Oil, Gas, Coal: Here to Stay…for Now
December 6, 2021
By Michael D. White, author and freelance writer
Like the background score to a classic motion picture, you don’t think much about it until it isn’t there.
The same is true for energy’s Big Three—oil, gas and coal—when the pilot light on your water heater goes out, or when you flip the switch and the lights don’t go on, or when your company has to shut down an assembly line because of a shortage of structural steel.
Combined, these fossil fuels constitute about 85 percent of the energy produced with crude oil providing ...
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