7/2017
I was listening to the CEO of Ford talk about Ford’s plans to increase the development of their line of electric vehicles. It was kinda funny as they pointed out that Ford sold about 8,000 electric vehicles in the first 10 months of 2015 (as compared to 800,000 F150 series pickups). The interviewer and he agreed that this conversion to electricity had to be done because oil is not a renewable resource.
Wrong Kemosabe! Oil is not renewable because we do not farm oil. What I mean by that is that, currently, we just take oil out and don’t put the makings back in.
If we just cut down trees and never planted any seedlings, wood products would not be renewable. But, it is because we do.
The problem, as I see it, is that we put dead people in caskets and vaults or we cremate them. Now how are we gonna get anywhere doing that? What we need is a National Program to dump dead bodies into the California tar pits (we could make other “tar pit centers” across the nation) and let nature take its course. We only think we know how long it takes to turn dead animals into oil.
We haven’t actually tried it and proven that it takes millions of years.
From your renewable-energy-conscious grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave.
Weary.