Oil: Caveat empty

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ^ | May 25, 2005 | Alfred J. Cavallo

[liberallarry]

Conservation, conservation, conservation...or, less controversially; efficiency, efficiency, efficiency.

[Semper Paratus]

The authors are the ones with the "Atomic Clock' (now at 7 minutes to midnight)

[FlipWilson]

This article has me so depressed that I am going to go out and buy and SUV, just to cheer myself up.

[steveegg]

There's one answer to that - DRILL, DRILL, and DRILL SOME MORE!

[jpl]

I average about 35 MPG, which is more than most of the left-wingers that I'm surrounded by here in the D.C. capital beltway.

And I wonder how the author feel about nuclear power? It's important to know whether he should be taken seriously about energy matters.

[ConsentofGoverned]

take out over zealous environment policy and we can find plenty oil/gas in USA. Anwar will supply us for 30 yrs even with reduced production in rest of world if we ever get to drill there.

[ConsentofGoverned]

better yet buy oil stocks and you can afford the price increases with money left over for the good life

[RightWhale]

I dropped my subscription to the Bulletin many years ago when it became apparent that the publication was purely political and extreme Leftist. That they are jumping on the Peak Oil bandwagon does not change the Leftness of the organization.

[Dilbert56]

How does that square with huge recent finds in the US and off Norway.

[RightWhale]

How does that square with huge recent finds in the US and off Norway.

Huge? Quantitatively suspect modifier.

[jackbenimble]

It sounds like it is Exxon Mobile that is jumping on the Peak Oil Bandwagon and all this leftest Bulletin is doing is reporting it. If Exxon Mobile thought they could drill their way out of the problem they probably would be drilling more. At $50/bbl, increasing production must look fairly attractive to anybody who thinks they know where they can drill a very expensive hole and find some very valuable oil. Unfortunately, there are just not very many of these hot prospects left to drill on.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Oil shale won't happen. Grinding up a large swath of Colorado and Utah and leaving a pile of fine sand to blow around--trying that explaning that one to the Wednesday night Sierra Club meeting.

[newgeezer]

Impending-death-of-the-SUV ping.

[jackbenimble]

Oil shale won't happen. Grinding up a large swath of Colorado and Utah and leaving a pile of fine sand to blow around--trying that explaning that one to the Wednesday night Sierra Club meeting.

I believe they are now working with technology to extract the oil from the shale in-situ without digging or grinding. It involves pumping very hot water down the whole and essentially melting it out.

[biblewonk]

Impending-death-of-the-SUV ping.

YAYYYYYY

[Humvee]

Don't you know how to spell? It's "hugh" not huge.

[henderson field]

This is like the water problem: it's not too little oil, it's too many people and, in particular, the conversion of China from a sleepy agricultural society to another large industrial economy that is competing with us for energy supplies including but not limited to oil. This is the result of some bad decisions by our friends in Congress influenced by a bunch of 25-year-old "economists."

[oilfieldtrash]

Here is an interesting web site: http://www.peakoil.net/

The association of peak oil. It is a little scare mongering, but I myself think the writing is on the wall, reduce consumption, look for alternative energy sources(solar, wind etc.) and save oil for cars. It is just not there anymore and oil companies cannot replace their reserves. Like that old tower of power tune, `There is only so much oil in the ground.`

[steveegg]

How does that square with huge recent finds in the US and off Norway.

Simple; they're not going to be tapped because of the tree-huggers like the pinhead authors of this tripe.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Exxon's first try at squeezing oil out of shale involved a radiation technique, done at Rifle, Colorado. The shale was mined and crushed down to golf ball sized chunks, then zapped and the drippings collected. The tailings became chunks about the size of a baseball, or 1/3 larger.
Try getting that one past the Sierra Club.