British Couple Reacts to How The US Is Becoming Energy Independent 

There is about a 30 second long sound drop out in this video around the 3 minute mark

The reader stated that you cannot run cars from nuclear power. That depends on the car: nuclear produces electricity and of course, there are now quite a few electric cars in the US fleet.

I think the most important takeaway from this video is the United States is very adaptable. The US continually seeks the most economic approach to energy (and other) solutions, and when world events change the US is relatively quick at adjusting to the current situation. The second most important takeaway is the US has more than enough energy resources to meet their domestic needs, and likely most of the needs of their allies, but why resort to such measures unless and until they are economically advantageous? In spite of all the coverage of OPEC or other oil producing nations (i.e., Russia), they all know if any of them try to hold the world hostage to energy prices, the US can open up the spigots and pour oil onto the world market (as was the case in the spring of 2021 when oil prices actually went negative) which would seriously damage, if not decimate the economies of most OPEC nations and Russia as their economies are largely, if not exclusively, dependent on oil exports. Please keep in mind, the potential energy reserves of the United States haven't even been explored due to internally imposed environmental sensitivities, and the United States' capacity for generating energy from nuclear sources is virtually unlimited. I submit, that if the US wanted to, they could eliminate their reliance on fossil fuels entirely by greater development of renewable sources (solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) and nuclear power sources, provided current consumers, most notably vehicles, moved to being electric powered, and that shift is already well on it's way.

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Completely unrelated to the video, but for a second I was so confused how James was wearing a shirt branded Nike and Under Armor at the same time until I realized it was shirts doubled up that were both black 🤣.

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I worked at a refinery, years ago... You need a COKER, to produce product for further refining!

In 2023, 25% if US electricity generation was from renewable resources. In some places it's more, some less. In the Bay Area of California, I can and do buy power that's 100% renewable. Much of that is possible because CA has resources of hydropower and geothermal power. But anyway, your comment that large scale renewable energy is far off isn't necessarily so.

00:47 Energy independence might cost more. The point isn't reducing prices, it's increasing stability. If you don't rely on someone else to provide your energy, you don't have huge disruptions when something happens to disrupt that relationship. You might be paying more all along until that disruptions, and then you've suddenly saved a ton of money by not having to deal with the problem that no longer exists due to your independence.

Great video as always I hope You had a wonderful Christmas

Just over three years ago, the U.S. was a net energy exporter. That changed when we went back to buying oil from the middle east again.

Refining petroleum is the reason that we in N. American call our fuel stations gas stations as opposed to petrol stations, because most light vehicle use gasoline to power the cars or most pickup trucks engines whereas you need to refine petroleum at refineries into the different type of fossil fuel products like, diesel, gasoline, kerosene, paint thinner, petroleum jelly, a whole host of other products beyond these come from refining petroleum. fffff

I have driven by a refinery In Illinois. The smell was very sulphuric in smell. I had af uncle who, helped pioneer in secondary recovery. He would flood oils fields that wer supposed to be played out.. flooding the fields would bring up the oil since oil and water don’t mix.

Thanks for sharing.

There are pros & cons for all energy sources. I'm in Northeastern Minnesota & the closest pipeline to my hometown transports crude from Canada mostly & some from North Dakota. I have relatives & friends who have worked in the fields in North Dakota. We have a refinery in Superior Wisconsin, but there was an explosion/fire several years ago & I haven't heard if the plant is back online completely yet. Duluth Minnesota & Superior Wisconsin make up the Twin Ports - the farthest inland port on the Great Lakes & has a very active shipping season for about 9 months a year (it closes down when the Locks are closed). There's actually no snow in the area or much ice on Lake Superior this year. We have had to rely on gas from the refinery in the Twin Cities, so our gas prices have been higher since the fire & transportation costs have been higher with the companies trucking it a few hours farther. Since our winters are historically harsh up here, heating fuel is an important topic. We even have a "Cold Weather Rule" law that prohibits energy companies from shutting off the fuel for half of the year - people would freeze to death without access to heat. My city has a natural gas line grid throughout the city for heating fuel, but not everyone uses it. My house has a natural gas boiler & the gas is piped right to the house, but the rest of my appliances use electricity. My parents house is a couple miles out of town & heated with fuel oil, so they have to get fuel oil transported to their tank several times every winter (usually once a month if they only fill the inside tank - once or twice a season if the underground tank is full). A few cities still offer steam heat that uses wood pellets as fuel. Less people use wood to heat nowadays because it's an insurance issue - insurance companies won't insure it unless it's a wood furnace outside the house structure. Lots of people have propane tanks in their yard - from what I have been told, you can change some furnace fuel type to propane but it's not as warm of a heat as the other fuel.

Any reason why the audio cut out during your video, timestamp 3:12 - 3:31?

Heya Beesleys, I also saw your vid with Lawrence about his 5 favorite American accents. I am fascinated by phonetics and linguistics in general. I wonder if you know about "aristocratic southern"? It is the accent most famously used in movies like "Gone with the Wind" and by southern lawyers. It is quite beautiful and based strongly on England's english. It was also used oddly alot in the "old west" Era of the US. It was seen as a sign of intelligence and a "proper" upbringing. Used alot by merchants during that time. You can see an example of it in the series "Deadwood" on hbo, a western.

