I thought with the explosion of electric power and windmills and the electric vehicle boom, fossil fuels would not be required…

Yet, a lot of countries still generate coal and other fossil fuels, is it because there is still filthy amounts of profit there to be made? Maybe they are just so used to it they don’t wanna swap to another resource?

I thought with Solar panels being massively produced, it would sell like hot cakes and you’re literally having the power of the sun in your hand.

  • Hemingways_ShotgunEnglish
    9•8 hours ago

    Despite the replies, the real answer is that it’s not as simple as “stopping drilling”.

    The fossil fuel industry isn’t just oil and fuel…it’s quite literally everything.

    • The vulkanized rubber in the tires of your electric vehicle…yep…petroleum based.

    • The hard plastic that forms the interior panels, and the side walls, the steering wheel and literally everything else made of plastic on the planet? You guessed it…petroleum based.

    • The lubricants that keep the chains chaining, the gears gearing, the whirligigs whirling and the moving parts moving…once again…petroleum based.

    • Much of the cosmetics industry, as well as chapsticks, lotions, sunscreens, etc… Yep…all have at least some petroleum based ingredients.

    • The calking and rubber cement that keeps the tiles your walking on stuck to the floor…yep…you guessed it.

    Are you starting to get it?

    Hippies can complain all they want, and I ABSOLUTELY agree that we need to be moving away from the petroleum industry faster. But it’s not a matter of switching to electric cars because EVERY part of modern life is from the roads we drive on to the keyboard I’m typing this one, is in some way or another making use of a petroleum based product.

    We have a long hard road before that’s not the case anymore.

    • @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      5•4 hours ago

      If we stopped drilling except for those use cases, I’d be a happy hippie. I’m not a hippie today, but I’m willing to change.

      • Hemingways_ShotgunEnglish
        5•4 hours ago

        Oh believe me. I would be too. We’d buy ourselves a hell of a lot of time. I’m just pointing out that the solution is never black and white.