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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I guess you don't remember back in the days of diesel fuel, when we learned that corn oil and other vegetable oil could be used in diesel engines. The technology wasn't good enough for a full replacement, but that's how the idea of adding ethanol to our gas started. And now, most gasoline is cut with ethanol. That can be improved.
Meanwhile - everyone who says this is a petroleum-based economy and country is right. It is. There's no way we're going to give up on plastics, it just isn't going to happen. But there are ways to REDUCE petroleum consumption.
Also, I don't know where you got your chart, but it's incorrect. Probably outdated.
Natural gas is the #1 source for electricity in the USA, at 38%. Coal is second at 22%. Nuclear is at 19% and all the renewable energies, combined, fill out the remaining 21%. Petroleum makes up .5% (half a percent) of electricity sources.
There's no reason why we can't reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, and increase our production of renewables and "alternative" sources. Even our garbage man is already doing that, by converting trash to energy (Waste Management). Heck even GOLF is pro-active in this; the Phoenix Open, sponsored by Waste Management, runs a zero-waste tournament where ALL trash is converted to energy.
It might have started out as a gimmick - a good public relations scheme. But it's an idea with merit.
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Yes, that chart was bit old----from 2015.
But the bottom line remains---once we "reduce fossil fuels", what have we accomplished??? Absolutely nothing except to those that have bought into the myth/scam of "global warming" hook, line and sinker. Now, if someone were to make the argument that our air would be cleaner if we didn't burn hydrocarbons, I would agree. But global warming????--total farce.