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Last edited Thu Jul 25, 2024, 09:48 AM - Edit history (2)
"No Country In History Has Extracted As Much Oil As The US In Each Of The Past Six Years"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127175126
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Lifetime GHG Output Of Oil & Gas Licenses Granted In 2024 Equals China's Annual GHG Emissions
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127175102
A surge in new oil and gas production in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions, with the world’s wealthiest countries – such as the US and the UK – leading a stampede of fossil fuel expansion in spite of their climate commitments, new data shared exclusively with the Guardian reveals. The new oil and gas field licences forecast to be awarded across the world this year are on track to generate the highest level of emissions since those issued in 2018
More on recent U.S. oil and gas licenses in the 4th paragraph of the above article.
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1127&pid=175066
U.S. ENERGY CONSUMPTION SHARES, 2023: Totals 93.59 quadrillion BTUs. There is a pie chart breakdown of the components. The fossil share is 83%, nuclear is 9%, solar and wind combined is 2.6% and other renewables is 6.4%. The other renewables -- in descending order of size -- are biomass, hydroelectric, and geothermal)
The U.S. Energy Consumption shares above is from the pie chart in https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
The U.S. Energy Consumption shares above is from the pie chart in https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
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Also from the above us-energy-facts link. The bottom 4 bands are all fossil fuels. So, to see the combined total of fossil fuels, look at the top of the light pink band:.
It is interesting that the total fossil fuel production in BTUs (top of the light pink band) was essentially flat from 1970 to 2007, and then very sad that it went sharply up from there.
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It's instructive to occasionally just look at the headlines in the Environment and Energy Group
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