Good summary, Alan, but oil production per se doesn't create much CO2, its the folk who use
hydrocarbon fuels who burn it, which is you and me.
Not exact matches
Apparently there are a lot of people
who seem to like that hippy commune style of living, and feel free, don't let me stop you, but I want the Jetson's, I want humans to become a spacefaring race, we need to mine the asteroid belt, and someday travel to the stars, but in the mean while there are oceans of liquid
hydrocarbons (though not very practical as a home heating
fuel, I realize) and boulders of platinum group metals out there to go get.
The financial think - tank says the fate of US coal should serve as a warning to investors in other fossil
fuel markets worldwide
who fail to prudently read a structural shift away from
hydrocarbons and blindly continue to invest in assets that are in increasingly in danger of becoming stranded.
However the reporter (
who may or may not be the same as the El Nino episode) drove a
hydrocarbon fuelled car from the far flung but leafy outer suburbs at the crack of dawn to get into the city CBD before rush hour.
That perception encourages us all to pay more than the
fuel should cost and puts enormous quantities of dollars into the pockets of people
who have no skills, talents or resources other than their influence over sources of
hydrocarbons.
Fossil
fuels were not the problem, but their «harmful emissions,» said Al - Naimi,
who represents the
hydrocarbon - rich Middle Eastern kingdom at UN climate talks and stepped down as chairman of national oil company Aramco in 2015.