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But we’ll be happy to cut off Joe Biden’s supply, since he thinks we should all go without its benefits.\u00a0 (I pulled a Hondo here, so please bear with me. \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n
He is challenged by Bastardi to go a month without using any products made from fossil fuel resources.\u00a0 Yes, I want to see that happen, too. No private transport, not even a Waco CG4A glider, just hike around on foot and lecture people on how bad petroleum and natural gas are for you and how bad you are to use them to cook and heat your home. \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2020\/10\/24\/challenge-to-joe-biden-spend-a-month-without-fossil-fuels\/<\/a><\/p>\n Never mind the job and revenue losses if the oil and gas industry were shut down at the behest of the greenbeaners: that\u2019s a given, if he managed somehow to put his \u201cno more fossil fuels\u201d proposal into effect. My doubts about it happening are strong.<\/p>\n The link below takes you to an article regarding the resource list of products (144 of them) that come from \u201cfossil fuels\u201d. Natural gas doesn\u2019t just heat your home and cook your food, y\u2019know. It is surprising how many products we take for granted that do come from the oil and gas industry.\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.innovativewealth.com\/inflation-monitor\/what-products-made-from-petroleum-outside-of-gasoline\/<\/a><\/p>\n They include everything from refrigerators (plastic interior. parts, and insulation, metal shell) to purses, shoes, antihistamines, shampoo, and toothpaste and eyeglasses.\u00a0 Shampoo? Really? Yes, in order to make a surfactant (soap) work, you have to have a “fat” molecule and oil is the essentially same as animal body fat, which used to be used to make soap. Probably still is.<\/p>\n But Joe Biden wants to do away entirely with the oil and petroleum business.\u00a0 Does that include all those oils related to cooking? Corn oil, olive oil, tea tree oil, butter, canola\/rapeseed oil, soybean oil (margarine), lard, pork fat, beef fat,\u00a0 – a very short list. Those are all sourced from plants and animals, but they’re OIL, so are they “bad for the planet”, too? If so, we’ll have to stop producing them, and start cooking with leaves and twigs, never mind heat the house.<\/p>\n And since petroleum derivatives are used in today’s insulated clothing, here’s a list of the top 12 “best jackets” for winter.\u00a0 Granted, many of them have a percentage of merino wool in them, but the major factor is synthetic insulation: https:\/\/www.ties.com\/blog\/warmth-technology-clothing<\/a><\/p>\n Then there’s the cosmetics industry, which uses specialized oils in producing things like lip gloss, lipstick, makeup of all kinds including mascara and skin\/facial moisturizers and cleansers. The list is quite long.\u00a0 It’s amazing just how much is derived from the oil & gas industry that we just take for granted.<\/p>\n Did I bring up transportation? EV bigrigs are not in production so far, so how will mass-produced goods get to people if the normal rigs are no longer allowed to roam the highways of this country? You see where I’m going with this, right?\u00a0 And then there’s airplane transportation: it isn’t just passenger planes. It includes cargo transport from one point to another. Granted the Horseman and Waco and other gliders in WWII did a tremendous job of transporting troops and supplies across the English Channel into France, but they were not built to carry massive cargo and as anyone who has flown gliders can tell you (and that includes me), they still require a tow with a motorized plane to get lift and move on. And they aren’t very fast. And they really don’t carry a lot of heavy stuff, so they’re impractical for use as heavy cargo transport. Granted, I’ve seen plans for some monstrous gliders that could carry a lot of cargo, but not the tonnage required for real supply to distribution centers. Idealism has its limits.<\/p>\n Okay, sure. I want to see Joe and his wrinkly ass go just one day without any of those products he just takes for granted. Just clean out his house, throw it into the waiting trash truck, and leave. He and his followers should be required to live without anything related to or derived from so-called fossil fuels: back to the 18th<\/sup> century, as it were. Anyone taking bets on how long they\u2019d last? It’s getting cold outside. A nice, warm, jacket insulated with some of those wretched oil-derived synthetics sounds pretty good to me.