You still need plastics, you need pharmaceuticals. We need fertilizers. There is so much chemistry and consumer products made out of crude oil and natural gas that Abandoning natural american oil and gas production is ridiculous. Even if we solve energy with nuclear, implementing nuclear technologies at hand, or hoping for new ones in the future, which we should do more of, you still need oil and gas to make synthetic products. A lot, many things. The paint on your house, most of your car. So these anti resource, I call these guys the lords of scarcity. (18:23–18:43)
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Asserts that abandoning American oil and gas production is impractical because these resources are needed for synthetic products.
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