What else do we use petroleum for anyways? Only things that come to mind are power plants and making rubber and plastics. Are we just making a fuckton of plastic and rubber in the States?
Aside from fueling other vehicles (jet/bunker fuel) which, based on the current limitations of electrical power aren't feasible to run on an alternative fuel source, we use it for heating and synthetic fibers (polyester, nylon, etc...), paint, soap, film, canned food, pain reliever medication, and some forms of wax.
But really, from a military perspective even if we switched to electrical powered vehicles (even, somehow, aircraft), we'd still have to spend a ton of money to convert the military vehicles and you'd still need oil for tires, clothes, shoes, and all the other junk consumed by the military that require oil in some fashion or another.
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What else do we use petroleum for anyways? Only things that come to mind are power plants and making rubber and plastics. Are we just making a fuckton of plastic and rubber in the States?
Aside from fueling other vehicles (jet/bunker fuel) which, based on the current limitations of electrical power aren't feasible to run on an alternative fuel source, we use it for heating and synthetic fibers (polyester, nylon, etc...), paint, soap, film, canned food, pain reliever medication, and some forms of wax.
But really, from a military perspective even if we switched to electrical powered vehicles (even, somehow, aircraft), we'd still have to spend a ton of money to convert the military vehicles and you'd still need oil for tires, clothes, shoes, and all the other junk consumed by the military that require oil in some fashion or another.
Fuel oil isn't used in power plants in general, fyi.
The "energy crisis" is only applicable to electricity generation if everyone switches to electric cars or hydrogen created by WIZARD LIGHTNING MAGIC
I'm skeptical of that graph. Most of the stuff that US citizens buy is made with/out of oil, but it is not made in the US. If you count the oil that goes into all the imported stuff we buy, I'll bet the proportion of industrial use goes up a lot.
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Aside from fueling other vehicles (jet/bunker fuel) which, based on the current limitations of electrical power aren't feasible to run on an alternative fuel source, we use it for heating and synthetic fibers (polyester, nylon, etc...), paint, soap, film, canned food, pain reliever medication, and some forms of wax.
But really, from a military perspective even if we switched to electrical powered vehicles (even, somehow, aircraft), we'd still have to spend a ton of money to convert the military vehicles and you'd still need oil for tires, clothes, shoes, and all the other junk consumed by the military that require oil in some fashion or another.
Fuel oil isn't used in power plants in general, fyi.
The "energy crisis" is only applicable to electricity generation if everyone switches to electric cars or hydrogen created by WIZARD LIGHTNING MAGIC
Hehehe
his name is Dick.
But yes, if we cut recreational driving in half, that's like EuropeBBY worth of oil