Peak Oil a fake.

Originally posted by LaBTopAbiotic oil and the Alberta oil sands make the whole Peak Oil theory a farce.

Peak oil is a myth, but the U.S. stopped pumping oil to use other nation's oil? Which story are you choosing? You can't have it both ways. If Abiotic oil is true then why import oil from other nations? If Abiotic oil is true then why even mention the Alberta oil sands?

The small detial that peak oil deniers are missing is that the world is not running out of oil, it's running out of easily obtainable oil. See the difference? If your favorite fishing hole was "fished out" would that mean it ran out of fish? No, we all understand that there are lots of fish left in the lake. The problem is that there are not enough fish left to supply everyone's craving for fish. The easiest fish to catch are gone and the population demanding fish keeps growing. The result is a shortage. You see, a shortage of something simply means that there is not enough to meet demand. You could still pull in boat-loads of fish. It's even possible that there are more fish in the lake today than there were available in the past. You could still have a shortage.

Along with the growing demand, the fact remains that the amount of oil discovery doesn't match oil production, Abiotic oil is an unprovable pipe-dream and the Alberta oil sands is so envormentally dangerous and difficult to get (in a usable form) that it's essentially worthless.


EDIT to add:

Production of crude oil decreased by 503,000 b/d from April to May. Total production in May was estimated at 73.06 million b/d by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which is 1.21 million b/d lower than all time high crude oil production of 74.27 million b/d reached in May 2005.

[edit on 13-8-2007 by dbates]