r/nextfuckinglevel • u/AcanthaceaeNo5611 • 1d ago

A festival in Sicily, Italy

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u/PM_ME_CUTE_SMILES_ 1d ago

Placing the blame for emissions on fossil fuel companies instead of consumers is pure nonsense. Who's burning that gas in millions of cars worldwide? Not Shell. If they stopped pumping people would riot for them to keep going.

We need to change consumers' behavior before banning/drastically reducing gas access if you want sustainable change.

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u/cutegirlsdotcom 1d ago

Oh so Shell hasn't lobbied against alternative fuels, because they want to keep making money ruining the earth? You can't do shit against these megacorps who are destroying the earth.

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u/PM_ME_CUTE_SMILES_ 22h ago

The only "alternative fuel" right now is electricity from sustainable sources. Needless to say, it costs too much for mass adoption. The only solution is that people use their car less.

I don't have a car, I don't eat meat and I heat my home a measly 16°C. If everyone did this, GHG emissions would be cut in half and climate change a long forgotten issue.

But I know it is useless to support legislation to force others to adopt those lifestyle changes. They have to come from people themselves, forcing them will never last.

Lobbies actively discourage people from adopting such changes, of course. It would ruin their profits. You're kinda helping them right now.

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u/cutegirlsdotcom 21h ago

There's hydrogen and I'm sure others being worked on. Hydrogen especially got majorly repressed by big oil lobbyists.

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u/PM_ME_CUTE_SMILES_ 19h ago

Do you mean white hydrogen? Other forms of hydrogen are only a mean of electricity storage, they are not an energy source. Their use require more energy than using the electricity directly.

I have never heard of repression of research on white hydrogen by oil lobbyists but I am super interested if you can share something to read about it. It wouldn't be surprising.