Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Australia's Natural Gas Dilemma" video.

  1. You're interconnected to global demand energy supplies, whether you like it or not. Even if boring to you, you can't escape it even if you decide not to own a car when living in an inner city area because of ample available public transport. Most urban public transport in Australia is subsidized anyway, except the state government doesn't tell you that. So a bus or train ride requires energy (either provided by diesel, natural gas or electricity grid). Yes, your emissions are lower per capita than if you drive a car (per kilometre) or got rideshare, but it's not zero. Also, buying your food from the supermarket (even if you walk to one); how did it get to there? How much energy and fossil fuel did the farmer invest (in diesel and fertilizer) to grow your food? All modern cities would collapse within a week without the energy and food input network.
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  2. Good one, although environments hate the idea of "fossil fuels", even like natural gas that has less carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and soot emissions than coal combustion. Note that the majority of the world's electricity is still produced by thermal coal burning, particularly China's which is now the most polluting country in the world (in most areas but notably with electricity production) with scant environmental emissions controls. Particularly, compared to other developed Asian countries like Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Natural gas is used for more than electricity production. It is also used for glass making, making of ceramics, transport, domestic gas mains (and bottled) supplies for cooking and heating and so on. Note that environmentalists love EVs, and there is a massive opening market for such automobiles, but without at least a quarter of their large electricity consumption provided for battery recharge provided by renewable electricity supply from the power grid, they are not "green energy; their CO2 output is comparible with efficient modern ICE light automobiles, particularly diesel power and hybrid engines.
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