Posted on 10/13/2010 6:38:21 AM PDT by Brittany Pounders
Peak oil meet your sister Global Warming.
Between normal crude, oil shale and coal, not to mention natural gas we have over 400 years of reserve if we exploited what we have and didn’t import ANYTHING!
The Solution for America? Ignore “Peak Oil” proponents.
Yes, there is plenty of natural gas in the USA - excellent. Let it compete freely with oil, wind, hydro, coal and the human imagination - without bureaucrats and enviro-nazis trying to pick a winner.
Back in the 70s we were assured that would happen in ten years and all the new oil had already been found...it’s BS big reserves are still being found with no end in sight. This is just like global warming...you have to create a catastrophe before you can claim the power to solve it!!!
I used to buy into this crap, too. Except that we AREN’T USING OUR RESOURCES. When I thought about that seriously, I changed my mind.
Besides, the concept assumes alternate/improved technologies will not have breakthroughs.
Much of the change in my thinking has come as my collegiate education has degraded. I’ve come to see it as nearly pure indoctrination.
LOL I think her IQ hit a peak.
One of the significant challenges in energy use here in the US is distribution/logistics. THAT kind of building of infrastructure I am completely on board with...as private enterprise.
The point of refusal to allow drilling in huge areas of likely oil and gas sources and the current attempt to render the technology for extracting the tremendous amounts of shale oil is a desperate attempt by the Left and its Mohammedan allies to keep the Jihad properly funded while depressing the American economy.
Not this crap again.
We don’t bother going after but a tiny fraction of the world’s oil reserves.
This nonsense only measures “economically recoverable” oil reserves, meaning only those reserves which are profitable to extract at current market rates.
And most of the time, those statistics come from 1999, when gas was about 90 cents per gallon.
As the price of oil goes up by an amount X,
the amount of oil that is economically recoverable increases by several times X.
There is more oil in upper-central Great Plains of the US and Canada than in the Persian Gulf... and it’s mostly economically recoverable at about $5/gallon.
Very well said!
Meanwhile Canada’s oil industry is booming. Remember when we thought Canada was too socialistic ?
Utter CRAP!
Thank you for nor excerpting.
Global peak of oil production will be driven by economics and alternatives. We will also be debating “what is oil” by then as the Kerogen from oil shale is fed to our existing refineries.
We can adapt to that just fine.
What we can't adapt to is global elites dictating what we can and cannot do to survive.
If it comes down to it, our survival is more important to us than theirs.
I think we need to take a Peek at the Oil we have within US jurisdiction. The very oil the RAT-environazis won't let us have.
Both those projected reserves, and the equivalent synthesized oil from coal expressed in TRILLIONS OF BARRELS!
(Thank ya ver-much)
And nuclear.
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