The real problem is the grade of oil that comes out of the ground. Our refineries were mostly built to produce oil from heavy, dirty sludge. Which was a horribly bad bet made back in the 90's under our Oil President GW Bush mostly before he took office but fracking didn't come out till around 2010. But most of the oil we have been getting since Fracking became popular is a lite, sweet oil. Which is actually more expensive to refine. The only real alternative is mixing it with nastier blends to basically help make more of it! Because we have very few refineries for this grade of oil.
The grass fed animals rely heavily on that strip for survival. The oil line is heated. The snow melts under it. The grass grows wonderfully. The animals graze and survive.
Well lucky for them they arent the animals that live in the sea..... the oil didn't treat them that well when ExxonMobil dumped all that oil in the water.
My grandfather moved to Alaska because he got a job helping build the pipeline. We have a rejected section of the steel pipe in our backyard that we use as a firepit.
Cool...I have a few 42" pups, not Alaska, but met a few of those old hands, and a very old welder who worked on it, he is teaching his granddaughter to weld on pipelines in the lower 48
My family bought a crusher that was used on the pipeline we now use it in our gravel pit they hauled it down to Michigan for us in the 70s and the guy that brought it down said he’s never gonna do that again
Cars use just a fraction of the oil we use. And anyway oil is still the main source to get electricity. Everybody says electric cars will save the world. As they run for free...
@@albertogambino2562 Its not as if they run for free. Its with the assumption that electrifying transportation also means changing the grid to all renewables / nuclear. Almost 40% of US electricity falls into this category already and given the unequal spread across US states many places an electric car never has to consume power made with fossil fuels. Also transportation uses 60% of all oil consumption. So either electrifying or using neutral fuels like synthetic kerosene, or hydrogen for 100% of vehicles would be a 60% drop on fossil fuel consumption. Though not a 60% drop in emissions given more than just burning fuel creates emissions.
Even if all vehicles go electric, we will still use the same if not more oil because the hydrocarbons used for fuel will then repurposed to make plastics and other chemicals for industry use.
@@nocareYes electric cars do receive charging from natural gas. That’s literally how we get electricity. The electric cars are not exclusively charging off of clean electricity lol. We don’t even have to renewable output to have cities put charging stations for trucks. Not even enough capacity.
“World goes to electric cars.” Meanwhile in California: rolling blackouts and brownouts happens daily because of AC usage going up and electric companies have said to stop charging EV’s because the grid can’t handle the load. They literally said “run your AC or charge your car, but not both.”
So charge at night if possible? If the people that can charge at night only charge at night then it’ll make up for those that for whatever odd reason can’t charge at night during the work week
@@h.d.hthe source is common sense, where do you think the electricity will come from, what do you think the cars will be made of. How much emissions do you think would be used to mine the REM's that are used, how much REM,s do you think there are, that's why they are called rare, and why they are so expensive
I am a retired machinist. In the seventies, I made parts for the Alaskan Pipeline. Our company made valve actuators to stop the flow of oil in case of a break. I received a pocket watch to commemorate the event. I still have it.
I have my grandfather's silver bar and gold gold pan from his years and retirement from building and then running a pumping station for the alyeska pipeline service. It was such a huge project in its day. He went there after he retired out of the air Force to work another 20 years. And kids these days think older generations didn't have to hustle lol.
@@oliver_klozoff"the hustle" was much easier just a few decades ago...to the point that people today wouldn't consider it a hustle because most jobs supported you
@@oliver_klozoffDude thats not hustle; thats just changing career. Hustle is when you work your job, and have a second job, and run a side business, and do some trading in crypto or forex or the stock market. Walking away from working with 2 pensions is just lazy.
@@AnimilesYT, I always thought that your side (Democrat Socialist Communist Anarchist) would eventually just decide there are too many humans, too. Go electric too early, and watch economies crash and people perish. Even if we did go all electric, likely a non renewable will power that electric car for some time.
You mean like oil? A non-renewable resource that will run out (estimates are around 50 years based on current consumption and proven reserves). Electricity can be made in numerous ways. Ex Hydro, wind, solar, tidal (all renewable), nuclear (is fusion works out there is something like a billion years worth of fuel available)
“Over the next 15 years as the world goes to electric cars” Bruh we can’t even have air conditioning and the oven on at the same time without risking power outages. How can we reliably charge 230 million electric vehicles?
Oh god… this is just a regurgitation of another TH-cam video…. It’s called BUILD the infrastructure…. I haven’t seen a single power outage caused by electric vehicles… ever… and I run my air conditioning and charge my car and run my oven and wash my clothes all at the same time…. In California
@@TopODaMernin how do you plan to provide power for an entire state with no fossil fuel, and no nuclear? Solar and wind are not reliable year round. The sun ain’t always out and the wind isn’t always blowing. Plus manufacturing windmills and panels is terrible for the environment.
Well they won't all be electric vehicles. But the building of gas powered cars will become illegal. You will still be able to buy gas powered cars that were manufactured before then but no one will be allowed to manufacture gas powered cars after that date. And the sad part is, that all these major car company's have already promised to become fully electric.
@josephseppala5986 I truly don't think that law will stick. We just have the infrastructure for it, or the population with wealth that can afford it. Basic economics if there's more of something being used the it will cost more like electricity
@@coltonwilhite8910Our infrastructure can handle it as is with incentives to limit time of day. The idea that the power grid wont be able to handle such a thing is absurd. It is literally the same increase as when the country moved to A/Cs. How come no one was fighting against using A/Cs because the grid couldn't handle it... we just increased the power output on the grid. The grid outputs more yearly. It is based on consumption. The more consumption the more they increase. By 2035 the grid will naturally be caught up
We won't get rid of it, but we can absolutely consume less overall. Consider how cheap modern electricity-bills have always been compared to equivalent gasoline. Power plants use drastically less oil for the same energy output versus a combustion engine. As transmission and storage systems improve and more renewables come online the benefits will only increase.
@@ronal8824 they use oil to make most of the parts of windmills and solar panels, and with how often those have to be maintained (not to mention the unreliability and low production) they will never be able to power the world. And I'm not even mentioning how destructive windmills and solar panels are on the environment.
@@ronal8824 never have enough "renewable" isn't reliable and you have to store it...wind turbines and solar. That means batteries along with all the lithium for the electric cars, not to mention the 10000 years worth of copper mining we need to do so everfamily can have at least one electric car...but more like 3 electric cars. Electric cars good for the environment? No, not even close to gas vehicles.
Yeah because making cars that consume less crude oil, over time, is COMPLETELY counterproductive? What do you suggest? Our cars and machines should run on unicorn farts and fairy dust?
@@wax_axiom479 it's not about what cars run on but it's about how electricity is made. The most efficient form of transportation is trains and planes I think. One way only, fuel is highly regulated, and routes are made 100% efficient. I suggest hand powered vehicles for the common citizen like you see in third world countries like bicycles, scooters, and quads. For long haul transport trains again are best, ships are good too I think. But having less availability of gas and more access to fixed transport routes would be best imo.
Electric cars need rare earth metals and precious metals in a superfluous amount compared to combustion cars, not to mention more coal. Oil is not running out. Keep the pistons. it's better for the planet. Also, most of those metals are monopolized by china.
@@swaggoner1234 while at arguing on the short-term for oil and gas exist, there is no excuse for burning coal for anything. It is a filthy fuel that must be eliminated at the earliest opportunity.
@@vinter5256And to lube the presses that stamp out the steel or aluminum in the body and its components. And to transport all those products to and from assembly plants.
