We can do everything with solar and wind, right?
Minus a few things…
Bearing Grease
Ink
Floor Wax
Ballpoint Pens
Football Cleats
Upholstery
Sweaters
Boats
Insecticides
Bicycle Tires
Car Bodies
Nail Polish
Fishing lures
Dresses
Tires
Golf Bags
Perfumes
Cassettes
Dishwasher parts
Tool Boxes
Shoe Polish
Motorcycle Helmet
Caulking
Petroleum Jelly
Transparent Tape
CD and DVD Players
Faucet Washers
Antiseptics
Clothesline
Curtains
Food Preservatives
Basketballs
Soap
Vitamin Capsules
Antihistamines
Purses
Shoes
Dashboards
Cortisone
Deodorant
Footballs
Putty
Dyes
Panty Hose
Refrigerant
Percolators
Life Jackets
Rubbing Alcohol
Linings
Skis
TV Cabinets
Shag Rugs
Electrician’s Tape
Tool Racks
Car Battery Cases
Epoxy
Paint
Mops
Slacks
Insect Repellent
Oil Filters
Umbrellas
Yarn
Fertilizers
Hair Coloring
Roofing
Toilet Seats
Fishing Rods
Lipstick
Denture Adhesive
Linoleum
Ice Cube Trays
Synthetic Rubber
Speakers
Plastic Wood
Electric Blankets
Glycerin
Tennis Rackets
Rubber Cement
Fishing Boots
Dice
Nylon Rope
Candles
Trash Bags
House Paint
Water Pipes
Hand Lotion
Roller Skates
Surf Boards
Shampoo
Wheels
Paint Rollers
Shower Curtains
Guitar Strings
Luggage
Aspirin
Safety Glasses
Antifreeze
Football Helmets
Awnings
Eyeglasses
Clothes
Toothbrushes
Ice Chests
Footballs
Combs
CD’s & DVD’s
Paint Brushes
Detergents
Vaporizers
Balloons
Sun Glasses
Tents
Heart Valves
Crayons
Parachutes
Telephones
Enamel
Pillows
Dishes
Cameras
Anesthetics
Artificial Turf
Artificial limbs
Bandages
Dentures
Model Cars
Folding Doors
Hair Curlers
Cold cream
Movie film
Soft Contact lenses
Drinking Cups
Fan Belts
Car Enamel
Shaving Cream
Ammonia
Refrigerators
Golf Balls
Toothpaste
Everyone of these either uses are is partially made from petroleum products…
Better get out those horses and saddles folks…
h/t Proud Hillbilly for the list
Don’t forget: Jobs.
+1
May I add WD40 the manly body spray.
You’re right. Not a single thing needed. Just a whole bunch of them.
Look. Most of the folks in the urban areas can’t even tell you where their food comes from, never mind where the rest of what they either need or want to support themselves. And the demagogues who pander to them either don’t know themselves — or simply don’t care about the commoners, so long as they themselves are pampered and cared for. They will do anything and say anything to get the votes to seize power and keep it.
The progressives don’t want to hear about your silly “facts” or your “math”.
They believe in the Magic Unicorn and that’s all they need to know.
The “Magic Unicorn” that predates petroleum?
What was his name?
Oh yes, I remember now.
“Coal Tar”
Well, coal tar and whale oil.
Computers, cellphones, solar panels, one time use medical equipment, bullet proof vests, modern plumbing pipe and more stuff that I can’t even imagine. If we succeed in enacting the “Green Raw Deal,” the resulting society will look on the old order Amish not as a quaint view of a past way of life, but as cutting edge technology.
I’m trying to find a Silver lining here.
Necessity being the “Mother of Invention”, maybe the Unicorn will fart a bunch of stuff that actually WILL make our lives better?
One thing we can all agree on:
We live in those interesting times the Chinese warned us about.
Won’t it be sumfin’ if ol’ Clem has simply dun had it and comes up with sumfin that makes fusion seem SUCH a …quaint… idea?
“Wait, they did WHAT with a bailing twine and paper clips?!?!?”
Big Thunk: Since petroleum has all these uses, what if we found a way to burn less of it so we could use more of it to make useful stuff?
