Posted on 06/18/2004 5:28:15 PM PDT by combat_boots
Please start reading up on oil field reserve production and projections and something called Peak Oil production. We must get ahead of this curve on energy conservation and various alternatives. Failure to do so will be at our peril. We do already know this. I am an ANWAR conservation person, and love all things Alaska. I don't know an easy way around this one, and do not necessarily support drilling there. I do not have any systemic answers to this, but think better researchers than I can help move the discussion and the solutions forward, before this is done FOR us.
Also, please read up on the strategic choke points: the Straits of Molacca (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/choke.html or http://www.geocities.com/uksteve.geo/canal6.html), the Suez, and the Straits of Hormuz.
See: http://rclsgi.eng.ohio-state.edu/~korpela/oil.html, http://www.mnforsustain.org/duncan_and_youngquist_encircling_oil.htm and
welcome.
little holes in great big alaska, i typed this very slowly cause i know you can't read fast
Welcome..... be proud...... fly your state flag
LOL
I'm experiencing deja vu.
I'm sure someone in Washington is "burning the midnight oil" looking for a solution. ;-)
Are you in Alaska?
As being well informed is the duty of a citizen, I submit a bit of counterpoint.
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/usgs.html - The Origin of Methane (and Oil) in the Crust of the Earth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/daily/heretic110199.htm - More on Thomas Gold
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/596421/posts - The world has more oil not less
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/691074/posts - Potential oil supply refill?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/671542/posts - Oil Fields' Free Refill - More oil than we thought (maybe)
http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/Energy.html - CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT RECENT PREDICTIONS
OF IMPENDING SHORTAGES OF PETROLEUM
EVALUATED FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF
MODERN PETROLEUM SCIENCE
I'm too bloody lazy to do the HTML. I like to think of this as being more efficient.
I bought ten of those gas-saving gadgets last year, for the past several months I've been saving my left-over gas in empty milk jugs.
"love all things Alaska"
"Are you in Alaska?"
I think he means that he loves mosquitos and soggy marshland.
Maybe. If he likes mosquitos he better get here quick. It has been a fat year for mosquitos, and the dragonflies are in paradise. Dragonflies start out very small and as the mosquitos disappear the dragonflies get bigger and bigger. They are pretty big already this year.
National Geographic has some pictures of oil being produced from tar sands. Looks like the time is now.
I am not in Alaska. I have just always loved it, and have had occasion to work and travel there.
Loved the counterpoint, though. Muchisimas gracias.
Of course, there's always a catch -- in the Mideast we have to battle fanatical terrorists. In Canada, as in ANWR, it will no doubt be radical environmentalists.
Not sure which is scarier... hmmmmmmm....
I was in Alaska once. I saw what I thought was a Crane Fly. It looks like a very big mosquito (1+ inches long). The AK native that I was with informed me that I was looking at a mosquito and not a Crane Fly. I never did figure out if he was yanking me around or not.
I developed a great love for Dragonflies on that trip.
I'd also be willing to bet good money that in our lifetimes, we're going to wake up one morning and oil as a powersource will be obsolete.
One possibilty: http://www.wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=2873
Some of the stuff being done now with fuel cells is mind boggling. The main thing that keeps them from being practical is that oil is currently a cheaper resource.
In the spring, which is usually in May, the first mosquitoes come out, and they are the same ones that were around at the end of the fall. They overwinter, frozen solid, I suppose, and thaw in the spring. Big, yes, but slow. The spring generation is small and quick, deadly in numbers.
Newkular power. And there's plenty of time. Hell, according to Gold, oil is continually being made, anyway. Old wells are indeed refilling.
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