@@spregged7231 After the prestige of owning a Tesla wore off and people figured out electric cars can be nightmares, demand has dropped considerably here. Dealers are stuck with the cars and automakers are rethinking the entire idea.
@@spregged7231 Wont happen in the whole of South africa, heck we cant even have the power on for 12 hours a day! Have you seen all those ev's catch alite? Worst car ever made.
@@geneh.smalley-px4kr Look into the coal burning that's used to produce the electricity to fire up all those "clean" electric cars, look into the efficiency of that process until Your electric car will have done its first thousand miles, look at how much diesel goes into mining and transporting the coal, and *_THEN_* let us talk about smog .....
I remember driving through Alaska with my sister (I was 11) and we stopped to check out a section of the pipeline.. thankfully we didn't get out because a grizzly chased our car several seconds later
@@coreyisabigpushover Wrong. Where do you think the electricity that charges those electric cars comes from? What do you think will happen when everyone is driving electric cars and constantly needs to charge them?
@@DangerRussDayZ6533 only .6% of US utility scale electric power comes from oil buddy. Good try though. 40% is NG and 20% is Coal. Get you're talking points right next time.
It's so nice hearing people talking about electric cars like electricity coming from the sky. There is a reason why the charging stations are at gas stations. Gas is here to stay my friend
@@rogerwadell8784 what am I mistaken about? Do we currently use oil to produce electricity? Clearly you don’t realize that we are at war with a country we get our uranium from and pushing homosexuality on the other and that other country in a Africa is siding with the country we are at war with. So please educate me on where we will get our uranium to power these plants that will produce the terawatts of electricity we will when we all go electric? Don’t worry, I will wait.
Because he didn't explain what's inside: My grandfather worked on this pipeline for Bechtel. As the pipeline sits on stilts because of the temperature difference of the permafrost and the oil as not to melt the permafrost and sink into the mud. The stilts contain pressurized ammonia which the heat of the oil evaporates. The vapor then rises to a radiator on top of each stilt where it is cooled by the outside air and condenses and falls to the bottom of the pressure container. The pipeline also meanders slightly to allow for thermal expansion and contraction and the shifting of the local fault lines. The subterranean pipeline sections are actually crossings to allow wildlife to cross and are sheathed in styrofoam and a refrigerated tube to prevent the permafrost melt.
That's awesome man thanks for explaining. It blows my mind that pipelines like these can operate for decades when I've seen pipe that's 10-15 years old rot away in plants haha
LOL. The pipeline definitely isn't underground to allow animals to cross. A human can walk under the above ground part. What kind of animals do you think can't walk under it? Elephants? It's amazing how hundreds of people read this and blindly believed it because he was trying to sound authoritative.
The electric cars don’t burn oil but the electricity is made in a power plant burning coal or oil and the amount of plastics in cars today takes a ton of oil. We probably won’t see a difference in oil consumption till we go to some other form of power generation.
An electric car powered 100% by a coal power plant pollutes less than a gas or diesel car, that is a fact, look it up. Also plastics can be made from other things than oil, look that up too. Tyres are a different story, but the majority of the oils we extract from the ground is burned. The day we run out we have a huge problem, because some things need oils for production, so we better stop burning the oil and start save what is left.
Precisely. I see so many EV owners flaunting the that their car burns "clean" energy. In reality the production and use of EVs isn't much better than that of gasoline cars, if at all.
Literally all of you guys commenting on this thus far are wrong. So much confirmation bias. It's true that the production of lithium-ion batteries is energy intensive, but research has shown that the amount of CO2 a battery throughout it's life prevents from being exhausted compared to internal combustion engines reduces CO2 emissions dramatically. Definitely with recycling of lithium batteries picking up, it reduces the amount of energy required to make a new battery.
everything we can do with petroleum products can be done with (non toxic, bio-degradable) plant oils. We are using petroleum based products "everywhere" not because we must or because it benefits (the overwhelming majority of) us. We use them everywhere because doing so enriches and empowers wealthy, powerful people ... who spent decades (and billions) convincing millions of people that we need them more than they need us.
Absolutely and we should be better conservators of the oil for the production of plastics and durable, useful things that don’t just burn it away as a fuel
@@TeamGxxS Its by far less costly to the consumer to buy the cheaper product that comes out of the ground, rather than try to grow enough bio-degradable plants for the oil. You don't realize the scale involved to transition to the beneficial version. Its not something that can be done overnight, without a cost that will disrupt the economy through the staggering cost at the store buying the bio-degradable version. You have to understand- Inflation, it can cause economic and political upheaval, which will create a push to abandon bio-degradable products. You watch, its already happening, more people are going to be pissed at the costs that effects their lives.
When the environmentalists were up in arms over this pipeline, they were claiming it would harm the wildlife population. Then they learned that the deer, elks and moose were using the pipeline as a warm place to raise their young. Even smaller wildlife adopted the pipeline, due to the heat it gives off.
Tbf it does and much of the reason it’s raised considerably above (and below) ground in many places is expressly to protect wildlife roaming patterns. To date it’s leaked nearly 9,800 barrels total. It’s also going to need a massive refit soon as melting permafrost is threatening the entirety of the pipeline.
I actually use to work at a gas refinery here in west Texas and we did just that, processes it and sent it down the line to another facility. We even use pigs… But most people think of gasoline that goes in cars. That’s processed too, but most plants process natural gas like propane… This pipeline however is oil (crude oil). All this oil is shipped north of Alaska, straight south to Valdez, Alaska and put on ships. If you grew up in the 1980s, you might remember the Exxon Valdez oil spill that made national news.
100% agree America is still decades away from the vast majority of drivers being electric. Anywhere that’s considered a 2/3 world country is at least a century
@@robbyfeathers1111 also to be somewhat feasible our country would have to be completely converted over to nuclear. Not even considering the amount of materials required to build and sustain EV’s. In all reality we will most likely use fossil fuels on this planet till the day we run out. I don’t see Africa and the Middle East setting up a significant number of nuclear power plants in this century. Dubai is the exception I can see them being 100% nuclear and exporting all oil to the surrounding countries within my lifetime.
That is amazing. I really think that we should have a pipeline similar to that across the United States for the transport of water to areas that need it from flood zones.
Yep. Electric Vehicles are a financial cash grab scam on the people. At most, a feel-good do-nothing blanket for those with too much money and not enough moral superiority to lord over others.
Of course we’ll continue to use whatever oil we can economically extract but since the globe is past peak in supply we’re on downward production of oil from now on so electric cars most definitely will scale up in a major way.
@@ScottT109 ya I don’t believe that we’re past peak oil, and electric cars are dumb on so many levels outside of carbon emissions (which can be argued as well) that I just don’t believe they will be the dominant choice within 15 years.
@@kevinlovell2404 man I bet wrapping them pipes in insulation sucked but probably paid good. I work at a plant that builds tanker trailers and sometimes we build crude tankers wrapped in insulation, and it’s miserable work putting it on.
And then truck it to Valdez? When the pipeline was in peak production it was at like 2.1 million barrels per day in 1988. That is a lot of oil ,and you have to get it to a year round ice-free port.
>"We're going to electrify transportation and use less oil and fossil fuel corps are just gonna let that happen" I'll take things that aren't going to happen for $500 Alex.
They will just up the price of that electric to compensate for the cost of less fossil fuel use. Pg and e is doing it with solar as they do not compensate you for a majority of the power you make we only get 20% credit back for ours these coorperation will work with govts to stay relevant. I have a isn't. oil will still flow regularly they will just convince us it isnt.
