{"id":62389,"date":"2022-04-04T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T23:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62389"},"modified":"2022-04-05T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:02:09","slug":"homeland-security-critical-infrastructure-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62389","title":{"rendered":"Implications of Refinery closures for Homeland Security &#038; critical infrastructure safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to Implications of Refinery closures for Homeland Security &amp; critical infrastructure safety\" href=\"https:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2022\/implications-of-refinery-closures-for-homeland-security-and-critical-infrastructure-safety\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Implications of Refinery closures for Homeland Security &amp; critical infrastructure safety<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Preface<\/strong>. The talk of electric vehicles saving the world from greenhouse gases is nonsense, a red herring to distract everyone from what\u2019s really at stake, and from the material requirements to build them with rare earth and other scarce minerals, and the immense amount of fossil energy required to make them in mining, smelting, manufacture and transport of thousands of parts, and so on. But just focusing on greenhouse gases is a very sneaky way to ignore myriad obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>Cars are just 14% of emissions, and EV only replace gasoline, not the diesel essential for heavy-duty trucks, locomotives, and ships, the kerosene for airplanes, the lubricants essential for all motors, including EV, or the road asphalt EV and diesel trucks move on. EV are less than 1% of cars and always will be, they are too expensive for all but the richest 5% who also have garages and want one and live in places where heat and cold won\u2019t reduce performance and battery life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A National Laboratory scientist on Chinese gasoline, refining, and petroleum products:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the years I have taken the opportunity to ask oil companies about how they would deal with a demand slate stripped of it gasoline fraction, given that that is about the only fraction being targeted by electrification. Chevron\u2019s answer was fairly simple: \u201cIt\u2019s our profit center so we\u2019d probably close the refinery\u201d (thus no oil products). Two years in a row I asked the same question to Exxon during some briefings, and both times they said they were \u201clooking into it\u201d and would get back to me (but they never did)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Implications of Refinery closures for Homeland Security &amp; critical infrastructure safety Preface. The talk of electric vehicles saving the world from greenhouse gases is nonsense, a red herring to distract everyone from what\u2019s really at stake, and from the material requirements to build them with rare earth and other scarce minerals, and the immense amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11836,11859,328,1227,427,7537,827],"class_list":["post-62389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-energy-skeptic","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-homeland-security","tag-infrastructure","tag-oil-refineries","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62400,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62389\/revisions\/62400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}