Oil companies told to stop
drilling now to save the planet
CNN Business,
by
Charles Riley
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
5/19/2021 8:57:48 AM
London - The International Energy Agency, which was founded by rich industrial nations after oil shocks in the 1970s to promote secure and affordable energy supplies, says the world needs to stop drilling for oil and gas right now to prevent a climate catastrophe. (Snip) To prevent that, the IEA says these milestones must be hit: Immediate stop to new gas and oil projects.
No new sales of fossil fuel boilers starting in 2025. Electric vehicles make up more than 60% of car sales by 2030. No sales of new internal combustion engine passenger cars by 2035. The global electricity sector
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Fasteddie 5/19/2021 9:11:14 AM (No. 790301)
Hey, no problem. Dilithium Crystals can power everything.
Don't know what the holdup is - the Enterprise has been using them since the '60's.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
volksford 5/19/2021 9:15:31 AM (No. 790306)
These clowns are as crazy as Corn Pop Biden
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
paral04 5/19/2021 9:18:15 AM (No. 790309)
Of course they won't stop flying around to attend luxurious meetings in Gastad and the like.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Historybuff 5/19/2021 9:21:21 AM (No. 790310)
Please show cause and effect. Show your work.
Oil is a waste product of the earth. (And! Crude oil is organic!) There is no drilling off Santa Barbara in Calif where there was an oil spill in 1969. But more oil leaks out of the ocean bottom every year naturally than was spilled that year.
When they babble on about the wild life I think about the oil pump in the parking lot of Hollywood High School
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pilot222 5/19/2021 9:25:42 AM (No. 790314)
Ban oil and only the Elites will have oil. Banning fossil fuel will destroy the lower and middle classes quicker than a hiroshima bomb.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 5/19/2021 9:26:14 AM (No. 790315)
Oil and gas, as long as it exists even in the ground, will ALWAYS be valuable and essential. When they've taken entirely out of our reach, who then will 'own' it for future essential use?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 5/19/2021 9:42:57 AM (No. 790342)
Drill more to save the humans.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 5/19/2021 9:56:07 AM (No. 790361)
And exactly HOW do they plan on powering all of those newly manufactured electric vehicles??? SOMETHING needs to produce all of the increased demand for battery juice!!
And the is not even taking into account for the thousands of petroleum-based products that humans use in their everyday lives that are NOT automobiles!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/19/2021 9:59:36 AM (No. 790366)
OK - - let's all stop calling it "fossil fuel" and "crude oil ' - - because it is neither.
The proper term is Natural Oil - - just like Natural Gas. Natural Oil is a blessing from God. It's as natural as water, sunshine, and flowers.
Natural Oil - - the environmentally friendly energy source!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/19/2021 10:09:31 AM (No. 790387)
There they go again. Yesterday the word was 'must'. Today it is 'told'. Again, who the h*** are these people to issue demands and dictates? Anyone elect them for anything?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 5/19/2021 10:24:07 AM (No. 790411)
The huge oil spill in the gulf years ago from a blowout, created huge headlines of environmental disaster. What they found out years later was that much of the oil spilled was eaten by organisms that exist in the ocean.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/19/2021 10:26:35 AM (No. 790414)
Lets save the world by destroying human civilization. That's basically what these creeps are saying. They say the world needs to stop producing oil, but they really mean the United States. The USA should lead the way of course (/s). This is just another way to destroy the US economy.
Here is a list of the top ten oil producers in the world: USA, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Iraq, China, UAE, Iran, Brazil, and Kuwait. Are they all on board with this? Of course not. How many of these countries are heavily reliant on the sale of oil to keep their economies afloat?
Not opposed to getting the world off of oil, but it would be for different reasons. How many dictatorships are using oil to stay in power? How would Iran, Venezuela, and Russia fare if demand for oil dropped by 75%.
Getting off oil is ok, but just cutting production is suicide. Lower the demand first, and oil production drops automatically. Good luck with that, btw. Name an energy source cheaper and more efficient than oil.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Safari Man 5/19/2021 10:35:03 AM (No. 790419)
Grow a tree - provide it with CO2
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
HotRod 5/19/2021 10:39:56 AM (No. 790431)
If there were no humans on the planet, would there be a planet?
I think the environmental radicals should put their money where their mouth is and eliminate themselves from this Earth! Stop fouling our air!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/19/2021 10:49:39 AM (No. 790443)
The entire world economy depends on oil and gas. Everything is made from it, transported by it, heated and cooled by it. Unemployment would jump to 75%, if the IEA had its way.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 5/19/2021 11:17:00 AM (No. 790465)
#11, yes, exactly. I worked on a joint project with a US company and a Ukrainian research institute developing a bacteria-enhanced fertilizer. The US company also did business selling bacteria to be sprayed on small, on-site industrial oil spills. like at a refinery or chemical plant, to gobble up the oil, digest it into harmless stuff.
After the big Gulf oil spill which the media told us "would spoil the waters and beaches for decades to come", they spent six weeks developing a modified garden tiller system to churn up beach sand and inject their bacteria into the sand below the surface to start it digesting the oil which had washed up and dirtied the beaches.
After a very short six weeks of development, he took a couple of prototypes and tanks of his bacterial spray to the coastal areas to sell to the cities to clean up their beaches.
Guess how many he sold? NONE. Why? Because the natural bacteria had already eaten up about 90-95% of the oil and there was nothing much left to clean up, a few tarry spots and tar balls too hard for the bacteria to quickly digest were all that was left in six weeks. Some of those small, hard tar balls may take months or years for the bacteria and sun to break down, but they will do it.
So much for the "environmental disaster" that was going to "kill the Gulf for decades to come"......and did you hear or read even one follow up story saying how amazing it was that the environment cleaned up the oil in a very short time? No? I wonder why?
It doesn't fit the narrative.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 5/19/2021 11:19:27 AM (No. 790469)
This proves just how ignorant far too many politicians are. Their ignorance is shown on YouTube videos by YouTuber nick-named "Thunderf00t" - especially regarding their insane and unthinking acceptance of Elon Musk's utter nonsense regarding the so-called "Hyperloop," also point to point travel by space ships, battery powered commercial aircraft (70% of an aircraft's volume would be batteries), and the mile long $48 million "Las Vegas Tunnel" where Tesla cars rocket along at 30 miles per hour.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/19/2021 11:48:42 AM (No. 790511)
Let these people who feel this way need an ambulance and be told they're no longer running due to lack of oil.
God gave us a planet that exudes oil naturally in many places, including the Athabasca tar sands in Alberta, and it's our job to cleanse the planet of all that icky stuff... even when it's found a mile underground!
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Time for this old geezer to switch to MEtv, Investigate Discovery, Dr. Pol so I can watch him birth a calf, MaincCabin Masters and Barnwood builders. Or turn off the tube and go weed my flower garden. Getting too crazy for me.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
KTWO 5/19/2021 1:15:03 PM (No. 790602)
Eliminating fossil fuels will not be sufficient. All energy production, in any form, must be phased out. A reliable source has told me that Hydro makes many fish feel threatened. Birds object to being minced by wind turbine blades. Lizards and rabbits and various plants cannot thrive under thousands of acres of solar panels. And millions of the Woke are slaughtered every year as nuclear reactors fail.
The common goal of virtually all energy production is electricity. The ICE, the backbone of transportation, is the great exception and goverments are actively trying to stop that.
Therefore generation of electricity by any means must also end. When that is done we will return to nights lit only by fires and moonlight. Just as it should be.
I forgot to mention; Energy caused the Cov-19 plague.
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The lunatics must be stopped. Their plans to 'save the world' will wreck civilized society.