What if we don't run out of oil?

WND ^ | November 15, 2005 | Jerome Corsi

[Brilliant]

I'm not worried about what happens if we don't run out. I'm worried about what happens if we do run out.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We'll never run out completely. The price will increase and slow consumption.
This article also doesn't mention the "seeps" theory...

[Dan Evans]

an anti-oil, anti-business attitude that feels our advanced capitalist society is "bad" or "wrong

If windmills and solar power were the only source of power we had, they would be under attack by the left because the left is empowered by denying the necessities of life to good people. It is the same tactic used by any extortionist thug.

[Brilliant]

This line of analysis misses a key point of the abiotic, deep-Earth theory of oil's origin. If oil is naturally produced within the Earth's mantle, oil may well be a renewable resource.

We know it's naturally produced. The question is whether it's being produced fast enough for us to continue on as we are.

Personally, my theory is that it comes from outer space. The outer space idea and the deep-Earth idea may mean that if we drill deeper, we might find more, but who knows for sure? Unfortunately, we can't assume that everthing will work out, because if it does not, then there will be world wide famine. We can't feed this many people without oil.

[Frohickey]

You worry too much.

Things have a way of working themselves out. We are pretty good at that.

[fireforeffect]

Most of the "peak oil" and limited supply panic mongers know nothing about how oil is produced or where it comes from.

The truth is we will never run out of oil but we may reach a limit to how much we can pull out of the ground at any one time.

Oil is made by methane percolating up from the earths core, becoming trapped in rock formations and being compressed into oil over time. This is the current view of competent geologist, very simplified.

Just remember when driving around, NO DINOSAURS DIED TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE!

[Brilliant]

At some point, though, the price may go up enough that it might as well be completely exhausted.

[RightCanuck]

Honest advice for you; stop worrying, we won't be running out of oil for at least hundreds of years if ever. Go ahead and enjoy life.

[OB1kNOb]

What if we don't run out of oil?

Then we're NOT DOOMED ????!!!!

[MAD-AS-HELL]

DOn't worry. Al Gore will save us from our oil dependency.

[reston]

The world is not going to run out of oil, per the USGS.
America however is in danger by having to import foreign oil. A Startegy for Achieving Independence from Foreign Oil can be found at www.tsaugust.org

[goodnesswins]

Where ya goin' in your car today? Tomorrow? YOU should "worry" MORE about that.....and surviving.

[Brilliant]

No way it's going to last "hundreds of years." I suspect 30, at most, before the price goes up so much that gasoline will be considered a luxury.

[Dan Evans]

See post #3. We won't run out because as the price gradually increases, it makes other forms of energy economically viable. There are huge quantities of marginal "fossil" fuels that we either haven't developed the technology to recover (such as methane hydrates in the sea) or are not cost effective at current prices such as tar sands or shale oil). Not to mention synthetic fuels from coal. Then we can go to nuclear, geothermal, tidal, wind, solar, etc.

So why not do those things now? Because it will be much easier to do it with future technology than with current technology. This is one reason oil companies only explore enough to create a ten year supply of proven reserves.

[Brilliant]

No one knows exactly how oil is made, so it's a pretty dumb nut who bets the farm on the assumption that we will have oil forever, because it's being produced everyday. Remember that the Earth has been around for about 4 billion years. If it took 4 billion years to produce the oil we've consumed over the last 1-1/2 centuries, then it's going to be a long wait before new supplies become available.

[Alberta's Child]

Most of the oil extracted today was considered "impractical to extract" 25 years ago. And 25 years from now, I'd say most of the oil we now consider "impractical to extract" will be . . . well, practical to extract.

"Hubbert's Peak" is a canard, and I'm frankly amazed to see so many otherwise intelligent people accept it as the gospel truth.

[akorahil]

What if we don't run out of oil?

Then we're NOT DOOMED????!!!!

And it ISN'T Bush's fault?!?!?!

[kabar]

Oil=energy. If the supplies dwindle and costs rise, it will make alternative sources more attractive and economically feasible. We have been using oil for energy for less than 150 years. There is nothing to say that in the year 2100, we will still be wedded to its use.

[Willie Green]

In the final analysis, many on the political Left appear to have gravitated to embrace "Peak-Oil" theories because the argument that we are running out of oil fits in with their overall pattern of leftist political beliefs.

Nevertheless, "Peak-Oil" makes more sense than the "Don't-worry-be-happy-the-oil-supply-is-infinite" crap that Corsi subjects us to while Big Oil continues to jack-up prices at the pump.