(Crude) oil and water: Analyzing CA’s self-imposed “products crisis”

In America Out Loud, policy advisor Tom Harris breaks down California’s “hydrocarbon elephant in the room” — the inescapable fact that renewable power can’t replace crude oil. While “green” energy sources create intermittent electricity, there are still 6,000 everyday products that require crude oil for manufacturing.

California Governor Gavin Newsom refuses to address the hydrocarbon elephant in the room, namely that the products manufactured from crude oil played a major role in building the world from one billion to eight billion people in the past 200 years. With his narrow focus on the useless transition to so-called renewables, no matter what, Newsom is apparently unable to understand that renewables cannot manufacture anything.

Today’s dangerous emphasis on wind and solar power for intermittent electricity is creating a lack of products in the future. It is also causing a shortage of fuels for planes, ships, militaries, and space programs, all of which are manufactured from the substance Newsom seems to hate most — oil, that is, black goal, Texas Tea, or petroleum. But Newsom stubbornly refuses to talk about the “products crisis” his energy policies are creating.

The governor’s efforts to tax California out of its energy crisis will fail, and consumers and businesses will pay the price. After all, 6,000 products in our daily lives are made from oil derivatives that are manufactured out of crude oil. And how about the fuels needed for the 50,000 merchant ships and the 50,000 jets in the world? They are all dependent on fuels manufactured from crude oil, the same substance that Newsom wants to eliminate.

Newsom has set aspirational goals for an energy transition, but it is only for electricity generation, from natural gas and coal electricity generation to electricity from intermittent breezes and sunshine. Newsom’s single-minded focus is to reduce emissions no matter the consequences. He fails to comprehend that, without a planned replacement for crude oil to make those same products that support the economy, limiting the crude oil will inflict massive shortages and inflation in perpetuity on everyone’s lifestyles.

This article originally appeared in America Out Loud. Read the whole thing here.

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