RIP Oregon self-service gas prohibition 1951-2023

The station I go to in C-town will not observe self-serve and will still have their attendants pump the gas. Apparently, it's the retailer's choice and just because it's legal doesn't mean they have to allow it. 

You mean - gulp - kinda like going to most grocery stores now?  Choice?  The horror!

But - gulp - that means continuing to drill and pump oil.  The haters will never allow that - no matter how clean natural gas and propane are.  Until recent years, natural gas, which burns insanely clean, was just gassed off during pumping of oil and burned.  It is plentiful, and normally cheap.  Mining Lithium and burning up people from spontaneous combustion of batteries is so much better!

Shhh, don’t mention fracking or the fact that the US would rather go to war than seriously wean their oil addiction.

You keep moving the goalpost.

The United States of America now has the ability to produce more energy than it needs.  Why would we need to "go to war" for it?  With whom would we go to war?

The United States of America has so much energy that we can afford to sell oil 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana to England and Japan.

Plus, oil is missing the point.  Only 36% of CO2 emissions in the United States comes from petroleum combustion, and 14.02% of the world's CO2 production comes from the United States.

So all-told, we discussing what?  About 5% of the issue?  And yet that is where 95% of the effort is focused.  I am guessing as a subterfuge to trick people into voting against their own interests.  But what do I know?

Geothermal, nuclear, and wave power have always concerned me.  Geothermal and nuclear seem to be messing with Earth's internal dynamo.  And wave power seem to be messing with the intricate balance between the Earth and the Moon.

If large-scale harvesting of geothermal energy or atomic elements occur, you could theoretically upset Earth's internal dynamo and destroy the magnetosphere or cause a reversal.  Or you could upset the Earth cooling effects of vulcanism that offset the Sun's generally increasing heat.

If you take too much energy out of the oceans, you could theoretically perturb the Moon's orbit.  (The Moon pulls on the oceans and the oceans pull back to keep the Moon in its orbit.)

A largescale shift to solar and wind are the future.  They present the least problems with largescale use.  But everyone needs to get on board, especially China.  We can't hamstring ourselves, reducing CO2 emissions by almost 15% in the previous 20 years, while China has more than tripled its CO2 output in the past 20 years.