The largest fossil fuel companies are leading innovation in renewable energy. They stand to lose the most so once it was settled that petrol needs to be on it's way out, they immediately started using their existing cash reserves to get as large of a first-mover bonus as possible. Think I remember BP was dumping crazy money into renewables r&d. While also dealing with the fallout from the Gulf spills. So while it's obvious they aren't doing it out of altruism, they are heavily invested. At least a few major players are.
@@shaunstark4263 Yep, no doubt about it. So goes the game of Life though! Even if they're doing it for all the wrong reasons they're still doing more than me. Figure I can't throw stones at anyone, living in a glass house myself and all 😅
Gas is expensive because of state gas taxes. In 2000, I worked for a fuel wholesaler in Florida. Gas at the retail pump was over $2.00 but the wholesale price at the Port of Tampa was $0.35.
I worked in the late 80's in bulk fuel distribution. We had many state and federal contracts as well as gas stations and village residents along the road networks. Always picked up our loads from the Alaska refineries.
Worked on the pipeline back in the 70’s. Those vertical tubes are called Vsm’s for vertical support member. They have vertical tubes inside them with radiator fins coming out the top. The idea was keeping that perma-frost down below frozen . Just a little factoid for ya!
Hey 1d10t, gonna need more oil because you still have to have oil run power grids to recharge those EVs and it is showing a lot of grids cannot sustain it now. Especially in California, they are on black out hours.
It would be more correct to say how much oil the government let's everyone consume as the EV market is artificially inflated by government action. Shocker.
You need coal and oil to charge the batteries. What are you gonna do with the trillions of batteries after they are used up ? Toxic waste will be in dumps everywhere.
I missed employment on the pipeline build( still In high school) by a year and a half, I did however see the pipe stock yards and other equipment that went into making this behemoth, stored in yards near my home in Fairbanks! I since flown the pipeline route several times after it went into operation! What an awesome piece of engineering !!
I was born in and have spent my entire life in Georgia. But, back in the mid - late ‘70s, not a whole lot of opportunity for those who grew up in ultra rural America . We averaged 5-10 kids/year moving to Alaska as there always seemed to be plenty of pipeline jobs available. A buddy a year behind me moved up there ~ ‘78 and stayed. While I know exactly where he lives (North Pole, Ak), I’ve never spoken to him since he left home.
@@dougjstl1 cool. Thanks for letting us know you’ll write it down. Use capital letter so you won’t forget. And when you turn on heat or stove remember what you wrote down. In capital letters.
My grandfather too in 77, he complained about his work colleague who was a pipe fitter welder for confiscating my grandfather's lunch box for months. That was your grandfather.
There are 3 refineries in Alaska, but they rarely run at or near capacity. There is more money in shipping oil elsewhere, refining it into various products, then shipping it back to Alaska, where resident are severely overcharged for the fruits of their own labor.
Everything on the left side of the country is overpriced . A big Mac is 6.50 in Alaska and the same in Cali and higher in Washington state. High taxes, high gas, high everything
Oil consumption will continue to increase as parts of the world continue to develop. The transition from combustable engines to electric is not outpacing the transition from pre combustible to combustible. There are still entire continents and countries that still haven’t fully reached 1950 levels of industry.
@@Marco858636 And yet people that know what they're doing do it on a daily basis. There are many people that "go off grid" and stay for years. The guy that died in a bus,well apparently didn't know what he thought he did.
Or start buying electric cars and try to live lives that require less gasoline so they don’t need to care about the pipelines and get cleaner air out of it too
@@fdd7002 -First, the electricity to charge the cars comes from burning coal and oil (Hello!), and there are already overwhelmed grids causing brownouts and blackouts. (FYI: They're telling people to either charge their car OR cool their house this summer. And, some areas are encouraging people to use gas powered generators to charge the cars, for the same reason. Lol...) It also takes 12 hours to charge the car from home, and that's a very costly electric bill for you! (Even the super charging stations, when you can find one, take several hours to fully charge, and aren't cheap.) The batteries begin degrading (as to how long they'll keep a charge) the minute you drive the car off the lot. And, they only have a life span of 8 years. Each of the 2 batteries costs $5-6,000 a piece, plus the install. Who's going to be able to afford 12k, or want to buy a used electric car knowing that cost is in their near future?? Answer: No one. Also, the old batteries can't be recycled, and end up in landfills, polluting the Earth (soil, groundwater,and aquifers) indefinitely. It's an environmental contamination nightmare waiting to happen! Lastly, we get the lithium-ion from Gyyna. This puts us at their mercy, and gives them even MORE leverage over us, and that's a very serious problem. Hopefully, some day, there will be greener cars that we can transition to, but the current option simply isn't gojng to do it (nevermind overnight, as the tsilabolG Demz are trying to do), and the idea that we can just stop using oil is completely unrealistic, and shows the naivety and ignorance that exists amongst them.
It’s even more expensive when the government won’t let you drill and so you have to ship it across the ocean form countries that can charge whatever they want
@@carlstephens1532 I'm sorry, do you own some offshore rig we all haven't heard of or are you just some insignificant pest who watches CNN and thinks they can gage the issue?
I’ve been driving electric for 4 years. I’m glad to have solar panels and battery storage. Eventually we will transition to electric it’s a no brainer.
@@davidappell3105there is no fully electric future. The world will rely on oil and gas until the very end or until a effective method of energy is made
Also, just because a pipeline is buried a couple feet underground does NOT mean it is safely protected, by any means lmao .. ground shifts and moves from natural geologic and tectonic movement .. flash floods can erode the dirt away, people could dig and hit it (that one’s not as likely considering its well marked along the entire path, but still possible)
That's ONE of the reasons gas is expensive. Another major reason is that the federal govt essentially stopped the ability to drill for more and build new refineries. You limit supply, price goes up. It's not rocket science.
“As the world switches to EV” … I wonder where that electricity is coming from?? Edit: yes everyone I know about nuclear… I just hope everyone who says that is voting that way too. Cause the current politicians aren’t working on nuclear
Actually the problem isn’t just that power plants will be overwhelmed. It’s the local grid too. Substations, street poles, etc will all be over loaded if everyone was charging EVs in their driveway. The cost of ALL types of electrical utilities will skyrocket
“It’s gonna be interesting to see how less oil we’ll use Bc the electric cars” bru we’ll never gonna stop using oil no matter how many electric cars ☠️☠️
@@emortalelitegaming2667 He said less. Less is not none. None is not less. Less is less. none is none. Price of gas would probably be slightly less then what it was during the worst part of the pandemic if everyone switched to electric.
We will never use less oil. The more electric vehicles, the more oil we need
True. You can't tell them though
That or we build more nuclear power plants
@@newlifelodge The brainwashing is complete.
Care to explain your reasoning?
Eventually we'll have have an alternative to both. Oil wont last forever and if we burn it all we'll extinct life on earth as we know and love it.
Oil is used for more than just fuel.
It is the basic feedstock for many types of plastics, lubricants and other chemicals.
The real problem is the grade of oil that comes out of the ground. Our refineries were mostly built to produce oil from heavy, dirty sludge. Which was a horribly bad bet made back in the 90's under our Oil President GW Bush mostly before he took office but fracking didn't come out till around 2010. But most of the oil we have been getting since Fracking became popular is a lite, sweet oil. Which is actually more expensive to refine. The only real alternative is mixing it with nastier blends to basically help make more of it! Because we have very few refineries for this grade of oil.
