A great scene from LANDMAN where Billy Bob Thornton schools an environmental-activist lawyer after she admiringly approves of a row of wind turbines in the middle of an oil patch.
WOKE LAWYER: They're massive.
BILLY BOB: Four hundred feet tall.
WOKE LAWYER: Who owns them?
BILLY BOB: The oil companies. We use 'em to power the wells. No electricity out here. We're off the grid.
WOKE LAWYER (scoffs): They use clean energy to power oil wells?
BILLY BOB: They use alternative energy. There's nothing clean about this.
WOKE LAWYER: Please, Mr. Oilman, tell me how the wind is bad for the environment.
BILLY BOB: Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix enough concrete to pour the foundation for each one of these turbines? Or make
that steel and haul all this shit out here and put it together with a 450-foot
crane? You wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that fuckin' thing? Or winterize it? In its entire 20-year lifespan, it won't offset the carbon footprint of making it.
And don't get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery. And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don't have the transmission lines to get the electricity
to the cities. It'd take 30 years if we started tomorrow.
And unfortunately for your grandkids, we have a 120-year petroleum-based infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. Hell, it's in everything. That road we came in on. The wheels on every car ever made, including your electric
car. It's in tennis rackets and lipstick and refrigerators and anti-histamines. Pretty much anything plastic. Your cell phone case, artificial heart valves. Any kind of clothing that's not made with animal or plant fibers. Soap, fuckin' hand lotion, garbage bags, fishing boats. You name
it.
Every. Fuckin'. Thing.
And you know what the kicker is? We're gonna run out of it before we find its replacement.
WOKE LAWYER: It's the thing that's gonna kill us all, as a species.
BILLY BOB: No, the thing that's gonna kill us all is running out before we find an alternative. And believe me, if Exxon thought them fuckin' turbines right there were the future, they'd be putting them all over the goddamn place. Gettin' oil out of the ground is the most dangerous job in the world. We don't do it because we like it. We do it because we're out of options. And you're out here trying to find something to blame for the danger besides your boss. There ain't nobody to blame but the demand that we keep pumpin' it.
On 2025-11-25 11:00 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
A great scene from LANDMAN where Billy Bob Thornton schools anThat conversation was one of the highlights of Season 1.
environmental-activist lawyer after she admiringly approves of a row of wind
turbines in the middle of an oil patch.
WOKE LAWYER: They're massive.
BILLY BOB: Four hundred feet tall.
WOKE LAWYER: Who owns them?
BILLY BOB: The oil companies. We use 'em to power the wells. No electricity >> out here. We're off the grid.
WOKE LAWYER (scoffs): They use clean energy to power oil wells?
BILLY BOB: They use alternative energy. There's nothing clean about this. >>
WOKE LAWYER: Please, Mr. Oilman, tell me how the wind is bad for the
environment.
BILLY BOB: Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix
enough concrete to pour the foundation for each one of these turbines? Or >> make
that steel and haul all this shit out here and put it together with a
450-foot
crane? You wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that fuckin'
thing?
Or winterize it? In its entire 20-year lifespan, it won't offset the carbon >> footprint of making it.
And don't get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla
battery. And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go
electric tomorrow, we don't have the transmission lines to get the
electricity
to the cities. It'd take 30 years if we started tomorrow.
And unfortunately for your grandkids, we have a 120-year petroleum-based
infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. Hell, it's in everything. That
road we came in on. The wheels on every car ever made, including your
electric
car. It's in tennis rackets and lipstick and refrigerators and
anti-histamines. Pretty much anything plastic. Your cell phone case,
artificial heart valves. Any kind of clothing that's not made with animal or
plant fibers. Soap, fuckin' hand lotion, garbage bags, fishing boats. You >> name
it.
Every. Fuckin'. Thing.
And you know what the kicker is? We're gonna run out of it before we find >> its
replacement.
WOKE LAWYER: It's the thing that's gonna kill us all, as a species.
BILLY BOB: No, the thing that's gonna kill us all is running out before we >> find an alternative. And believe me, if Exxon thought them fuckin' turbines >> right there were the future, they'd be putting them all over the goddamn
place. Gettin' oil out of the ground is the most dangerous job in the world.
