Posted on 12/09/2022 10:07:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
So reminds me of the peak oil mania that was rampant a decade plus ago....
Pedal to the metal baby
Buy those battery fire traps - more oil for me
The reason why we will never run out of oil is because we are learning to make dinosaurs. We make dinosaurs and, when they die, they turn into oil.
It’s the hydrocarbon cycle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbY1VkNXAsE
Ten percent of the home heating oil I buy is from that plant.
My System 2000 boiler has never run as clean as it has since the recycled plastic has been in the mix.
Almost no ash to clean out.
Only POTUS and Congress can make us run out of oil
that’s a heck of an article.
thanks for that.
Only anti-American POTUS and Congress can make us run out of oil
But we can always get it from Russia and China in the future.
Make Russia and China great again.
Another argument for a young earth. At least it does not favor or prove the “millions/billions of years” foolishness.
Don’t get too technical or the climate terrorists will get you.
We could always crush Leftists into a combustible paste. That’ll work.
The article is weak. The article is useless, at least in the context of oil.
You don’t have to run out of oil to have billions of people die. You just have to run short. There will almost certainly always be oil underground. Maybe a gallon left in this field maybe a gallon left in another field. Both fields a couple of miles down. More likely three miles down. No one is going to spend $5 million to drill a well to tap a gallon of oil. So we didn’t run out. It’s still there. But we will never get that gallon.
Population grows consumption grows. Global oil consumption Rising about 1% a year, and that’s even with covid. So you need to produce oil at a higher rate than you did when the population of the planet was smaller. That starts to shrink that 47 years in the article. But as I just pointed out that 47 years doesn’t matter because that’s time to zero. Death occurs long before 0. Food travels on trucks and when the truck cannot get fuel the food doesn’t get to your mouth. That’s how oil scarcity kills billions.
Not zero oil. Scarce oil. Insufficient oil.
Regards,
Excellent characterization! The article is long-winded, too. Your further observations "hit the mark."
Regards,
It would have been interesting had I any interest to enter geology decades ago, as all this is old hat to a distinct minority of that era.
I suspect that they had evidence of this since before I was born; some would label that under conspiracy theory.
But I also believe that Trump should have been president...
For several hundred years, Malthusians have predicted disaster for the human race based on overpopulation causing shortages of coal, timber, food, etc. The late great economist Julian Simon showed how time after time, a free market economy will adapt to and overcome any shortage. As the price of a commodity increases, human ingenuity figures out how to increase production of the commodity or introduce acceptable substitutes. It’s only in socialist/communist/managed economies do shortages actually kill people.
Government control of commodities is always catastrophic. There can be no sensitivity, no balance, no sophistication. Government is a battering ram. It only knows how to destroy. The new army of armed revenuers will prove the case. The entire middle class will be destroyed by this war on income.
“Will we ever run out of oil?”
No.
ping
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