Thread by @homemadeguitars

.@ClimateBen tweeted this last night.
I'd like to add to it by mentioning the sources of the emissions to which he refers.

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1463423171781083140

2. This tweet is in the same thread.
Record CO2 emissions.
Anybody wonder why?

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1463427605072392192?t=UVc_zNzl9X8hiEN3ZGwRQg&s=19

3. The BIF (Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework) aka (Big Industrial Fuckup) highway project, by itself, will be one of the largest increases if fossil fuel use as well as non-fuel based emissions in the history of the nation.
Biggest new concrete manufacturing in 70 years.

4. Climate Activists love to blame the fossil fuel industry / corporations, but from where I sit, there is nobody on Earth demanding more new fossil fuel use than climate professionals. We actually know the facts of concrete. theguardian.com/cities/2019/fe…

5. Everyone points at "Carbon Free Energy" in 20 to 30 years. We all pretend we don't know how the construction of that vast infrastructure is powered.
I asked a highly respected climate professional what was going to power this, and he said, "A mix of sources, hopefully ...

6. "... not too much fossil fuels."
Y'all, fossil fuels are pretty much all we have today.
So, we're all praising what we'll have in two decades, and Climate Ben is pointing out we'll be at record fossil use in two years.

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1463427605072392192?t=1HiqQ1Pzotr061d_jTP49g&s=19

7. While I dispute that the global construction project will give us carbon free energy in two or three decades, there is no disputing that building it will require record levels of fossil fuel use now.
Call it any fucking thing you want, this is what we're demanding, and doing.

8. Loudly demanding that we quit using fossil fuels, while simultaneously loudly demanding that we build EV charging stations in all fifty states, is like beating yourself on the head with a hammer and demanding the impacts stop.
Quit doing them.

9. Roughly 2/3 of all the electricity in the United States is generated by burning coal, and by burning methane (natural gas is the brand name.) Slightly more coal than methane.
And that's not enough electricity to run very many new EVs. It's barely even enough to run our ACs.

10. So here's the demand:
Pour new concrete, run new copper cable, in all fifty states, virtually everywhere, in order to hook our newly manufactured electric cars all the way back to our coal and methane powered generating plants.
And bitch about the fossil fuel companies.

11. We don't currently mine enough copper, enough lithium, enough cobalt, or enough "rare earths", to even build the new electric cars.
Electric cars take more energy to build than fossil fuel cars do.
Let's all bitch about fossil fuel use! Record amounts in 2023.
No shit, Sherl.

12. There is no bigger insult in the American Lie than the pretense that somebody else is using all those fossil fuels.
That ain't happening.
We're the fossil oligarchy's best friend.
But don't we bitch about them.
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