Posted on 07/06/2005 12:14:44 PM PDT by NYorkerInHouston
For those that are interesed there will be a conference on peak oil held in Houston on Saturday, July 9, 2005. It will take place from 1-5:30 p.m at the First Unitarian Universalist Church 5200 Fannin Street @ Southmore, Houston, Texas 77004
When I first saw that this was taking place in Texas I thought it must be a meeting of oil industry players and thought "wow, maybe this peak oil thing is for real". Then I realized that it's a bunch of spoiled hippies that know nothing about oil or economics or even WORK.
The fact that everybody who talks about peak oil knows ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the oil industry discredits the entire idea before I've even heard their explanation.
don't let pesky things like facts get in the way of a good doomsday theory!
When oil becomes too expensive, synthetic fuels (such as those from coal) will replace them
The Unitarian locale was my first clue.
They're drilling for oil in the mountains now? Wow!
Exactly. The location of the "conference" was all I needed to know.
Peak Oil should be called Peak Easy Oil. It is the easy oil that gets produced most and first. We are always running out of easy oil, relatively, the problem being that new discoveries don't seem to be large reservoirs of the easy oil kind anymore.
Probably so, to a degree, but from the nature of the problem won't be cheap.
Peak Oil protest march to follow
I can't imagine what the point of a peak oil protest march might be. It might be to demonstrate how irrelevant a protest would be.
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