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Memories of Peak Oil
The American ^ | February 21, 2013 | Vaclav Smil

Posted on 02/28/2013 6:23:20 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 02/28/2013 6:23:25 PM PST by neverdem
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To: Smokin' Joe

Ping


2 posted on 02/28/2013 6:26:03 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

Sadly, here on the Bakken our success is also our downfall.
Where is the idiot that says it would take 20 years to develop an oil field?

5 years on the Bakken and we have developed enough wells to outgrow our ability to ship our product to market


3 posted on 02/28/2013 6:41:47 PM PST by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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To: neverdem

heh heh heh...”Peak Oil”...heh heh heh....


4 posted on 02/28/2013 6:45:54 PM PST by henkster (I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)
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To: neverdem

ping ping


5 posted on 02/28/2013 6:54:27 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them)
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To: henkster

I am laughing, too - this ain’t no fossil fuel for cryin’ out loud....


6 posted on 02/28/2013 7:07:36 PM PST by Sioux-san
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To: neverdem
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7 posted on 02/28/2013 7:11:42 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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8 posted on 02/28/2013 7:44:29 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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9 posted on 02/28/2013 7:45:29 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

Thanks for the ping!


10 posted on 02/28/2013 8:46:30 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: neverdem; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Memory Lane Ping!!! (snort!)


11 posted on 02/28/2013 8:51:00 PM PST by SierraWasp (Mark Twain said: "It's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled!!!)
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To: neverdem; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Memory Lane Ping!!! (snort!)


12 posted on 02/28/2013 8:51:12 PM PST by SierraWasp (Mark Twain said: "It's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled!!!)
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To: SierraWasp; neverdem

Got to read this tomorrow.


13 posted on 02/28/2013 9:00:48 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: neverdem

I read in National Geographic that oil would run out by 1997. That was back in the seventies.


14 posted on 02/28/2013 9:12:12 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: neverdem

Those damned dinosaurs must have been lined up end-to-end.


15 posted on 02/28/2013 9:56:53 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama's vision - No Job is a Good Job)
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To: neverdem
Thanks for the ping!

On my bookshelf in my office I have a copy of When the Oil Runs Out, published in 1947.

I keep it as a reminder that there is always someone who will panic at the thought of not having a commodity we regard as essential, and a monument to the underestimation of human ingenuity.

We have been warned of "Peak Oil" before. We aren't there yet--in fact, oil and gas extraction is experiencing a phenomenal growth curve. The world could experience unprecedented prosperity if the politicians don't mess that up.

That is not to say that some day we won't reach the point where there is no longer an economically viable reservoir to tap to fill demand, but by that time we should have found a replacement technology and means of powering it, provided we continue to do the basic research we need to make those developments.

That gives us time to find, develop, and refine that technology, unlike the current push to take an immature technology to production for political (and possibly less than ethical economic) reasons.

16 posted on 02/28/2013 11:36:18 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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-——the most remarkable story has been unfolding in the United States-——

This is the reason Obama can have his cake and eat it too. He can oppose the Keystone pipeline and drilling in the Gulf or on Federal lands and appease the rabid wackos that hate everything. Meanwhile, Americans, real Americans, are growing the oil business.

Editorial...... The recent surver flap is apparently over but the old problems of slow service and triple pings remain.


17 posted on 03/01/2013 4:45:21 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: South Dakota
5 years on the Bakken and we have developed enough wells to outgrow our ability to ship our product to market

That's the environmentalists' new strategy for constraining the oil industry - they know they can't stop the production side of things, so they try to choke off the distribution. What good is it having lots of product if you you can't sell it? Sadly, they have a powerful ally in the Incompetent Idiot and his Administration.

So, expect the Keystone pipeline to be killed, with Obama probably giving out the old boilerplate "dirty oil" as an excuse. And after that victory, the enviro-kooks will be going after all pipelines.


18 posted on 03/01/2013 5:18:09 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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Peak Oil
Club of Rome
Population Bomb
Nuclear Winter
Global Warming
Global Cooling
DDT
Alar

Ways liberal elites use lies and hysteria to control their ignorant supporters...


19 posted on 03/01/2013 6:57:47 AM PST by GOPJ (To be free is to own one's risk - Jonathan Levy)
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Don’t forget radon gas and ozone depletion. Ozone depletion was the “trial ballonn” for “global warming” and it’s just as big a hoax.


20 posted on 03/01/2013 6:59:44 AM PST by henkster (I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)
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