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Originally posted by Fox Molder
2030...good lord...Let's get off the panic horse here...This gives you 29 years to slowly adapt to a new way of living.....Not enough for you ??? Ok try this got an exercise, go to your local car parts store, get a 12 volt deep cycle battery and a cheep solar panel, start with that and learn how it works and how much power you can draw off of that and work your way to better performing technologies after that....LOL. Petrol will never go away completely...Heck I'm absolutely positive that right now you are typing away on a plastic keyboard looking at your nice contoured flat screen monitor next to your plastic telephone.
It's free market finally getting the upper hand on oil I guess and the interest of people to try something new as a renewable source of energy, I say new here because believe it or not...Even oil is renewable if we do it right.
Oil is not renewable... If you want to sit around a few thousand years for more oil to be naturally created, be my guest,
Originally posted by Project-Sign
Originally posted by Banjamin Jefferson Madiso
reply to post by Project-Sign
take your own advice deny ignorance...your own is glaring! You have made so many statements that are absolutely false in this thread it is pitiful. You need to unplug yourself from the media matrix and get some facts.
What statements are those? Anything I've said is readily available for anyone to read for themselves on the internet.You stated that Oil production is not in decline without providing any reason or evidence for saying it.
Is the International Energy Agency not trustworthy enough? They say peak oil began in 2006.
www.reuters.com...
Should I just take you at your word?These people are experts. You're a guy sitting at home at his computer. I think I'll side with the IEA on this one.
And 'Media matrix'? Please. You'll very rarely hear of Peak oil mentioned on mainstream news. Thanks for your input though.
Edit : By the way, Thorium is a very promising energy sourse, but at the moment it's still promising. Far more research and funding is needed. As I've said many times in this thread, it all depends how fast the Oil decline comes upon us. We could have alternatives in place in time if Governments put up the necessary funding to do so.edit on 19-11-2010 by Project-Sign because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Smack
reply to post by Mak Manto
That is a contradiction. Either it is renewable or it is not, and the evidence most clearly shows that it is abiotic and does renew. As I've mentioned before, the recent disaster in the gulf destroys the fossil fuel myth as they were drilling over 10 kilometers below the ocean floor - well below any fossil record, and very near, or at the level of metamorphism.
Oil is not renewable... If you want to sit around a few thousand years for more oil to be naturally created, be my guest,
I completely agree with your second point. The sooner we free ourselves from the energy consortium of evil, the better.
The mortal blow to human industrialized civilization will happen when oil prices spike and nobody can afford to buy that oil, and everything will just shut down. Cars don’t run. Mail stops getting delivered. Planes don’t fly. Law enforcement stops working...
Originally posted by Project-Sign
reply to post by summerbreeze.ddp
I'm willing to accept it's possible, but I don't believe it's happening. You're talking about a handful of wells in Texas. There could be several explanations for it. But for those few wells, there are thousands that are dry, and staying dry. If I think about that logically, I know what conclusion I'm going to come to. It's simple, if oil is abiotic, then where is it? Oil companies are spending Billions to move into offshore drilling because they can't find any easy assessible Oil on dry land. Why would they spend that money if it wasn't necessary? If it's a con job, it's an expensive one. And just for arguments sake that oil is abiotic, but happens to produce itself very slowly. Well that's fine and dandy for 5, 10 or 15 generations down the road, but it does us little good. I'll be honest, I think the abiotic oil theory is based on wishful thinking.
Companies worldwide are currently building 91 major offshore rigs, up from fewer than 10 in 2003, according to ODS-Petrodata, an offshore-oil-and-gas market-analysis firm.
For $200 million to almost $1 billion, one can build a new oil-drilling platform.
deep-water rigs can cost as much as $600 million, according to ODS-Petrodata.
This is NOT a prediction thread. The only prediction here is that a finite substance will run out, eventually. Hardly Nostradamus, is it.
Originally posted by antonia
reply to post by harrytuttle
And?
There is no data on how fast it generates, how deep down it is or what quality it is. (or even if it's a widespread phenomen) Unless it generates at least 85 million barrels a day the pooch is still screwed.
Sticking your head in the sand or putting your fingers in your ears won't save your skin if Peak Oil is real.
Originally posted by Project-Sign
At some point I'll have to stop replying to the same points over and over. Please read the entire thread before commenting, very few posters so far even understand what the actual problem is.
Originally posted by DragonTattooz
But, that would reduce Exxon's profits and it would remove the government's excuse for meddling in the middle east.