But you have a shiny framed 20 year Warranty from Big Skies Solar Partners!

Yep.

The US EIA (EIA, 2013, pp. 23-29) forecasts total oil consumption in the US will remain static over the next 30 years, through 2040; however, China’s daily oil consumption, which is driven by millions of new automobiles, is expected to increase by another 18 million barrels per day (about 756 million gallons per day)!

“Green initiatives” have Americans, Canadians, Japanese, and most Europeans increasingly paying higher gasoline prices, and, forced into state-mandated energy rationing via highly inverted utility rates meant to discourage use and achieve ridiculous “green energy resource goals”. On the other hand, China, India and Middle Eastern countries have increased petroleum consumption through the roof!

Unfortunately, few commentators review the “global” aspects of carbon pollution, instead focusing on US consumption behavior and trends. When one steps outside our narrow community, and considers actual global petroleum demands, our conservation and rationing efforts become negligible, if not insignificant, in the global marketplace.

Further, in spite of non-OECD countries’ enormous increase in fossil fuel consumption, global warming over the same period decreased. One must conclude that oil consumption and global climate change are not correlated, or only have a very weak correlation. If they were linked, wouldn’t temperatures around the globe be skyrocketing from the enormous increase in oil consumption for vehicle transportation?

It’s time that California ends its experiment with climate change, cap and trade, unfair electric rates and extreme air quality regulations.

Source:
US DOE/EIA “International Energy Outlook 2013, with forecasts to 2040” (July 25, 2013). DOE/EIA-0484 (2013). Retrieved from http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/ieo/.