We are just 8-days from the mid-term election with less than 20-days of diesel fuel supply left in America!?! This unprecedented shortfall—caused by the Democrats and the Biden Administration’s War on Fossil Fuels—will lead to even higher prices of all food and consumer goods, most likely resulting in shortages, or the unavailability of many commonly purchased necessities, repair parts, and luxury items. Diesel fuel is the energy required for most of the shipping activity in the United States via semitrucks and trains. Farming activity and much of our military relies on Diesel. This current shortage of Diesel fuel is a very dreadful mess that the Democrats have inflicted upon our country!
Wind and Solar account for 12% of our energy/electricity needs. Less than 1% of the 250 million cars, SUVs and light-duty trucks in the United States are electric. Even the most optimistic estimate is that 13-years from now in 2035, electric vehicles will account for 13% of ALL vehicles on the road. Fossil fuels will be needed to produce the electricity to charge these electric vehicles, plus fuel the other 87% of the gas-powered vehicles still on the road. Commercial trucks that transport everything we need and want use diesel fuel, not electricity.
It has become painfully evident that the Democrats and the Biden Administration have no clue how the Oil & Gas Industry works, nor the impact it has on other industries and other people throughout our country and the world. Steve Pryor, an energy consultant, put together a partial list of products made from Petroleum which included 6,000 items. According to Pryor, the major use of petroleum is as a fuel (gasoline, jet fuel, heating oil), and petroleum and natural gas are often used to generate electricity; one 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline, while the rest (over half) is necessary to make other products that are used in our everyday lives.
All plastic is made from petroleum and plastic is used almost everywhere, e.g., cars, houses, toys, computers, and clothing. Asphalt used in road construction is a petroleum product as is synthetic rubber in tires, even tires for electric vehicles. Paraffin wax comes from petroleum, as does fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, detergents, furniture, packaging materials, surfboards, paints, and artificial fibers used in clothing, upholstery, and carpet backing.
You get the point, whatever you are wearing or using or driving each, and every day, has been made possible because of fossil fuels, including your participation in leisure activities! According to clueless Joe Biden, we now have a chance to convert to electric vehicles and do away with fossil fuels altogether. But, unknown to Joe and the Democratic party, fossil fuels or petroleum is required to make most of the components necessary to build electric vehicles. In addition, fossil fuels are required to generate the electricity to keep the electric vehicles running!
We now have people with government power who believe “they can pick tomorrow’s winners and losers in the marketplace, set prices or rents where they ought to be, decide which forms of energy should power our homes and cars, and choose which industries should survive and which should die. . . Call them what you will—socialists, interventionists, collectivists, statists—history is littered with their presumptuous plans for rearranging society to fit their vision of the common good, plans that always fail as they kill or impoverish [millions of] people in the process.”
On November 8th, vote for abundant and affordable energy—Vote Republican—your Life literally depends upon it!
Dum Spiro Spero—While I breathe, I hope.
Slainte mhath,
Robert G. (Mike) Beard Jr., C.P.A., C.G.M.A., J.D., LL.M.
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