Without the products and fuels made from crude oil, the energy policies of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are the real existential threat to billions on this planet.
Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute and CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.”
Published August 19, 2024 at: America Out Loud NEWS
“Renewables” such as wind turbines and solar panels ONLY exist to generate occasional electricity under favorable weather conditions, as they CANNOT make tires, toilet paper, iPhones, or any products or transportation fuels to support lifestyles and economies around the world!
Neither VP Kamala Harris nor Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are cognizant that all the parts of spacecrafts, EV’s, and for more than 50,000 merchant ships, more than 20,000 commercial aircraft more than 50,000 military aircraft , 23,000 private planes, and 33 million pleasure boats are made from the products based on derivatives manufactured from crude oil.
In addition, all those merchant ships, commercial and military aircraft, private planes, and pleasure boats, use transportation fuels manufactured from crude oil.
FURTHER, everything that NEEDS electricity to function, like iPhones, iPads, TV’s, computers, data centers, and X-Ray machines are made from the oil derivatives manufactured from raw crude oil.
It’s shocking that neither Harris nor Walz comprehend that electricity was developed AFTER the discovery of crude oil. Without the parts and components to be able to generate electricity such as insulation, copper wiring, computers, control panels, and air conditioning, there would be no electricity from any of the six methods used to generate electricity such as coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar.
Amazingly, neither Harris nor Walz have enough Energy Literacy to direct policymakers to write energy policies!
Policymakers have no comprehension that crude oil is virtually never used to generate electricity, but when manufactured into those petrochemicals that are the basis of more than 6,000 products, is the basis for virtually all the products that support Hospitals, Medical equipment, Appliances, Electronics, Telecommunications, Heating and Ventilating, and Communications systems.
In addition, crude oil is the basis of the various transportation fuels in our materialistic society that did not exist before the 1800’s, now being used in infrastructures like: Transportation, Airports, Pleasure aircraft and boats, Space programs, and Militaries.
None of today’s readers were around 200 years ago, but the world has already experienced a net-zero environment just a few centuries ago. Before the 1800’s, and before the discovery of oil, the world had NO crude oil, and obviously NO products or transportation fuels, and NO electricity and NO Tesla’s !! Life was hard and short.
Neither Harris nor Walz comprehend that no one uses crude oil in its raw form. “Big Oil” only exists because of humanity’s addiction to the products and fuels made from oil to support today’s lifestyles and the economies!
Mandating “net-zero” emissions is frustrating without a backup plan to support the materialistic demands of societies and economies around the world for all the products and fuels made from crude oil, the countless initiatives for just “green “electricity from wind and solar have crippled entire sectors.
In addition, mandating “net-zero” emissions is further frustrating when those “renewable solutions” require the same crude oil to make ALL the parts and components for wind turbines, solar panels, and EV’s. Mandating EV’s, and electricity generation from wind turbines and solar panels, is mandating MORE USAGE of crude oil. Harris, Walz, and their following policymakers are oblivious to the fact that electricity came AFTER the discovery of oil 200 years ago.
Without a replacement to support the demand for a supply chain of products and fuels, the elephant in the room that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz do not want to discuss is that crude oil is the foundation of our materialistic society as it is the basis of all products and fuels demanded by present day humanity and the economies around the world that now sustains 8 billion people—ten times the population prior to the Industrial Revolution.
If Harris and Walz had read and understood, the recent book, “Clean Energy Exploitations” – Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses That Support Clean Energy that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, they would NOT be supportive of China and Africa continuing their exploitations of people with yellow, brown, and black skin, and the environmental degradation to “their” lands, just for the wealthier developed countries to go “green”.
The book discusses the lack of transparency to the world of the green movement’s impact upon humanity exploitations in the developing countries that are mining for the exotic minerals and metals required to create the batteries needed to store “green energy”. In these developing countries, these mining operations disproportionately impact low-income communities and exploit child labor and are responsible for the most egregious human rights’ violations of vulnerable minority populations. These operations are also directly destroying the planet through environmental degradation.
It is both unethical, immoral, and hypocritical to continue financially encouraging China and Africa to exploit “their” poor with yellow, brown, and black skin, and financially support environmental degradation to “their” landscapes just to reinforce mandated EV’s, and subsidizing wind turbines, and solar panels in “wealthier country backyards”!
When Kamala Harris and Tim Walz look outside the USA, and the few wealthy countries attempting to go “green”, they will see that at least 80 percent of humanity, or more than six billion in this world are living on less than $10 a day, and billions living with little to no access to electricity. Today, politicians in the few wealthy countries are pursuing the most expensive ways to generate intermittent electricity.
The World Health Organization estimates that 2 billion people in developing nations still cook using open fires or stoves burning wood, coal and animal dung. These fuels generate harmful indoor air pollution that kills an estimated 3 million people per year. The great news is that those products and fuels from oil are increasingly being used in poorer developing nations, reducing illness and death, and extending life longevity.
