Green Jobs? What About The Industries We Are Destroying?

[Elderberry]

Not A Lot Of People Know That By Paul Homewood 10/25/2020

We keep hearing about a “green job bonanza”, but what about all of the jobs which will be at risk because of the green agenda?

One industrial sector stands slap bang in the path of the green juggernaut – the oil and gas sector.

We often think about the production side, North Sea oil rigs and so on. But the downstream oil sector is far more significant in the UK. The UK Petroleum Industry Association (UKPIA), commissioned a study from Oxford Economics last year on the economic contribution of the sector to the UK. It serves as a stark reminder of just how much we are putting at risk with our climate policies:

Refineries obviously do a lot more than produce fuel for vehicles, but it is hard to see how any of these other things can be viable without the fuel part of their business.

In particular, the feedstock they produce for petrochemicals, aviation and marine fuels is often the bit they are left over after supplying road transport. You cannot economically produce that feedstock on its own.

In turn, the loss of that feedstock could also spell the death knell for the UK chemical industry as well.

The potential loss of 300,000 jobs would be catastrophic for the economy, particularly since any replacement green jobs would inevitably be heavily subsidised.

More: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/green-jobs-what-about-the-industries-we-are-destroying/

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Libs favor reverting to elitism like the kings and nobles of olden times.

Green jobs are 'noble' jobs like Green energy is noble.

Elitism destroys every time.  It does not 'build up'.

Coal?  Nasty stuff and beneath them.  Destroy it and those working in coal mines.

Oil and gas? Same thing.  Kill it.

It makes no difference whether we need it or not.  It is an undesirable, so stop buying stock in those companies that provide it.

[Free Vulcan]

There is nothing, nowhere, no how, manufactured in this country that comes into existence without the involvement of fossil fuels.

If not at the consumer level, then at the capital level.

Take away that and we are back to medieval times.

[catfish1957]

Almost everything we use and need has some form or fashion of a petrochemical component to it.  From Asphalt, Fuel, Lubricating Oils, Natural Gas, Plastic, Rubber. etc etc.  Killing Oil will basically kill 90% of feedstocks for any manufacturing we have. Look around you and take inventory of what is there.   

Sadly, We will become a near 100% import economy. 

How better to bring this nation to its knees and implement socialism without a fight. 

[catfish1957]

[Cyber Liberty]

"F*ck 'em!  they're all white guys.

[libertybele]

Almost everything we use and need has some form or fashion of a petrochemical component to it.  From Asphalt, Fuel, Lubricating Oils, Natural Gas, Plastic, Rubber. etc etc.  Killing Oil will basically kill 90% of feedstocks for any manufacturing we have. Look around you and take inventory of what is there.   

Sadly, We will become a near 100% import economy. 

How better to bring this nation to its knees and implement socialism without a fight.

When people start losing their jobs because of the DEM socialists I would hope people would fight back.

    "IF FREEDOM IS WHAT WE WANT, IT IS OUR FOR THE TAKING.  LET THE REVOLUTION BEGIN"

           ---Dr. Ron Paul

[Smokin Joe]

Note the resins and adhesives from petrochemicals are necessary to making things like windmill blades.

If any of these people knew where anything came from, they might change their tune.

Instead they are sold some silly version of a sanitized reality where animals don't poop, nothing ever gets eaten, trees don't die of old age, and nothing rots.

[Smokin Joe]

"F*ck 'em!  they're all white guys.

Actually, no.
In the industry up here there are lots of Black, Brown, and Native (Indian) hands as well as whites.
It is not a racial thing for those who know.
You are judged on the basis of the work you do, and how well you do it, not something superficial.

[Cyber Liberty]

Actually, no.
In the industry up here there are lots of Black, Brown, and Native (Indian) hands as well as whites.
It is not a racial thing for those who know.
You are judged on the basis of the work you do, and how well you do it, not something superficial.

 

[Joe Wooten]

Note the resins and adhesives from petrochemicals are necessary to making things like windmill blades.

If any of these people knew where anything came from, they might change their tune.

Instead they are sold some silly version of a sanitized reality where animals don't poop, nothing ever gets eaten, trees don't die of old age, and nothing rots.

Unicorn farts and fairy dust.....All will be blissful utopia if they wish hard enough

[Cyber Liberty]

Unicorn farts and fairy dust.....All will be blissful utopia if they wish hard enough

These are people who aren't really clear on where food is made.  "At, like, the Beef factory?"