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ENB Pub Note: This article from Ronald Stein is from the America Outloud website. We recommend you follow them and him there. Check out my last interview with Mike Umbro and Ronald here: California’s Energy Policies are a Problem: A Major National Risk?
And when you discuss “Renewable Energy,” you must consider the relationship between deindustrialization, financial collapse, Net Zero, and the “Energy Transition,” as these are key talking points in energy policies and regulations. There is a robust correlation between who is making the money in carbon credits, carbon taxes, net zero, and renewable companies, and the price of electricity. Ronald is spot on and has mentioned that Gavin Newsom’s energy policies have turned California into a national security risk for the United States.
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An oxymoron is a figure of speech where contradictory or opposite words are combined to create a striking or thought-provoking effect. Examples include ‘deafening silence,’ ‘organized chaos,’ ‘perpetual motion machines,’ and today’s favorite among zero-emissions policymakers, ‘RENEWABLE ENERGY!’
Yet, our so-called government leaders and policymakers are setting policies and procedures that mandate and subsidize an oxymoronic goal to achieve ‘renewable energy.’
Wind and solar projects that generate electricity under favorable weather conditions only exist because of government subsidies that finance these projects. To date, none of the wind and solar projects around the world have ever been financed with private capital, as there is no return on such investments. Claims that renewables are cheaper overlook the costs of backing up those sources when the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow. When included, costs are much higher.
The so-called renewables of wind and solar only exist in the few wealthy countries that can afford to subsidize an oxymoron fantasy.
Most people in the wealthier developed nations are oblivious that 80% of the 8 billion people on planet Earth are living on less than $10/day and cannot subsidize themselves out of a paper bag; thus, any suggestion that heavily subsidized solar and wind systems are viable is simply stargazing. Those more than 6 billion on this planet are incapable of financing a delusion of ‘renewable energy.’ The majority of this planet would be delighted to have access to the products, transportation fuels, infrastructures, and affordable electricity that are enjoyed by less than 2 of the 8 billion on this planet.
In California, one of the world’s biggest believers in ‘renewable energy,’ Governor Newsom remains oblivious to the fact that we are a materialistic society dependent on the more than 6,000 products made from fossil fuels. Newsom continues to believe that the elimination of gasoline, just 1 of the 6,000 products, with his upcoming ban on new ICE vehicles in the coming years, will clean up California. Unable to stop economies and society’s demand for the other 5,999 products, his war against fossil fuels has set up California, the 4th largest economy in the world, as a National Security Risk for America.
Over the last 200 years, the world population has ranged from 1 to 8 billion. After the discovery of the products and transportation fuels that could be manufactured out of fossil fuels, it was the more than 6,000 products from oil that supported the tremendous growth in population.
Today, we have more than 50,000 merchant ships, over 20,000 commercial aircraft, and approximately 50,000 military aircraft that utilize fuels manufactured from crude oil. The fuels that power the heavy-weight and long-range needs of jets transporting people and products, as well as the merchant ships for global trade flows, and the military and space programs, are also dependent on what can be manufactured from crude oil.
Today, we live in a materialistic society. Wind and solar cannot make EVs, or any of the products or fuels that are made from fossil fuels.
Wind and solar can only generate electricity.
All the products and transportation fuels that are demanded by economies, societies, and all the infrastructures are made from fossil fuels.
Today, ‘net zero’ policymakers setting “green” policies to achieve “renewable energy” are oblivious to the reality that so-called “renewables,” ONLY generate electricity, but CANNOT make anything. Additionally, many devices that require electricity, such as iPhones and computers, are manufactured using petrochemicals derived from crude oil, coal, or natural gas.
Electricity came after oil, as all electrical generation methods, from hydro to coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar, are built with products, components, and equipment made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.
All EVs, solar panels, and wind turbines are also built with products, components, and equipment made from oil derivatives, manufactured from crude oil.
All the transportation fuels for cars, trucks, merchant ships, aircraft, and military are made from raw crude oil.
Getting rid of crude oil would eliminate electricity, and the more than 6,000 products in demand by hospitals, airports, communications, and the 8 billion people on this planet, and would paralyze virtually all transportation!
‘Renewable energy’ and ‘net zero’ policymakers mistakenly believe that wind and solar renewable energy will replace fossil fuel energy!
Since so-called ‘renewable energy’ from wind and solar is only occasionally generated electricity, it is under favorable weather conditions. Even wealthy countries are finding that renewable energy destabilizes the energy grid and causes unexpected reliability issues.
There is absolutely nothing cheap about “free” electricity: It’s the con of cons, and the wealthy public is onto it!
Local authorities in wealthy nations are nixing solar, wind, and battery projects. They are starting to cease financially supporting the human atrocities and environmental degradation in poorer nations that are the supply chain for the exotic minerals and metals demanded by ‘renewable energy’ projects.
In wealthy countries, citizens who are financing subsidies for an oxymoronic delusion of ‘renewable energy’ are saying enough is enough!
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