Most Americans don’t understand the risks of renewable energy or view traditional energy sources like oil and gas as essential to their livelihoods, a new poll found, as a Republican trifecta in Washington prepares to pass an extensive energy agenda early next year.
As many as 57% of US voters are not aware that the “United States is at an elevated risk of energy shortfalls,” compared to 43% who were well up on elevated risks of energy shortages, according to a poll from the American Energy Institute exclusively shared with The Post.
About two-thirds of US grids have been vulnerable to energy shortfalls in the past, per data from the US Energy Administration Agency, and the institute has noted that “regions with higher reliance on renewable energy are at an even higher risk.”
Meanwhile, only 41% of US voters were aware that fossil fuels can be used to preserve baked goods, 46% were aware they can be used to formulate medicines like aspirin and 49% knew that they can help create ammonia for fertilizers. more here
Basically you take away fuel used for all types of transportation, oil used for lubrication and heating and what’s left is used for everything else… and I’ll bet that number is a whopper!
no implications to Burger King intended…
Billy Bob Thorton does a MUCH better job explaining it.
https://youtu.be/fmbZwxEnAFc
Basically Billy Bob explains how shallow Liberals are…
Billy Bob sounds like Hank Hill.
@Bad_Brad, BB explained it very well and the left still won’t believe the truth.
Most Americans don’t understand risks of the Democrats in the US.
Plastic grocery bags are made from natural gas. Nearly all packaging is made from plastic.
I miss the days when those idiot Californica tree huggers said biodegradable paper was bad for the environment. Have been victim of those dumb asses since the 60’s
Taylor Lorenz will, if she gets shot in the back.
My company has a facility called Toca (place name) that strips ‘heavies’ out of the natural gas from the Gulf. We consider them contaminates in pipeline spec gas. Those liquids go for $15 a gallon to manufacturers use hydrocarbons as feed stock to nake plastics, synthetic automotive lubricants, fabrics and elastomers.
They will make your lawnmower purr too. Heh.
Plastics.
Most Americans don’t understand renewable energy (solar) was used in creating oil and gas. It’s geology.
The earth has stored solar energy for millions of years in its oil and gas.
Most Americans don’t know that oil and gas are not “fossil fuels” but instead are produced by deep volcanic processes. Only coal is a fossil fuel, leftovers from the global deluge at the time of Noah. Millions and billons of dinosaurs didn’t get six miles under the Gulf of Mexico. John D. Rockefeller coined the term “fossil fuels” to make everyone think there is a limited supply thereof. We could all have the energy consumption of Al Gore and we would never run out. Of course this needs lots of drilling, but there is plenty of this wonderful resource in the ground.
They don’t even understand how much OIL, etc. is needed to created all the BS for the “renewable” technology. Its a MASSIVE loss.