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Visual Relationship Between Peak Oil and Political Events
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Posted on 04/20/2006 6:13:20 AM PDT by ckilmer
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; ilovecharts; oilposter; peakoil; reallytinyprint
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posted on
04/20/2006 6:13:21 AM PDT
by
ckilmer
To: ckilmer
Ever notice, through the years, that whenever these predictions are made the "peak" is always seems to be a few years out.
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posted on
04/20/2006 6:18:07 AM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(Islamofascism ... bringing you the best of the 7th century for the past 1300 years.)
To: tx_eggman
The United States' "Past the peak 1970" is probably when the EPA and individual States started cutting back or stopping production. I am not certain, but thats a guess.
To: tx_eggman
you pay a high enough price and there's plenty of energy. trouble is-- higher energy prices are a tax on productivity and productivity is the engine for the wealth of the people.
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posted on
04/20/2006 6:22:26 AM PDT
by
ckilmer
To: ckilmer; Names Ash Housewares
To: ckilmer
But I wonder does the author of the article assume we're not improving oil-extaction technology that much. Thanks to improved offshore production techniques that work even in
very deep water and Royal Dutch Shell's recent announcement that it is possible to extract oil from shale and oil tar sands
in situ without actually mining out the shale/tar sands, we could end up with a far larger oil supply than people think.
If we were to apply the type of steam injection techniques pioneered in California for the type of highly viscous oil found in that state, we could see the proven oil reserves go up by a factor of six or more!
To: RayChuang88
EPL hit oil in the Gulf of Mexico last week at 28,000 feet.
Oil is not a fossil fuel. These estimates do not include oil shale and tar sands. Bogus pablum for the uninformed.
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posted on
04/20/2006 6:55:46 AM PDT
by
mission9
(Be a citizen worth living for, in a Nation worth dying for...)
To: RayChuang88; mission9
My favorite oil is produced by a company in Philadelphia and Missouri. The philadelphia plant converts raw sewage to diesal fuel and the missouri plant turns turkey parts into #2 diesal fuel. Here's the
link With government support equal to that of ethanl they're now making a profit. But they do so now because oil is expensive.
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posted on
04/20/2006 7:03:26 AM PDT
by
ckilmer
To: ckilmer
There is still a lot of oil in the 'depleted' fields. At current prices, it will be profitable to go get this oil with tertiary recovery methods.
To: ckilmer
We're Doomed.
Interesting, albeit completely inaccurate article that presents opinion as fact, and guesses about future oil production as definites.
Lots of pretty charts, though.
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posted on
04/20/2006 9:03:18 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: martin_fierro
LOL! Did you think to include the Pittsburgh Pirates? Leaving them out mught skew your results a little.
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posted on
04/20/2006 9:04:51 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: tx_eggman
the "peak" is always seems to be a few years out The world peak of easy oil is not more than ten years off.
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posted on
04/20/2006 9:08:54 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
04/20/2006 9:13:10 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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