Hostile Climate Cutting Costs and Carbon in the Great Recession Email comments or corrections to cce1976@gmail.com Part 1: Energy

Why? Energy Security Public Health Climate Change

Energy Security = Oil (for now)

Too many eggs in too few baskets 95% of US transportation Globalization Increasing global affluence 50% of petroleum is imported

Why Oil? Portable Before and after refining Relatively easy to refine Oil is energy dense

Oil vs. CNG – Energy Density

Oil reserves are tenuous Environmental Action

Oil reserves are tenuous

Choking on Chokepoints EIA

Choking on Chokepoints EIA

Choking on Chokepoints Nasser Nasser/AP Reuters AA Photo CNN

Drill, Baby, Drill! EIA

EIA

EIA inflationdata.com

ANWR & THE OCS Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 780,000 bpd in ~20 years OCS: 160,000 bpd in ~20 years 2009 petroleum consumption 19 million bpd Price is set by world production/demand EIA

The Bakken Formation USGS

The Bakken Formation 300 billion barrels of oil 41 year supply!

“300 Billion”

The Bakken Formation 3.1 – 4.3 billion recoverable ~6 months worth of oil 2 Bakken formations per year just to tread water

Cliché #1 Insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein

Peak importation . . . EIA

. . . assumes oil-like alternatives EIA

Cliché #2 “The Stone Age didn't end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil.” Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani Saudi Oil Minister 1962 - 1986

The cost of energy

One giant mess US Coast Guard

One giant mess 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 BP Exxon Valdez ifitweremyhome.com Skinner & Reilly (1989) and USGS

At least the Walruses were safe

Help from beyond the grave

Edward Markey

Skimming the surface X29 BP and USGS

Please disperse BP and USGS

For no particular reason Shell Alvim Corréa

Tales from BP 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion 3rd largest refinery in US 14 dead

2005 Texas City Refinery explosion

Tales from BP 2006 Prudhoe Bay spill 212,000 gallons (5000 barrels) Largest spill on the North Slope ¼” Hole in corroded pipe BPXA

Dangerous Crossing Google Earth F. Robert Bell & Associates

Closer to home 6,400 gallons of gasoline spilled April 2nd, 2008 5 families displaced Some for at least 10 months Flathead Beacon

Coal: The human volcano NASA Smith et al. 2011 Schuster et al. 2002

A river of muck John Wathen

A river of muck NY Times

A river of muck John Wathen

Sierra Club

Mountaintop removal ilovemountains.org

ilovemountains.org

Summary of 2009 NRC Report: Hidden Costs of Energy Energy sources used in electricity generation and transportation Technologies Fuel extraction Production Distribution Waste Disposal Emissions Particulate Matter (PM) Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx)

Summary of NRC Report But did not evaluate “hazardous pollutants” e.g. Lead and Mercury Did not evaluate: Ecosystem damages Water pollution impacts National security

Summary of NRC Report Price tag? $120 billion impact on health and environment in 2005 ~ $1.2 trillion dollars (CBO speak)

Transportation and Pollution $36 billion National Research Council

Car vs. Car National Research Council

Coal is king . . . of pollution $62 billion in damages 3.2¢ per kWh A more recent meta-study finds: $188 billion or 9.3¢ per KWh $94 billion additional costs excluded by NRC $281 billion total (excluding climate change) 24,000 Excess Deaths

(Excludes damage from Climate Change)

(Excludes damage from Climate Change)

Summary Can’t drill our way to freedom Oil industry is not your friend Coal is not clean Coal is not cheap

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