Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "Energy blackouts coming this winter" video.

  1. I'm not down with the authoritarian bent, that uses green energy as a cudgel to impose their will upon us. Really not a fan of centralized distribution nor planning, both are designed to profit those in control at the expense of you who is paying for it. However... I am all about producing energy myself. Yeah its more work, its not the easy button of put your card in and pay the bill, its DIY. Sweat equity. You're not going to be able to do it living in a city or the suburbs. Did you know you can produce fuel for your car from cardboard and stale bread? Or cattails? Kudzu vines? Or any other starch or sugar you can find in nature? Did you know you can heat your home with a large compost pile and some plastic sprinkler tubing? If you have the space to do it that is. Do you live in an apartment? You're dependent upon others to provide it to you. Your food, water, and electricity is brought to you from elsewhere, its not produced where you live. Your waste has to be taken away for you. What will you do when that no longer happens, or it becomes incredibly cost prohibitive? You will obey... thats what you will do. Here's the deal. Making it yourself is more direct work, but it opens up cash from your normal job to use elsewhere. Stop watching TV and you will find lots of time to do things. When the power starts being unreliable like it is where I live, you will start looking for solutions... like I did 15 years ago. I can't afford $5 gasoline, which is why I started making ethanol from cattails, tree sap, and other things, and spent the cheap fuel years between 2015 and 2020 increasing the mileage and performance of my vehicles on E85. Now I am back to producing fuel because 87 octane is $4.60 and 91 octane is $5.90. If you want to rely on the government, well that is what they want you to do.. because it makes you dependent upon them and thus easier to control. So who do you want to be dependent upon? Oil and gas companies? The government? How about yourself? You can't make gasoline at home, you can't run a coal fired powerplant at home either. However, you can do other things, like producing methane, which can power a generator. That is super easy to do.... if you have the space to do it. Suburbs would require you and several neighbors to work together, apartments and the like will need a couple storage units you can use, so you will be dependent upon the grid. You can produce ethanol with a bit of equipment you can make yourself, its a simple process, but its also a large and involved process, yet that doesn't mean you can't do it. Yeah, its prep type stuff... but I am not into that. I am into making fuel for my vintage muscle cars that make lots of power and accelerate ludicrously fast. To me the Plaid is slow. The reason I got into this is the power grid is down all the damn time here. Gasoline is expensive where I live. Food is expensive. I am a disabled Iraq War veteran on a fixed income. I could have lived in a small apartment and scrapped by living alone playing video games. Instead I bought some land in the middle of nowhere and got to work... working around my physical and mental limitations to become as independent as I possibly can. I really like driving my 1965 Pontiac GTO with its 7.6L (462ci) engine that makes over 550hp/600ftlbs that I rebuilt from a very rusty empty shell. You don't have to do everything I do, but you also don't have to freeze, starve, and obey.
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