melensdad
Well-Known Member
I agree, adapting and conserving it wise. But my pick up truck, which gets 22mpg in actual driving, is only a tiny issue.In the meantime we should do what we can to reduce our consumption individually and thus be role models for others. I am a big proponent of geothermal and as such talk to everyone I can about the benefits and electric savings I’ve experienced. We must be the change we want to see. Otherwise it will entrench resistance to any change and it becomes a political issue rather than a uniting one.
But HUGE amounts of food are produced with DIESEL tractors, shipped on DIESEL trains to terminals where it is moved by DIESEL trucks. The actual production of food requires that we fertilize the soil because our planet population has grown beyond our ability to feed the planet using less-than-modern farming solutions. so NATURAL GAS is required to produce inexpensive nitrogen based fertilizers. GASOLINE is required for many of the smaller engines used in agriculture.
Farms in North America, South America and Europe are actually modernizing at a pretty rapid pace to increase efficiency but in many parts of the world the farms are re-using our antiquated technologies because that is all they can afford.
Increasing fuel prices, and people who gleefully support that through artificial means, will soon have blood on their hands as people starve to death. Literally starve to death. We are NOW at a situation where fertilizer prices have skyrocketed, and some of that is due to a war, but a good bit of that is simply due to unaffordable Natural Gas, which has been exacerbated by regulations starting before the war. In many areas of the world we are seeing fewer crops planted because fertilizer is unaffordable. Add in the shortages of not only fertilizer but also corn, wheat, sunflower, and other grain products that will be created by the invasion of Ukraine and we have the recipe for starvation and civil unrest on a scale that we have never seen before. This is all both predictable and preventable. Starvation will be worst in the middle eastern nations and some areas of Africa. Food prices are already skyrocketing around the globe, all of this is because of fuel price manipulation caused by regulation.
If people continue to cheer on high fuel prices just because they want everyone riding around in electric cars then they are advocating for something akin to genocide.