FOSSIL FUEL: Conventional wisdom challenged

Regarding Mr. Sadler’s “fossil fuels” rant:

The whole document falls apart for its lack of current information and repeated junk long refuted…but why ignore a good story that is emotionally satisfying?

The term “fossil fuels” (aka, “rotted dinosaurs and plants cooked underground”) is wrong based on real science a decade plus old and simple facts, the distribution of crude reserves in places/depths at which no dinosaur remains can be are remotely logical. Crude oil is a product of natural processes down there. It’s a renewable energy source, in fact. How did the Exxon Valdez spill “heal” 12 years ahead of the most “informed” predictions, if crude oil is such an “alien” substance?

The “taxpayer handout” trope is the classification of tax deductions pertaining to any other industry as a “handout.” As an accountant by trade, I understand this quite well. If you don’t think the CDA Press calculates asset depreciation and deducts it against income for tax purposes, you don’t think. It’s not a handout, it’s a law. This trope was settled a long time ago, too, I have written about it before in other venues. Sadler is ignorant or cagey, hoping no one would notice.

Sadler urges “climate action” while even the UN IPCC has surrendered to decades of failed predictions by the best and brightest (“hockey stick” Mann and Al Gore, who is now on to “global cooling”). The incineration of Gaia is now “implausible,” a 25-cent word for “we didn’t actually know what we repeatedly told you we knew certainly.”

GH SCHIRTZINGER

Hayden