Many cars ARE run on nuclear power..AKA electricity.

I remember a poster during the 70s: "All in favor of the 55 MPH speed limit, raise your right foot"

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I'm an American and I'm a big fan of our military but Iraq war even among people like me who love the military is definitely regarded more as a resource grab than a war for "freedom". We needed what they had and they just happened to also not like us so we could easily justify it to the public. War for us is football for Europe. While most Americans go about their day, they're unaware that even not in officially declared war times, we're blowing shit up somewhere 365 days a year.

In 2003 it was so close to nine eleven 2001 that as Americans (I was in high school) we all wanted to retaliate but we did not know who against. I tried to join but they would not take me. Anyway, looking back the 2003 Iraq war does not make a lot of sense and sure looks a lot like an oil war. The Bush administration seemingly took advantage of the willingness of the American people to go to war to basically go to war possibly for BP and ExxonMobile. There was also oil found off Chrimea in 2012 contracted to Exxon and BP and now it seems Russia's gasprom is going to get that. Not sure if that relates. I believe that Guyana also is trying to make a deal with them but Venezuela is about to take that. (Venezuela is tricky for us as we refine their oil into gasoline for them so we can keep some)

I am glad for you that electricity and petrol are so cheap in the UK.

@4:15 Was ultimately the Death of the American Muscle car and in came the Powerless gutless Pollution pump and Catalytic converter ridden Land yachts as Automakers were crippled by the new EPA fuel standard but tried to balance the best of both worlds but failing miserably with overbuilt heavy luxurious cars with Zero horsepower.

55mph is the average most combustible engines need to run to be most efficent so if you have a full tank of gas going 55mph will get you the furthest

I’m an Iraqi war veteran OIF III 2005 Balad and it was an oil grab. It’s fine. I would have gone for any reason.

Energy will soon be free.

Archie’s trying to grow teeth in time for the US trip, so he can try foods along with Mummy and Daddy.

Having a national speedlight of 55 miles per hour. Now that's something I didn't know was proposed. Thank God almighty that never happened what the fuck

No, not without many nuclear reactors (see France). But it is possible to increase domestic production and decrease imports.

I live in the US today. We are NOT energy independent.

Disagree with his political analysis. But whatever. Some states do better than others. Here in Kansas we get 50% from wind, 15% nuclear, 5-10% hydroelectric... the rest coal and gas. So we're doing ok. But we contribute to a grid with other states that do less well. We're luck to have constant wind in western Kansas. It seem pretty likely we'll be adding next gen nuclear power soon to replace the coal and gas fired plants.

I have a master of science in supply chain technologies. Trump pushed us back 10 years when it comes to energy independence due to his policies. Regarding the video, they did not separate light and heavy crude oil. Different kinds of crude, produce different kinds of products. Natural gas is very much a large part of energy products… There’s so many caveats to this subject that one video can’t possibly scratch the surface of what energy independence is or what it would take to achieve

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The important thing is to have it, even if some of it is more expensive.

Energy Independence means nothing to Millie. What planet is she from?

How can you be a youtube creator and have neither a RU-vid sub or an adblocker? It's ridiculous

The US is now the number one oil exporter or producer in the world.

Germany and Ukraine are not at war.

Renewables are NOT a long way off. Have you heard? We (in the US) within the past year have made breakthroughs in nuclear fusion. Pretty soon energy for us is going to be FREE

We are all humans and we should all depend on each other to advance humanity. Instead we foolish humans choose countless wars, embargos, and political strife to fill our everyday lives. The worst part of all is that not one political leader across the world past or present has been able to bring commonsense and decency to humanity in our world.

This was a joke right?

We will never be energy independent because financial markets are at the very least indirectly dependent. Even if the US could supply itself with every last drop of oil it needs, we've seen how disruptions in Middle Eastern supply upon which the US does not need still wreaks havoc on American financial markets. For that reason the US will always have to be involved in the Middle East to ensure steady supply.

*were* becoming energy independent, that changed around 2020.

We are? That's new to me. We certainly *used to be* though.

In 2021 Canada supplied 62% of all U.S. crude oil and in 2022 Canada supplied 3.8 billion barrels a day in crude. I know Americans like to think they are the only country in North America and therefore everything produced here is theirs, but I hope everyone else realises there are 3 countries in North America....

Electric cars are the way of the future. They will make true energy independence possible.

The US was energy independent right up until biden was "ahem" elected.

When Trump gets back in we'll be energy independent again and make lots of money in exports. Drill baby drill !!! Get that black gold !!!

It’s astonishing to me that people don’t see that all the geopolitical negatives associated with global oil production will transfer directly to renewable energy as well. It will likely be worse as oil is a much more abundant resource globally than many of the rare earth inputs needed to sustain renewable energy especially on a global scale. Unless the technology advances rapidly in the next 20 years renewables will never pan out as viable large scale. There simply isn’t enough copper and several other inputs to create this carbon free utopia as presently envisioned.

If we're still importing fuel (which we are) then we're not energy independent. Sadly, due to our current administration, that dream has died.

America was energy independent until the tater shut everything down.

We’ve always been energy independent and always will be. Just ignore the Trumper’s on here. Trump doesn’t believe in any green energy

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