UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is promoting a deadly dangerous, disastrous and non-sustainable position regarding fossil fuels. In case you missed it, his statements can be reviewed here: https://budbromley.blog/2023/06/18/un-secretary-general-guterres-jumps-the-shark/
Below are a few responses worth reading. I will post more as I find them.
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Friends of Science responded to the Secretary General with this video:
Energy Literacy Newsletter – Let’s Face The Elephant in the room,
by Ronald Stein (link to bio below.)
Energy literacy starts with the knowledge that renewable energy is only intermittent electricity generated from weather dependent breezes and sunshine. For the 8 billion on this planet that are quite dependent on food and medications, wind turbines and solar panels cannot manufacture any of the 6,000 products in our daily lives, nor any of the fuels for ships, planes, militaries, and space programs. Enhancing ones energy literacy will empower individuals to have conversations on energy at the dinner table with friends and co-workers .
California’s emissions regulatory death spiral: Numerous bureaucratic agencies are just doing their jobs to implement regulations to save the underprivileged from emissions, at the expense of the other 40 million Californians.
Published June 18, 2023 at the Center for a Constructive Tomorrow
Summary: Infliction of further inflation and shortages in perpetuity with California only focusing on emission reductions, is guaranteed without a replacement for fossil fuels that support the supply chain of products and fuels now being manufactured from oil.
| I just got back from a recent 2-hour lunch with one of the guys who serves on working groups and committees of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), and he shared his frustrations working with these agencies. The frustration stems from the devastating impact that an enormously complex system of rules and regulations involving federal, state, and regional agencies are having on individual businesses and entire industries in California and the rest of the United States. No one can argue that a certain degree of regulation of business practices is necessary to protect employees, the public and the environment from the negative impacts of their operations. But over time, the federal, state, and local regulations have not only increased in number, complexity, and cost but have gotten so oppressively burdensome that it has become economically infeasible to produce certain products anywhere else except outside the United States. Ironically, this outsourcing of our once-proud domestic manufacturing capability has bolstered the economies of our allies as well as our enemies. Here in California for example, bureaucratic agencies like CARB and the SCAQMD will follow federal law and enact even more California laws in the form of additional rules and regulations which means they are doing everything possible to shut down all the emissions from the oil industry inclusive of oil production and manufacturing, i.e., refineries. While the bureaucracies within CARB, SCAQMD, and other air districts, feel secure in developing and enforcing an endless stream of regulations, none of them has a replacement for the fossil fuels they are actively ridding the state of, nor do they have any concern about the unintended consequences on ALL of humanity, as they slowly achieve the elimination of the oil industry from California and inflict restrictions to the supply chain of products that are the basis of our economy. Without a replacement for the fossil fuels that California wishes to rid the state of, the domino effects from tinkering with the supply chain of crude oil, is supply shortages and soaring prices for thousands of products that support the DEMANDS of the entire medical industry, all branches of the military, airports, electronics, communications, merchant ships, container ships, and cruise liners, as well as asphalt for roads, and fertilizers to help feed the world. Product shortages are fueling (no pun intended) inflation as it imposes serious damage onto the energy and raw materials infrastructures. The law of supply and demand guarantees further inflation and shortages in perpetuity as fewer refineries will be available to manufacture crude oil into the derivatives that account for more than 6,000 products for society, as well as manufacturing the fuels for 50,000 jets moving people and products, and more than 50,000 merchant ships for global trade flows, and the military and space programs. In the last few years, California has shuttered two refineries (Phillips 66 at Rodeo and Marathon at Martinez), both in Northern California, that once manufactured many fuels and oil derivatives used to make thousands of products for humanity, are now only focusing on manufacturing renewable diesel fuel. Today, the Bay Area AQMD (BAAQMD) in Northern California has their regulatory sights set on the refineries at Chevron Richmond and PBF Martinez (the old Shell site). If the courts uphold the recent BAAQMD rule 6-5 for a further reduction in particulate emissions, both the Chevron Refinery at Richmond and the PBF Refinery at Martinez have stated that they will shut down before spending one billion dollars at each site to retrofit their refineries to comply with further particulate emission reductions to 2.5 microns or less. With the potential loss of two more California refineries in the coming years, Northern California’s gasoline and jet fuel demands will be imported from China and India to supply military bases, and the major international airports in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Sacramento, along with many oil derivatives that shuttered California refineries will no longer be manufacturing. While the folks at CARB, SCAQMD, and the other air districts continue to do their job according to the regulations they have in hand, they are only tinkering with the emissions reductions that are needed to achieve our emissions attainment goals and the reductions in fossil fuels from the supply chain, while demand for the fossil fuel oil derivatives and fuels continues to increase worldwide. Because the emissions from manufacturing operations and the production and use of fossil fuels doesn’t recognize community or international boundaries, those who live in underserved communities or developing countries will derive little if any benefit from this massive trove of government regulations. While wind turbines and solar panels are seen as a promising source of renewable electricity to transition away from fossil fuels, it’s important to acknowledge their limitations. Two of the key drawbacks are their inability to generate continuous electricity, and most importantly, their inability to manufacture any goods to meet the demand for products for the growing population around the world. With California being the 4th largest economy in the world, California may have regulated itself into an emission reductions death spiral. The few in the underprivileged communities of California will benefit from a reduction in emissions in their backyards, while the other 40 million residents of the state, and others around the world pick up the expense associated with the impact from the reductions to the supply chain of products and fuels now being manufactured from oil that are supporting the 8 billion on this planet. |
The worst declaration against humanity ever
by John Shanahan
June 19, 2023
Over the course of human history individuals, heads of organizations, and leaders of nations have announced terrible things they are doing.