Plus fertilizer
You cant build a Tesla without oil.
@shaynejenkins446 yep but ppl don't realize it. Telsa is 100% plastic...lol
Electric cars are not here to stay. They will probably on their way out in 50 years or less.
The grass fed animals rely heavily on that strip for survival. The oil line is heated. The snow melts under it. The grass grows wonderfully. The animals graze and survive.
I remember the Sierra Club saying the pipeline will scare animals away and prevent them from migrating.
And they thought we were crazy when we said the surrounding vegetation can even improve with a pipeline on it.
Well lucky for them they arent the animals that live in the sea..... the oil didn't treat them that well when ExxonMobil dumped all that oil in the water.
@@ads2686 that wasn’t from a pipeline, what’s your point?
That should be posted over and over. First time I heard that.
We have been screaming we want refineries here far 40 years and the government refuses to let us build them
Makes no sense if it's so expensive to refine it there has to be a different way we can use crude oil
My grandfather moved to Alaska because he got a job helping build the pipeline. We have a rejected section of the steel pipe in our backyard that we use as a firepit.
Cool...I have a few 42" pups, not Alaska, but met a few of those old hands, and a very old welder who worked on it, he is teaching his granddaughter to weld on pipelines in the lower 48
@@shawnesantana575 nice! I hope she does well!
Have a big rig tire rim with brick's around it.
nice
@@Justin-fq7vj id like to check that out!
A welder on the pipeline told me there’s sand in the oil and it wears down and thins out the pipeline walls, sections are replaced.
My Grandfather was a welder and helped build that pipeline.
Oo reallyy
Cap
Should have kept one opening secretly for urself
@@sankalp8657 well thats smart
My family bought a crusher that was used on the pipeline we now use it in our gravel pit they hauled it down to Michigan for us in the 70s and the guy that brought it down said he’s never gonna do that again
Pipes will be fine. Oil will always will be useful and the pipelines are the cleanest way to transport oil.
Cars use just a fraction of the oil we use. And anyway oil is still the main source to get electricity.
Everybody says electric cars will save the world. As they run for free...
@@albertogambino2562 Its not as if they run for free.
Its with the assumption that electrifying transportation also means changing the grid to all renewables / nuclear.
Almost 40% of US electricity falls into this category already and given the unequal spread across US states many places an electric car never has to consume power made with fossil fuels.
Also transportation uses 60% of all oil consumption.
So either electrifying or using neutral fuels like synthetic kerosene, or hydrogen for 100% of vehicles would be a 60% drop on fossil fuel consumption.
Though not a 60% drop in emissions given more than just burning fuel creates emissions.
Even if all vehicles go electric, we will still use the same if not more oil because the hydrocarbons used for fuel will then repurposed to make plastics and other chemicals for industry use.
@@bluetrilobitegas is actually the waste product from refining oil. Most of it is used for plastics like peoples kale containers
@@nocareYes electric cars do receive charging from natural gas. That’s literally how we get electricity. The electric cars are not exclusively charging off of clean electricity lol. We don’t even have to renewable output to have cities put charging stations for trucks. Not even enough capacity.
“World goes to electric cars.”
Meanwhile in California: rolling blackouts and brownouts happens daily because of AC usage going up and electric companies have said to stop charging EV’s because the grid can’t handle the load. They literally said “run your AC or charge your car, but not both.”
So charge at night if possible? If the people that can charge at night only charge at night then it’ll make up for those that for whatever odd reason can’t charge at night during the work week
Huh. Hard to believe
I literally live in California and haven’t seen a single blackout
@@nathancabada6814 Then you need to get out more. California has already had several. It depends where you live.
@@Zachery_ yah but what happens when they do there electric simi trucks
Oil ain't goin' nowhere. That's a fact.
More electric vehicles actually means more oil consumption
Source?
@@h.d.h look up how much emissions and fuel is used in cobalt and lithium mining/refining vs how much is used to produce gasoline
@@h.d.hthe source is common sense, where do you think the electricity will come from, what do you think the cars will be made of. How much emissions do you think would be used to mine the REM's that are used, how much REM,s do you think there are, that's why they are called rare, and why they are so expensive
I worked on it for 10 years. Worked at every pump station from deadhorse to the the end of the pipeline at Valdez.
Man very cool is that all stainless steel pipe and how thick is it
mite be a silly question, but how does it move through, pressure or something?
@@dannyedge324pump stations like the ones this dude worked at pump it through the pipe
The pipeline is going to be taken down
@@joeroyward6457yeah because their just gonna truck it over roads that don't exist
I am a retired machinist. In the seventies, I made parts for the Alaskan Pipeline. Our company made valve actuators to stop the flow of oil in case of a break. I received a pocket watch to commemorate the event. I still have it.
I have my grandfather's silver bar and gold gold pan from his years and retirement from building and then running a pumping station for the alyeska pipeline service. It was such a huge project in its day. He went there after he retired out of the air Force to work another 20 years. And kids these days think older generations didn't have to hustle lol.
@@oliver_klozoff"the hustle" was much easier just a few decades ago...to the point that people today wouldn't consider it a hustle because most jobs supported you
@@oliver_klozoffDude thats not hustle; thats just changing career. Hustle is when you work your job, and have a second job, and run a side business, and do some trading in crypto or forex or the stock market. Walking away from working with 2 pensions is just lazy.
How does it feel having such a big contribution to the destruction of our planet?
@@AnimilesYT, I always thought that your side (Democrat Socialist Communist Anarchist) would eventually just decide there are too many humans, too.
Go electric too early, and watch economies crash and people perish. Even if we did go all electric, likely a non renewable will power that electric car for some time.
Its beautiful! We need more of them!
I agree
FUN FACT: Without petroleum products, your phone would not exist 😂👍
California has both oil and refineries yet we are paying almost $6. per gallon.....WTF !
We are paying 8 bucks up here!
Keep voting demoKKKrat 😂
Liberal taxes
Saudi cut oil production, Governor sets taxes on fuel, and our Prez could care less.
Democrats want you in electric cars
Oil will never die. Being completely dependent on one resource is suicide.
You mean like oil? A non-renewable resource that will run out (estimates are around 50 years based on current consumption and proven reserves).
Electricity can be made in numerous ways. Ex Hydro, wind, solar, tidal (all renewable), nuclear (is fusion works out there is something like a billion years worth of fuel available)
Why do wind turbines leak oil... Why does everything you talked about require oil to manufacture. Nuclear is the way. @@coleeto2
We need oil for just about everything. There will always be a use for it.
“Over the next 15 years as the world goes to electric cars”
Bruh we can’t even have air conditioning and the oven on at the same time without risking power outages. How can we reliably charge 230 million electric vehicles?
You can’t, especially after shutting down all nuclear plants
Amen
Oh god… this is just a regurgitation of another TH-cam video….
It’s called BUILD the infrastructure…. I haven’t seen a single power outage caused by electric vehicles… ever… and I run my air conditioning and charge my car and run my oven and wash my clothes all at the same time…. In California
@@TopODaMernin how do you plan to provide power for an entire state with no fossil fuel, and no nuclear? Solar and wind are not reliable year round. The sun ain’t always out and the wind isn’t always blowing. Plus manufacturing windmills and panels is terrible for the environment.
@@TopODaMernin . Simple mind, simple comments.🤡
Thinking our cars are gonna be all electric in 15 years is the wildest take I’ve ever heard
Thats not at all what he said. Thats just what you wanted to hear. Stop looking for things to hate.
