Peak Oil: Life after the oil crash

lifeaftertheoilcrash.net ^ | 2/25/05 | Matt Savinar

[jaime1959]

I came across this this morning and it put me in a funk all day. Granted it's on the apocalyptic side, but aside from misrepresenting nuclear power and being too dismissive of the abiotic theory, I found it pretty sobering and realistic. Please, read the entire article and debunk it if you can.

[Petronski]

It is warmed-over leftist drivel, IMO.

[jaime1959]

You read the whole thing in one minute?

[jaime1959]

You read the whole thing in one minute?

[Petronski]

That theory has been floating around for years.

[Arkie2]

Time to get off our duffs and start building nuke power plants to handle the future load.

[appeal2]

There's 180 billion to 1 trillion barrells sitting in the Albert tar sands. There's another several trillion sitting in the oil shale deposits out west. Are we running out?

[glorgau]

Unhhh, if the price gets high enough, then alternative supplies kick in. Think shale oil and tar sands. The problem up to this point is that it has been too cheap for the Saudis to pump oil. They kept the price low enough to discourage investment in alternative sources.

[BipolarBob]

I am depleted of strong drink in the house but this is depressing news. But if I d-r-i-v-e to the store solely for alcohol to relieve my melancholy, am I not contributing to my own demise?

[jaime1959]

Yeah, but the cost of extracting that oil is a heck of a lot more expensive than it is pumping from liquid reserves.

[Fzob]

http://www.energyseer.com/NewPessimism.pdf

[plain talk]

Here's an excerpt for you to ponder. ANWR won't provide all the U.S.'s oil needs so we shouldn't even try. I stopped reading after this.

While drilling for oil in ANWR will certainly make a lot of money for the companies doing the drilling, it won't do much to help the overall situation for three reasons:
1. According of the Department of Energy, drilling in ANWR will only lower oil prices by less than fifty cents;
2. ANWR contains 10 billion barrels of oil - or about the amount the US consumes in a little more than a year.
3. As with all oil projects, ANWR will take about 10 years to come online. Once it does, its production will peak at 875,000 barrels per day - but not till the year 2025. By then the US is projected to need a whopping 35 million barrels per day while the world is projected to need 120 million barrels per day.

[mc6809e]

It is warmed-over leftist drivel, IMO.

Well, it's too bad you think it's just leftist drivel, because that means it's going to be the left that's prepared to "solve" the problem.

Educate yourself. The right needs to make itself aware of the issue, otherwise the left will run wild with their "solutions" before we're even out of the gate.

[clyde asbury]

..the cost of extracting that oil is a heck of a lot more expensive than it is pumping from liquid reserves.

Yes, but at a certain price point it will be worthwhile.

[hosepipe]

Bull theres more oil in Alaska than Saudi Arabia once had.. just it is on "federal land".. The feds own much of Alaska.. Theres also un-tapped oil in Calif and Florida the democrat feds say we can't drill it.. There is much oil deposits not even quantified yet.. plus much natural gas.. Most odf Alaska has coal seams.. and ALaska is HUGE..

This article pure crap.., O.K. it is not pure..

[acapesket]

Pardon me... but.. I used to live in Southern California in the mid 80's and my newlywed husband and I had a good life due to the California oil fields off of the Santa Barbara Coast, the enviro Whackos got a hold of coal tar on the beach and we had no jobs.
This problem is SELF IMPOSED by enviro nuts and the PC police, it's a huge issue that has been so demagogued that folks such as yourself actually believe this crap.

[jaime1959]

I thought the main attraction about ANWR was its natural gas reserves, not its oil.

In any event, the author's prejudice regarding ANWR doesn't invalidate the rest of his argument.

[dirtboy]

Yes, but at a certain price point it will be worthwhile.

And it will also be worthwhile to pursue technologies that generate better gas milage. And, on the morbid side, as the price rises, some folks are more willing to drive smaller cars that put them at greater risk of getting wadded up like a spent Kleenex.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Unless the LORD comes back soon, or we get into a worldwide nuclear war, or a comet hits the earth, LIFE WILL GO ON.
In life, there are somethings you can't do a darn thing about.
Yes, in 20 or 30 years, oil maybe sky high, but, life will still go on, yes, there are still other forms of fuel to run our cars.
Until that times comes, I am not going to worry myself sick, I am going to enjoy life one day at a time.

[Petronski]

We're doomed. Doomed! DOOMED!!!