The recent statement by the Chief of the United Nations, António Guterres, is one of the worst statements against humanity in all history.
“The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It’s fossil fuels – period.”
Getting rid of fossil fuels would put the world back to where it was from the beginning of history to the 1800s when a lot of slavery and poverty ended.
Before use of fossil fuels:
a) population was never more than one billion,
b) most people were enslaved or lived in poverty,
c) needed millions of work animals with all their waste and dead carcasses,
d) had greatly reduced communications and transportation,
e) owned a lot less and most weren’t happy,
f) had much less leisure time,
g) primitive medical practices and medicines,
h) greatly reduced education,
i) much shorter life spans,
j) shorter people,
k) very primitive dentistry,
l) all kinds of fantasy belief systems,
m) no safe municipal drinking water,
n) no municipal wastewater treatment,
o) primitive fishing industry,
p) dirt two lane streets, no national highways, no long bridges
q) no cars, primitive bicycles,
r) no cellphones, Internet, Internet search engines or free Internet telephoning service worldwide,
s) no flights to wonderful vacation destinations or easily visiting relatives far away
t) no cruise vacations
u) no commuting by car or public transportation
v) no mall shopping, just open air markets and small stores
w) no plastic packaging for safe food and convenient shopping bags
x) no hearing aides, pacemakers, few eyeglasses
y) no Internet artificial intelligence assistance
z) more hatred, less love!
That is the standard of living the Chief of the United Nations, António Guterres demands.
Get rid of seven billion people. Let the rest work much harder for a lot less. Cut down forests for buildings, carts, ships and fire wood. Wildlife habitats disappear into thin air. Return of massive whale hunting. More regional wars over resources. Back to primitive farming with ox or horse drawn wooden plows. No synthetic fertilizers, pesticides. Uncontrolled plagues.
See the proclamation against fossil fuels by António Guterres, Chief of the
United Nations here.
Democratically elected leaders of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, UK,
USA, other countries, the European Union, and the World Economic Forum
demand that we stop using fossil fuels. Who are humanity’s worst enemies?
Look around. They are closer than you think. They are either:
Dumb as they come.
Out of their minds.
The world’s worst criminals.
The world with fossil fuels.
Electricity from fossil fuels brings music to people everywhere. There will never be enough wind turbines and solar panels to bring music to all the people of the world.
Fossil fuels enable much better food supplies through soil and plant management, farm machinery, food processing and rapid transportation to supermarkets.
Australia
Brazil
China has changed from a peasant and rice paddy economy to the top manufacturing country, good schools and universities for many. It became close to the world’s best economy in just sixty years. One of the most amazing accomplishments in world history.
Ocean commerce
Singapore and Switzerland have two of the world’s best democracies and economies
World economic prosperity skyrocketed along with the use of fossil fuels
World without fossil fuels
After fossil fuels and nuclear power, forests are the next most important source of energy and by-products. With fossil fuels, forested areas have increased. When the United Nations and free countries demand halting the use of fossil fuels a lot of forests will disappear again like for the last two thousand years in Europe.
Mini and full blown ice ages will return. Warm periods like now last much shorter. Fossil fuels and nuclear power are needed to survive colder climates.
Very rudimentary electricity.
Life in cabins with no electricity, running water, flush toilets and simple transportation.
What should be done about man-made climate change alarmists,
anti-fossil fuel fanatics and anti-nuclear power protesters? The
UN, the World Economic Forum, John Kerry (Biden), John
Holdren (Obama) etc. demand stopping use of fossil fuels!!!!
Earth’s climate is controlled by solar energy and physics. People
partially influence regional climate by development of large
cities and agriculture. Life and climate today are the best ever!
John A. Shanahan
Civil Engineer
Founder, website: allaboutenergy.net
Denver, Colorado, USA 80210
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