Don’t They Know We Will Still Need Oil & Gas?

[rangerrebew]

Don’t They Know We Will Still Need Oil & Gas?
January 30, 2022
tags: gas, oil

By Paul Homewood

A photograph of the Dunlin oil rig platform located above the Osprey Field in the North Sea off Scotland.

It is abundantly clear that all our major parties are now opposed to further development of North Sea oil and gas reserves.

Ed Miliband, for instance, had this to say about the proposed Cambo field last month:

“It makes no environmental sense and now Shell are accepting it doesn’t make economic sense,” he said.

“Ploughing on with business as usual on fossil fuels will kill off our chances of keeping 1.5 degrees alive and carries huge risks for investors as it is simply an unsustainable choice.

“Shell have woken up to the fact that Cambo is the wrong choice. It’s long past time for the Government to do so.”

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/01/30/dont-they-know-we-will-still-need-oil-gas/

[catfish1957]

I know this is a bit off tangent, but the question of the use of hydrocarbon fuels should be in the hands of th epeople instead of idiotic mostly left wing politicians who have been duped into the Climate Change Scam. 

Right now these idiots are winning, with the unintended consequence being taking our society back to the 19th century.  Just more reason I stand by my position that the idea of one unified America may be a dying concept.  Our ideological differences right now are as abrupt and vitriolic as they were in this  country in 1860.

[Fishrrman]

Catfish:
"Right now these idiots are winning, with the unintended consequence being taking our society back to the 19th century.  Just more reason I stand by my position that the idea of one unified America may be a dying concept.  Our ideological differences right now are as abrupt and vitriolic as they were in this  country in 1860."

Agree with you on this one.
Perhaps the only way "to save" America (or most of it) in the long run will be...
... to "destroy it" -- as in, break apart the Union into two or more pieces, and from that point "rebuild" SOME of the pieces from there...?

[Smokin Joe]

I know this is a bit off tangent, but the question of the use of hydrocarbon fuels should be in the hands of th epeople instead of idiotic mostly left wing politicians who have been duped into the Climate Change Scam. 

Right now these idiots are winning, with the unintended consequence being taking our society back to the 19th century.  Just more reason I stand by my position that the idea of one unified America may be a dying concept.  Our ideological differences right now are as abrupt and vitriolic as they were in this  country in 1860.

We won't go back to the 19th century. Not so. How many of those whiners could shovel a stall, handle a horse--much less break or train one, and besides, there aren't enough horses to haul the freight--nor enough land to feed the necessary livestock and humans, too, because if they succeed in eliminating "fossil fuels", farming is going to get a LOT more labor intensive.

Time for the adults to take the reins, and send the kids off to bed.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Shell's business plan will cause it to significantly reduce the breadth and size of the company as it ploughs its funds into mostly uneconomic ventures.

Just look at the garbage it is spewing.

https://www.shell.com/powering-progress/powering-lives.html

[Hoodat]

We won't go back to the 19th century.

The only reason we still have whales today is because oil was discovered in Pennsylvania.  Before that, kerosene had been refined from whale blubber.

[Smokin Joe]

The only reason we still have whales today is because oil was discovered in Pennsylvania.  Before that, kerosene had been refined from whale blubber.

Yeah, the oil industry already saved the whales, nearly two centuries ago. (1859)

[sneakypete]

Don’t They Know We Will Still Need Oil & Gas?

The key word here is "WE". "WE" will still need oil and gas,but the elites and the political creatures they pal around with will be getting all they want.

Just like in the "good old days" of the old Soviet Union. Party leaders had all they wanted,and peons rode the bus,bicycled,or walked.