that kills an estimated 3 million people each year. The good news is that these petroleum products and fuels are increasingly used in poorer developing countries, reducing disease and death and extending lifespan.
To wean the world off the use of crude oil, there is no need to overregulate or overtax the oil industry, just stop using products and fuels made from crude oil! Simply put:
- Stop producing cars, trucks, airplanes, ships, agricultural equipment, medical equipment and supplies, communications equipment, military equipment and other products whose product supply chains require crude oil.
If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to publicly support the destruction of the fossil fuel industry, they should start pushing the 8 billion people on the planet today and economies around the world to end their reliance on products and fuels made from crude oil. Need oil!
Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz’s energy policies, Without crude oil and products and fuels made from petroleum, is a real existential threat to billions of people on the planet, who can succumb to disease, malnutrition and weather-related deaths.
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