Well they won't all be electric vehicles. But the building of gas powered cars will become illegal. You will still be able to buy gas powered cars that were manufactured before then but no one will be allowed to manufacture gas powered cars after that date. And the sad part is, that all these major car company's have already promised to become fully electric.
Liberal delusion, you have to admit.
@josephseppala5986 I truly don't think that law will stick. We just have the infrastructure for it, or the population with wealth that can afford it. Basic economics if there's more of something being used the it will cost more like electricity
@@coltonwilhite8910Our infrastructure can handle it as is with incentives to limit time of day. The idea that the power grid wont be able to handle such a thing is absurd. It is literally the same increase as when the country moved to A/Cs. How come no one was fighting against using A/Cs because the grid couldn't handle it... we just increased the power output on the grid. The grid outputs more yearly. It is based on consumption. The more consumption the more they increase. By 2035 the grid will naturally be caught up
We need more of these pipelines to lower the price of energy and reduce inflation.
Sorry but private companies don't want lower prices because that mean less profits.
@@h.d.h not a decision by private companies it’s decision at state and federal level
I love watching Alaskan pipeline videos.
We aren’t going to consume less, you’ll still need fossils fuels to power all those electric charging stations.
Those cars are made out of plastic which the oil in those very pipes is used to make.
We won't get rid of it, but we can absolutely consume less overall.
Consider how cheap modern electricity-bills have always been compared to equivalent gasoline. Power plants use drastically less oil for the same energy output versus a combustion engine.
As transmission and storage systems improve and more renewables come online the benefits will only increase.
@@ronal8824 they use oil to make most of the parts of windmills and solar panels, and with how often those have to be maintained (not to mention the unreliability and low production) they will never be able to power the world.
And I'm not even mentioning how destructive windmills and solar panels are on the environment.
@@ronal8824 never have enough "renewable" isn't reliable and you have to store it...wind turbines and solar. That means batteries along with all the lithium for the electric cars, not to mention the 10000 years worth of copper mining we need to do so everfamily can have at least one electric car...but more like 3 electric cars. Electric cars good for the environment? No, not even close to gas vehicles.
@@ronal8824 no.. renewable energy will not be a thing in 15 years.
Why do people like you never mention that you literally need crude oil to make said EV's? Its completely counter productive.
Fact
Yeah because making cars that consume less crude oil, over time, is COMPLETELY counterproductive? What do you suggest? Our cars and machines should run on unicorn farts and fairy dust?
@@wax_axiom479 it's not about what cars run on but it's about how electricity is made. The most efficient form of transportation is trains and planes I think. One way only, fuel is highly regulated, and routes are made 100% efficient. I suggest hand powered vehicles for the common citizen like you see in third world countries like bicycles, scooters, and quads. For long haul transport trains again are best, ships are good too I think. But having less availability of gas and more access to fixed transport routes would be best imo.
@@wax_axiom479 totally counter productive when you are using tons of oil to find precious metals for all those “EVs”
YEAAAHHH CLAYTON
Rubbermaid is gonna be scared as hell if the oil stops
It’s going to be interesting to see them explain why we still haven’t switched to electric cars in 15 years
And why we're still not dead, let alone the Earth destroyed.
Electric cars need rare earth metals and precious metals in a superfluous amount compared to combustion cars, not to mention more coal. Oil is not running out. Keep the pistons. it's better for the planet. Also, most of those metals are monopolized by china.
Hearrrrrd dat!
The teacher is already known. There is going to be resistance by a percentage of the population who simply don't want change.
@@swaggoner1234 while at arguing on the short-term for oil and gas exist, there is no excuse for burning coal for anything. It is a filthy fuel that must be eliminated at the earliest opportunity.
Over the next 15 years as people move to EV’s that pipeline will continue pumping away my friend.
Still need make plastics rubbers and lubricants which all use oil as one their ingredients
@@vinter5256And to lube the presses that stamp out the steel or aluminum in the body and its components.
And to transport all those products to and from assembly plants.
Yes, and what will we need to generate electricity?
@patriciamalone3553 :Eventually we will use electricity to produce electricity
@patriciamalone3553 :Eventually we will use electricity to produce electricity
Finished in 1977. Built over two years. My uncle was a welder on the pipeline.
My dad was a designer of this pipeline. It's good to see it.
-What’s inside an oil pipeline?😀
-Oil😐🫢
Mind blown
Not anymore, it just got shut down.
That things empty now.
Yes
Biden shut it down any raised gas prices
🗿
Hopefully security patrols the exposed parts to ensure vandals don't compromise the infrastructure
They do. Lots of cameras too
that pipeline looks awfully like a perfectly explosive sabotage target...
@@VulpineCortex It's been shot a few times. Crude oil doesn't explode, just drips on the ground.
I wonder when our government will sabotage our own pipeline?
"Over the next 15yrs...as the World goes to electric cars..." Bless his heart.
Yeah, they just found out it is more profitable to burn 4K EV's than to sell them......
Most of Norway uses electric cars and they’re looking into the process in other countries as well. So yeah, it’s happening
@@spregged7231 After the prestige of owning a Tesla wore off and people figured out electric cars can be nightmares, demand has dropped considerably here. Dealers are stuck with the cars and automakers are rethinking the entire idea.
@@spregged7231 Wont happen in the whole of South africa, heck we cant even have the power on for 12 hours a day! Have you seen all those ev's catch alite? Worst car ever made.
@@spregged7231 19 percent is not most. "
Look how clean it is!!!! Now look at a lithium mine
Or COBALT mines
Clean? It all becomes smog..
@@geneh.smalley-px4krwow...use your brain
@@geneh.smalley-px4kr Look into the coal burning that's used to produce the electricity to fire up all those "clean" electric cars, look into the efficiency of that process until Your electric car will have done its first thousand miles, look at how much diesel goes into mining and transporting the coal, and *_THEN_* let us talk about smog .....
@@geneh.smalley-px4krNo it doesn’t
I remember driving through Alaska with my sister (I was 11) and we stopped to check out a section of the pipeline.. thankfully we didn't get out because a grizzly chased our car several seconds later
Someone should tell him how the charging stations get their power.
Plot twist; it consumes the same amount because it'll be used to power all the electric cars
Wrong. Electric/hybrid cars are more efficient especially in stop and go traffic when you're burning gas just sitting still.
@@coreyisabigpushover Wrong. Where do you think the electricity that charges those electric cars comes from? What do you think will happen when everyone is driving electric cars and constantly needs to charge them?
@@DangerRussDayZ6533 only .6% of US utility scale electric power comes from oil buddy. Good try though.
40% is NG and 20% is Coal. Get you're talking points right next time.
fr tho I swear to god some people only think as far as they can spit
@@coreyisabigpushoverthere are so many more things that use crude oil to generate electricity or transportation...
It's so nice hearing people talking about electric cars like electricity coming from the sky. There is a reason why the charging stations are at gas stations. Gas is here to stay my friend
You are mistaken.
There's a big insider trading incentive to switch to electric cars
@@rogerwadell8784 what am I mistaken about? Do we currently use oil to produce electricity? Clearly you don’t realize that we are at war with a country we get our uranium from and pushing homosexuality on the other and that other country in a Africa is siding with the country we are at war with. So please educate me on where we will get our uranium to power these plants that will produce the terawatts of electricity we will when we all go electric? Don’t worry, I will wait.
Bro you have a Tesla for a profile pic thinking charging stations are in gas stations literally the only place they don’t have one
To have a mixture of gas and electric will be the best … it’s never good to go all in one direction
Oil is the best lubricant on planet earth. We will always need oil and grease to lubricate moving metal gear assemblies.
