Fossil fuel

There is a part of me that understands why people don't enjoy their first viewing of Digger.

The aspects that make Fossil Fuels and the theater production framing device very interesting are not revealed until the last 30 minutes of the movie.

So if you are like violently bored by Kenny Rockwell's production of Fossil Fuels and the play within a movie meta, like it doesn't get to you at all, you have a really long march ahead of you until you get to like the interesting dystopian sci-fi stuff.

That means that first-timers only, like, get the context that they're basically watching a Christmas carol in a world where a very real Ebenezer Scrooge caused something 400 times worse than 9-11 just in time for, like, the less bombastic quiet scene on the oil rig.

They only find out that Digger's family is putting on the play after, like, most of the really horrific and crazy stuff is in the rearview mirror.

All right, goodbye.

No, I'm kidding.

Putting fossil fuels in the atmosphere.

It's a problem the industry and organisations like the IPCC call Indirect Land Use Change or ILUC.

And when ILUC is factored in, some analyses, including recent reports from groups like the European Federation for Transport and Environment, find that certain biofuels emit as much or even more CO2 than the fossil fuels they replace.

It's not just the USA either, although that country is by far the worst offender as this chart clearly shows.

Brazil, Europe, Indonesia and several other countries dominate the global biofuel market with demand expected to rise by 40% by 2030.

Biofuels may have limited roles in specific sectors, but if they become a substitute for genuine fossil fuel phase-down, then they risk doing more to protect the status quo than to transform it.

And that, ultimately, is the question we need to ask.

Are biofuels helping us move beyond fossil fuels, or are they helping fossil fuels evolve just enough to survive? I've left a link in the description to the open source research paper so you can read it in full and draw your own conclusions.

And I'm sure you'll all have your own strong views on this one, so as always, the place to leave your thoughts is in the comments section below.

I don't think any war is about that.

I think you nailed it initially when you said it's about our hyperdependence on fossil fuels.

This is a resource-rich region.

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This will be, I think, my 16th COP that I'm going to in Turkey in a couple of weeks.

And it's been the same conversation, the refusal to address fossil fuels for many, many years.

And this year, we changed that.

And I think that that will have huge ramifications.

I'm Michael Stein.

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And we were just talking, and I do think there's a sense of not despair, but people are really... uh rattled and down about the direction of federal energy policy look there are a lot of people who love to drill baby drill and that's all they that's all they want maybe they live in states where that'll make them some money maybe they just don't trust the next chapter of of energy but for a lot of people it's like well some some departure from fossil fuels made sense if not you know at some point a transition we can all see it yeah so what are you doing that it's great.

What are you doing that can answer the power of the federal government, which is now pedal to the metal drill, baby drill, you know, killing wind power, all the rest?

Well, let me just mention

You know, reality is kind of your benefit sometimes.

I know you don't get reality out of the White House, but here's a simple reality.

92% of all the new generating capacity installed in the United States last year was clean, was non-fossil fuels.

And the reason is it was cheaper.