Reducing Emissions or Saving Fuel?
There is a lot of talk about the importance of reducing emissions in mainstream media but almost none about the importance of conserving the remaining fuel resources that we have for as long as possible to attempt to provide the semblance of a smooth transition away from fossil fuels. Is this reluctance on the part of mainstream media a deliberate attempt at covering up the awful truth about how close to complete disaster we really are now? All reasonable and knowledgable scientists agree that we have less than 10 years fuel reserves at the current exponentially increasing rate of consumption.
Is it just a case of mainstream ignorance of the scale of the issue that we are facing as a civilisation? Are the editors scared to voice an opinion that is outside of the conventional norm? Are they waiting for someone else to say the truth so they can quietly and subtly let the cat out of the bag without having to take responsibility for being the bearer of bad news? Is it just too scary to contemplate the truth of the matter? Or are they just not able to comprehend the entirety of the picture in one foul swoop?
We lay it out again just in case there are people reading who have not already grasped the gravity of the situation.
The world is consuming more fuel everyday. The rate of consumption has increased exponentially for the past 100 years. We are now at the point that is otherwise know as 1 minute to midnight. The point at which the remaining resources will be consumed by the time the end of this period of doubling consumption is reached. The end of the current period is within the decade. What that means is by the end of this decade we will consume more fuel than we have available to consume. In other words we have almost completely run out of petroleum based fuel.
The drive to convert the remaining fuel reserves into other forms of energy harnessing technology like solar, wind, hydro, thermal, etc… is only increasing the rate of consumption of the remaining fossil fuel reserves. We will have to be very careful to use what is left as efficiently as possible in order to make the most intelligent use of it for the future generations to look back on and sing our praise.
The announcement today of the US commitment to achieve 54.5 MPG by 2025 is a pointless waste of breath. As useful as saying we pledge to do nothing about our consumption of our valuable fuel reserves until all the fuel has run out and then we will start to make some plans for what we can do to sustain our society with no fuel resources.
They have left it too little, too late. It’s the equivalent of the fixation with increasing the debt ceiling. They have no money so what they are going to do is lend themselves some more money to pay off the debt that they owe to themselves and everyone else instead of just admitting that they have no money.
Unfortunately fuel is a tangible product and when it runs out in the next 10 years there will be no way they can just increase the fuel reserve ceiling. If American’s don’t realise the mess they are in now when it is just stupid money that is on the line what are they going to do when they actually can’t eat because they have no fertiliser to produce their food and no petrol to transport the little amount of food that they can produce?
Until everyone is able to answer these hard questions with tangible solutions and not just meaningless political puffery the stability of global societies are going to get worse not better… and now that we are all connected that means everyone is affected in one way or another.





