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History channel has a mega disasters on as I type called oil apocalypse. It amazes me how so many people in the world can only see 2 feet ahead of themselfs.
Then you have the Limbaughs "there is no oil problem" attitude.
Hubbart a shell oil geol. in the 50s said that us oil peak production would come in the very early 70s, he was called a kook and nutbar. Now it is showen he was right. He also said world peak oil would peak around 2005, and it looks like he may have been right. In the early 50s the us produced 20 million bbls of oil a day and used 8, it exported the rest, now it uses 20 million and growing and produces only 7.6 a day. This is a masive train reck in the making.
The show said that the reason the saudis are cutting back production is because they have peaked and do not want any one to know.
I am old enough to remember the oil shortages of the 70s and how bad it is when this takes you by surprise. demand is going up and the stupid hummer mentality is hanging on in this country.
We need a government that is proactive not prayer active.
Nope..not going to happen. Oil companies have squashed or put on the back burner any alternate fuel research. It would take years and years to convert us.
Soon enough gas will be $5/gal and we'll be hurting.
Gas prices are going to keep going up, get used to it. There are no magic pills in our future. Ethanol, biodiesel, and hydrogen are very cruel jokes ( played on gullible policymakers and the public) from the standpoint of anybody with a familiarity with accounting concepts like EROEI and scientific concepts like thermodynamics. The sources of oil in the world are quite limited compared to the potential demand (6 1/2-9 billion people) and the alternatives do not give much of a return vs. the amount of energy it takes to produce them.
Cave men subsisted on 10 calories of food energy for every calorie they spent looking for food. Oil gives us about 100 calories for every 1 calorie of energy used to extract and process it. Corn ethanol gives you about 12 calories for every ten to make it... doesn't sound so rosy does it? You can't afford to waste any ethanol under that scenario, which would lead to a very austere life. Lots of manual labor and conservation, etc. Not practical. We'd all be slaving away in the fields just to feed our cars. I would think most people would rather choose mass suicide in that case, wouldn't you?
It is good other people are thinking about it though.
If people had to throw money somewhere, they'd be far better off spending the money on ways to cut transportation fuel usage, such as public transportation projects, walkable community projects, bicycle and motorcycle lanes, etc. As long as our rate of conservation excedes our rate of depletion, our way of life will be sustainable. Who knows, that might buy us enough time to find alternative sources of energy, real ones, like fusion power.
Nope..not going to happen. Oil companies have squashed or put on the back burner any alternate fuel research. It would take years and years to convert us.
Good point. And if anyone doubts that, check out the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car.
Well, if we get the oil shale in colorado working, we will have the largest reserve of accessible oil in the world with enough oil at current consumption for atleast 100 years, purely sustaining ourselves.
But, the people screaming peak oil won't tell you that.
There was no oil shortage in the 70's. Your talking the lines at the gas station, or the you can only have 10 gallons, or....
I was working in the oil fields in the 70's. There was no shortage of oil. We capped over 70% of the wells by order of the company. They wanted to create a better demand. They got it. They rationed everybody for 6 months and then opened up production some. At about a 30% increase in price. Although I no longer work in the oil fields, I can tell you that a lot of those wells are still capped.
Even Opec said last week in a statement. "We raised to price and lowered the production to keep the demand up."
Seems that Oil, is much like Diamonds. Only so much let loose a year so they can keep the demand and prices up.
History channel has a mega disasters on as I type called oil apocalypse. It amazes me how so many people in the world can only see 2 feet ahead of themselfs.
Then you have the Limbaughs "there is no oil problem" attitude.
Hubbart a shell oil geol. in the 50s said that us oil peak production would come in the very early 70s, he was called a kook and nutbar. Now it is showen he was right. He also said world peak oil would peak around 2005, and it looks like he may have been right. In the early 50s the us produced 20 million bbls of oil a day and used 8, it exported the rest, now it uses 20 million and growing and produces only 7.6 a day. This is a masive train reck in the making.
The show said that the reason the saudis are cutting back production is because they have peaked and do not want any one to know.
I am old enough to remember the oil shortages of the 70s and how bad it is when this takes you by surprise. demand is going up and the stupid hummer mentality is hanging on in this country.
We need a government that is proactive not prayer active.
The oil shortages of the 70s were not real shortages. They were caused by the OPEC members to punish the United States for supporting Israel. Everyone I knew at the time all agreed that it was about money. Price goes up, oil is now available. I have no reason to suspect that the next so-called shortage will be any different.
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