Hydrocarbons Driving Prosperity for Generations to Come : Solar Power Not A Factor

When 'policy makers' cheer for something that no one really cares about is just politics as usual - they cheer but have no idea why they are cheering. The wealth of the nation is dependent on fossil based energy and will be for generations to come, but pay no mind to this as the going frenzy to become 'one with the earth' rages with a vocal minority.

Another question is why do politicians become so involved with such a small number of individuals like the fanatical 'warmers and changers'? Easy, the general public is so easily duped into believing just abut anything just to make them go away. It's just easier to say 'okay I'll vote for you on election day, but leave me alone so I can get on with my life.' Only they won't leave the population alone, they will always come back for more.

Again, and how many time can I say this to make an impression, the progressive socialist liberals democrats and their allies in the environmental community are just interested in getting and keeping power that will allow them to control all out comes in American society.

They have no evidence that supports they claim for man make green house gases that causes climate change. Science is not consensus which warmers use to support their agenda.

This is the ideology, this is the agenda. There is not now or will there ever be compromise. The attacks on the general population will never end until they have what they want.

Solar Boom Pales in Comparison to Oil and Gas Production
Source: Robert Bryce, "Yes, solar is booming, but...," Newsday, September 2, 2014.

September 4, 2014

Since 2011, the amount of solar energy has doubled, and 400,000 American homes now have rooftop solar panels. Even with this growth, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Robert Bryce reminds readers the growth in solar is nothing compared to the hydrocarbon boom.

For example, American oil production in July 2014 was 8.5 million barrels per day, a 1.2 million barrel increase over the previous year's production. Solar, on the other hand, was producing the energy equivalent of 600,000 barrels per day in 2013. In short, Bryce explains, in just one year, the United States increased its oil production by more than twice the energy output of the entire solar sector.

He also compares solar with coal energy:

• Coal use worldwide increased 3 percent in 2013 -- the energy equivalent of 2 million barrels of oil each day.
• Thus, the world's coal use increased by more than three times the amount of energy all solar power today provides.
• Coal consumption is the equivalent of 77 million barrels of oil per day -- 128 times the amount of energy produced by solar power.

Bryce writes that solar power is a good thing, offering real opportunities in rural economies in need of electricity. But policymakers cheering the growth of solar power often fail to note how oil and gas is revolutionizing the energy industry and producing vast amounts of energy.