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Harris-Walz are oblivious that the US economy CAN NOT exist without crude oil

Ronald Stein P.E.

August 19, 2024

“Renewables” such as wind turbines and solar panels only exist to generate occasional electricity under favorable weather conditions; they CANNOT make tires, toilet paper, iPhones, or any products or transportation fuels to support lifestyles and economies around the world!

Neither VP Kamala Harris nor Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is cognizant that all the parts of spacecraft, EVs, more than 50,000 merchant ships, more than 20,000 commercial aircraft, more than 50,000 military aircraft, 23,000 private planes, and 33 million pleasure boats are made from products based on derivatives manufactured from crude oil.

In addition, all merchant ships, commercial and military aircraft, private planes, and pleasure boats use transportation fuels manufactured from

crude oil.

Further, everything that needs electricity to function, like iPhones, iPads, TVs, computers, data centers, and X-ray machines, is made from oil derivatives manufactured from raw crude oil.

It’s shocking that neither Harris nor Walz comprehends that electricity was developed after the discovery of crude oil. Without the parts and components needed to generate electricity, such as insulation, copper wiring, computers, control panels, and air conditioning, there would be no electricity from any of the six methods used to generate electricity: coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar.

Amazingly, neither Harris nor Walz has enough Energy Literacy to direct policymakers to write energy policies!

Policymakers have no comprehension that crude oil is virtually never used to generate electricity, but when manufactured into the petrochemicals that are the basis of more than 6,000 products, it is the basis for virtually all the products that support hospitals, medical equipment, appliances, electronics, telecommunications, heating and ventilation, and communications systems.

In addition, crude oil is the basis of the various transportation fuels in our materialistic society that did not exist before the 1800s. These fuels are now used in infrastructures such as transportation, airports, pleasure aircraft and boats, space programs, and the military.

None of today’s readers were around 200 years ago, but the world already experienced a net-zero environment just a few centuries ago. Before the 1800s and before the discovery of oil, the world had no crude oil, products or transportation fuels, electricity, or Teslas! Life was hard and short.

Neither Harris nor Walz comprehends that no one uses crude oil in its raw form. “Big Oil” only exists because humanity is addicted to the products and fuels made from oil to support today’s lifestyles and economies!

Mandating “net-zero” emissions is frustrating without a backup plan to

support the materialistic demands of societies and economies around the world for all the products and fuels made from crude oil; the countless initiatives for just “green “electricity from wind and solar have crippled entire sectors.

In addition, mandating “net-zero” emissions is further frustrating when those “renewable solutions” require the same crude oil to make ALL the parts and components for wind turbines, solar panels, and EVs. Mandating EVs and electricity generation from wind turbines and solar panels is mandating MORE USAGE of crude oil. Harris, Walz, and their following policymakers are oblivious to the fact that electricity came AFTER the discovery of oil 200 years ago.

Without a replacement to support the demand for a supply chain of products and fuels, the elephant in the room that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz do not want to discuss is that crude oil is the foundation of our materialistic society as it is the basis of all products and fuels demanded by present-day humanity and the economies around the world that now sustains 8 billion people—ten times the population prior to the Industrial Revolution.

If Harris and Walz had read and understood the recent book, “Clean Energy Exploitations” – Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses That Support Clean Energy, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, they would NOT be supportive of China and Africa continuing their exploitations of people with yellow, brown, and black skin, and the environmental degradation to “their” lands, just for the wealthier developed countries to go “green.”

The book discusses the lack of transparency in the world regarding the green movement’s impact on humanity’s exploitations in developing countries that are mining for the exotic minerals and metals required to create the batteries needed to store “green energy.” In these developing countries, these mining operations disproportionately impact low-income communities, exploit child labor, and are responsible for the most egregious human rights violations of vulnerable minority populations.

These operations are also directly destroying the planet through environmental degradation.

It is both unethical, immoral, and hypocritical to continue financially encouraging China and Africa to exploit “their” poor with yellow, brown, and black skin and financially support environmental degradation to “their” landscapes just to reinforce mandated EVs and subsidize wind turbines, and solar panels in “wealthier country backyards!”

When Kamala Harris and Tim Walz look outside the USA and the few wealthy countries attempting to go “green,” they will see that at least 80 percent of humanity, or more than six billion people, are living on less than $10 a day and billions have little to no access to electricity. Today, politicians in a few wealthy countries are pursuing the most expensive ways to generate intermittent electricity.

The World Health Organization estimates that 2 billion people in developing nations still cook using open fires or stoves, burning wood, coal, and animal dung. These fuels generate harmful indoor air pollution that kills an estimated 3 million people annually. The great news is that those products and fuels from oil are increasingly being used in poorer developing nations, reducing illness and death and extending life longevity.

To rid the US of crude oil usage, there is no need to over-regulate or overtax the oil industry; just STOP using the products and fuels made from crude oil! Simplistically:

STOP making cars, trucks, aircraft, boats, ships, farming equipment, medical equipment and supplies, communications equipment, military equipment, etc., that demand crude oil for their supply chain of products.

If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to openly support the destruction of the fossil fuel industry, they should start promoting present-day humanity of the 8 billion on this planet and the economies around the world to STOP demanding the products and fuels made from Crude Oil!

The energy policies of VP Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz, without

crude oil and the products and fuels made from oil, are the real existential threat to billions across our planet that may perish from diseases, malnutrition, and weather-related fatalities.

Ronald Stein P.E.

Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations”, policy advisor on energy literacy for The Heartland Institute, and The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and National TV Commentator- Energy & Infrastructure with Rick Amato.

Ronald Stein, P.E. is an engineer, energy consultant, speaker, author of books and articles on energy, environmental policy, and human rights, and Founder of PTS Advance, a California based company. Ron advocates that energy literacy starts with the knowledge that renewable energy is only intermittent electricity generated from unreliable breezes and sunshine, as wind turbines and solar panels cannot manufacture anything for the 8 billion on this planet.