April 20, 2022
Oil is the Cornerstone of Wealth
Chester McAteer
If it had not been for fossil fuels the whales would be extinct by now. Without fossil fuel, which is a primary energy source, versus a secondary source such as electricity, you could literally walk around your home and imagine that over 90% of the products there were not available or so massively expensive that few could afford them. Practically everything we make either contains oil products or requires them during its manufacturing process and would increase in price if available at all without petroleum and other fossil fuels being around.
Life without oil products would be completely unimaginable to most people…like pre-1900 was not easy. Now imagine a collapse of the Global Supply Chain…we would be 12th Century bound.
Tim adds:
People do not understand how little the average person had before oil. Clothes were expensive and had to to be mended when torn. "Darning socks" was a common thing; now we just throw them away and buy new ones when they get holes. Furniture was expensive and hand made. People lived in simple houses, one or two rooms, or in crowded apartments. Travel was a nightmare; you had to walk everywhere, or ride a horse or whatnot. Oil gave us the lavish lifestyle we now enjoy. Anyone who can't see that is quite foolish, but sadly most can't because the media keeps telling them oil is bad. Well, oil is good and always was. Poverty is bad and that is what we are going to have if we don't turn away from this foolishness.
And oil lubricates all our machines. Without it we would have no industry at all.
If it had not been for fossil fuels the whales would be extinct by now. Without fossil fuel, which is a primary energy source, versus a secondary source such as electricity, you could literally walk around your home and imagine that over 90% of the products there were not available or so massively expensive that few could afford them. Practically everything we make either contains oil products or requires them during its manufacturing process and would increase in price if available at all without petroleum and other fossil fuels being around.
Life without oil products would be completely unimaginable to most people…like pre-1900 was not easy. Now imagine a collapse of the Global Supply Chain…we would be 12th Century bound.
Tim adds:
People do not understand how little the average person had before oil. Clothes were expensive and had to to be mended when torn. "Darning socks" was a common thing; now we just throw them away and buy new ones when they get holes. Furniture was expensive and hand made. People lived in simple houses, one or two rooms, or in crowded apartments. Travel was a nightmare; you had to walk everywhere, or ride a horse or whatnot. Oil gave us the lavish lifestyle we now enjoy. Anyone who can't see that is quite foolish, but sadly most can't because the media keeps telling them oil is bad. Well, oil is good and always was. Poverty is bad and that is what we are going to have if we don't turn away from this foolishness.
And oil lubricates all our machines. Without it we would have no industry at all.
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Half the products we buy -- excluding food -- are petroleum-based. You couldn't build a modern computer without plastics. Or a modern car. Or a TV.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 22, 2022 10:40 PM (GIKgf)
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Even food uses oil sometimes Dana. Some of the best preservatives we used to use to keep food fresh was made from petroleum biproducts. I think they've gotten rid of that, which is why bread is now stale all the time straight from the supermarket.
Oil was truly God's gift to humanity - and we have thrown it back in His face.
Oil was truly God's gift to humanity - and we have thrown it back in His face.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 23, 2022 10:35 AM (bnhE/)
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There is BHA and BHT, both petroleum based products used to maintain food freshness. Also THBQ. And most food coloring is petroleum based.
Our old friend, the late Alan Caruba, used to write about these a lot. He analyzed the health patterns and saw they were safe and effective, but a left-wing campaign was launched against them years ago and while they haven't won yet they have managed to minimize the use of these products. That's why so many things lack freshness these days.
Pop Tarts, Pringles (well, you probably guessed that), Kraft macaroni and cheese, M & M's, Cheerios, are just a few of the foods that use petroleum-based preservatives to make them delicious.
Many health nazis try to claim this is the cause of autism, or HDAD, or other modern problems, but there is no evidence of that fact.
We eat all manner of Earth-based stuff. Petroleum is completely natural and comes out of the Earth - something the hippie Back To The Earth types claim to want. It is not a synthetic material devised in a lab (like many other preservatives). Attacks on it are merely a part of the war on petroleum being waged by the morons.
Before we had such preservatives we ran the risk of food spoiling and our getting sick from it.
Bear in mind, too, that these same people resist irradiating food (which kills the germs), and also resist using DNA to create foods resistant to rot.
Why, it's as if they don't want us to have safe food at all! I think that is the case; they want a lower population and safe, long lasting food does not comport with that.
Nor does oil, the lifeblood of our economy.
Also, how are we going to package food without petroleum based products? Go back to glass? Most glass has plastic in it these days.
Decades ago my friend and I would drive over to Illinois to liquor store where we could get "bar bottles" which were solid glass. They tasted so much better - but you had to watch the chips on the lip when you drank them! They had to be returned. Another friend's brother in law ran the Jacksonville bottling plant for Anheuser Bush and he told us that the throwaway bottles had considerable plastic in them. Yes, there was glass, but plastic was added to increase their strength and make them cheaper to boot.
So petroleum is responsible for our entire civilization and we should be on our knees thanking God for it!
Our old friend, the late Alan Caruba, used to write about these a lot. He analyzed the health patterns and saw they were safe and effective, but a left-wing campaign was launched against them years ago and while they haven't won yet they have managed to minimize the use of these products. That's why so many things lack freshness these days.
Pop Tarts, Pringles (well, you probably guessed that), Kraft macaroni and cheese, M & M's, Cheerios, are just a few of the foods that use petroleum-based preservatives to make them delicious.
Many health nazis try to claim this is the cause of autism, or HDAD, or other modern problems, but there is no evidence of that fact.
We eat all manner of Earth-based stuff. Petroleum is completely natural and comes out of the Earth - something the hippie Back To The Earth types claim to want. It is not a synthetic material devised in a lab (like many other preservatives). Attacks on it are merely a part of the war on petroleum being waged by the morons.
Before we had such preservatives we ran the risk of food spoiling and our getting sick from it.
Bear in mind, too, that these same people resist irradiating food (which kills the germs), and also resist using DNA to create foods resistant to rot.
Why, it's as if they don't want us to have safe food at all! I think that is the case; they want a lower population and safe, long lasting food does not comport with that.
Nor does oil, the lifeblood of our economy.
Also, how are we going to package food without petroleum based products? Go back to glass? Most glass has plastic in it these days.
Decades ago my friend and I would drive over to Illinois to liquor store where we could get "bar bottles" which were solid glass. They tasted so much better - but you had to watch the chips on the lip when you drank them! They had to be returned. Another friend's brother in law ran the Jacksonville bottling plant for Anheuser Bush and he told us that the throwaway bottles had considerable plastic in them. Yes, there was glass, but plastic was added to increase their strength and make them cheaper to boot.
So petroleum is responsible for our entire civilization and we should be on our knees thanking God for it!
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 23, 2022 11:00 AM (bnhE/)
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We can't go around policing thoughts. Under the best assumptions, more than 6.999 billion people think me unattractive. This doesn't make them Mauriziophobic.
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