Regarding “So Big Oil profits first from fossil fuels, and then from fixing the damage?” (Aug. 9): I’d like to address Tom Osborne and all climate alarmists to some facts. While Tom and many activists would like to destroy the petroleum industry for the sake of saving our planet, it would be at their own peril. Possibly Tom hasn’t realized how much petroleum-based products go into manufacturing an electric vehicle or wind turbines? Possibly he doesn’t realize where most electricity comes from or where components of batteries are mined?
A little research by this Texan can educate this California man about why he should not be so quick to demonize and eliminate the fossil industry because, in doing so, the so-called clean energy could not exist. For example: according to American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, wind turbine blades use 900 pounds of (you…