Posted on 07/05/2009 9:13:22 PM PDT by tenger
What's the single BEST way to achieve energy independence? A Weekly Poll.
Drill here! Drill now! It works every time it’s tried.
If we assume petroleum will not last forever, our next best option is nuclear power.
It’s too simple for libs to understand...that and they don’t like to get their hands dirty!
they missed an option:
o take over the middle east, buy cuba and brazil.
This is something that has puzzled me since I was a child. Why would the world be running out of oil? Have the processes that produced the oil we are currently pumping out of the ground stopped?
You can't possibly argue that we are pumping it out faster than Mother Earth can make it because Mother Earth is simply too humongous for that to EVER be the case.
In fact, even as we speak, oil is seeping out of the sea floor just a few miles off the shore of Santa Barbara, California.
But getting to the poll question, the obvious answers are to drill for our own oil and build more nuclear plants.
Wait until all Mexicans are in the USA. Mexico will be vacant. Move in on the world’s biggest silver supply and second biggest oil supply; extract, get rich, rinse, repeat.
Drill and then build nuclear power plants.
Gosh, I have all these cages, each with a little exercise wheel, all connected to a battery and I’m storing up en-ger-ny. This crowd of my little furry workers are my Obamsters. After 8 weeks, we’ve already produced enough en-ger-ny to allow me to go to the fridge and get another cold beer. And we’ve SAVED two other people from shagging beer for me.
The process that creates oil is still ongoing in certain areas - the Gulf Coast for example, but it is negligible.
The vast majority of oil that we use today was created at a few periods in time, millions and millions of years ago. The Earth certainly is not making enough oil to replace that which we have extracted.
The United States would be far better keeping the reserves it has left for the future and should not waste it by burning it.
That's my point. The Earf has been creating oil for millions of years and we've been pumping it out of the ground for about, what?, a hundred years?
There ain't no way in hell we can ever run out of it. Not as long as continental plates continue to collide and subduct each other and not as long as the earf's core continues to be molten rock and said subducted continents.
No way. No way in hell.
snickers1234 - Since Jul 5, 2009.
Is that you Algore?
Nuclear Power. New reactors like they have in Europe. That’s our best way to solve our problems.
Well, to put it simply, basically no oil has been created for hundreds of millions of years (the specific names of these periods escape me). The vast majority of all the oil that there ever was, was created during a few select periods, when the conditions were just right.
Oil takes millions of years to form. The source rock cook at the temperature of a cup of Coffee for millions of years. If it gets too hot or too cold, it will work or crack into gas. Oil is nonrenewable. It is not being replaced.
The problem is not the oil running out, but ‘Peak Oil. Due to the geology of oil fields, production from a given field begins to decline when roughly hslf of its oil is extracted.
If you get an air-bead; blow it up to near bursting point and pull out the stopper, the air will shoot out of the bed very quickly at the beginning, just like when you first open an oil well. But, it will begin to slow down very quickly as the pressure decreases.
Oil certainly will not run out, but oil production will begin to decline in about 10 years.
France gets about 80% of their electricity from their nuclear plants.
Spend the last bit of energy we have shooting the enviormentalists with a ray gun that increases intellegence.
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