The world’s population explosion demands new energy and electricity channels

Electricity came AFTER oil, as ALL electrical generation methods from hydro, coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar are ALL built with the products, components, and equipment that are made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.

Without Crude Oil there can be no Electricity! But we can and should be developing renewables that do not depend on crude oil.

In addition, electricity can charge an iPhone, but neither wind turbines nor solar panels can MAKE an iPhone, thus everything that needs electricity consists of products that are also made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.

Without Crude Oil there will be no products like iPhones, X-ray machines, etc., that NEEDS electricity!

We can develop a "few" products from bamboo or hemp, etc., but all the experts in the world have been unable to match the versatility and diverse products that have resulted in more than 6,000 products that did not exist a few hundred years ago. So, until alternatives to these oil-based products are found, oil should be used as little as possible for transportation and other uses where there are alternatives. And of course we go back to the root cause of environmental destruction, overpopulation. Changes must be made to reduce the number of people on the planet to a viable carrying capacity.

The world extracts from Mother Earth over 100 million barrels of oil per day, while the United States consumes around 20 million barrels daily. That oil is not being replenished, and those poorer developing countries want to be "like us", thus worldwide extraction rates may increase to meet the demands of humanity for all 8 billion now on this planet. The United States should be taking a leading role is reducing demand for oil and take a leading role in solving our climate crisis.

At that horrific rate of extracting that "one" natural resource, the question is "what are the oil reserves"? Technology keeps changing, but current estimates are 100 to 200 years of oil reserves left on this planet. Let us use it wisely so it will last!

Even if the estimated reserves are way off, and we have 500 or 1,000 years left, this 4-billion-year-old planet will still be part of the Solar System with or without us.

We don't mean to be pessimistic, but reality is right in our face.

Oil-based products, mainly plastic, are causing ecological havoc. Microplastics are in the land, oceans, and our bodies and are unhealthy for humans and wildlife. Recycling and reuse are crucial.

Hopefully, we, in the wealthier and healthier countries, can co-exist with the poorer and less healthy countries that are enslaving labor in mines and factories to provide the exotic minerals and metals required for the green energy technologies for the construction of EV batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines, and with the Saudis, Russians, and Chinese without chaos for the oil demands of America.

Humanity exists in all weather extremes of the world, from the hot and dry Sahara Desert to the frigid northern hemispheres. The animal kingdom has adjusted to climate change over billions of years but can't evolve fast enough for the human impacts we have caused. And now humanity, without a replacement for raw crude oil, may need to use the tools provided by oil products and fuels to master the continuous climate change adjustment challenges.