Saturday, July 30, 2022
Fwd: Energy Clarity: Oil is everywhere
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From: "Alex Epstein" <alex@industrialprogress.net>
Date: July 30, 2022 at 11:46:48 AM CDT
To: "Bobby Martin" <bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com>
Subject: Energy Clarity: Oil is everywhere
Our hydrocarbon world
Using oil and gas, the hydrocarbon industry also produces a caliber of synthetic materials that cannot be matched by any other industry. Oil and gas are used to create artificial hearts, bullet-proof vests, insulation, carpet, golf balls, ink, and countless other products.
Where did these materials come from? Let's take something as seemingly unrelated to oil as paper. You might say, "I know where paper comes from. Paper comes from trees." But if you notice, there's a coating on the paper that makes it a lot easier to write on.
With paper and with all of the products around us, it's worth asking: "Where does it come from? Does it come from a rock, does it come from a plant, does it come from metal? Glass? Sand?"
If you ask that question, you'll find that the answer more often than not is that it comes from oil or from natural gas. It's amazing how much in our life is made from hydrocarbons.
Another question you should ask yourself is, "How frequently do I use oil-based materials?" You may be surprised to find that it's nearly impossible to get through an entire day without coming into contact with dozens of oil-based products that improve your life. (When I say oil-based, I include natural gas-based products too.)
An oil walk
Let's try this: let's go through your day and spot all of the things made possible by oil. Say you wake up and hit snooze on your alarm clock. It's an electric device so why aren't you worried about potentially getting electrocuted? Well, there's a cord that insulates the electricity and protects you from that. What's it made of? It's made of oil, which means that some brilliant engineers figured out how to take this hydrocarbon and turn it into a cord, and do it very affordably.
How does that work? Basically, hydrocarbon molecules have a potential to be very versatile, but you need human ingenuity to figure out how to break them down into "monamers," which are very small hydrocarbon molecules. Then, the brilliant engineers figure out how to make the monamers into "polymers," which are these different combinations of the hydrocarbon molecules that can serve any purpose.
Next, say you don't want to get out of bed because it's so comfortable and you think, "Gosh, I love this Tempur-Pedic bed, it feels so good." Where does Tempur-Pedic come from?
This is oil, too. You might think, "Well, this isn't relevant to me because I have a Sleep Number bed, and that's high gauge plastic, not just foam." Wait. The oil industry makes that, too.
You can't even get out of bed in this exercise, because there are so many things about your bed that are made from oil.
When you do get up, what's the first thing your feet touch? The floor and very likely a rug or carpet. What's that carpet made from? It's made from oil. And why are you warm? It's not just because of the natural gas-based heating you may have, but also because of the oil-based insulation in the walls. "What about the paint on the walls?" That too, is from oil.
And as you get dressed, you'll find that your plastic eyeglass lenses, your nylon socks, and your rubber-soled shoes all come from oil, too.
Oil is literally everywhere.
What if hydrocarbons were more expensive?
Here's the question to ask. What would happen to these materials if oil and gas were more expensive? The products that use those materials are made that way because the oil-based materials enable them to be higher quality, less expensive, or both. And sometimes those products can't be replicated with other materials: absent oil and gas, they wouldn't exist.
If oil and gas are more expensive then products would be lower quality, more expensive, or non-existent.
Only fossil fuels can give billions access to energy
To recap what we've covered so far:
- Energy is fundamental
- Energy needs to be cheap, plentiful, and reliable
- The process for creating energy also needs to be cheap, plentiful, and reliable
- The fossil fuel industry is the only industry that can provide cheap, plentiful, and reliable energy for billions of people
And that brings us to the conclusion that without the hydrocarbon industry's unique efficiency, vital energy and materials would not be affordable or available to billions of people.
Fossil fuels = access to energy
Simply put, using fossil fuels means more people have more access to energy. Which means, all things being equal, more years of life added on to billions of people's lives.
And thus, every fossil fuel discussion should incorporate the context that the fossil fuel industry is the only industry that can produce cheap, plentiful, reliable energy for billions of people.
