Can’t tell if this is a joke or not but even if you’re going out of your way to avoid spending anything on oil-based products, you’re still going to give them money one way or another. They don’t say there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism for nothing.
please allow me to illustratte the steps: you buy food. the people who buy food, pay people to bring the food from the farm to the store. the people who transport the food pay for diesel. in the rare event the transportation is electric, the farm buys fertilizer that is either a fossil fuel product or transported with fossil fuels.
unless you grow your own food, all of it, your money is paying for oil once you get one or two transactions away from you. and this goes for pretty much every product out there, unfortunately.
Imagine
giving money to oil companiesburning gasoline during a catostrophic biosphere collapse. 🤑Can’t tell if this is a joke or not but even if you’re going out of your way to avoid spending anything on oil-based products, you’re still going to give them money one way or another. They don’t say there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism for nothing.
please allow me to illustratte the steps: you buy food. the people who buy food, pay people to bring the food from the farm to the store. the people who transport the food pay for diesel. in the rare event the transportation is electric, the farm buys fertilizer that is either a fossil fuel product or transported with fossil fuels.
unless you grow your own food, all of it, your money is paying for oil once you get one or two transactions away from you. and this goes for pretty much every product out there, unfortunately.
You forgot to mention that even in the cases of electric, the electricity is mostly generated by by burning non-renewables, including coal.
true for most places but
it[I dammit] didn’t want to make that assumption. we get to paying for fossil fuels pretty easy just ignoring that.it’s too late, your pronoun is “it” now
technically it’s them. not nonbinary them, plural them.
you’re plural???
yeah
I live in one of the few places where electricity generation from renewables surpasses the use of hydrocarbons.
Then you can consider me jealous.
tbf even those of us who are all-electric do so indirectly.
The worst is when they turn the gas pump around and you have to leave a 15-20% tip.
Yeah, what I really meant to say was burning gasoline. My anger at the avoidable deaths of millions of people sometimes makes me incoherent.