We Cannot Win WW3 without Oil, Gas, and Nuclear Energy

Alan Sudbrock, the President of Gas Technology and past president of the Midstream Natural Gas Producers Association, tells the true story of the historic pipeline known as “The Big Inch,” without which the Allies would never have defeated Nazi Germany. Few remember that the German “Wolf Pack” deployed along the U.S. Gulf Coast and East Coast, successfully sinking 46 U.S. tankers carrying Texas crude for the war effort. The crude spills shellacked the Caribbean islands, and the Allies became desperate for oil. What to do? An historic and heroic effort to build a massive pipeline from Texas to New Jersey saved the day. Crossing 233 rivers, lakes, and creeks, the largest pipeline in the world erected across America in only 350 days, driving the nail into the coffin of the Nazi war machine and changing the course of world history for a century. - - - - - How things have changed since WW2. Pipelines are now demonized and fossil fuels considered nonessential, though the world uses more each year for things like petrochemicals that give us modern sanitation, pharmaceuticals, food preservatives, electronics…all things that cannot be made from the electrons of a wind or solar farm. Then and now, no country can remain a superpower or win a war without energy dominance with fossil fuels and nuclear energy, as foreign funders of the U.S. green movement well know. Jacki pulls lessons from the past and a glimpse into the future from Daniel Yergin’s “The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations.”