wow,
it's fairly obvious by your posts that you haven't delved too deeply into the subject. we're not "almost" out of oil, we're nearing the halfway mark, and that's what's important. the world only has about a million or so barrels/day wiggle room now before demand will "peak" with supply. the good ol' us of a is all about growth. when that peak is reached we will no longer be able to sustain a growing economy. don't forget china, with a two million man standing army is growing faster than us now and will be competing for that oil. obviously we're not going to change our ways in time to head off trouble so "bad" things are likely to occur. the religous zealots will use this as the sign of the apocalypse and love every minute of it, when really it's not god behind it, just the earth saying that's enough and us not adjusting properly. to put it another way, it's like most folks in the middle ages thinking a solar eclipse was some sort of nasty magic..BOOGA-BOOGA. I challenge you to thoroughly read lifeaftertheoilcrash.net and then refute it. before even doing that, tell me why all the oil companies are consolidating and buying their own stock back? if there's so much oil in the world why did shell overestimate their known reserves by almost 1/3 and then get fined 100 million by the sec for false reporting to the markets? geologist hubbert correctly predicted that the u.s.'s oil fields would would peak in the early 70's, if it's continually being made in the earth why have we had to rely on arab oil and other producers for the last 30 odd years? get back to me and let me know. oh and one last thing, it's not a rep/dem issue, it's the world at stake. you're here, so you must be somewhat interested unless, again, you think it's a political issue. if that's the case just go read about what britney spears is putting on her warts and don't give this thread a second thought..........
wow, it's fairly obvious by your posts that you haven't delved too deeply into the subject. we're not "almost" out of oil, we're nearing the halfway mark, and that's what's important.
By your own words, you defeat your own argument. What a dunce! Hmmm... "we're at the halfway mark" GOOD! Because constant technological breakthroughs from TODAY and into the FUTURE are going to provide other means of energy sources, provide better ways of extraction and utilization of existing fossil fuels, provide ways to use much less energy due to efficiency breakthroughs, AND ON AND ON.
You have the LOSER mentality, ignoring history and the future. Don't give me that learned intellectual crap just because you read some stupid book on the subject! You lefties are the biggest idiots, wrong, time after time and yet you still come off as these elite, enlightened know-it-alls that think they have to "teach" us people with real brains and understanding something.