Electricity does not just miraculously appear out of nowhere. Coal, Fuel and Wind will need to be harnessed to generate electricity.
Because he didn't explain what's inside:
My grandfather worked on this pipeline for Bechtel. As the pipeline sits on stilts because of the temperature difference of the permafrost and the oil as not to melt the permafrost and sink into the mud.
The stilts contain pressurized ammonia which the heat of the oil evaporates. The vapor then rises to a radiator on top of each stilt where it is cooled by the outside air and condenses and falls to the bottom of the pressure container.
The pipeline also meanders slightly to allow for thermal expansion and contraction and the shifting of the local fault lines.
The subterranean pipeline sections are actually crossings to allow wildlife to cross and are sheathed in styrofoam and a refrigerated tube to prevent the permafrost melt.
I was just going to ask what the fins were for...
That's awesome man thanks for explaining. It blows my mind that pipelines like these can operate for decades when I've seen pipe that's 10-15 years old rot away in plants haha
the wildlife love the exposed pipe section and hang out near them during the coldest months. Heat coming off the pipe makes it like a giant radiator.
I was just commenting about how thats the coolest feature of the pipeline.
LOL. The pipeline definitely isn't underground to allow animals to cross. A human can walk under the above ground part. What kind of animals do you think can't walk under it? Elephants? It's amazing how hundreds of people read this and blindly believed it because he was trying to sound authoritative.
Every Alaskan gets a dividend from the oil production and they don't pay any personal taxes on their income.
But you have to live in alaska so its a fair deal
@@dengar96I used to camp and hike north of Fairbanks when I was younger. Beats any place I've seen in the lower 48.
Actually, 9 states don't have personal income tax Alaska is the only one that doesn't because of the oil production.
That is the definition of "Socialism". The government (people) own the resources and means of production, and share the benefits.
Building a refinery would have paid for itself over and over again.
We aren't doing the electric thing unless we're being forced to by evil people.
The electric cars don’t burn oil but the electricity is made in a power plant burning coal or oil and the amount of plastics in cars today takes a ton of oil. We probably won’t see a difference in oil consumption till we go to some other form of power generation.
An electric car powered 100% by a coal power plant pollutes less than a gas or diesel car, that is a fact, look it up. Also plastics can be made from other things than oil, look that up too. Tyres are a different story, but the majority of the oils we extract from the ground is burned. The day we run out we have a huge problem, because some things need oils for production, so we better stop burning the oil and start save what is left.
Exactly, and also lithium mining is worse for the environment than oil
Precisely. I see so many EV owners flaunting the that their car burns "clean" energy. In reality the production and use of EVs isn't much better than that of gasoline cars, if at all.
Literally all of you guys commenting on this thus far are wrong. So much confirmation bias. It's true that the production of lithium-ion batteries is energy intensive, but research has shown that the amount of CO2 a battery throughout it's life prevents from being exhausted compared to internal combustion engines reduces CO2 emissions dramatically. Definitely with recycling of lithium batteries picking up, it reduces the amount of energy required to make a new battery.
Lmfao, exactly. These Tesla owners just get dumber and dumber.
Oil and gas are needed for every synthetic product. It’s called “petrol product” and is a part of almost 100% of our lives.
everything we can do with petroleum products can be done with (non toxic, bio-degradable) plant oils. We are using petroleum based products "everywhere" not because we must or because it benefits (the overwhelming majority of) us. We use them everywhere because doing so enriches and empowers wealthy, powerful people ... who spent decades (and billions) convincing millions of people that we need them more than they need us.
haha you are funny and dumb @@TeamGxxS
and? no one said we wont need oil the demand will not be as high
Absolutely and we should be better conservators of the oil for the production of plastics and durable, useful things that don’t just burn it away as a fuel
@@TeamGxxS Its by far less costly to the consumer to buy the cheaper product that comes out of the ground, rather than try to grow enough bio-degradable plants for the oil.
You don't realize the scale involved to transition to the beneficial version. Its not something that can be done overnight, without a cost that will disrupt the economy through the staggering cost at the store buying the bio-degradable version. You have to understand- Inflation, it can cause economic and political upheaval, which will create a push to abandon bio-degradable products. You watch, its already happening, more people are going to be pissed at the costs that effects their lives.
Asphalt is made from crude oil . An asphalt road has a smaller carbon footprint than a concrete road.
"Please Don't Climb on Pipeline"
"Whatever, I do what I want, whatever!" - Little Girl
and when it gets really cold, those verticle metal supports have radiators to keep the pipe warn.
Animals come to those areas to keep warm.
Keep the ground froozen
Lol that's not why 😂
Actually the reindeer population increased because of the heat from the pipeline.
@@user-el9wx7bv7zNot true, Sub-arctic reindeer and caribou in Alaska have declined by nearly 50% since 1990.
I thought for sure the first comment would be some joker pointing out the caption. Good on you for this intelligent comment.
When the environmentalists were up in arms over this pipeline, they were claiming it would harm the wildlife population. Then they learned that the deer, elks and moose were using the pipeline as a warm place to raise their young. Even smaller wildlife adopted the pipeline, due to the heat it gives off.
Tbf it does and much of the reason it’s raised considerably above (and below) ground in many places is expressly to protect wildlife roaming patterns. To date it’s leaked nearly 9,800 barrels total. It’s also going to need a massive refit soon as melting permafrost is threatening the entirety of the pipeline.
@@AnarexicSumoit's not a man made forever chemical which pollutes our food and water. It came out of the ground. relax
Watching how it was Build is amazing. The engineering and dedication money can buy.
Yeah the animals are gonna love when it spills
@@kittycatdreamz In nearly 50 years, they've done an excellent job maintaining it.
I actually use to work at a gas refinery here in west Texas and we did just that, processes it and sent it down the line to another facility. We even use pigs… But most people think of gasoline that goes in cars. That’s processed too, but most plants process natural gas like propane… This pipeline however is oil (crude oil). All this oil is shipped north of Alaska, straight south to Valdez, Alaska and put on ships. If you grew up in the 1980s, you might remember the Exxon Valdez oil spill that made national news.
Looks like a snowrunner map haha
This pipeline will be at full capacity for decades to come.
100% agree America is still decades away from the vast majority of drivers being electric. Anywhere that’s considered a 2/3 world country is at least a century
Also you have to have ways to generate electricity aka oil and gas. Electricity doesn’t just magically appear because we buy an electric car
@@robbyfeathers1111 also to be somewhat feasible our country would have to be completely converted over to nuclear. Not even considering the amount of materials required to build and sustain EV’s. In all reality we will most likely use fossil fuels on this planet till the day we run out. I don’t see Africa and the Middle East setting up a significant number of nuclear power plants in this century. Dubai is the exception I can see them being 100% nuclear and exporting all oil to the surrounding countries within my lifetime.
That pipeline hasn't run at full capacity for years. If the oil ever stops flowing it will turn into the world's longest candle.
@@robbyfeathers1111 natural gas is a great, kinda eco friendly energy source and thorium nuclear reactors are a great long term solution.
In my opinion one of the coolest parts are the heat management systems built into the support structures to keep the permafrost frozen.
That is amazing. I really think that we should have a pipeline similar to that across the United States for the transport of water to areas that need it from flood zones.
That was very interesting... Thanks from Australia..
Spoiler alert, we’re not going to go to electric cars an a major scale. We’re gonna be using lots of that oil.
