AmericanEagle wrote:
New inflation numbers are out and we are at now 9.7%. Yet sleepy Joe blames the oil companies, meat packers and everybody except for his dumb ass policies.
He’s shutting down the keystone pipeline and not allowing companies to explore or a drill continues to drive up oil prices, gas prices and everything fuel related moving goods and services plus the cost to produce products.
He does not want to help the American people and is more worried about c*****e c****e 🤮👎🏻🤬
Going "Green" is insanity at all levels: "Lefty Lunacy"!!
Among the material realities of g***n e****y:
Building wind turbines and solar panels to generate electricity, as well as batteries to fuel electric vehicles, requires, on average, more than 10 times the quantity of materials, compared with building machines using hydrocarbons to deliver the same amount of energy to society.
A single electric car contains more cobalt than 1,000 smartphone batteries; the blades on a single wind turbine have more plastic than 5 million smartphones; and a solar array that can power one data center uses more glass than 50 million phones.
Replacing hydrocarbons with green machines under current plans—never mind aspirations for far greater expansion—will vastly increase the mining of various critical minerals around the world. For example, a single electric car battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. Averaged over a battery’s life, each mile of driving an electric car “consumes” five pounds of earth. Using an internal combustion engine consumes about 0.2 pounds of liquids per mile.
Oil, natural gas, and coal are needed to produce the concrete, steel, plastics, and purified minerals used to build green machines. The energy equivalent of 100 barrels of oil is used in the processes to fabricate a single battery that can store the equivalent of one barrel of oil.
By 2050, with current plans, the quantity of worn-out solar panels—much of it nonrecyclable—will constitute double the tonnage of all today’s global plastic waste, along with over 3 million tons per year of unrecyclable plastics from worn-out wind turbine blades. By 2030, more than 10 million tons per year of batteries will become garbage.
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/mines-minerals-and-green-energy-reality-check