Life Without Oil

Many Californians don’t realize just how many products they use every day that rely on oil and gas.
As we chart a path forward for California's energy future, we invite you to join the conversation and learn more at califewithoutoil.com/

[@joshhalderman2917]

Without oil, you're naked, hungry, and homeless. How about every structure building materials are trucked, logged, water, sewer, power lines take oil to install and maintain. Roads are made with asphalt, petroleum, trucked and built by oil ran equipment.

[@antibureaucrat]

roads can be dirt or concrete - like freeways, trucks are becoming electrified ! For now we will need some oil related products but just because those we use a lot of them doesn't mean they can't be replaced with non-oil products. All these oil uses and products will be of little use if your coasts are flooded and you're baking in higher and higher temps. Geez y'all are stupid !

[@dougschepers8470]

Concrete is made with fossil fuels

[@funtimefoxy6699]

Diesel semi tires are made from petroleum products. Most of our transportation in fact needs oil. Even items not made of plastic were produced in factories that use petroleum products.

[@scottrees9610]

@@antibureaucrat The "Geez y'all are stupid" comment lets us know where you are. You are assuming what you are being told is true. And if it were true, then we should be worried. BUT, what if it is not? What if the only slightly warmer temperatures and higher CO2s just promoted more plant growth, and not rising sea levels and "baking" temps? Here is one courtesy example that you might be intentionally lied to about: In the 30s, in the USA, we had the highest temperatures for a few years. It has never been that hot since. Remember? The "Dust Bowl"? CO2 levels were 20% lower back then. Yet you are being told we will "bake" some day because if we don't reduce our CO2 output. We are being lied to. One day, we'll act like we didn't really believe it. But we know we did...and impoverished ourselves and promoted the impoverishing.

[@adammulkey267]

The tires are made with oil products, even electric cars use more oil based products. We aren't stupid, we are realistic. If you don't like using things made with oil, get rid of your phone, computers, tv, and 99 percent of the other products. ​@antibureaucrat

[@InfernoPhilM]

Petroleum and affordable energy lifts societies from third work to first world.

[@marcoaurelio296]

Hopefully, California will be soon an example of what not to do. 🙏

[@James225]

It has been an example what not to do for a long time now. That's why people are leaving California at a rate which declines it's population instead of grows it. The problem with this hoever is that they move to places that aren't like California and then vote for and support the same stupidity that led to them wanting to leave California. It's like a cancer that spreads. WE DON'T WANT THEIR CANCER!!

[@jackjohnsen8506]

that happened decades ago....

[@fredericktaylor2891]

@@jackjohnsen8506 Very true.

[@mikelyons5632]

It already is. Just look at the masses leaving California for places like Texas.

[@Sorain1]

I love how they held back on having the clothing disappear, since many of the fibers are artificial these days and even if those clothes are 100% natural materials, the equipment involved in their manufacture (not to mention shipping and storage) used oil products.

[@teop7887]

So, there's actually people with common sense in California?

[@bb-hr9dg]

None the smart ones moved out

[@leagueofotters2774]

There's like three left

[@toomanyhobbies2011]

Remember the studies in the 1950s about rats allowed to breed in a confined space, and how they started killing and eating each other? That's the cities in Blue states. Outside the cities the majority are conservatives living good lives with common sense.

[@funtimefoxy6699]

The leftist nuts all live along the coast. The inland areas are dominated by conservatives; you just can't see them because they're such a statewide minority.

[@Geezerelli]

Where Paleosi inhabits with it’s flying monkeys 😂

[@aom808]

Without petroleum, fertilizer made from N2 would be very limited. Hence, not enough food for the population

[@marcoaurelio296]

That's part of the goal... Reduce population. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@johnbannister501]

That's exactly what "they" want. When they want to reduce the carbon footprint 👣....it's US they are talking about!!

[@Timeline916]

That’s the plan, depopulation

[@binhnnguyen4926]

Well said. Finally, someone gives a great factual presentation to the public.

[@isoaxe]

This just make it sound like some modern conveniences would disappear. What would actually happen is transport and food production and supply chains would collapse if we stopped using oil tomorrow, likely ending in a famine and anarchy.

[@haberdasherstyle]

Our apparel industry would be eliminated. Well done video.

[@VijaygKamat]

No, there are alternatives.

[@scottrees9610]

@@VijaygKamat Yes, since it is warm in California, they can go naked. It's an alternative. Here in Alaska, we'll just kill a bear or caribou and wear its skin.

[@crazysquirrel9425]

Nah, still have cotton, leather, and wool. Pelts too. Only luxury apparel would be hit hard.

[@scottrees9610]

@@crazysquirrel9425 Yup, get out there and start pickin' that cotton, squirrel, 'cause you ain't running any combine or other machinery! And get some gloves made of leather but not stitched with nylon thread (of course), so your hands don't get too bloody that first hour of picking.

