Fossil Fuel Industry Resilience

We will learn some lessons or change our mind now that the war is essentially over. Do we need to be more oil independent? Or overall is the way we do it for good reason? It is cheaper to buy a refined product. Do we need to seek out new markets for products that have previously been brought blindly through this thing called the Strait? You know, your plastics, your gas and stuff like that. See in Canada, the left leaners are in a lather at the moment. The NDP, the new Democrats, they've got a new leader. Very green, very pro climate change. He's in trouble. trouble because as party leaders in places like Alberta and Saskatchewan, they're riding the oil wave at the moment. Alberta's deficit is being literally wiped out as oil money rolls in in a way they never forecast. So you see you can be a lefty but still understand the economic reality of not necessity of fossil fuels. You may not like them. But they work and they're needed and they pay the bills. See here surely if we've learnt nothing else, it's just how dependent we are still on this stuff that we allegedly hate that we can't get rid of fast enough, thought we were living without power, fortunately for us is renewable. Broadly that's good. But cars? Very quickly was determined are no such thing. And more importantly nothing that carried anything was an EV. Trucks, cranes, diggers. Industry generally is a fossil fuel game and it's not changing. Would we not be better to accept that and get on with it rather than wrestling, clearly hopelessly, with an ideology that when push came to shove got found wanting badly. Quote of the week for me came from Plastics New Zealand. Plastics are in everything, she said. Whoops. Thought getting rid of the straws in the supermarket bags was it? Small problem though with the downpipes. Pipes in general, not just through the straight but plastic. I mean are we making pipes out of paper as well are we? Where are the renewable pipes? So how about we accept that as well? Plastic is real, it isn't going anywhere. COVID-19 sort of gave us a taste of this. When we closed the place down, emissions started dropping. But the war has been a better wake-up call I think. Our actions don't match our words. Words. The conversation's been hijacked by zealots. We are doing our bit for climate, and that's good, but we are not getting rid of plastic, and we are not moving on from oil. We are not giving up the stuff that makes the world go round and life actually work. In these past five and a bit weeks, reality has had its mic drop moment.