Energy regulator: Pipelines are at the forefront of our national defenses. The Rockefeller Foundation -- founded on oil money -- is dropping fossil fuels. Not that there's a looming shortage of crude oil or gasoline.
Rather, it's the tanker truck drivers needed to deliver the gas to stations who are in short supply. Indeed, drivers left the business a year ago when gasoline demand ground to a near halt during the early pandemic-related shutdowns.
Read More. A worker disconnects hoses after delivering gasoline to a station in Redondo Beach, California. A shortage of tanker truck drivers could cause some stations to run out of gas this summer, according to industry experts. We're also working with an aging work force. Many said 'I might as well take it as a cue to retire.
Not just any truck driver is allowed to drive a tanker truck. It requires special certification, including a commercial driver's license, and weeks of training after being hired.
And while the jobs are more attractive than some long-haul trucking jobs that can keep drivers away from home for days or weeks at a time, it is strenuous, difficult work.
Unfortunately most of the demand for energy falls on the use of fossil energy, oil, gas and coal. With Global energy demand increasing by 2. Naturally this results in a rise in CO 2 emission — by 1. In this article we want to point out categorically the fact that there is a LIMIT to the fossil fuels on earth that we are gobbling up.
We are oblivious of the fact that there will be a time, measured in decades, when these fuels will run out. Because of global population rise, there is a growing demand for energy. This growth is endangering our future. What will we do when fossil fuels run out? What energy sources can we rely on after this happen? In figure 1 [4] we show the future energy reserves in billions of oil equivalent, Btoe, as a function of year. While we obliviously use up fossil fuels without taking stock of about what future reserves look like, we should take note of the endpoints shown here.
These endpoints are dangerously close: Since our society is so dependent on fossil fuels, it therefore is extremely important for us to know when these fuels will run out according to [4]:. However, according to BP [5], earth has 53 years of oil reserves left at current rate of consumption. This is obviously unsustainable. These are horrific figures that will happen sooner than we can possibly mitigate. Global oil demand grew by 1. It has consumed billion barrels [7]. The world has been consuming an equivalent of over 11 billion tonnes per year [4].
Crude oil reserves are vanishing at a rate of more than 4 billion tonnes a year. Many oil wells have already peaked and new wells are becoming more difficult to find. Another 1, billion barrels of proved and probable reserves remain to be recovered. The base case projects growth of around 3 million barrels per day over the next 5 years.
Overall projection is that global oil production capacity will grow by 6. BP has also revised its prediction which is similar. In its recently released Energy Outlook [10] , it predicts that the U. China and India have the highest rate of growth. China at rate of 7. However, there has been a ramp up of shale oil and gas extraction. Compounding the issue is older drivers who took the pandemic as a sign to go into retirement. And not just anyone can drive a gasoline tanker, which requires a certification and hours of training.
Lockdowns nationwide put a pause on certification classes, only adding to the driver deficit. At this time in , only 10 percent of tank trucks were stuck in park due to a short supply of drivers.
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