{"id":293304,"date":"2023-12-31T19:46:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293304"},"modified":"2023-12-31T19:46:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:46:23","slug":"2023-energy-review-from-a-to-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293304","title":{"rendered":"2023 energy review from A to Z"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A: A<\/strong>irlines that would be grounded, and airports that would be closed, without a replacement for the crude oil that makes the fuels that politicians want to rid the world of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B<\/strong>: B<\/strong>illions on this planet that exist because of all the products and various fuels made from crude oil that were not around before the 1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C:<\/strong> C<\/strong>limate policies that favor wind turbines and solar panels that only generate occasional electricity but CANNOT make any products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D: D<\/strong>eath spiral imposed on the auto industry to only manufacture EVs just for the elites to drive a vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E:<\/strong> E<\/strong>lephant in the Room is that the ruling class, powerful elite, and media avoid energy literacy conversations as the end of crude oil that is manufactured into all the products and transportation fuels that built the world to eight billion would be the end of civilization as \u201cunreliable electricity\u201d from breezes and sunshine cannot manufacture anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

F:<\/strong> F<\/strong>ossil fuels manufacture everything for the 8 billion on this planet, i.e., products and transportation fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

G:<\/strong> G<\/strong>ive me a Break, as John Stossel often says about the very few parents, teachers, students, politicians, and those in the media who have any clues or understanding about the basis of the products in our daily lives!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H:<\/strong> H<\/strong>umanity abuses that support \u201cclean energy\u201d and the lack of transparency to the environmental degradation and humanity atrocities occurring in developing countries mining for those exotic minerals and metals to support the \u201cgreen\u201d movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I: I<\/strong>nventories of unsold EVs continue to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J:<\/strong> J<\/strong>umping out of an airplane with a parachute without a plan to identify the replacement for the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil that are the basis of products, travel, and communications for the 8 billion on this planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

K: K<\/strong>nowledge that renewable energy is only intermittent electricity generated from unreliable breezes and sunshine, as wind turbines and solar panels cannot manufacture anything for the 8 billion on this planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L: L<\/strong>ife expectancy continues to increase from the products made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M: M<\/strong>aterialistic society that we\u2019ve become over the last 200 years, and the world has populated from 1 to 8 billion because of all the products and different fuels for planes, ships, trucks, cars, military, and the space programs that did not exist before the 1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N: N<\/strong>o parts or components can be made from \u201cjust electricity\u201d from wind turbines, solar panels, nuclear, and hydro, and for all the mining equipment used to extract the metals and minerals to build clean \u201celectricity\u201d as they are all made with the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O: O<\/strong>nly occasional electricity from wind turbines and solar panels, but no products for humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P: P<\/strong>arts and components for wind turbines, solar panels, nuclear, and hydro, and for all the mining equipment used to extract the metals and minerals to build clean \u201celectricity\u201d are made with the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: Q<\/strong>uality of life that began after the 1800s with the development of more than 6,000 products made from the oil derivatives manufactured from oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R: R<\/strong>idding the world of crude oil usage, i.e., jumping out of an airplane without a parachute, while there is NO plan to identify the replacement for the oil derivatives that are the basis of everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S: S<\/strong>hockingly, very few parents, teachers, students, politicians, and those in the media have any clues or understanding about the basis of the products in our daily lives!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T: T<\/strong>ruck and automobile components and parts that CANNOT be made by wind turbines or solar panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U: U<\/strong>sage of crude oil is NOT for the generation of electricity, but to manufacture derivatives and fuels, which are the ingredients of everything needed by economies and lifestyles to exist and prosper, i.e., all products that did not exist pre-1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

V: V<\/strong>ehicles that are 100% comprised of parts and components made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

W: Weather-related<\/strong> fatalities have virtually disappeared with all the products and medications available today that are made with oil derivatives from crude oil that were not available a few centuries ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

X: X<\/strong>ylenes, along with the primary chemicals of ammonia, methanol, ethylene, propylene, benzene, and toluene, all of which are manufactured from crude oil but cannot be made by wind turbines or solar panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y: Y<\/strong>et the state of California, the 4th largest economy in the world but with only 0.5% of the world\u2019s population, believes it can change the world environment at the expense of those living in the State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Z: Z<\/strong>ero products being made from wind turbines and solar panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Holidays and a Safe and Prosperous New Year to one and all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The post\u00a02023 energy review from A to Z<\/a>\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0CFACT<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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