Yep. Electric Vehicles are a financial cash grab scam on the people. At most, a feel-good do-nothing blanket for those with too much money and not enough moral superiority to lord over others.
Of course we’ll continue to use whatever oil we can economically extract but since the globe is past peak in supply we’re on downward production of oil from now on so electric cars most definitely will scale up in a major way.
@@ScottT109 That's actually a fallacy, the whole concept of peak supply.
@@ScottT109 In ww2 Germany found it easier to make synthetic oil than to do anything electric. The physics haven't changed enough since then.
@@ScottT109 ya I don’t believe that we’re past peak oil, and electric cars are dumb on so many levels outside of carbon emissions (which can be argued as well) that I just don’t believe they will be the dominant choice within 15 years.
My dad was an engineer with Owens Corning and was one of the primary designers for the insulation systems on the pipeline!
My dad was an insulator who worked on the pipeline.
@@kevinlovell2404 man I bet wrapping them pipes in insulation sucked but probably paid good. I work at a plant that builds tanker trailers and sometimes we build crude tankers wrapped in insulation, and it’s miserable work putting it on.
My dad welded his lug nuts on his car because tires are made from petroleum and he will never have to buy another set of tires -Hunter Biden -
Gas is expensive because the Keystone XL pipeline got shut down to push the EV BS as a control measure.
"So, shall we build a refinery or lay 800 fkn miles of pipe?"
And then truck it to Valdez? When the pipeline was in peak production it was at like 2.1 million barrels per day in 1988. That is a lot of oil ,and you have to get it to a year round ice-free port.
>"We're going to electrify transportation and use less oil and fossil fuel corps are just gonna let that happen"
I'll take things that aren't going to happen for $500 Alex.
They will just up the price of that electric to compensate for the cost of less fossil fuel use. Pg and e is doing it with solar as they do not compensate you for a majority of the power you make we only get 20% credit back for ours these coorperation will work with govts to stay relevant. I have a isn't. oil will still flow regularly they will just convince us it isnt.
The largest fossil fuel companies are leading innovation in renewable energy.
They stand to lose the most so once it was settled that petrol needs to be on it's way out, they immediately started using their existing cash reserves to get as large of a first-mover bonus as possible.
Think I remember BP was dumping crazy money into renewables r&d. While also dealing with the fallout from the Gulf spills.
So while it's obvious they aren't doing it out of altruism, they are heavily invested. At least a few major players are.
@@SirTorcharite control
@@shaunstark4263 Yep, no doubt about it. So goes the game of Life though!
Even if they're doing it for all the wrong reasons they're still doing more than me. Figure I can't throw stones at anyone, living in a glass house myself and all 😅
@@SirTorcharite I certainly don't endorse men, as they all lie. They are not my representatives, nor my government.
Gas is expensive because of state gas taxes. In 2000, I worked for a fuel wholesaler in Florida. Gas at the retail pump was over $2.00 but the wholesale price at the Port of Tampa was $0.35.
1st law of thermodynamics . Energy can not be created nor destroy . It takes oil and coal to make electricity . Something most people don't understand
My uncle helped build that.
I say build 4 more twin pipelines alongside. We're gonna need it. EV is pipedreamBrah..😂😂
Oil isn't about just gasoline and SUVs. Most of what he's wearing is petroleum based.
what you should have highlighted is how pipelines are much safer, more efficient, and contribute less pollution than railroad.
@Major Cbass you should truly try to research why canceling the keystone XL had remotely no impact on oil today.
@@mr.fahrenheit310 you should provide the links you brought it up. Being lazy or just starting a cyclical argument?
@@mr.fahrenheit310
Please explain to us what oil speculation is and why it matters to oil prices.
I don't think you know what you think you know.
Who cares?
Ban everything.
I support the current thing.
@@mr.fahrenheit310 🤦♂️
I worked in the late 80's in bulk fuel distribution. We had many state and federal contracts as well as gas stations and village residents along the road networks. Always picked up our loads from the Alaska refineries.
Worked on the pipeline back in the 70’s. Those vertical tubes are called Vsm’s for vertical support member. They have vertical tubes inside them with radiator fins coming out the top. The idea was keeping that perma-frost down below frozen . Just a little factoid for ya!
Hey 1d10t, gonna need more oil because you still have to have oil run power grids to recharge those EVs and it is showing a lot of grids cannot sustain it now. Especially in California, they are on black out hours.
The dude really thinks the world is going to be fully electric.
"Its going to be interesting to see how much less oil we consume"
Someone should tell him.
It would be more correct to say how much oil the government let's everyone consume as the EV market is artificially inflated by government action. Shocker.
Nah. Let him have his dreams
Don't worry he'll figure it out
Our infrastructure problem isn't that we aren't using electric vehicles. It's that we don't make our towns and cities walkable in the US.
You need coal and oil to charge the batteries. What are you gonna do with the trillions of batteries after they are used up ? Toxic waste will be in dumps everywhere.
I missed employment on the pipeline build( still In high school) by a year and a half, I did however see the pipe stock yards and other equipment that went into making this behemoth, stored in yards near my home in Fairbanks! I since flown the pipeline route several times after it went into operation! What an awesome piece of engineering !!
I was born in and have spent my entire life in Georgia. But, back in the mid - late ‘70s, not a whole lot of opportunity for those who grew up in ultra rural America . We averaged 5-10 kids/year moving to Alaska as there always seemed to be plenty of pipeline jobs available. A buddy a year behind me moved up there ~ ‘78 and stayed. While I know exactly where he lives (North Pole, Ak), I’ve never spoken to him since he left home.
“What’s inside an oil pipeline?”
Nothing these days. Maybe some Democratic mail in ballots.
Oh yeah that really shows how much of this video you paid attention to or when we made our last oil refinery
@@badfellow8422 yawn
@@bidenhasdementia8657 you just wake up from a nap?
@@laughs150 yawn, glare, yawn again
I love you 😆
My grandfather was a pipe fitter welder for the pipeline back in ‘77
Respect. Those welders are the heart and soul of these pipeline jobs. 👊
Ok
Okay thanks for telling us thanks for letting you know we're writing this down we're going to remember it
@@dougjstl1 cool. Thanks for letting us know you’ll write it down. Use capital letter so you won’t forget.
And when you turn on heat or stove remember what you wrote down. In capital letters.
My grandfather too in 77, he complained about his work colleague who was a pipe fitter welder for confiscating my grandfather's lunch box for months. That was your grandfather.
EVs will NEVER replace anything
"Do Not Climb on Pipeline"
Girlfriend climbs on pipeline.
There are 3 refineries in Alaska, but they rarely run at or near capacity. There is more money in shipping oil elsewhere, refining it into various products, then shipping it back to Alaska, where resident are severely overcharged for the fruits of their own labor.
I was gonna say
It's more that refineries can't refine all types, only specific types of crude. They have to be the right mixture of crude, light and sweet, and such.
You also get the highest rate of return on the federal taxes you pay so stop whining so much.
Most workers in those oil fields aren’t from Alaska.
It’s fruit from their land, but not their labor.
Everything on the left side of the country is overpriced . A big Mac is 6.50 in Alaska and the same in Cali and higher in Washington state. High taxes, high gas, high everything
My dad was one of the engineers that worked on this project.
Mine as well.
That is pretty cool. 👍
My step dad was the dirt contractor
My neighbor growing up was a welder on that pipeline
Oil consumption will continue to increase as parts of the world continue to develop. The transition from combustable engines to electric is not outpacing the transition from pre combustible to combustible. There are still entire continents and countries that still haven’t fully reached 1950 levels of industry.
