No Such Thing as a Low-Energy Rich Country
January 4, 2024
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
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But the globalists don’t want the masses rich, they want them regressed, living with poverty, ill health, hunger and much reduced energy requirements
1. Successful economies use a lot of energy.
2. A healthy economy can only exist based on cheap energy. In reality, energy is cheap, especially coal, gas and oil.
3. Making energy expensive is suicidal, especially using so-called “renewables” that only exist as subsidy-chasing businesses.
4. There is no future for mankind without coal, oil and gas. Anyone who disputes this is scientifically illiterate.
5. Cheap energy alleviates poverty, keeps people warm, well-fed and happy.
6. The more energy we use, the better outcomes for people world-wide. Better outcomes will plateau populations, stabilise growth, stabilise conflict.
7. “saving” or rationing energy has extremely negative consequences.
8. If politicians decide to make energy expensive by stealing our money to pay subsidies to “renewable” scammers (wind, solar and biomass), they simple create poverty, hardship, hunger and political division.
Well said and extremely accurate.
Coal, oil, gas AND Nuclear – we should have been using the energy density of coal, oil and gas to build out the much more energy dense nuclear power sources, so that we can use gas and oil where their combustion heat is more appropriate, and as chemical feedstocks.
Spot on Will.
Concise and accurate
Spot on
Fossil fuels also help protect the environment e.g. because people don’t have to cut down forests for firewood, fossil fuels make agriculture more efficient so less land has to be cleared for farming and countries with oil or gas deposits can earn foreign currency without exploiting their forests.
All true but Economics isn’t linear. We have cheap energy because we have successful economies and we have successful economies because we have cheap energy. We have both because we keep finding ways to do stuff in better ways.
The X axis scale is a bit annoying. If it was even it would show much more of a plateau.
It’s been said frequently: western civilisation is built on reliable, cheap energy.