If We End Fossil Fuels

 Here's a partial list of things made from petroleum we'd have to live without. 

The Prosperity Link to Fossil Fuels

So what should we make of the chart below? Obviously that the world's standard of living and life expectancy is highly correlated with the exploitation of cheap energy from fossil fuels.



Should this not at the very least give pause to those hell-bent on reducing the further development of fossil fuels in the pursuit of global warming? The ability of mankind to control the earth's constantly changing climate by building windmills is, at best, debatable. Is it worth jeopardizing the continued improvement in the lives of billions of people around the globe? More practically, what do you think the odds are that the governments of nations like China, India and Indonesia are going to say to their people, "We're going to dampen the growth in living standards you've been experiencing because some wealthy liberals in the US and Europe think that they can control the climate"?

Job Creation is All in Texas

The President has recently taken to touting his "job creation" performance by pointing out that in the last six years, the US economy has created over 300,000 new jobs. Not particularly good, but it allows the President to suggest that his policies have had a positive effect. But as it turns out, the job growth has all been in one state -- Texas.

US job growth                    +327,000
Texas job growth            +1,320, 255
US (other than Texas)       -  993,255

But for Texas, the US would have lost almost a million jobs! And why did Texas add so many jobs?

1. Fossil fuels extraction
2. Lower taxes
3. Less regulation
4. Right-to-work laws

All things that the President opposes.

Sort of casts a different light on the claim that the President policies can create any jobs in the future.