[@crazysquirrel9425]

@@scottrees9610 Guess you never heard of leather thread? Or wearing skins? Picking cotton is not my forte`. But for certain others it is.

[@DeanRamalho]

Most everything people use is made with a petroleum product. Well done Aera!

[@dallassegno]

House gone, hair products gone, skin care gone, plumbing gone, electrical gone, clothes gone...

[@InflowControl]

Thank you for sharing - this is great!

[@KristinHarris-up4nu]

Thank you, Aera. This is great

[@ScottRaster]

Such an important message, well said! 👏👏

[@arthurgiannakis2156]

Problem is we simply burn almost all of it rather than producing goods and structures like this ad suggests. If oil was used primarily to produce products instead of just burning it this ad would be largely moot for hundreds of more years. We needed to solve the oil dependancy for transport and heating problems first before anything else, which largely just burns it all.

[@stevesmith1923]

Wow. Ads like this needed to happen a long time ago.

[@jonblystone7594]

This is FANTASTIC!!

[@danielking2944]

Most of that plastic junk has no place in my life. Petroleum products have useful properties but Tupperware and margarine are not among them.

[@andrewhanson5942]

Ah yes, maintaining that quality of life...

[@mukfay]

You forgot to take the aluminum cans, the home, and the grass.

[@joeysplats3209]

You could take out almost everything else as well. Maybe you can keep the grass and trees, if your neighbor doesn't eat them 'cuz they have no food.

[@BenB-yt6vx]

Well done Aera

[@DD-uf2uo]

No oil? Just think what things were like from ABOUT, 1880 and EARLIER. That's near what we should expect life to be like without oil. Might be a good time to get some books and learn some things on how people lived back then just in case. 😱 .

[@cheryloliver4914]

Well said let ‘em live without out oil for week see how they feel then. Maybe just live in a cave!

[@fallenrangers]

they should have disappeared the whole house xD trucks had to bring all those materials up there. Hell, big machines probably leveled those hills hahaha

[@timryan7509]

Explore all the medical supplies in your hospital that wouldn't exist without oil and gas.

[@georged.2788]

"Get the dog"!!!

[@gloriastans]

Such a great video.

[@johnbannister501]

Oil is going NOWHERE.

[@johnbolt665]

It would set our living standard back a hundred years and the number of poor would make the great depression seem like nothing!

[@jpbart1390]

Luckily, someone in Australia discovered a way to recycle soft plastic into crude oil. Either that or we'd run out in about 70 years.

[@rickyparrish8310]

Some people just need to be schooled on this video and see it better yet go to some of their home's and remove things that were made thanks to oil 😮

[@BryanSparlin]

You would be standing out in a field with everyone completely naked. That's the crappifornia and the world's way.

[@Wayne-Jones]

What makes me laugh is these people protesting to stop oil are holding up banners made from oil products, not to mention their Shoes, Glasses, water bottles and many things.

[@anonymoustosh4471]

Okay, but sooner or later it's going to run out anyway and long before that it will become economically unviable. It's the most basic economic concept. So get planning for it and make the transition as painless as possible while there's still time.

[@Robert-xs2mv]

CO2 is plant food, plant more vegetation, especially edibles or those that be used in construction, anything from tables and chairs to complete buildings

[@robertchapman6795]

Q: What did Californians use for light before candles? A: Electricity!

[@gerhardolivier6285]

The vehicles that digs up the minerals for the solar, wind and electric vehicles needs oil. So take that away and nothing can be created.

[@user-ly6pl3bk7j]

You can reduce use of oil and gas, but you can't eliminate it. The population would go from 8 billion to 500 million within a decade.

[@VijaygKamat]

There should be some efficient way of using Fossil Fuel. I don't want my whole body to be burning hot just to make money for you.

[@terryvlunsford1610]

Then work at being more efficient, and make your contribution to the world.

[@rmcgraw7943]

No prescription medication too. ;)

[@josephmorin8941]

Oil is the blood of the Earth, and highly renewable. It's the truth.

[@nyrockchicxx]

He still could've BBQ'd but he'd have to use charcoal briquets & wood---the old fashioned way.

[@bobthebuilder9553]

Oh, no, burning wood and charcoal? More pollutants in the air.

[@Walkercolt1]

Charcoal makes "too much CO2! And SMOKE!!!"

[@SuperSushidog]

Here's the real reason they want to stop oil. They know that 90% of the people living today would die from starvation and disease. This is not a bug; this is what these evil people want. Let that sink in.

[@grobut98]

Co2 is plant food.

[@MisterHowzat]

I see the family still wearing shoes and clothes? Without oil, they'd be stark naked!