To rid the world of crude oil usage, there is no need to over-regulate or over-tax the oil industry, just STOP using the products and fuels made from crude oil! Simplistically:
- STOP making cars, trucks, aircraft, boats, ships, farming equipment, medical equipment and supplies, communications equipment, military equipment, etc. that demand crude oil for their supply chain of products.
If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to openly support the destruction of the fossil fuel industry, they should start promoting present day humanity of the 8 billion on this planet, and the economies around the world, to STOP demanding the products and fuels made from Crude Oil !!!
The energy policies of VP Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz, without crude oil and the products and fuels made from oil, are the real existential threat to billions across our planet that may perish from diseases, malnutrition, and weather-related fatalities.
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Harris and Walz are just the latest top two (with Schumer and Pelosi rounding out the gruesome foursome) of the Democrat Party “champions of democracy” leading the charge on the 50-yearlong war on domestic oil and gas. The problem is the 81 million (alleged) voters who support the Party inflicting the damage . An incredible “lack of wisdom”.
Seems like Walz found the Whitehouse coke stash. Harris is happy at the bar.
Hunter wants it back
“The problem is the 81 million (alleged) voters who support the Party inflicting the damage . An incredible “lack of wisdom”.”
The 81 million are being lied to constantly by the Democrat leadership and their Mouthpiece, the Leftwinng Media.
The Democrats and the Leftwing Media have created a False Reality in which all these 81 million people live.
Lies, and propaganda work. Control of the Media means you can fool a LOT of people into believing some really crazy things.
Some of those 81 million votes were from living, eligible voters.
And in two cases, 900 of them living at a single address.
If Harris/Walz want to end FF usage they should turn DC into the Renewables proving ground traps case.
Sever DC from the grid
End Gasoline, Diesel and fuel oil usage within DC limits
Convert ALL heating and cooking to Electric
Replace ALL ICVs with BEVs at owners expense
Eliminate all synthetic rubber in DC limits
Eliminate ALL asphalt paving in DC limits
Eliminate all make-up containing petroleum emollients
Eliminate ALL plastics
Eliminate ALL Synthetics
Eliminate ALL elastic banding (undies, Bras, etc.)
Eliminate ALL animal products (leathers)
Eliminate ALL synthetic leather products (petroleum based)
Perhaps replace all building heating and cooling with Heat Pumps (they really work, don’t they?)
Generate ALL electricity via renewables from sources within DC limits
…
Except for the privileged few–Democrats.
“Except for the privileged few–Democrats.” you are somewhat correct I will fix that for you Except for the privileged few–
Democratselite. The so-called elite transcend party.some people are more equal than others /s
Eliminate ALL modern insulation of electrical wiring
Eliminate ALL steel production
Eliminate ALL glass production
Which eliminates all _____________.
Close all the hospitals too. Everything in the hospital is made from fossil fuels at least in part if not in total. My mom and sister are often in a hospital, and I have amused myself while sitting there with them counting the amount of plastic in the room. If all that plastic disappeared mom would be sitting on the floor in a small pile of bolts and screws, IV needle in her hand unattached to anything, and mostly unclothed. Even the walls are plastic paneling.
There probably wouldn’t be any bolts or screws either. Smelting iron ore into steel requires a blast furnace, which can be fired with coal or natural gas.
True, but I was only counting the plastic and synthetics in the room. If you count smelting ore and producing concrete, there just wouldn’t be a hospital. Now, that is back to the stone age.
That’s OK there wouldn’t be any surgical steel scalpels either
Without coal, there would be nothing made of metal either. Nor would the building itself exist, if built with metals and cement.
That is a stretch. China will continue to mine coal and buy Russian oil and gas to make the stuff the western countries demand.
China is stepping up to the plate. It will burn more than half of the 8,7000,000,000tonnes of coal to be consumed in 2024. Now more than 1tonne per person.
Nothing Harris or Walz do will impede China’s appetite for natural fuels. In fact, if they gain power, they will accelerate China’s consumption to take up the slack.
ChatGPT told me it takes 279kt of coal to build the wind turbines and battery to serve a steady 10MW load.
‘China will continue to mine coal and buy Russian oil and gas to make the stuff the western countries demand’
True – but with what would we pay them?
With increasing US debt to China.
At some point IOUs from the cratered US economy would no longer be accepted.
Germany is now giving up its intellectual property to China. US has already managed to do that for its commercial goods.
Australia is trading iron ore, coal and bauxite in vast quantities so China can convert them to all the transition stuff plus enhance their economic might.
They understand only that they have a plan for us and it doesn’t end well. If people really cared “for the children”, this agenda would have been stamped out already.
