Chip Bok for October 27, 2022

The implicit premise here is that America acts foolishly if its acts as a despotic adversary regime desires. True enough of the 2016 election.

Yeah. This cartoon makes sense. Following the logic here, if the US (and Europe) got off fossil fuels then China would lose a market for their coal and that would benefit them? The US becomes energy independent on renewables is somehow bad for us? If anything, the absolute opposite of this cartoon is true. China would prefer we stay out of renewable energy so they can stay the #1 producer of solar panels, keeping that market to themselves rather than deal with US competition. The only people wanting us to stay dependent on coal and oil are the corporations selling them and those gullible enough to be duped by their self-serving BS.

“China Coal”. But only if China can maintain the foolish support of the West for its exemption from any sort of control from those pesky international treaties.

Given that China is competing with the US, the cartoon suggests that it believes the US abandons fossil fuels it will gain a competitive advantage. China may be looking at the effect of California’s green policies with high energy costs and low reliability. China knows it can beat that with coal.

Between Ms. Benson and Mr. Bok’s strips today, intelligent life is missing.

Typical Bok big business support cartoon with nothing behind it.

What Bok knows about energy sources would fit into the navel of a fruit fly with room for a bowling ball….

I saw a report today that Germany is dismantling some wind farms to make room for expanded coal mining.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘Investigations’ for Companies Not Donating to GOP

The republican fascists can’t wait for kickbacks from big business.

When you have the USA lose face because the previous radical administration pulled out of every peace treaty, nuclear disarmament treaty, all climate accords, etc, what would you expect other world powers to do. We led by example, a bad example.

I see some truth here in that even if the US and EU abandon fossil fuels by 2050, China will likely keep using their coal. But, that shouldn’t be a reason for us to abandon banning the use of fossil fuels. True, we’d do a lot better is everyone was on board, but it would be an improvement of the environment even if only a few large nations cut back on fossil fuel use. And, while China is making many solar panels, they are also using them, too. But, we can’t let China’s foot dragging keep us from doing right by the environment. We must get serious about climate change ’cause it happening right now. Get to it!

The world will never be entirely rid of fossil fuels, all those collector cars will have to run on something, but it will become something only hobbyists use eventually.

Baghdad Bok certainly knows how to skew facts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/25/china-to-cut-fossil-fuel-use-to-below-20-by-2060

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02464-5

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/25/economy/china-fossil-fuels-climate-intl-hnk/index.html

While the US backpedals and wallows in fossil fuel, China will innovate and capture the world market in green technology and make more profit by selling it to others, becoming a world leader, while the US backslides further into the past.

https://theconversation.com/china-wants-to-dominate-the-worlds-green-energy-markets-heres-why-89708

https://www.csis.org/east-green-chinas-global-leadership-renewable-energy

https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/here-s-why-china-wants-to-dominate-the-world-s-green-energy-markets-118011300171_1.html

Bok wants a return to whale oil and the horse-drawn carriage.

I do not think Mr Bok has any idea what the comic means… Bless his heart.

Bok clearly has no idea of the process nations go through during industrialization. How much cheap energy is needed. Britain went through it when it wasn’t the problem it is today. The same for us. And then Western Europe.

Asian nations are just now industrializing. And cheap energy is dirty energy. They can’t afford clean renewables. We can, but we’re to ignorant, lazy and cheap to do what needs to be done. We’re ahead of the game, and yet we make decisions like we’re losing. Stupid.

China and India are scheduled to ADD more coal powered plants in the next two years than the US has in total – that is just their addition.

Good, bad, or indifferent, the world will still need fossil fuel energy for the foreseeable near future. The prediction of thousands in Europe dying of cold this year highlights the issue. Germany foolishly closed nuclear power plants and have shifted to coal.

The move to renewables, non-fossil needs to be gradual to avoid disruption of the power supply, which is already occurring. Common sense in needed, not woke prerogatives.

@ChipBok…why wouldn’t you want a strong economy based on renewable energy, that is clean and offers careers for the long haul? I look back at HeWhoShallNotBeNamed stating he would SAVE the coal industry, and even with his “support” lost many jobs. It’s like wishing we were still getting around with horses rather than gas, we are now experiencing a transition to electric powered cars based upon renewable energy. If I was a 20 year old I’d seek careers in the new world, not the old.