How Fossil Fuels Saved Humanity from Nature and Nature from Humanity; Thank God For Fossil Fuels (Congress, generations)
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No matter how much you love fossil fuels, they are a limited resource, and eventually, due to market forces and innovation, the world will rely on them less and less.
Imagine if you had the option never to pay an electricity bill again and rely instead on energy from solar panels and other sources of renewable energy, energy saving home construction etc. That's why the old forms of energy, coal and oil, are fighting the renewable energy source industry tooth-and-nail, but it's a losing battle. Consumers will vote with their wallets and ultimately renewable energy is cheaper and more democratic, not to mention healthier for humans and the planet.
Already countries like Germany, Norway and even China have reduced their reliance on fossil fuels immensely. Portugal now gets 45 % of its electricity from renewable sources like sun and wind. In 2010 congressional blockage over the wind-power tax credit halved wind-power additions in the U.S., while China doubled its wind capacity for the fifth year running. Who benefits? China. Who loses? The U.S. and it's citizens.
"Long live big oil" ---- who else says that unless they hate humanity and this planet or are being paid to say it?
No I Luv the planet...I just don't subscribe to environmentalist fanatics/lunatics propaganda to drive energy prices upward to cause unnecessary hardship on the middle class and poor!!
If we use it all in the next 40 years it will not be longed lived. Why not use it consevatively so it will be around for many future generations, not just ours???
Even Mr. XXX's source is ridiculous! The Cato Institute is a well-known, right wing, politically conservative think tank pushing an obvious pro-coal/oil agenda. Guess who the founders are. Can you say KOCH BROTHERS?
HAHAHAH!
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