I don’t understand why there’s no secondary option if Strait of Hormuz goes down. Obviously there are alternative routes out there but why big gas companies even governments did not see this coming. Are they okay losing billions? Or do they actually have a plan that ordinary people don’t know about?
Renewable energy would remedy much of this situation, but some CEOs somewhere might not be able to afford a fifth superyacht
Renewable energy sources are purposefully unsubsidized to keep the world dependent on coal, oil, and fossil gas (they market it as natural gas) If they allowed for alternative energies, they’d lose footing as part of the interconnected system of ruling families known as the oligarchy. No progress will be made in the current system. Even climate change won’t be reversible until we’ve been heat-blasted for decades. It’s shameful and infuriating.
In the Netherlands people who use solar have to PAY to feed power to the network. It’s bat shit crazy.
Pay to share? The excess energy? Why punish those people? Ridiculous.
The government gets backhanders from the fossil fuel industry.
I mean, we do. The world isn’t experiencing blackouts as a whole. We have alternative energy, generators, contingency plans, other oil suppliers, reserves, etc. It’s just that the largest trading route by far is currently not an option, so we’re feeling the squeeze from that.
There are backup plans, they are just more costly. Big Gas companies will just pass that cost down the line. Trust me, those companies were never in danger of losing money.
The oil companies made a backup plan, patented the hell out of everything and then shelved it. Source: I used to work for one.
A patent means that a design is publicly published. If it was patented there would be designs that anyone could read and build for personal research. There would be YouTubers showing off their work. This happened 15 years ago when 3d printing was still under patent protection.
China in general doesn’t care about US patents until they’re big enough to be sued. It would be on Aliexpress next to the retro game consoles that include hundreds of stolen roms.
And Patents are only good for 20 years.
So yeah, quit the bullshit. I’ve heard stories about miraculous inventions being patented and sat on by oil companies for 50 years. There’s no car that can run on water. They’re all scams that became urban legends.
Gee, I wonder who’s right, the person who literally worked for one of the largest fossil fuel companies in the world or the random Internet stranger 🤔
If your claim is true then you could show the patents. They’re public. You’d know that if you actually worked for an oil company in the capacity to know anything about patents.
I taught a TCPIP class a few times to Chevron in Houston so technically I worked for one of the largest oil companies in the world too.
Patents Assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. - Justia Patents Search https://patents.justia.com/assignee/chevron-u-s-a-inc
Yes Chevron has patents. That’s not the claim.
The claim is that oil companies are sitting on patents that would make oil obsolete.
US20120005949A1 - Solvent-enhanced biomass liquefaction - Google Patents https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120005949A1/en
Status: ABANDONED
You didn’t even read the summary.
Because it is a collective problem for society to solve until it is profitable to invest and privatise and lock down.
There’s no plan. Most states have strategic reserves of oil and gas, but that’s about it.
Thankfully world shifts to renewables organically year by year.
What most people aren’t aware of, is that those reserves are enough to keep the military running for like 3 days.
Canada should have pipelines and port facilities for shipping oil and gas all around the world
But for some strange reason we don’t
says who? the first nations don’t agree to have their lands and people raped by pipeline workers
It’s mostly crown land
Lizzy’s in a box last time I checked
I don’t think Israeli government cares about this as long as they can bomb more children.
The US declared every country where a pipeline could pass from there to any large consumer as an enemy and has been trying for half a century to destroy them.
Its not a backup plan. Its the new plan and the current situation is only going to accelerate it. You will know its won when the oil companies convert to wind and solar.