We don't do it because we like it. We do it because we're out of options. >> And
you're out here trying to find something to blame for the danger besides
your
boss. There ain't nobody to blame but the demand that we keep pumpin' it. >>
Not because I
wanted it to be true but because it is. I'd love it if all this
alternative energy actually made economic sense but it doesn't for the reasons enumerated in Tommy's dialog. I know there's a lot of research
going on better energy sources and some of it has been quite promising
but none of them are sufficiently cheap and scalable yet. I hope that at least one of those alternatives is ready before it's too late and we've
run out of affordable oil. But in the meantime, we need to keep finding
oil to keep us going until fusion or whatever is going to be the Next
Source of Power is ready.
On Nov 26, 2025 at 7:36:46 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2025-11-25 11:00 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
A great scene from LANDMAN where Billy Bob Thornton schools anThat conversation was one of the highlights of Season 1.
environmental-activist lawyer after she admiringly approves of a row of wind
turbines in the middle of an oil patch.
WOKE LAWYER: They're massive.
BILLY BOB: Four hundred feet tall.
WOKE LAWYER: Who owns them?
BILLY BOB: The oil companies. We use 'em to power the wells. No electricity
out here. We're off the grid.
WOKE LAWYER (scoffs): They use clean energy to power oil wells?
BILLY BOB: They use alternative energy. There's nothing clean about this. >>>
WOKE LAWYER: Please, Mr. Oilman, tell me how the wind is bad for the
environment.
BILLY BOB: Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix >>> enough concrete to pour the foundation for each one of these turbines? Or >>> make
that steel and haul all this shit out here and put it together with a
450-foot
crane? You wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that fuckin' >>> thing?
Or winterize it? In its entire 20-year lifespan, it won't offset the carbon
footprint of making it.
And don't get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla >>> battery. And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go >>> electric tomorrow, we don't have the transmission lines to get the
electricity
to the cities. It'd take 30 years if we started tomorrow.
And unfortunately for your grandkids, we have a 120-year petroleum-based >>> infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. Hell, it's in everything. That
road we came in on. The wheels on every car ever made, including your
electric
car. It's in tennis rackets and lipstick and refrigerators and
anti-histamines. Pretty much anything plastic. Your cell phone case,
artificial heart valves. Any kind of clothing that's not made with animal or
plant fibers. Soap, fuckin' hand lotion, garbage bags, fishing boats. You >>> name
it.
Every. Fuckin'. Thing.
And you know what the kicker is? We're gonna run out of it before we find >>> its
replacement.
WOKE LAWYER: It's the thing that's gonna kill us all, as a species.
BILLY BOB: No, the thing that's gonna kill us all is running out before we
find an alternative. And believe me, if Exxon thought them fuckin' turbines
right there were the future, they'd be putting them all over the goddamn >>> place. Gettin' oil out of the ground is the most dangerous job in the world.
We don't do it because we like it. We do it because we're out of options. >>> And
you're out here trying to find something to blame for the danger besides >>> your
boss. There ain't nobody to blame but the demand that we keep pumpin' it. >>>
Between this and John Dutton's torching of the woke environmentalists on YELLOWSTONE, I can't figure out how Hollywood keeps letting Taylor Sheridan put this anti-Agenda stuff on the air.
https://youtu.be/uR-Wpa4zCuo?t=753
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAKJ1-OTrYE
Not because I
wanted it to be true but because it is. I'd love it if all this
alternative energy actually made economic sense but it doesn't for the
reasons enumerated in Tommy's dialog. I know there's a lot of research
going on better energy sources and some of it has been quite promising
but none of them are sufficiently cheap and scalable yet. I hope that at
least one of those alternatives is ready before it's too late and we've
run out of affordable oil. But in the meantime, we need to keep finding
oil to keep us going until fusion or whatever is going to be the Next
Source of Power is ready.
Between this and John Dutton's torching of the woke environmentalists on >YELLOWSTONE, I can't figure out how Hollywood keeps letting Taylor Sheridan >put this anti-Agenda stuff on the air.
On Nov 26, 2025 at 7:36:46 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2025-11-25 11:00 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
A great scene from LANDMAN where Billy Bob Thornton schools anThat conversation was one of the highlights of Season 1.
environmental-activist lawyer after she admiringly approves of a row of wind
turbines in the middle of an oil patch.
WOKE LAWYER: They're massive.
BILLY BOB: Four hundred feet tall.
WOKE LAWYER: Who owns them?
BILLY BOB: The oil companies. We use 'em to power the wells. No electricity
out here. We're off the grid.
WOKE LAWYER (scoffs): They use clean energy to power oil wells?
BILLY BOB: They use alternative energy. There's nothing clean about this. >>>
WOKE LAWYER: Please, Mr. Oilman, tell me how the wind is bad for the
environment.
