Almost everywhere you turn, the “climate change” agenda is suffering.
- Wind turbines are being criticized for killing birds and bats and ruining offshore fisheries.
- Leftists argue for randomly slaughtering hundreds of thousands of cattle, while also openly encouraging people to eat bugs.
- The major proponents of “green energy” are routinely spotted jet-setting around the globe on private jets.
- The Biden administration promotes the idea of coming after appliances and lawn equipment powered by fossil fuels.
- Natural disasters attributable to climate change, such as wildfires and hurricanes, were within historical norms last year.
Now comes news that, as the U.S. government and its counterparts around the globe promote electric cars as the way to save the planet, including tossing mountains of taxpayers’ money at people to buy them, people everywhere used more gasoline than ever before.
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According to JustTheNews.com on Tuesday, the International Energy Agency, or IEA, recently reported that global gas consumption rose to 26.9 million barrels per day.
That was higher than pre-pandemic records, when gas was cheap, and defied the agency’s forecasts published six months ago, which had predicted that gas consumption would peak at 26.9 million barrels a day in 2023 and then begin to decline.
“The IEA attributed these projections to a pivot toward ‘lower emission sources’ as a result of the global energy crisis, as well as growth in electric vehicle sales,” JTN noted.
Yet, global gas consumption not only did not reverse in the second half of 2023, it is expected to rise to 27 million barrels per day during 2024.
The data led Bloomberg, which also reported on the IEA prognosis, to judge the promised transition to EVs a “mirage.”
“Even as EV sales increased, the global oil industry sold more gasoline than ever this year, surpassing the previous 2019 peak that the International Energy Agency had expected would remain an unassailable all-time high. Outside wealthy neighborhoods, the internal combustion engine still reigns supreme; in middle- and working-class areas, the energy transition remains a distant prospect,” the outlet lamented.
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Recalling that June report by the IEA, Bloomberg noted, “the outlook was for a gentle, but constant, downward trend. In the middle of the year, the IEA predicted that gasoline usage would ‘never return to 2019 levels,’ when demand reached 26.7 million barrels a day. Instead, consumption rose to about 26.9 million barrels a day this year. … And 2024 is poised for another, even if small, increase, to just above 27 million barrels a day.”
The world used more gas last year, even though the gas prices were up, work-from-home remains “far more prevalent” than before the COVID-19 pandemic, and China’s economy slowed down, Bloomberg added.
“The shift away from fossil fuels will take longer than many had expected,” Bloomberg concluded. “In 2023, there were about 1.1 billion passenger cars in use, up from about 850 million a decade earlier. Even if a growing percentage of those cars is battery-powered, the absolute number of gasoline-fueled cars has increased. It’s a trend that will take decades, rather than years, to reverse.”
“Until then, gasoline remains king — whatever the forecasts say.”
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