Where does Kamala think K-Y Jelly comes from?
She should be asked that question when she debates Trump 🙂
Obama’s backside?
Kamalala-land!
Willie B’s nightstand from what I hear.
Well apart from trying to provide dispatchable electricity they also have a growing problem on their hands with their alternative to liquid fuel-
Fully charged? Seoul won’t let you park your EV underground (msn.com)
Well that’s the beginning of a complete ban unless insuring high rise and carparks is to become cost prohibitive.
Meanwhile John Cardogan has some sensible solutions to try and address that-
Kia EV6 car park fire highlights multiple EV design deficiencies | Auto Expert John Cadogan (youtube.com)
But no way existing ICE neighbours will stick their hands in their wallets to pay for that and user pays is out of the fire and into the frying pan.
“Fully charged? Seoul won’t let you park your EV underground (msn.com)
Well that’s the beginning of a complete ban”
That would seem to be the case. What are the EV proponents going to do about this? I don’t see a fix for it other than finding a battery that doesn’t burn.
I bet there is a government underground parking lot somewhere just filled with government-purchased EV’s right now. Rolling the Dice! Somebody is going to get burned.
The Climate Alarmists obviously haven’t thought everything through to the end.
As they say: The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. I think that is the case with mandating electric vehicles that are not ready for primetime.
Every action, every decision has consequences both intended and unanticipated. It is too often true that the anticipated consequences are miscalculated.
It’s not what we know we don’t know that is the risk. It is what we don’t know. I have yet to see any rigorous analysis of alternatives.
As usual the MSM is gaslighting the obvious with the EV transition-
PJ police investigate massive blaze initially attributed to electric car – Portugal Resident
Now they did have an earlier car fire at Lisbon Airport but they put that one out having plenty of equipment handy although you suspect it’s not an EV as they appear to control it with foam and water minimising the spread to other cars-
Car catches FIRE near the runway of Lisbon Airport! (youtube.com)
Here’s a really big truck battery closing down a highway for the day-
Tesla Semi fire shuts down California freeway near Lake Tahoe (kcra.com)
and we’re apparently going to have lots of them cruising about.
On top of a series of BYD car dealership fires in China they’re beginning to bob up elsewhere-
Ron Skinner & Sons… WAS IT AN EV? (and why so many car dealer fires in 2024?) (youtube.com)
A brand new Merc in South Korea going up for no reason and displacing a high rise full of occupants? These incendiaries are going to get old and in the hands of 3rd or 4th owners or P-Platers for chrissakes and the minimal newish numbers around now and their growing outcomes would be keeping insurance underwriter actuaries up late at night. I reckon we’ve hit peak EV and a lot of folks have lost their shirt if the industry can’t solve the incendiary battery problem pronto.
The people that become politicians to the most part, are educated idiots and the Democrat Party is overflowing with them. The Republicans also has plenty of them. The worst part, LOL most went to our so-called elite schools. The lesson is, it doesn’t take brains to get elected, just the proper degrees and belonging to the proper “Clubs” to generate the money to get elected. God help us all,
Being educated doesn’t necessarily mean that they are intelligent…
Or Wise … as many have proven often enough
It is increasingly apparent that there are far better places to obtain an actual education than in the hallowed halls of the Ivy League.
But those hallowed halls will open doors for the students- when your roommate’s parent is the president of a big company or powerful politician. It worked for “W” who went to both Hah-vid and Yale.
Likely because too many Ivy League Schools have turned to Poison Ivy
Regarding Hah-vid— a friend went to Northeastern law school. He said when he took the bar exam, a much higher percent of Northeastern students passed than Hah-vid students. The elite schools don’t have smarter students- they have students with all the right connections AND of course a substantial number of identity types that a lib college now must have.
As long as they’re not Asian.
Very true, but they also have to be prepared to satisfy the conditions for becoming a prospective candidate, which in the UK are, to quote Churchill, ‘to be asked to stand, to hope to sit and to be expected to lie’.
Elections have devolved into popularity contests with votes being bought through various means.
Look at the bragging of how much cash is piled up in the campaign “war chest.”
What is the essence of a campaign speech? “We need change! Trust me!”
Elections have always been popularity contests, history tells us George Washington was first elected due to supplies of beer etc at the polls. A lesson he learned from his opponent in the previous election, which he lost.
The most important qualification for politicians of all sorts is to be patriotic.
They’ve got Miliband syndrome – they don’t care
Incorrect. They do care. They KNOW EXACTLY what they are doing. It is deliberate.
I always laugh when I see supposedly ‘green’ outfits like Patagonia outfitting the upper classes in the latest, trendy outerwear that is made entirely from petroleum.
““Renewables” such as wind turbines and solar panels ONLY exist to generate occasional electricity under favorable weather conditions…”
They also exist to make huge profits for those companies- and politicians on the take.
