Originally Posted by
lil brown bat
My brother is unemployed. He does not drive to work. He consumes petroleum in the form of heating oil among others.
Most of the power generated in the US is by hydroelectric, coal, nuclear, and natural gas. Much heating is done with natural gas. In certain places in the US, such as where I live, there is very little need for either heat or AC. Texas promotes "Total Electric Living" and the use of natural gas where needed. Texas is a large state.
Originally Posted by
lil brown bat
My friend Jake telecommutes. He consumes petroleum in the form of gasoline used for non-work driving and heating oil, among others.
I know many car free people that don't use gas. I have lived a car minimal lifestyle. My neighbor who does commute does so on bicycle, my other neighbor does so in a Prius, which still uses gas, but to a much less extent than say an SUV.
Originally Posted by
lil brown bat
Every American worker who drives to work also consumes petroleum in the form of: consumption of petroleum-based products such as plastics and synthetic fabrics; heating oil; petroleum used to transport goods that that they consume; gasoline or diesel used to power equipment from lawnmowers to chainsaws to snowmobiles to ski lifts to backhoes that are used by them directly or on their behalf. Find me one American who drives to work and yet consumes no other petroleum, in any other form, and I'll consider retracting this statement.
Not all oil is of the same quality... the light sweet crude is used to make gasoline, where as domestic oil can easily be used to make plastics and fertilizer as well as be used in other processes.
Originally Posted by
lil brown bat
No you don't, because I made no quantitative claims that would need numbers to substantiate them.
No, you merely denied the claims made by Popular Science with a few blanket statements that contained no facts or quantitative numbers what so ever.