OPINION:
I read the recent op-ed by Tommy Faucheax, the president of the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association (“Louisiana needs control of carbon capture to bolster energy production,” web. Oct. 4), which suggests that carbon capture could actually “shore up American energy production and make it robust again.”
The piece provides no details, and an online search about carbon capture as an energy source turned up nothing. I still don’t know why the oil industry would promote carbon capture, other than as an effort to show it is “woke.”
The very idea is ridiculous; carbon dioxide is a very small part of the atmosphere. Let the trees have their food.
What’s more, carbon-capture facilities are very high users of electricity. So are they net reducers or increasers of carbon dioxide? Shoving carbon dioxide underground seems silly to me.
GUS NAPOLI
Germantown, Maryland
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