lol. Overall that post just isn't typical WS quality. I think he's getting wound up over something.
Yeah, you’re correct, I did sort’a let emotion drive that post… I was getting a bit weary of running ‘round & ‘round the same wood pile. That’s not normally me… shame, shame, shame on me. So I’ll swallow my “
I’m done with this thread” and post once more.
Anyone gonna tell him that we have only been using dino oil for the last 100 - 150 years or so?
Actually that was my point… sort’a; but I didn’t illustrate it very well.
In the 1850’s a lawyer by the name of George Bissell, believing petroleum could replace whale oil as lamp fuel, hired a chemist to investigate the properties Pennsylvania crude. He put together investors and in 1859 the first US oil well was drilled… and it forever changed the world. In just a few short years the oil boom was in high gear; not just in the US but globally. By the end of the century petroleum had made nearly all other forms of energy generation obsolete or, as in the case of coal, semi-obsolete.
In just 40 years (
approximately the same amount of time we’ve been subsidizing “green” energy) oil had, or was, replacing the ancient wind, solar and biomass forms of energy…
AND IT DID THIS WITHOUT ANY GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES!!! By the time the 1901 Texas oil boom hit, the internal combustion engine was ready to begin replacing the wood/coal fired steam engine. Even Henry Ford had to go with petro based fuel… He originally designed the Model-T to run off Ethanol so farmers could distill their own fuel, but changed his mind when he realized how much better gasoline (a relatively new product) was as a motor fuel.
Coal had driven the Industrial Revolution.
Oil started the age of personal mobility and drove the Electronic Revolution.
Then, because of some idiot in the White House during the 70’s, we started pouring billions of dollars into trying to make other forms of energy replace oil; the same ancient forms of energy that oil had replaced… It’s moving backwards, not forwards… nuclear energy is the future, its just that people don’t know it, or won’t admit it yet.
I bet everyone here uses lithium ion batteries in something..we aren't carrying around leyden jars to power our portable devices.
I pretty much gotta’ give you that one… I got nothin’.
Well… what I do have ain’t much and it’s sort’a petty… but I’ll throw it out anyway just so you don’t get the last word.
Without oil there would have been no Electronic Revolution, and no need for lithium-ion batteries.