Burn oil to pump oil

Burn oil to refine oil

Burn oil to ship oil

So we can burn oil at home.

"We need the fossil fuels to get more fossil fuels to move the fossil fuels just to take the fossil-fuel thing to the fossil fuel store to get more fossil fuels!" -people that sell fossil fuels

Not to mention all the fossil fuel used to build the ships in the first place.

There's a lot of fossil fuel burned before that steel arrives at the shipyard.

...and that would drop the amount of marine fuel needed. Compound interest.

Not to mention that would drastically reduce dirty ocean water and countries can begin to clean up their coastlines.

In the US, we use a lot of prime farmland to grow corn that we turn into ethanol - 30,000,000 acres. Thirty million acres!

That ethanol is combined with gas (making the gas less efficient, by the way) and powers our cars in the US.

If you look at the number of miles the ethanol powers in the US, and calculate how many acres of solar we'd need to power electric cars to go that number of miles, we'd need to convert less than a quarter of a million of those acres to solar. So let's round up from 214,000 acres to the 250,000 because... inefficiencies, or whatever.

So we could gain 29,750,000 acres of land to grow more food or whatever and stop growing corn to turn into ethanol just to burn it in our cars.

For that matter, if we wanted to use that ethanol land (JUST the land we're using for ethanol) to power ALL cars in the US, switching everyone over to electric, it would only take about two million acres. Sure, 2,000,000 acres is a lot, but that would still be freeing up TWENTY EIGHT MILLION ACRES of land we're using JUST to grow corn we turn into ethanol.

It does ignore anything like the chaos of forcing everyone to buy a new electric car, setting that infrastructure up - I'm not saying this would be easy, but it is stunning how much land we could stop abusing to grow corn to burn in our cars.

THR GODDAMN ENERGY FALLS FROM THE SKY FOR FREE!!!

🤫pssst,
this is one of the reasons fossil isn’t replaced as fast as it could and should be

Please always provide a source.

Internal Combustion Engine age.

If the post is even accurate, that likely doesn't factor in secondary needs. Roads, tires, shampoo, soap, lubricants, hydrogen, solvents, medical plastics. So many things made from oil and oil byproducts.

All of these industries have to be looking into alternatives in parallel, if they are even aware.

Or we could get rid of windmills and underfund solar incentives and research, occupy oil producing nations and try to drive this number higher? It's 2026 people, let's redefine what progress means! 🦅💪🎇

Look, you’re not thinking about the shareholders. I NEED YOU to think about the shareholders! How will they ever make their billions? You selfish bastard!

/s just in case.

Also, there would be less wars in the Middle East.

Source for the statistic

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Please think of the Poor Freight Captains and tHe eCoNoMy