I’ve seen those claims. They’re measuring direct energy consumption and not total lifecycle impact.
For instance, NYC needs a lot of food shipped in. It also needs a lot of water shipped in. The 40+ year construction of Water Tunnel #3 comes to mind…
Or we could look at the humble coffee cup. Seems the more they look at the coffee cup, the more they question their environmental conclusions.
The household standard stoneware mug is far more damaging than paper or styrofoam.
Which is beside the point. Demonizing oil company employees, actually more correctly, energy company employeees, isn’t going to help solve the problem. Those evil “oil” companies also happen to be some of the biggest green energy investors.
People really need to think about that as they get led by the media for adopting social and economic policies.
