Has anyone who supports eliminating fossil fuels even considered the consequences?
The article “A multitude of factors go into grocery prices” (Sept. 9, TribLive) lays out the path from the farmer to the grocery store. Each individual along this path is hoping to make a profit from what they sell. The farmer uses gas- or diesel-powered tractors and reapers to grow the wheat, hoping to make enough profit to make it to the next planting time. Take away the farmer’s access to gas and diesel fuel, and he is out of business. This in turn shuts down the processing plant, and then the trucking industry involved in this path of commerce is eliminated, as well as the train industry that transports wheat and the finished product to market.
Going green is a pipe dream that will destroy our economy. It will put millions of Americans out of work, and businesses will close, including grocery stores when they can no longer get the products they need to sell. This will lead to massive starvation the likes of which the United States has never experienced.
Then there is the problem with EV batteries when they are no longer useful. What do you do with them? Put them in landfills or just bury them somewhere? They will emit tons of deadly chemicals into the groundwater and poison the environment worse than the emissions from gas- and diesel-powered vehicles.
Common sense tells me that the green agenda and the elimination of fossil fuels is the most ridiculous idea anyone has proposed.
John T. Watson
North Huntingdon