[@dhroman4564]

WOW sanity.

[@redacted629]

Although some sanity is required to address a situation, humans have survived without oil based products. We have become reliant on them and could either look to our past consider adapting out present or be innovative towards new ideas. Change is constant... its HOW we address thinfs without destroying freedoms, society and progress.

[@davidcanatella4279]

The only transition is to inevitable simplicity

[@gavwilson3413]

Life without oil means turning the clock back to 1799. In every single sense: high child mortality (hospitals as we know them would cease to exist), world wide malnutrition (because over 90% of fertilisers are fossil fuel provisioned), almost zero personal hygiene products, (which 100% reliant on fossil fuels), no mechanical transport. And worldwide energy poverty. Since over 90% of world wide energy use is fossil fuel based. As I said, without fossil fuel, life would be EXACTLY like it was in 1799! If you don't want that, stop voting for political parties that do. And understand that those parties are either ignorant of the outcomes ending fossil fuel brings or know and are lying about it. Either way - they deserve no support.

[@chrismd00]

Big oil propaganda! Oh, we MUST save oil! We will Have no fun and be destitute without oil! We aren’t talking about suddenly ending oil, we are talking about a phase out where it is not needed.

[@Revo2Evo]

Since California and liberals hate oil so much why don't petroleum truckers stop delivering oil to California?

[@vandaahll]

All the things mentioned are easily replaced by products without oil but are somewhat more expensive maybe.

[@danoart8988]

Why aren't the conservative groups along with the Petroleum Companies creating showing more videos like this? These types of videos should also be mandatory in every school and University funded by taxpayers.

[@scankhunt4206]

why were they still wearing clothes and shoes. what a crap add

[@dawidbosman5786]

A simplistic rationale aimed at a technically illiterate audience...

[@aequos1371]

All this video shows is that A: We can't cut off oil immediately without serious ramifications; and B: The world currently relies on natural gas for a lot of things. The world does not have infinite oil, and the supply is very low in many countries. Less access to oil in your own country means more spending on importing it from foreign countries. Look at the war in Afghanistan, nearly 200,000 deaths because of a conflict largely elicited by oil. What we need to do, in order to preserve the use of oil in SOME instances, is to eliminate the major uses in areas that we CAN efficiently remove them. EVs outperform gas vehicles in every measure. Electronic equipment and tools do as well. Gas barbeques are already outdates, a lot of people use electric barbeques, oven/stovetops, many tools are electric because it's more efficient, safer for users, and being better for the environment is just an added bonus. I'm not sure how the apparel industry couldn't exist without oil. Perhaps the equipment used to make the clothes are petro-based, but that doesn't mean they can't be replaced over time with more efficient electric-powered machinery. The idea that we need oil because we currently use it is completely baseless and irrelevant. Yes we do use oil, that is why we are trying to transition out of it. It's common sense, really. We can't survive on oil forever, it will disappear. We need to ease the transition out of oil use so that when we do run out, it's not a global catastrophe for half of the industries. We NEED to use renewable energy, because it is our only source of energy that will not run out. With all the information and facts out there today, I can't comprehend how people can justify not knowing how close we actually are to running out of oil. It may not happen in the next 20 years, but it's happening extremely fast.

[@77dris]

"EVs outperform gas vehicles in every measure". 🤣 You sure about that? I have a buddy with a $100000 GM EV pickup truck and he gets pretty scared when asked to say, haul a boat out to the lake (he's already been stranded in the middle of nowhere a couple times when he ran out of juice on the prairies despite spending hours "refilling" at a couple places along the way). Also, EVs pollute more ultimately than gas vehicles, and are terrible here in the prairie winter. In addition to the added pollution from tires and break pads due to the weight, EVs are still ultimately powered by oil and gas in most places. Just because you can't see it coming out of your car, it's still true. And when it comes to safety, EVs are actually less safe (bombs on wheels) compared to gas vehicles. A fire in an EV caused by the battery is actually far more dangerous than the much more rare fire in a gas car.

[@isoaxe]

Not sure what Afghanistan has to do with oil. You could maybe make that argument for Iraq.

[@azurazdandaridae9158]

Yeah but try and explain this to those brain dead protestors.

[@novusparadium9430]

So why don't we have nuclear plants everywhere? considering the waste bi-product is less than 10 barrels a year??????????? Please EXPLAIN!!!!!

[@jasonjudd4]

Should’ve also deleted the kids too……unlikely they would’ve been born.

[@devinfraserashpole4753]

I'm sure, you cannot afford all the nice things without Oil etc. So no kids as the cost of living would be too high.

[@williammills5597]

People have kids in third world countries. So the kids could still be alive. Not any hospitals, hospitals supplies

[@bsmythe3214]

California: "don't be us".