Plastic and Fossil Fuels
I have been wanting to write this for quite some time. Lets’, discuss some facts about the proposed “Green Energy”. While I am all for it, you can’t snap your fingers and expect everything to suddenly go “Green”.
“Green” cleaning products were introduced to the cleaning industry in the mid 1980’s. To this day, “Green” products have a small percentage of the commercial market. “Green” disinfectants are flammable. “Green” floor coatings have acrylic ingredients –the magic word isacrylic (a fossil fuel product).
The average price of an electric vehicle is currently $56,437. Only a small portion of the people in the United States can afford them. Retirees on fixed incomes can’t (I’m one of them).
The infrastructure is nowhere near ready, yet all we hear is “Go Green” to save the environment.
FACT: carbon dioxide has averaged 414 PPM for more than three years varying from about 405 to 422. If that number quadrupled it wouldn’t affect anything.
FACT: Between Russia, China, Indonesia, and India a new fossil fuel plant is put online about every six to ten days with no controls.
FACT: The EPA required US coal-fired plants to install scrubbers on the smokestacks of existing plants as long as go as thirty years. What we see coming out is steam.
FACT: China and India accounted for 50% of the increased carbon emissions in 2021
FACT: Since 2005, the United States has reduced carbon emissions more than any other nation in the world since.
FACT: Nuclear is the SAFEST provider of electricity and emits ZERO carbons emissionsbut we are not allowed to build any new plants at this time.
Do you have any idea how many domestic things are made from fossil fuels? The list is so long it would take me weeks to finish it. 99% of liquid containers are plastic with a tiny fraction made of glass and metal. Computer cases are plastic. Countless parts for automobiles and even credit cards are made from fossil fuels. Many household items are produced from fossil fuels. Look around your house and make a list of everything you see that’s plastic. Solar panels and windmills cannot produce any of the things you’ll find.
The lists continue in the commercial market. For example, floor coatings coveringmillions of square feet of tile floors use raw ingredients from fossil fuels. Most commercial cleaning equipment including upright vacuums have plastic casings. Trash cans, self-dumping hoppers, storage containers, trash bags, mop buckets, pails and various other tools for cleaning use resins that come from fossil fuels. We need to rely on and continue to use fossil fuels until we can find alternatives for the millions of items, we make from this source.
[None of the products listed above can be produced from wind and solar at this time]
FACT: Solar panels have a lifespan. They cost anywhere from $10,000 – $15,200 depending on where you live. In addition, not every location is suited for solar. You need an average of 4 hours of sunlight to make solar pay for itself. Even then, it’s an eight-to-ten-yearpayback.
FACT: When I lived in Richmond, Virginia, a friend of mine built a solar powered home. Because the of the limited amount of power his solar panels could produce and store, he installed a fossil fuel powered backup system.
According to experts, we have 100 years of fossil fuels here in the good old U S of A.
Other experts predict it will take decades to transition to wind and solar. Let companies develop new products and energy sources.
Here’s the breakdown of energy sources in the US:
Natural gas36%
Petroleum 32%
Renewable Energy12%
Coal11%
Nuclear 9%
Wind, solar, and hydro account for 12% of the energy grid. The full cost of wind power is 140 percent higher than an advanced natural gas-fired plant and over 70 percent higher than an advanced coal or nuclear plant.
The cost to maintain a windmill exceeds the energy it produces. The government has been subsidizing and issuing tax credits to the wind industry since 2013. American taxpayers pay billions for these subsidies. No wind, no power – ask Dallas about that. When they are operating, they reduce the bird population.
Solar panels and windmills have a lifespan. Where do we take them when their time is over?
CONCLUSION: I agree we need to continue to build windmills and install solar farms. Let private industry create windmills that are more efficient and less costly to operate. An enormous amount of land is needed for even a medium size solar farm producing power.
Kerry W Rigg
Author
It’s good to remember this stuff when you hear the left constantly pushing this green new deal bullshit. It doesn’t work and can in my opinion never work. A a general rule it takes more energy than it produces and that ain’t a winning strategy. Just remember, it’s really about a world wide socialist order!
And that gives me an opportunity to talk about this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. I have been talking about these idiots since my first rants many years ago now. They have always been about using climate change to usher in a new world order although they have been somewhat more circumspect in the past. Christiana Figueres the head of the UN climate change group has been saying for years that global warming presents the best chance to change the economic model of the world — namely eliminating capitalism and replacing it with socialism. The thing that concerns me is that this year, these private jet owning carbon spewing hypocrites, openly said the quiet part out loud. Apparently they think they have won. I don’t know if you heard any of the Frankenstein dreams but they are sick. Not only do they want to eliminate free speech and guns but want to require you to get a chip in your body so they can monitor your every action and coerce compliance with whatever bs they want.
Listen, just because someone is wealthy doesn’t mean they know anything. Bill Gates proved that in spades during Covid. LeBron is wealthy and regularly proves he is an uneducated idiot. So don’t be fooled about the true purpose of the green agenda. It has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with world domination.
PS Anyone want to bet on whether or not Magoo brings up cannons tonight? He knows it’s a lie but why should that stop him. Pretty much everything he says is a lie. He just thinks this lie is so clever and he’s so witty that he can’t resist.