People aren’t using as much fossil fuels because government dictators have told them to stay home, have closed businesses, have caused businesses to whither, what with their policies to react to bat soup virus
Home-working, fewer flights and less urban pollution could bring a faster shift from an economy built on fossil fuels https://t.co/C7SZ3N66eJ
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) April 20, 2020
From the article
Oil, it has been said, is the blood coursing through the veins of the world economy. In 2020 the economy is bleeding red. As covid-19 keeps workers at home and planes on the ground, demand for oil has fallen faster and further than at any point in its history. Amplifying the shock, a furious row between Saudi Arabia and Russia set off a price war in early March. Last month oil prices fell by more than half, leaving a giant industry reeling.
The rest of the article is behind a real paywall, but, it’s unnecessary to read the rest, you know where it is going. It will bash fossil fuels, say this is the world we need. “The oil slump is a glimpse of what is to come.” Right, people sitting at home not working, not earning, possibly losing their apartments, homes, cars. Dependent on government. Mass unemployment.
Only so many people can work from home. Can retail work from home? How about factories? If kids are not in school, but at home, at least one parent has to be home. Fewer flights? Trying to restrict where citizens can travel.
It is interesting that, despite urban areas being full of Warmists that their urban areas are pollution filled.
Why do green economists taking such delight in suffering?
The AGW movement took a hit with this virus. All these models that are so preposterously wrong. I mean they have been so far out in left field as to be a mockery and yet the left hugs them screaming WE MUST DIE IN OUR HOMES UNTIL NOVEMBER.
The world must starve. No one can eat or drink or be happy until TRUMP IS DEAD OR VOTED OUT OF OFFICE.
These models that can’t be counted on in REAL TIME then presupposes we are supposed to believe the AGW climate scientist models that predict what the weather and earth will be like in 10-100 years.
No matter what is happening one thing that stands true with the left.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
unless of course you vote them into office, in which case they will herd everyone onto plantations and save the world. BY TAXING YOU TO DEATH.
Plantations are so 19th century Klem. The latest are gulags, work camps or death camps depending upon how they compute your social worth.
I like plantation because the racist left who projects their racism on the right does not even realize that they have their own plantation of slaves who must toe the line or lose their welfare checks.
They hate Trump for GIVING THEM JOBS! Oh my God. The hate for Trump for giving their own people jobs.
You mean like the concentration camps for Central American children that you support?
… If kids are not in school, but at home, at least one parent has to be home.
Or just change the rules and change the minimum age for children to be unattended. With modern internet home monitoring, it’s not as important as it once was. A whole lot of laws need to change to catch up with what we have all learned from this experience. For one thing, since every child who hasn’t attended school for this half of the year is going to progress to the next grade anyway, there is no longer any need to pretend that schools actually teach anything. There is certainly no objective standard to move up. Truancy laws should be eliminated. Making up lost “snow days” is futile and irrelevant. The whole point of the public school system can be boiled down to warehousing children so their parents can work or play, and creating jobs for teachers union members.
Conservatism: Building a Bridge to the 19th Century!