Ahhh. So if jobs in the lil industry were eliminated, it would only affect those jobs? Let’s say it is 150,000 oil workers. Ok.
So they are gone. What about the companies that build their drilling equipment? Pipelines? How will those businesses do? Are the people whom work at the iron works who build those pipes still going to have jobs? The people who build the heavy equipment? What about all the plastics that are made from that oil? Are we going to stop using plastic? What about all the fertilizer that is made from oil byproducts? Do we just stop eating food?
What about the asphalt we build roads on? Do we stop building roads, or go back to using concrete? What are those electric cars going to use for tires, since we won’t have anymore synthetic rubber? When those factories close who make these products, then what?
What about heating oil? Will all the libs in the north east freeze?
What about national defense? Are we going to run our jets, helicopters, tanks, destroyers, hummers, APC’s, etc in solar power? Maybe Tesla can build them for us, right? Oh shit, most modern vehicles are made from a shit load of plastics/rubber (aka oil byproducts).
Either we will completely change every aspect of our society, invent new ways to grow food, heat homes, defend our nation, no longer use any plastics, etc... or we will have to buy them from other countries (like China). We would completely destroy oureconomy, way of life, and make us completely dependent on foreign countries and vulnerable.
I could literally go on all day. So no, it’s not just 150,000 jobs. It’s way more, and it’s all of our lives.
Your short sightedness is mind blowing, but not unexpected.
You will go on and on anyway. You think you found a gotcha. It only is a gotcha to you Party of the Rumpers. Here is the future both near and far.
Like one person in here said, "the stone age didn't end due to the lack of stones.". But we did find alternative uses for those stones. Or I guess the Bronze Age was just a fad, right? It'll pass.
Near: Electric Cars and Trucks are taking over. By 2035, most cars light trucks and heavies will be all electric with a range of at least 750 miles and be able to refuel in less than 5 minutes. That will be doable by 2025. But the roads won't change, the basic construction of the vehicles and materials won't change so there will be some oil based products used. Now, whether the oil to make them comes from Crude, Shale or Coal will be determined later. But by 2035, almost all major auto and truck manufacturers will be producing strictly electric vehicles. The big savings is they aren't using Gas or Diesel. This is going to happen with or without you. The best thing we can do is to get with the program and help make it the least painful so it becomes a smooth transition.
Building Construction is already going Green. New buildings (commercial) are already being built to use less energy for heat, cooling and lighting. It really doesn't cost that much more to put solar panels in the place of roof panels. It doesn't make any sense to use single paned glass when you can use 3 layered thermal glass that is also able to stand direct hard hits. Or use enough insulation in the walls to get at least an R-45 factor. During the day, this type of building is a Negative Carbon building. Without adding Battery Fuel Cells for nighttime, it ends up being a Carbon Neutral Building. And we are doing it NOW. Add the storage battery packs (Tesla makes some really great ones and has a huge back log) it becomes a Carbon Negative Building. Meaning, it produces an excess of power and dumps the excess back into the power grid. Our VA Building is decades old. It would have been impossible to put on the Solar Panels on the Roof of the Building. What they did was, when they covered the parking lot (a lot of parking lot) they installed Solar Panels instead of Roofing Panels. And they installed Battery Storage Packs. They don't buy electricity anymore. They Sell Electricity or they break even. Can we retrofit Industrial Buildings to more energy efficient? Obviously we can. Do we need to wait for 2025? No, it's happening right now. The smart Capitalist is doing it already. But by 2025, it's going to even more prevalent with or without you. Again, we can fight it and delay it or we can help it along and bet the results faster, cheaper and no pain.
If that is all we do between now and 2035, that's a pretty damned good start and it's using the Technology available to us today. And, yes, doing the above things, will move energy requirements from on source to another and the old source is going to have to be retrained into the new Technology. The Stone Age Axe Maker had to learn how to make Bronze Swords.
You are a complete jerk off, you know that?
You come in here preaching to me, giving me a lecture to get with the times, and talk about solar panels and building techniques.
Where is anything instated above give you the idea that I was opposed to any of this???
I’m all for it!!! Absolutely, let’s put fuckin solar panels in everything!! Insulate the hell out of your home. Use double and triple glass windows. Hell, I’m currently looking at replacing my entire roof with the Tesla roof, and having the Tesla wall installed.
Your typical, knee jerk argument that “ohh, you Dronald Drumpff supporters are cavemen, like oil spilling everywhere, love inefficiency, want to use old growth red woods to heat your cave when you burn it in incinerator as you draw up your plans to oppress minorities and transgenders. You are so fucking ignorant it’s embarrassing.
Let me spell it out for you... I am all for advanced in technology. I am all for using more advanced techniques, causing as little pollution as possible. I have no place in my heart for oil companies or any of the rest.
but again I will ask... what are you going to do to make all those items I listed above?? Hell, what are solar panels made of??? Pretty sure it’s some plastic.But let’s pretend they aren’t. What are you going to make tv’s out of, solar panels? Are we going to use solar panels to make our tupaware? What about fertilizers to grow crops, are we going to grind up solar panels and sprinkle then on the fields of crops? What about tanks, jets, helicopters? Are they gonna be electric powered?
And I’m curious... where is all this electric power going to come from to power all these electric vehicles? All 100 million or whatever it is on our roads? Solar power won’t cut it. Wind power is absolutely not going to work.
Well, the only practical ways to generate large amounts of power are nuclear power plants, coal/oil/gas plants, and hydroelectric.
The left opposes building any nuclear plants.
The left opposes dams and wants to take them down. That leaves coal/gas plants. How do those operate without coal/gas?
Hell, California is already having rolling brown/black outs. They have to buy their electric from neighboring states, and they still can’t manage to keep the lights on. How are they going to handle 15 million cars now needing electric power???
As technology advances and there is no need for oil, as what happened in your examples of the stone age and such, then great! No more use for oil! But simply mandating “no more oil” and thinking that’s a good thing is foolish.
All that will happen is we will have to import all of our needed oil products. So prices go threw the roof, we are dependent at at the mercy of countries that could be hostile to us, and the countries that do produce these things (like China) do so in a way with zero regard for environmental responsibility.
So like I said before.... short sighted and completely unrealistic.
You know, if you are going to champion a position and speak in a condescending manner towards others, at least have an idea of what the hell you are talking about.
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