Free 'Dem Molecules: Chemical Bonds Debtrimental to Freedom.

The current brouhaha about plastics is once again thanks to Trump: nothing else has changed other than China's position on accepting our exports, thanks to the tariffs. They will no longer accept our waste plastic. That decision concatenated its way down to Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, as the waste started pouring into their countries and now we have, all of a sudden, actual NEWS, yeah, that's right, on a problem that's been extant and growing for a decade, has at last hit the newscycle. And for that we have President Trump to thank ... yet again.

Topic after topic that the MSM is unable to let out the slightest peep about, for fear of upsetting the cornucopia of cash flowing from their advertisers, that their agenda of All Trump All the Time gives them, the opening has now been made by the dummy running the DOE, to actually broach a subject, and once it's broached, like a roach coach, it fills up rapidly, with one article after the other springing up like mushrooms in a forest to cover a topic as though they only became aware of it overnight .

And freed dumb molecules coincides with bonded molecules:

Plastic is the visible manifestation of the same atoms, different molecules, as those accumulating unseen in the atmosphere:

The Freed Dumb molecules exported directly into the Atmosphere are deliberately excluded.

The natural gas exports and the link between them and the growth in natural gases exported into the atmosphere is a subject best avoided, and that's what's been done for the last decade. But now that the plastic mountain of indissoluble waste that's no longer going down the streams of China into the other side of the Pacific Ocean , remaining on th eside that generated it, the link between the untrammeled fracking of the American landscape with the explosion in amount of excess natural gas it produces in such egregious volumes it must be flared, should have long ago made clear the link between it and the coating of the earth in layers of plastic wrap from the near-zero cost of the feedstock to that plastics' PETRO (that should have been a bit of a clue right there)Chemical industry.

Every bit of the exports represented in the above graph represents added CO2 to the atmosphere, so it should come as no surprise, although it apparently does, that as those exports go up, CO2 in the atmosphere goes up; as those exports climb exponentially, the methane in the tropospherre climbs exponentially; as the methane climbs, the CO2, in a positive feedback loop, since methane hydrolyzes (in a few years to a decade or so), into CO2 and H2O, producing the same molecules as flaring does, so the CO2 increases even faster.

Now, it should come as no surprise to anyone living in the 21'st century that combustion is an oxidation reaction because Any reaction which includes oxygen as one of the ingredients, is known as an oxidation reaction. Now, combustion is a process in which chemical substances, otherwise referred to as molecules, are burned in the presence of oxygen, which means in the atmosphere, which is 20% O2, results in the oxidation of those molecules. 

Furthermore,   it should come as no surprise to anyone living in the 21'st century that hydrocarbons consists of hydrogen and carbon ... most schoolchildren could tell you that. So flaring, which is the combustion of hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, ie, includes oxygen as one of the ingredients, is an oxidation reaction. 

Now since natural gas is composed 90% of methane (CH4), -said oxidation produces CO2 and H2O.

So even if there were NO flaring, that increase in production of natural gas represents an increased burden of those molecules in the atmosphere. 

Plastics are composed of the same molecules, but bound into polymers that are produced nowhere in nature, meaning that the plastic waste we see is simply a visible manifestation of the same process we are not seeing in the atmosphere, but the accumulation in the atmosphere is every bit as foreboding. Like plastics waste that could be shipped to China, where they have no problem with poisoning everything in their environment (that is, after all, why US Corporations moved their most noxious operations there in the first place), as long as we remained their export chumps, taking all their manufactured plastic garbage while they took our waste plastic garbage, then they acquiesced. But now that the problem is made visible, it, and the link between it and Fracking, is finally beginning to be publicly aired. It was always there, and it was always obvious. But it is only now being connected to fracking, and the costs of fracking are only now beginning to be seen as going far beyond their upfront costs. And it is not the fracking companies that are going to pay them. It is, as always, in our Cowboy Capitalist Culture, going to be, is already being, paid for by society, in the form of accelerating climate derangement.

Not that reporting on it will do one iota of good, mind you, but at least the source of the problem is becoming  topical. Therefore, the probability of Trump's "Climate change is a Hoax" being laid bare as nothing more than a conspiracy to enable his con's piracy  increases too.

This is the ClimateGate that no news organization cares to talk about, as it is at the heart of the energy-trumps-all administration. And not just energy, but American energy, specifically American Oil, as in Fracking: "I'd take the Oil," he said, and that's exactly what he's doing. "This election is Rigged", he intoned, and this administration is Rigged - oil-rigged - as the economy gets tied to the mast of fracked oil production that has bound us in bonds of debt issued to pay for the enormous capital outlay, all funded with QE-issued dollars that are the liability of the entire American public, while their energy reserves are siphoned off to produce all those imported-from-China plastics stuffing the shelves of Walmart (that's right, the largest receiver of US natural gas is CHINA ... even as the administration heaps tariffs on imports from China it exports to China the (un-tariffed) feedstock that helps keep those exports so cheap).

But it's not bad enough that the capital-intensive buildout of both the LNG infrastructure and the petrochemical plants, all are being done via a debt machine set to rival the home mortgage con, or that the danger of transporting LNG by rail in the very part of the country where there are more oil and gas pipelines crisscrossing the landscape  than anywhere else on earth, the obvious danger, as highlighted by incidents in the Straits of Hormuz and the attacks on the oil tankers there by what was obviously a drone, of a drone attack on these floating hydrogen bombs is completely ignored.

Graphene batteries and 3D printed parts included!

Because, once again, as with the internet, nuclear bombs, cellphones, a technology developed for no other reason than US Full Spectrum Domination, the US Pentagon has handed the world technology which anyone with a 3-D printer and a facility with graphene, can now assemble and deploy, with a fraction of the cost of what simply having a roof over your head now extracts, a veritable air force of pilotless pilot lights to ignite these floating bombs, which btw, together with fracking, was also developed by the US military industrial complex. That's what defense means: extracting the R&D dollars from the taxpayer, and handing over the resultant data to Private Industry to then siphon the profits derived from those technologies to Insiders.

The same dynamics at work: The profits to be derived from delivery of the last of the US energy reserves are all delivered to the corporate coffers and their shareholders, but the liability for the enormous capital expenditures, none of which would have been feasible without natural gas prices plummeting through the groundfloor, which is a direct result of unimpeded fracking for oil, are all constructed with borrowed funds, obtained by a compliant Fed keeping interest rates far below what the risk premium would normally demand, and those bombs that are afloat on the oceans' surfaces are all insured as well, but at well below the true costs of the "accident" waiting to happen.

 And those energy exports that have been escalating as the graph above illustrates? Have they been good for our economy? Funny you should ask. Because as anyone can see, even as the most profitable component of the US export regime goes steadily up, the US debt goes up even faster. So, far from being a boom, it's a disaster.