BILLY BOB: Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix >>> enough concrete to pour the foundation for each one of these turbines? Or >>> make
that steel and haul all this shit out here and put it together with a
450-foot
crane? You wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that fuckin' >>> thing?
Or winterize it? In its entire 20-year lifespan, it won't offset the carbon
footprint of making it.
And don't get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla >>> battery. And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go >>> electric tomorrow, we don't have the transmission lines to get the
electricity
to the cities. It'd take 30 years if we started tomorrow.
And unfortunately for your grandkids, we have a 120-year petroleum-based >>> infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. Hell, it's in everything. That
road we came in on. The wheels on every car ever made, including your
electric
car. It's in tennis rackets and lipstick and refrigerators and
anti-histamines. Pretty much anything plastic. Your cell phone case,
artificial heart valves. Any kind of clothing that's not made with animal or
plant fibers. Soap, fuckin' hand lotion, garbage bags, fishing boats. You >>> name
it.
Every. Fuckin'. Thing.
And you know what the kicker is? We're gonna run out of it before we find >>> its
replacement.
WOKE LAWYER: It's the thing that's gonna kill us all, as a species.
BILLY BOB: No, the thing that's gonna kill us all is running out before we
find an alternative. And believe me, if Exxon thought them fuckin' turbines
right there were the future, they'd be putting them all over the goddamn >>> place. Gettin' oil out of the ground is the most dangerous job in the world.
We don't do it because we like it. We do it because we're out of options. >>> And
you're out here trying to find something to blame for the danger besides >>> your
boss. There ain't nobody to blame but the demand that we keep pumpin' it. >>>
Between this and John Dutton's torching of the woke environmentalists on YELLOWSTONE, I can't figure out how Hollywood keeps letting Taylor Sheridan put this anti-Agenda stuff on the air.
https://youtu.be/uR-Wpa4zCuo?t=753
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAKJ1-OTrYE
Not because I
wanted it to be true but because it is. I'd love it if all this
alternative energy actually made economic sense but it doesn't for the
reasons enumerated in Tommy's dialog. I know there's a lot of research
going on better energy sources and some of it has been quite promising
but none of them are sufficiently cheap and scalable yet. I hope that at
least one of those alternatives is ready before it's too late and we've
run out of affordable oil. But in the meantime, we need to keep finding
oil to keep us going until fusion or whatever is going to be the Next
Source of Power is ready.
A great scene from LANDMAN where Billy Bob Thornton schools an environmental-activist lawyer after she admiringly approves of a row of wind turbines in the middle of an oil patch.
WOKE LAWYER: They're massive.
BILLY BOB: Four hundred feet tall.
WOKE LAWYER: Who owns them?
BILLY BOB: The oil companies. We use 'em to power the wells. No electricity out here. We're off the grid.
WOKE LAWYER (scoffs): They use clean energy to power oil wells?
BILLY BOB: They use alternative energy. There's nothing clean about this.
WOKE LAWYER: Please, Mr. Oilman, tell me how the wind is bad for the environment.
BILLY BOB: Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix enough concrete to pour the foundation for each one of these turbines? Or make
that steel and haul all this shit out here and put it together with a 450-foot
crane? You wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that fuckin' thing? Or winterize it? In its entire 20-year lifespan, it won't offset the carbon footprint of making it.
And don't get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery. And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don't have the transmission lines to get the electricity
to the cities. It'd take 30 years if we started tomorrow.
And unfortunately for your grandkids, we have a 120-year petroleum-based infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. Hell, it's in everything. That road we came in on. The wheels on every car ever made, including your electric
car. It's in tennis rackets and lipstick and refrigerators and anti-histamines. Pretty much anything plastic. Your cell phone case, artificial heart valves. Any kind of clothing that's not made with animal or plant fibers. Soap, fuckin' hand lotion, garbage bags, fishing boats. You name
it.
Every. Fuckin'. Thing.
And you know what the kicker is? We're gonna run out of it before we find its replacement.
WOKE LAWYER: It's the thing that's gonna kill us all, as a species.
BILLY BOB: No, the thing that's gonna kill us all is running out before we find an alternative. And believe me, if Exxon thought them fuckin' turbines right there were the future, they'd be putting them all over the goddamn place. Gettin' oil out of the ground is the most dangerous job in the world. We don't do it because we like it. We do it because we're out of options. And you're out here trying to find something to blame for the danger besides your boss. There ain't nobody to blame but the demand that we keep pumpin' it.
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