Cuba is struggling with devastating nationwide blackouts as the United States’ effective oil blockade strangles fuel supplies. But this crisis may also be accelerating a China-backed clean energy revolution that’s been quietly unfolding in the Caribbean nation.
I know! Oil is just a fiction and we can totally grow crops and fertilize them and make pesticides and plastics and chemicals with sunshine and rainbows which is why the population reached 8 billion by 2000 BC!
This is kind-of a non-sequitur to begin with, but we should not be burning oil to make energy— it’s stupid. We should stop doing that as fast as is possible, and the culture war element mentioned by the person you’re replying to is a obstacle that needs to be dealt with. As you’re keen to point out, it’s useful for manufacturing many vitally important things, so no longer setting it on fire is the only sane move. (Among many other reasons.)
What’s dumb is getting oil just to burn it is stupid. There are better ways now but momentum is hard to overcome.
Oil is made of sunshine and rainbows dummy, where do you think the energy comes from?
Ancient plants metabolized sunshine to produce fats and sugars, which were then consumed by animals. It all got cooked into a soup from millions of years of heat and pressure. Oil is basically a solar battery.
What’s wrong with gathering new solar energy?