<\/p>\n He wants to go \u201call green\u201d. His ignorance level is astonishing: wind turbine blades are made of fiberglass, which is made of plastic, a petroleum derivative, and glass. While the panels for solar collection are made of silicon, it is an energy intensive process. Aside from that, the production of solar panels and the silicon wafers that sit on them is so polluting that in China, where the waste is dumped on open land instead of being treated, the land is so polluted that it is unusable for agriculture, and people who live anywhere in the vicinity of these waste ponds are living in air polluted with toxic compounds.<\/p>\n And then, there\u2019s the disposal problem: https:\/\/energypost.eu\/if-solar-panels-are-so-clean-why-do-they-produce-so-much-toxic-waste\/<\/a><\/p>\n No, they aren\u2019t being recycled. They are simply tossed.\u00a0\u00a0From the article:<\/p>\n The problem of solar panel disposal \u201cwill explode with full force in two or three decades and wreck the environment\u201d because it \u201cis a huge amount of waste and they are not easy to recycle.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe reality is that there is a problem now, and it\u2019s only going to get larger, expanding as rapidly as the PV industry expanded 10 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cContrary to previous assumptions, pollutants such as lead or carcinogenic cadmium can be almost completely washed out of the fragments of solar modules over a period of several months, for example by rainwater.\u201d<\/p>\n Were these statements made by the right-wing Heritage Foundation? Koch-funded global warming deniers? The editorial board of the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>?<\/p>\n None of the above. Rather, the quotes come from\u00a0a senior Chinese solar<\/a>\u00a0official,\u00a0a 40-year veteran of the U.S. solar industry<\/a>, and\u00a0research scientists<\/a>\u00a0with the German\u00a0Stuttgart Institute for Photovoltaics.<\/p>\n With few environmental journalists\u00a0willing to report on much of anything other than the good news about renewables, it\u2019s been left to environmental scientists and solar industry leaders to raise the alarm.<\/p>\n Solar panels often contain lead, cadmium, and other toxic chemicals that cannot be removed without breaking apart the entire panel.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>\u00a0– article<\/p>\n And none of these precautions are being taken. I did look for that. Nothing.<\/p>\n Is there an end to the oil & gas business? No. The late Dr. Thomas Gold found that in deep drilling, there is bacterial chemistry functioning that produces a grey sludge which, as it rises toward the surface, becomes less viscous and more fluid because it ages as it rises. His abiogenic theory was based on his work as an astrophysicist, with his findings that hydrocarbons are a universal molecule, not just something produced by algae and plankton. We Hoomans are, in fact, made up of hydrocarbons, so what is Joey going to do about that?<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/oil_deniers.html<\/a><\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0 Noticing that hydrocarbons, organic compounds of hydrogen and carbon, are\u00a0present<\/a>\u00a0on and in other astronomical bodies, Gold reasoned that Earth’s oil might originate from nonliving sources instead of living ones. He argued that an unfathomable amount of hydrocarbons were locked within Earth, and that as they seeped upwards, they were converted to oil and gas. He eventually outlined his theory in a book,\u00a0The Deep Hot Biosphere<\/em><\/a>, making two other fantastical propositions as well:<\/p>\n “that below the surface of the earth is a biosphere of greater mass and volume than the biosphere the total sum of living things on our planet’s continents and in its oceans… [and] that the inhabitants of this subterranean biosphere are not plants or animals as we know them, but heat-loving bacteria that survive on a diet consisting solely of hydrocarbons that is, natural gas and petroleum.”<\/p>\n In short, Gold claimed that within our world lies another world! An undeniably exciting prospect, there is currently no meaningful method of exploring it. Without evidence, a deep hot biosphere remains in the realm of fiction. We can, however, examine Gold’s original claim, that oil and gas are not fossil fuels, that they are instead abiotic. – article<\/p>\n It’s safe to say that Dr. Gold’s finding that hydrocarbons are a universal molecule, and that they exist everywhere, ends the arguments that petroleum is a threat of any kind to the world, when it is part of this planet’s heritage.<\/p>\n Did I say I also cook?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"