RE:Tucson arizona 😎Duster, I hope that there's no war on hydrocarbons I don't want to die. Our bodies' principle source of energy is the triglyceride molecule which has a hydrocarbon chain hanging off of it which, through a redox reaction, creates the free electrons needed for the other metabolic processes that keep us alive.
The byproducts are expelled from our bodies. That's why we inhale oxygen and exhale CO2, CO and water vapor. We are carbon based organisms. CO2 is a basic building block for all life. That's why chemistry that involves carbon is called organic chemistry. That's why greenhouses maintian at least 1000 ppm of CO2 in the air inside their greenhouses. It super charges growth and yield. CO2 is good! Solar energy is good. Hydrocarbons are already stored solar energy. Renewables destroy farmland plus they are impossible to dispose of or recycle because they are loaded with highly toxic metals and resins. Renewables bad, expensive and unreliable.
Lol, they're predicting long power blackouts in Texas soon because they took too much natural gas powered electrical generation offline and the renewables that they installed to replace the nat gas doesn't measure up. Don't take my word for it. Google it. If you live in Texas then go buy yourself a small emergency generator and lots of hydrocarbons so you can sing the praises of renewables on these boards.