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  End Oil: We can put an end to oil, coal and nuke power

A "limousine liberal" is one that wants an end to oil in their neck of the woods, exporting pollution to "somewhere else" that's more appropriate -- somewhere else, so it doesn't spoil their view. Thus, Chevron removed grease from its whitebread gas stations, trying to foster the idea that oil comes to your car like manna from heaven.

What's needed is an end to oil!
If you burn oil, you are going to need to get oil, one way or the other: drilling out the last oil is not only expensive, but, as we see, dangerous. Similarly, coal mining, while not only dangerous, is also destroying entire states with "cut and fill" grading of blue-line streamlets. Nuke power is extremely dangerous, not just to those in the reactor room; and very expensive, down through the ages. These three "evil" activities have one thing in common: THEY ARE PROFITABLE TO THE OWNERS OF THE WELLS, MINES and CONSTRUCTORS LIKE HALLIBURTON, who don't care a fig about the waste and cost that they can shift to others.

Sure, they lie, "Chevron people do" care, they say; but Chevron bosses only care about Public Relations and their own profit. That's why Chevron sequestered and suppressed the
Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries still running our existing EVs, with the connivance of bribed regulators, pols, and captive oil companies. Chevron still squats on the rights to these batteries, apparently, for "certain transportation applications". To date, no auto company can use NiMH for plug-in cars, they are forced to use unproven Lithium.

The only way to make oil drilling, coal mining and nukes safe is...
TO GET RID OF THEM. Stop using oil entirely. Replace coal and nuke electric with solar power.

The same workers being brutalized and mowed down by mineowners and negligent oil companies could be retrained to build and install solar panels to make electric. Clean, happy jobs with a future: sure, you can fall off a roof, but not into a lake of burning nuclear wormwood!

The unused rooftops of America - more than 10,000 square miles -- would provide twice the ELECTRIC energy we currently use, even if all our cars were plug-in cars.

More ironically, the use of solar panels and plug-in cars would actually LOWER our total use of energy: the oil extraction and refining industry, according to DOE figures, uses 12% of the energy in a barrel of oil to refine it (not counting potable water). That same energy -- mostly electric and natural gas -- would take ELECTRIC CARS farther than the rest of the barrel takes oil-fired cars.

The amount of space allocated to our largest coal mine in America -- 28,000 acres -- would, if covered with solar panels, produce more electric than the coal that's mined produces (coal generators are only 40% efficient) -- LEAVING THE DIRTY COAL IN THE GROUND.

The only clean oil is NO OIL.

The only clean coal is NO COAL.

The only safe nukes are NO NUKES.

Imagine an entire industry, larger than mining and oil drilling combined, producing and deploying solar panels and plug-in cars; recycling the cars and batteries, using the same metals, after 100K or 200K miles; and "mining" the fleet of gas-guzzlers for metals to make new plug-in cars and batteries.

It's a way to revitalize not only our environment, but also our economy; all it takes is the leadership and ability to redirect our resources and efforts from futile attempts to find more oil and drill it out of increasingly difficult places -- from that futile, mindless activity -- to safe and clean industries that actually produce more energy than they use, and provide for the future.

Coal mining and oil extraction cost more than solar power: and, decades after the coal and oil is gone, the solar panels would be producing for decades more.