Fossil Fuels 📍

Active LP (Propane) Storage Wells In New York State

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There are currently two areas in the Finger Lakes that are used for underground propane (LP gas) storage. They are Bath Petroleum Storage, owned by Finger Lakes LPG Storage, LLC between Campbell and Bath, and Harford Propane Storage owned by Enterprise Products Operating LLC outside of Hartford (south of Dryden) in Cortland County.

The existing LP storage facilities in our state don't get a lot of attention, as they are located in remote parts of the state, not necessarily known for their unique scenic beauty. But they are interesting facilities, and I encourage you to turn on the satellite view, zoom in, explore these wells and well data carefully.

If you are not seeing the wells, try zooming out one level first. Sometimes Google Maps over-zooms this map.

Fossil fuels are narcotics.

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Fossil fuels are narcotics. ⛽

I bet within fifty years that fossil fuels will be widely accepted as the most powerful and dangerous narcotic ever invented. No other narcotic is as contagious or mind altering as the enengy services provided by fossil fuel. The heat, light, speed from fossil fuels have rewired the brains of an entire species. No other narcotic is as socially acceptable or widely sold. No other compound numbs and blinds humans understanding of the natural world as powerfully as fossil fuels.

NPR

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Most Oil Should Stay Underground, Study Finds : NPR

With tens of thousands of people displaced by floods, wildfires and hurricanes this summer, researchers warn that the majority of untapped fossil fuels must remain in the ground to avoid even more extreme weather.

Fossil fuel producers should avoid extracting at least 90% of coal reserves and 60% of oil and gas reserves by 2050, according to a study published in Nature, to limit global temperature rise to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. Even then, that gives the planet only a 50% chance of avoiding a climate hotter than that.

Global temperatures have already warmed about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the late 1800s, due in large part to the burning of fossil fuels, which releases gases that trap heat in the atmosphere. As a result of the warming, droughts, storms and heat waves are becoming more extreme, causing a cascade of disasters.

Addiction

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I bet future generations will come to realize how powerful of a narcotic that fossil fuels really are. Fossil fuel energy bends the human mind and spirit with power, speed, color, light, and warmth.

The tragic thing about addiction is most are blind to the deadly and destructive consequences of their addiction, and are blind to what addiction is doing to themselves and the community around them.