All- Good points! Anon-not if you aren’t allowed to get it out of the ground…
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You’re just a killjoy 🙂
Not to mention, oil is a major component of the components of…
Survey says…
(Envelope, please…)
Wind turbines and solar panels and battery banks and electric transmission and distribution systems and the fleet of vehicles that make transmission and distribution possible and the products that keep the transmission and distribution workers alive and not fried.
Dumbasses.
But Slo Jo and the Ho have to listen to Xinnie the Pooh, and evil Nazi Soros and others of their corporate masters and puppet masters.
Y’beat me to it!
Let’s just tell the enviro-nutjobs OK, if we don’t have to go drilling and fracking for it – maybe we make them go ROWING for it like the OLD days…
Saw a pint of Brownell’s Sperm Oil go for over $250 on eBay, and there’s a guy in Baah Haahbuh (Maine) who uncovered a couple cases of 4oz bottles while rubling an old stone building that used to be a pharmacy or general store. He’s popping them up on auction one at a time, and they’re going for about $60-$85.
Oil made from spermaceti is the FINEST mechanical lubricant EVER discovered. NASA used it on the Voyager probes. It NEVER goes rancid – I saw a 140yr old bottle and it was clear dark amber color. (You can sometimes see these exhibited at maritime museums like the whaling museum in New Bedford, MA.)
Spermaceti oil is, as you said, very useful in space as it is one of the few lubricants that handles vacuum very well.
No surprise then, that when a dead Sperm Whale is sighted, the securing of said spermaceti is usually done forthwith.
Cassettes? Percolators? This list has been around a little while. Just like me, cause I know what those are AND how to use them.:-)
More Bus loads of National Guardsmen are still arriving in Washington DC. Why?
More than 20,000, and perhapes 25,000 National Guard troops were called in to Washington DC to protect Joe Biden’s sham inauguration after the Democrats stole the 2020 election with voter fraud.
The Democrats used Our Troops as props then tossed them into a Cold Parking Garage in the dead of winter to sleep on the Cold Concrete. .
And Thousands of the National Guard will remain in DC until March as the Democrats persecute Donald Trump with a second impeachment Senate trial.
What else is the Washington swamp planning that they have to protect themselves with Military Troops?
And Why aren’t the Governors questioning the need for this Military Occupation of D.C.? Exactly what are they hiding?
Akshully, the lipids from rendering down environmentalists can be used as a partial substitute. It is just the barrels per environmentalist, and total number of environmentalists are so low that you would run out of environmentalists before you finished getting the tooling set up.
You would have better results not setting up the tooling, and cremating the environmentalists instead.
no horses either. too much methane, plus raising their feed.
Randy- 🙂
All- Thanks and good point, not worth the effort on the envirowackos…
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Old NFO, the sooner we’re reduced to unthinking drones of the NWO hivemind the better.
Or you can go long $DOGE.
Just a thought.
LSP- Good point!
Except for solar, if you’re going to generate the magic lightning, you must, as a friend of mine says, “spin the thing.” The power source for spinning the thing doesn’t matter. If the thing doesn’t spin, you get no magic lightning. Friction is a major reason for the thing not spinning. We use petroleum to keep friction to a minimum. You know, so the thing spins and we get the magic lightning.
The people who advocate for the cessation of using petroleum products are some of the same people that ask why shouldn’t farmers and ranchers just be shut down as they can go to the grocery store and get all of their food. They live in urban areas and are divorced from reality. That is why the big cities are where all the Democrat votes come from.
Point of order: big cities are where all the Democrat ‘votes’ come from, due to a combination of pre-existing machines, and trading on the effects of deliberately mismanaged crime. Rural areas had less crowds to hide in, and are less effective places to conceal that one is using murdering junkie criminals as a military proxy to terrorize the lawful into submission.
RM/Bill/Bob- Good points!
Something that I haven’t heard much about is Douglas Pelmear and his 110 mpg Mustang; 400 hp, 500 fp torque. He managed to solve the timing problem his father tackled back in the 1960s. He demonstrated the engine, and since then no one has heard much about him.
http://hp2g.com/main.html
Does anyone know anything about this?
There you go lettings facts get in the way of the green energy BS
You caught me at lures!