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Try cruise ships too, completely non-essential. They comply with the IMO regulations on sulphur emissions by using scrubbers: trading air pollution for water pollution. #banscrubbers

The precise point is that Reagan did not have the foresight to understand the solar water heaters were still a good idea even with oil being plentiful and cheap.

This of course means the fossil fuels r an even bigger problem than we thought. Why wouldn’t Exxon Mobil, etc. just use their unlimited $ 2 start buying up these renewable companies? It’s the way of the future. It is a propeller plane. Renewables are a Boeing 707. 7 hours versus 3 hours. 1950 again

Adjust to a new future or die in a greedy past. Humm. I’ll pick the future, thank you.

Yup. @billmckibben.bsky.social brought the whole 40% statistic forward. Oil & nat gas ships…stunning waste and pollution. Of course like coal miners we’d have to find more honorable jobs, but hey it can be done.

oil only comes from a few places. it’s gotta get around

When i lived in Hawaii, I was stunned that 90% of our power was baes on oil shipped in by tanker! It has improved some, but still a disgrace at weakly and slowly they adopted green energy. Lots of cronyism in the (mostly Democrat) government.

This dynamic is somewhat confounded by the process that creates the marine bunker oil that cargo ships use. Bunker oil is already the bottom column byproduct of the refinement process. That is to say, it’s economically efficient as a marine fuel because we make a gobs of it by happenstance.

If every gas pump visualized how many gallons jugs of fuel, let’s say milk jugs, you just put into your vehicle, we might improve society somewhat. I went to the grocery after the gas station and counted 17 gallons of milk and was like “I go through 17 gallons of gas a week” and felt bad.