“Wind Farms” and “Solar Farms” are nothing more than “Mandate and Subsidy Farms.”
Without the government’s Godzilla-sized foot on the scale, there is NO ECONOMIC CASE for them, period.
“The only reason it makes sense to build wind farms is for the government tax credits that can be used to reduce taxable income from other Berkshire businesses.” – Warren Buffet
At least he’s honest about it.
Right- when I said “huge profits”- I didn’t mean based on producing more value than it took to produce the product or service- which is what capitalism should be all about. With Godzilla, no profits and no renewable energy.
Oh I understood that, just adding clarity for those who might lurk here and not get the ‘between the lines’ sruff.
The Democrats: Turning Boys Into Girls and Girls Into Boys.
The Democrats: Turning Boys into Eunichs with breasts and fauxginas and girls into breastless hairsuit hysterectomy victims and, in both cases an inability to reproduce
But hey — they have a “Gender Neutral Prayer Room” and a mobile no-cost abortion clinic out back.
Don’t forget the free vasectomies.
And the middle class into poor.
controlled opposition. hiding the grift story and anti-………
I’ve become convinced that it’s going to take a near-total collapse of western civilization to end this insanity. And even then I’m not totally sure it will do it.
Western civilization arose and achieved primacy concurrent with the rise of individualism that allowed for, and gave rise to, specialization and the division of labor within an ever expanding realm of economic activity. Unfortunately, collectivism (the antithesis of individualism) has been gaining momentum in recent decades, as evidenced by today’s fake diversity of ‘equity’ (egalitarian) politics. If not reversed, this accelerating trend will effectively eliminate the previous order of specialization and the division of labor, leading to wide-spread economic collapse.
The stupid never ends. As I look at the crowd behind Harris/Walz cheering, I wonder just how much cheering there will be should these dolts gain the WH? The past 3.5 years has been bad enough. Doubling down on this pair will just add insult to injury. Anymore I have become a curmudgeon and when we are out for a meal; I don’t hesitate to question the waiters and waitresses on their ideology. Wrong answer, no tip. I refuse to hand over my hard earned dollars to support “stupid.” Time for reality to set in.
Democrats have held the presidency for 12 of the last 16 years, but somehow everything is Trump’s fault. That set me to laughing.
[QUOTE FROM ARTICLE]”In addition, crude oil is the basis of the various transportation fuels in our materialistic society that did not exist before the 1800’s, now being used in infrastructures like: Transportation, Airports, Pleasure aircraft and boats, Space programs, and Militaries.
None of today’s readers were around 200 years ago, but the world has already experienced a net-zero environment just a few centuries ago.” [END QUOTE]
Prior to the 1800’s, the fastest means of transportation was horseback (on land) or sailing ships (at sea). Getting rid of all fossil-fuel-powered engines would require construction and maintenance of a huge number of stables to house and feed millions of horses, as well as people to train them. In major cities, horse manure would become a huge load on sewer systems, possibly leading to outbreaks of diseases. The first ICE-powered cars were known as “horseless carriages”.
During the 1800’s, the invention of steam engines enabled the development of powered ships on rivers (that could move upstream and upwind) and railroads with coal-fired steam locomotives. This definitely enabled faster transport than horses and sailing ships, but the dust and sulfur emissions from burning coal caused much more air pollution and health effects than modern diesel-powered engines. In recent years, diesel fuel is desulfurized at the refinery to drastically reduce emissions of harmful sulfur dioxide, and the sulfur removed is converted to either solid elemental sulfur or sulfuric acid, which can be used in batteries used to start ICE cars.
Powered flight is impossible without fossil fuels–even the Wright Brothers’ first plane in 1903 had an 8-cylinder gasoline engine. Commercial jets are powered by kerosene, which is distilled from crude oil and hydrotreated to remove sulfur. Any attempt at an electric plane would be limited by the weight of the battery, and the development of enough speed and lift to get off the ground, after which the plane would have a very limited range before the battery needed to be recharged.
The solution to the ignorance of Harris and Walz is to elect Donald Trump. While he is not an engineer or scientist, he is willing to take their advice, and understands that “Net Zero” is totally impractical and not worth the cost, and should not be imposed by the government.
I don’t think “frustrating” is the right way to describe the issue.
It is IDIOTIC. It CANNOT be done, period. “Net zero” is only possible by a return to the Stone Age.
Any modern civilization requires coal, oil, and gas.
Renewables now make sense. Without oil there is no need for electricity. Products that use electricity could not be made without the materials synthesized from oil. If you don’t need electricity, renewables would be sufficient.
If you don’t need electricity, renewables are not necessary.
JUST LIKE NOW.
It seems the Democrats can only learn through the school of hard knocks. :Unfortunately it is we the people who will be getting the knocks.