The author certainly does try to frame oil production as being low impact, ignoring all the abandoned, leaking wells that pock mark our landscape. I bet he has

The author certainly does try to frame oil production as being low impact, ignoring all the abandoned, leaking wells that pock mark our landscape. I bet he hasn't had to live adjacent refineries like what we have in Anacortes... Speaking in broad strokes about the power grid is also a great way to ignore your local reality. Using more power locally for transport can be quite a bit better, both cost wise and environmentally than using oil due to our power grid economics. There are multiple separate grids here in the US, and the energy makeup of your section of the grid your on can be far different than what supplies the power in a section a few hundred miles away. Only a small portion of the large quantity of power generated in the Pacific Northwest can be moved from the dams in Washington, Oregon & BC (where power is $0.07kWh to $0.12kWh) to Southern California where retail rates are triple to quadruple the price.