FUEL: Older is better

Man did everything by manpower or with horses until James Watt invented the steam engine in 1781. Thus began the industrial revolution.

Coal and oil allowed man to use machines instead of only his labor. The invention of electrical devices added a new dimension to the nature of work.

Solar and wind produce very little energy. It is not likely they will ever produce a great deal of energy. If we covered the earth with enough solar panels to create enough electricity we would have no place to grow food.

Think of all the other things that come from oil that we would have to learn to do without: tires, paint, plastics, vinyl siding, rope, clothing etc.

Stephen Moore et al had this to say:

In the second decade of the 21st century, humanity sits atop two centuries of major advances in physics, biology, and chemistry that have applied hydrocarbon compounds for mankind’s benefit. Yet the doomsayers of our age employ the term “carbon” as if it were a poison threatening the survival of civilization. (P.93 Fueling Freedom)

Let’s not throw away all the progress of the past two centuries.

JIM HOLLINGSWORTH

Coeur d’Alene