Tomorrow, I am going to wave my magic wand and get rid of all these products.
Ammonia, Anesthetics, Antihistamines, Artificial limbs, Artificial Turf, Antiseptics, Aspirin, Auto Parts, Awnings, Balloons, Ballpoint pens, Bandages, Beach Umbrellas, Boats, Cameras, Candles, Carbon fibers, Car Battery Cases, Carpets, Caulking, Combs, Cortisones, Cosmetics, Crayons, Credit Cards, Curtains, Deodorants, Detergents, Dice, Disposable Diapers, Dolls, Dyes, Eye Glasses, Electrical Wiring Insulation, Faucet Washers, Fishing Rods, Fishing Line, Fishing Lures, Food Preservatives, Food Packaging, Garden Hose, Glue, Hair Coloring, Hair Curlers, Hand Lotion, Hearing Aids, Heart Valves, Ink, Heating oil, Insect Repellant, Insecticides, Linoleum, Lip Stick, Milk Jugs, Nail Polish, Oil Filters, Panty Hose, Perfume, Petroleum Jelly, Rubber Cement, Rubbing Alcohol, Shampoo, Shaving Cream, Shoes, Toothpaste, Trash Bags, Upholstery, Vitamin Capsules, Water Pipes, Yarn, and thousands of other items.
Pelosi and Reid claim it is their destiny to wean America from the evils of oil.
Nearly everything in our lives is made from oil, made by machinery and systems dependent on oil, and transported by oil as either gas or diesel fuel. Without it there would be no electronics, pneumatic, or hydraulic industries and food production would drop seventy-five percent..
If every car on the planet was converted to some other fuel, we would still be searching around the world for every drop of oil we could find. We would still need off shore drilling to supply all those products above. We can’t even build a bicycle without oil, let alone a car.
The problem is every barrel of oil contains between 20 to 30 percent gasoline, and another 10 percent diesel. It is actually a waste byproduct, produced by the distillation and cracking process. If we stop using gasoline, where in the hell would we put all that gas? We would simple have to burn it in the atmosphere, the way we do methane now.
We are at least one hundred years away before science can replace oil. Oil has made life on this planet more comfortable, brought relief from disease and famine, and increased man’s life span and health.
This winter seniors who can’t afford the high price of heating fuel, will die cold and alone, and Pelosi and Reid, will call that a victory for the planet..
We should all think of the environment in a reasonable manner, but what if there was no oil.
“ What now remains of the formerly rich land is like the skeleton of a sick man. . . . Formerly, many of the mountains were arable. The plains that were full of rich soil are now marshes. Hills that were once covered with forests and produced abundant pasture now produce only food for bees. Once the land was enriched by yearly rains, which were not lost, as they are now, by flowing from the bare land into the sea. The soil was deep, it absorbed and kept the water in loamy soil, and the water that soaked into the hills fed springs and running streams everywhere. Now the abandoned shrines at spots where formerly there were springs attest that our description of the land is true. “
Plato wrote this of his country's farmlands and the effect of wheat- - 2200 years before oil was discovered.
Man doesn’t need oil to destroy the world, he can pretty much do that bare handed.
To get rid of oil completely, we will need replacements for LPG, Gasoline, Jet Fuel, Diesel Fuel, Lpg Gasoline, Industrial Fuel, Asphalt base, and all those little End Products that make life so pleasant here on earth. Science has a long way to go before replacing all of those.
I think I’ll just put that old magic wand back in the drawer until we learn to pay more attention to history.