Finally a well done and informative short. Great job, thanks.
My dad worked on that pipe line. He was a crane operator.❤
Tell him THANK YOU, from Florida. God Bless him.
Awesome! Was he a Operating Engineer? Either way tell him thank you we appreciate his work!
I had friends who worked on it when we were all very young.
Your dad is cool af, stay blessed! :D Cheers from Washington state!
one of my uncles did too
"What's inside an oil pipeline?"
We're doomed.
Every trip I'm still in awe of this thing
Everyone should have to live off the land for a year, just so they can appreciate what a pipeline like this does for their lives.
Remember to the last guy that tried that? They found him dead in a school bus......
@@Marco858636 And yet people that know what they're doing do it on a daily basis. There are many people that "go off grid" and stay for years. The guy that died in a bus,well apparently didn't know what he thought he did.
Or start buying electric cars and try to live lives that require less gasoline so they don’t need to care about the pipelines and get cleaner air out of it too
@@texasdad2372 not many people live off the grid. Its mostly families that have history of incest in their genes
@@fdd7002 -First, the electricity to charge the cars comes from burning coal and oil (Hello!), and there are already overwhelmed grids causing brownouts and blackouts. (FYI: They're telling people to either charge their car OR cool their house this summer. And, some areas are encouraging people to use gas powered generators to charge the cars, for the same reason. Lol...) It also takes 12 hours to charge the car from home, and that's a very costly electric bill for you! (Even the super charging stations, when you can find one, take several hours to fully charge, and aren't cheap.) The batteries begin degrading (as to how long they'll keep a charge) the minute you drive the car off the lot. And, they only have a life span of 8 years. Each of the 2 batteries costs $5-6,000 a piece, plus the install. Who's going to be able to afford 12k, or want to buy a used electric car knowing that cost is in their near future?? Answer: No one. Also, the old batteries can't be recycled, and end up in landfills, polluting the Earth (soil, groundwater,and aquifers) indefinitely. It's an environmental contamination nightmare waiting to happen! Lastly, we get the lithium-ion from Gyyna. This puts us at their mercy, and gives them even MORE leverage over us, and that's a very serious problem. Hopefully, some day, there will be greener cars that we can transition to, but the current option simply isn't gojng to do it (nevermind overnight, as the tsilabolG Demz are trying to do), and the idea that we can just stop using oil is completely unrealistic, and shows the naivety and ignorance that exists amongst them.
It’s even more expensive when the government won’t let you drill and so you have to ship it across the ocean form countries that can charge whatever they want
Your lack of understanding oil politics is apparent
@@carlstephens1532 at least he understands that drilling our own oil is cheaper
@@carlstephens1532
Less oil drilled => less oil to sell => sell for higher prices => oil and all oil products cost more.
@@carlstephens1532 you're brainwashed
@@carlstephens1532 I'm sorry, do you own some offshore rig we all haven't heard of or are you just some insignificant pest who watches CNN and thinks they can gage the issue?
I had the pleasure of seeing the Alaska pipeline while visiting Fairbanks. Pretty cool.
The Oldsmobile made electric cars obsolete and out of business in 1901. "If you don't know history you're doomed to repeat it!
Someone should tell you about how they thought computers weren't going to take over one day but yet here we are
My brother in-law was a welder on the pipe line in the 70s
Oh
@@TheTruthAndMe HE MADE A BOAT LOAD OF MONEY! TO BAD HE DRANK HIMSELF TO DEATH 10 YEARS AGO.
@@jamebrooke894 he's at peace now.
Lol how much less oil well burn you obviously haven’t seen how 90% of the electricity is produced.
OK calculate how much i saved from my solar panels over 30yrs now let's say 150 amonth × 12 months x 30 yrs = big smiles
@@carlstephens1532 congratulations, you paid off your solar panels 30 years later. 😂😂😂 Net zero.
@@carlstephens1532 Electricity production on a societal scale is not generated from solar genius... it's fossil fuels.
WAY more than ninety percent have a Blessed weekend all 👌
What's inside the oil pipelines? Duuuh, beer?
I’ve been driving electric for 4 years. I’m glad to have solar panels and battery storage. Eventually we will transition to electric it’s a no brainer.
“As the world moves to electric vehicles”
-hivemind
Everyone using gasoline powered cars isn’t a hive mind?? I think you’re afraid of the future.
@@davidappell3105there is no fully electric future. The world will rely on oil and gas until the very end or until a effective method of energy is made
@@davidappell3105the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil. One of the biggest lies ever told
For sure. The world will NOT move to electric vehicles.
@aliamro1525 why? Electric works and will never run out.
In the 70s when cops or bill collectors came looking for our friends we always said "They're in Alaska working on the pipeline".
Also, just because a pipeline is buried a couple feet underground does NOT mean it is safely protected, by any means lmao .. ground shifts and moves from natural geologic and tectonic movement .. flash floods can erode the dirt away, people could dig and hit it (that one’s not as likely considering its well marked along the entire path, but still possible)
That's ONE of the reasons gas is expensive. Another major reason is that the federal govt essentially stopped the ability to drill for more and build new refineries. You limit supply, price goes up. It's not rocket science.
*dude*“Over the next 15 years as the world goes to electric cars”
*me & the bois restoring 6 V8 cars n trucks* 👑
Damn straight
Yes sir 💯💯💯
Based
Lol the world is going eletric doesn't mater how many cars you restore. The times are changing don't be like your grandad lol
@@g.6991 my grandad was a good man. why wouldn't i want to be like him?
Reading your comments, makes me feel more confident that Americans are very smart..................
“As the world switches to EV”
… I wonder where that electricity is coming from??
Edit: yes everyone I know about nuclear… I just hope everyone who says that is voting that way too. Cause the current politicians aren’t working on nuclear
Faxx
Solar panels and wind farms of course 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@-justin-4077 ima pretend you haven’t heard of oil burning planta
Actually the problem isn’t just that power plants will be overwhelmed. It’s the local grid too. Substations, street poles, etc will all be over loaded if everyone was charging EVs in their driveway. The cost of ALL types of electrical utilities will skyrocket
@@-justin-4077 true
Forget the pipeline am I the only one who noticed plants that resemble THE GOOD HERB under the pipe…❤️😜💚
America:
KNOCK KNOCK MOTHERFLUFFERS ITS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WE HEARD YOU HAVE SOME OIL THAT ISNT IN OUR POSSESSION.
“It’s gonna be interesting to see how less oil we’ll use Bc the electric cars” bru we’ll never gonna stop using oil no matter how many electric cars ☠️☠️
Hence why he said less. Not none
@@THEFIRE360 umm almost everything we do relies on oil
@@emortalelitegaming2667 He said less. Less is not none. None is not less. Less is less. none is none. Price of gas would probably be slightly less then what it was during the worst part of the pandemic if everyone switched to electric.
@@jaxstax2406 bro not everyone can afford electric vehicles and theirs a big supply issue a lot havnt gotten Tesla’s for over a year.
@@jaxstax2406 and people are scared of nuclear energy for some reason
My grandfather who just passed in May at 82, who was from Auburn WA, helped build this.
May he rest in paradise.
@@ManuelB777 thank you sir, blessings to you.
Rest in peace sir 🙏
@@michaelzoodsma3049 thank you
My Grandfather as well passed away back in May of 1982. 1898 to 1982 was a good time for him since he was a coal miner. RIP Grandpa H.