Well Congressman Bartlett is no lefty or liberal http://www.issues2000.org/House/Roscoe_Bartlett.htm
and he's the one who quoted Matt Savinar. Like it or not peak oil is imminent if not already here. Hopefully our government will be able to take some actions to reduce the hardships that will be coming.
If you search Boot Hill's postings, he posted an excellent bio of Savinar a day or two ago.
There's at least 40 years of light crude in the proven reserves, and another 20 or more in the heavy, shale, and tarsand deposits that are provable, and even more in the unknowns that the future holds.
From Energy Bulletin - BP: World oil and gas reserves still growing at healthy pace.-snip-Published on 21 Jun 2004
Oil & Gas Journal-snip-
"Despite those who say we are about to run out of oil and gas, the figures in the review confirm there is no shortage of reserves. Production in some provinces may have peaked, but this is no reason for current high prices," he said.
Over 40 years supply
The new data estimate total world oil reserves at 1.15 trillion bbl, about 10% higher than previously reported for 2002. Additionally, global oil reserves have increased almost continuously over the past 30 years, BP officials said. World reserves now represent 41 years of production at current rates. By comparison, in 1980 reserves equivalent to only 29 years of production were known. The world has now produced some 80% of the oil reserves that were known in 1980; yet exploration success and application of technology has led to current reserves that are 70% higher, BP said. The company has published its statistical review of world energy for 53 years.
Looking at natural gas, BP reported global reserves of 176 trillion cu m, 13% higher than those previously reported for 2002. The company said that gas reserves have more than doubled since 1980 as a result of exploration, new technology, and the "unstranding" of gas reserves through liquefied natural gas and other technologies.
BP Group Chief Executive John Browne emphasized that oil and gas are not being depleted at an accelerated rate. "The data [illustrate] the continued growth in reserve volumes across the world," Browne wrote in the review's introduction. "At current levels of consumption, there are sufficient reserves to meet oil demand for some 40 years and to meet natural gas demand for well over 60 years."
He added that there appears to be considerable scope for proved reserves and production to keep rising in Russia and elsewhere. "Reserves, globally, have grown over time, and it is clear that the issue of energy security, which has been so prominent over the last year, is driven not by a physical shortage of supply but by the challenges of ensuring, in a world where demand and supply are not colocated, that there will be sufficient traded oil and gas to meet rising demand."
Don't forget that we can always make the products we now refine from crude, and in the not too distant future at equal or even less cost.
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Merely finding and "R" appended after a politician's name is no guarantee that he or she is not a damn fool, and after looking at the links you provided, Congressman Bartlett appears to be just that, a damn fool, for taking anything that Matt Savinar says as being anything at all credible.
Both you and Congressman Bartlett clearly need a primer on just who this whacko, Matt Savinar, actually is and offer the following...
MATT SAVINAR...All-in-all, on any subject dealing with energy, petroleum, engineering, economics or government, Matt Savinar has all the credibility of a Michael Moore lecturing a group of Marines on the meaning duty, honor, country.
Matthew D. Savinar is a 28 year old self-declared expert (but with zero credentials), in the fields of geology, petroleum, engineering and the energy industry. He was born and raised in northern California and attended the ultra-leftist UC Davis, where he graduated with a degree in Political Science. He then attended UC Hastings Law School. In 2003 he was admitted to the California bar.At the ripe old age of 26, he ceased the practice of law and presently works in a restaurant in Santa Rosa, California, and is the author of a book about "peak oil" entitled "The Oil Age is Over" (not even available on Amazon). He appears as a guest on such "respected" and "credible" radio talk shows as Art Bell's Coast-to-Coast-AM and the Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country. Matt Savinar runs his "LifeAfterTheOilCrash" website for the primary purpose of hawking his book (at last report he has sold an astounding 755 copies) and selling subscriptions to his online magazine.
Matt Savinar is a thoroughly whacked out ultra-leftist that has written that the consequences of "peak oil" are the the inevitable and inescapable collapse of the entire civilized world and that...
- FReepers are a bunch of "knuckle draggers"
- The GWOT is all about oil.
- Nic Berg was assassinated by the CIA.
- President Bush would be assassinated by the CIA by last August. (Must be a reeeeal slow bullet!)
Both you and the Congressman should be ashamed for having given any credibility to such a whacked out, America-hating, leftist, psycho as Matt Savinar and his dooms day theory.
--Boot Hill