I’m watching ‘environmental’ protesters blocking traffic and thinking they are so altruistic and intelligent, wanting to ban fossil fuels.  Well, I’m noticing that the vests many of them wear, and the backpacks they carry, and the clothes and shoes they wear (even sandals)…and dare I say the hair die many of them used last week…were made from uh oh fossil fuel.  So here’s a partial list of things made from fossil fuels, in case any of the protesters read.  Here ya go.  A DROP IN THE BUCKET of items made from …you guessed it:

Sweaters, leggings, floor wax, sports car bodies (Probably Teslas, too), tires, dishwasher parts, caulking, faucet washers, food preservatives, antihistamines (bet a lot of those are used by these protesters), cortisone, dyes, life jackets, TV cabinets, motor oil, ballpoint pens, boats, nail polish, tool boxes, petroleum jelly (duh), golf bags (don’t go there), antiseptics (uh oh, Covid), basketballs (uh oh), purses, deodorant, panty hose, rubbing alcohol, shag rugs (you can have that one), bearing grease, football cleats, insecticides, fishing lures, perfumes, shoe polish, transparent tape, soap, shoes, shoelace parts, electrical tape, putty, mops, skis, umbrellas, denture adhesive, tennis rackets, nylon rope, shampoo, clothes (pretty sure the protesters were wearing clothes),  nylon reflective vests (watch out now), toilet seats, yarn, candles, hand lotion, football helmets (uh oh), toothbrushes, balloons, fishing rods, trash bags, paint rollers, ice chests, paint (uh oh, there go your protest signs), surf boards, eyeglasses, dice, crayons (there goes the fun), pillows, golf balls, paint brushes (you’re gonna have to do finger painting for your signs), dishes (just use your hands), artificial limbs, contact lenses (oh no), shaving cream, toothpaste (ouch), cameras, and oh I bet cell phone cases too, tents (what about the homeless shelters, protesters), bicycle parts (yep, even the electric ones).  Even the products not directly made from petroleum are processed by machinery made from, yeah, fossil fuels.  You guys are complete hypocrites.

So, for all of you smooth brains out there, including the ones in government, before you start ‘ending fossil fuels’, you had better educate yourself about where these fuels are used.  And this is a SMALL list.

By the way, discarded car batteries pose a substantial threat to human health and environmental sustainability, according to the Institute of Physics…science, in other words, your second favorite buzz word.  So once everybody is driving electric cars, would you like the discarded hazardous waste piled into your back yard? Oh wait, that would be your parents’ back yard.  They have to go somewhere after all.  

Listen, it is clear that there is too much crap being dumped into the environment.  Like your plastic water bottles or those sippie cups you use?  Petroleum products by the way…where do you put THOSE when you finish.  You recycle?  No, 85% of recycled products are not actually ‘recycled’.  Oh sorry, you have to read to know that.  Little protest people, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.  So get off the streets (petroleum based) and go grow some beans.  Oh wait, you probably think they come from cans.  Paper straws destroy the rain forests, little protesters.  And trees use carbon dioxide and put oxygen into the air.  Bet you didn’t even know that nor care.  Hint: If you can’t breathe, you die.

My point is, if you take your head out of the dark place and look around and THINK, you will start to do what YOU can do to make our planet a better place.  By screaming and blocking traffic and harming others and their property, you harm your ideology.  YOU do more harm.  But you have to have your head out of your personal dark place to see that.  Look around, read, know what the hell you are talking about in order to be taken seriously.   And before you try to eliminate fossil fuels, YOU STOP using them…ALL OF THEM.  Then lets see how you think about this issue.

Every time I see you block a child from getting to the hospital when the child is sick and in need of HELP I’m going to go fill up my GAS TANK.  You are still egocentric, unable to see how your actions effect the world around you.  So sit down and let the adults handle it.  You’re making fools of yourselves and hurting the environmental causes.

Oh, one more thing: By the time all of the car batteries are past their useful life, it’ll be up to YOU to figure out how to not destroy the planet with discarded batteries.  This will be YOUR legacy.  Just saying.