The so-called 'green movement' increases the world's demands for crude oil!

Today, we have more than 50,000 merchant ships, more than 20,000 commercial aircraft, and more than 50,000 military aircraft that use fuel manufactured from crude oil. The fuels to move the heavy-weight and long-range needs of jets moving people and products, the merchant ships for global trade flows, and the military and space programs are also dependent on what can be manufactured from crude oil.

In California, the fourth-largest economy in the world, energy policymakers are proud that California has increased imported crude oil from 5 percent in 1992 to almost 60 percent of total consumption today. Today, California's 9 International airports, 41 military airports, and 3 of the largest shipping ports in the world are all controlled by foreign oil.

If the United States energy policymakers follow California's 'so-called successes' in continuing to reduce crude oil production, the country will have to continue increasing its reliance on foreign countries to meet America's economic demands for products and transportation fuels!

Our so-called "energy leaders" are oblivious to the fact that China is coming to the rescue with Asia's 88 new refineriesfor manufactured oil derivatives that are the basis of most every product being used by mankind, as well as the manufactured fuels used by every transportation infrastructure, and the military.

When government mandates and financial subsidies pick winners and losers, citizens start to suffer. Since subsidies come from all of us, maybe we should be careful how we use them. It turns out that most of the subsidies go to foreign businesses, many of which support the exploitation of slave labor to mine for the "green" minerals and metals to produce the windmills, solar panels, and EV batteries as well as the infliction of environmental degradation to "their" landscapes just to reinforce mandated EV's, wind turbines, and solar panels in "our backyards"!

In the meantime, the so-called "green movement" continues to increase the world's demands for crude oil and all the products and fuels manufactured from crude oil, that renewables are unable to manufacture.