Monday, July 25, 2022
Fwd: Failure Failure. Failure.
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From: Ron DeSantis <news@e.americanactionnews.com>
Date: July 25, 2022 at 7:32:37 PM CDT
To: bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com
Subject: Failure Failure. Failure.
Friend,
The media's lens for viewing the government is broken.
It's broken in a way that makes it easy for the legacy media to call real, rational concern hyperbole. It's broken in a way that makes it easy for the media to normalize failure.
When I tell you Joe Biden is a failed president, the media line up to attack me. But make no mistake, he is a failure.
He has failed the American people.
He has failed you.
He, with help from the corporate media, has gone a step further and normalized that failure. It's so normal they look at you sideways for even noticing it.
I need you to pause here for a second. Think about the messages you get on a daily basis from the Biden administration and from their allies in the media. If you boil them down, you'll hear two steady notes. A drum beat:
- Everything is going fine.
- Anything that isn't fine isn't Joe Biden's fault.
One. Two. One. Two.
And they're going to keep beating that drum faster and faster and faster to try and misdirect the American people into supporting Biden apologists for office in 2022.
That's not a tune I will listen to. That's not a tune you're going to hear in Florida.
Biden's failure isn't something we made up. It's not a set of talking points. The choices he's made are real, their consequences have been devastating, and the pain felt by Americans across the country is real.
This legacy of failure he's cementing is seeping its way into every crevice of our country.
He presided over out-of-control spending that drove up the price of EVERYTHING and inflated away your purchasing power...
He's bowed to climate extremists and embraced an energy policy that you're paying for every day in higher costs at the pump...
Perhaps his greatest failure has been his total negligence regarding our southern border.
Over 3 million people have illegally crossed the border since he took office. 3,000,000 people. And Joe Biden has done nothing but facilitate it.
His failure at the border is killing people. It's creating enormous levels of drug trafficking. For the first time ever, the leading cause of death for people 18-45 in the U.S. is fentanyl overdose. 95% of which is coming from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Those deaths are a direct result of Biden's failure. I refuse to ignore that failure. I refuse to accept it. You should not accept it, either.
The 2022 elections are a line in the sand. In states like Florida, where we have a slate of Biden apologists running for office, we cannot give one single inch.
Not one.
That's why I wrote to you today. You know Biden has failed. You see it every time you fill up your car. You see it every time you read the news and see crime spilling onto our streets. You hear it every time your kids or grandkids echo some woke nonsense they heard from some Leftist talking points.
But I need you to do more than just know it. I need you to take action. I need you to make a donation right now.
We're going to work for every single vote, every single mind, every single choice. We're going to ensure that the message that Joe hears on Election Night is crystal-clear:
Florida isn't Biden Country. America isn't Biden Country.
Failure will not be our legacy.
Please, make a donation right now. Help me deliver that message.
Sincerely,
Ron DeSantis
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Saturday, July 23, 2022
Sunday, July 3, 2022
Fwd: Ridiculous!
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From: Senator Kennedy <info@johnkennedy.com>
Date: July 3, 2022 at 12:02:15 PM CDT
To: bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com
Subject: Ridiculous!
Reply-To: info@johnkennedy.com
John Kennedy for Senate
Those wackjobs in the White House could swallow a nail and spit out a corkscrew. Every time they open their mouths, it's just another wave of ridiculous jargon cut from the same cloth of their crooked, radical agenda.
We can't continue to let these Radical Wokers run this country into the ground and destroy everything we hold dear.
FIRE JOE BIDEN
Thankfully, we're finally approaching a point where we can stop this. We're finally going to set the record straight and let the Democrats know that Americans aren't buying into their ridiculous Agenda.
Will you help me put an end to the craziness?
RUSH $25
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I'm up for re-election in November - and the Radicals are doing everything to stop me. I need your help if we're going to win this election and put a stop to the people that are destroying this country. Will you rush whatever donation you can to put an end to the Radical Left's control over Washington?
Thank you,
Senator Kennedy
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