Oil supply is limited, but we aren't doing anything about it

Capital Times ^ | 12-4-06 | Mark L. Hendrickson

[TexasTransplant]

Instead of us converting food into bio diesel

http://nick2.wordpress.com/2006/11/24/greenhouses-for-desalinised-water-oil/

and

http://www.oilgae.com/

I still want a couple hundred nuclear generators built, starting yesterday.

TT

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I don't know what serfs will do about it. Once upon a time, guys with a high school education could get a good factory job and make a fair living, enough to raise a family, take vacations, replace the family car, have a house and mortgage, etc. All this is undergoing big change.
If you buy Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy/Competitive Advantage books, the "replacement product" concept will extend to transportation; its possible cars like we have now will disappear and something much more economical will take its place.
Someone will come along with a better idea that sells. It always happens.

[o_zarkman44]

We have been hearing this kind of talk since the early 1970's. Government will not solve the problem. Free enterprise cannot solve the problem because government rules stand in the way. I don't believe we want to find a real solution. Nobody has the willpower to see anything through.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

true.

[dalereed]

"an engineering professor at the University of California-Berkeley"

That sttement makes everything below it pure BS!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The owner of the highly successful company I used to work for summed it up: "Our only real competitive advantage is to learn faster than our competitors."

[lawdude]

When I got my Physics degree in the mid-60's I was told that we would run out of oil by 1980.

When I got my law degree in 1992, I was told that we would be out of oil by 2000-2005.

Now, the known oil reserves are estimated to be as much as we have CONSUMED TO DATE!

Problem is, dems will not allow drilling and stifle exploration.

[Paladin2]

If the algae BioDiesel comes through, it'll be a big step to weaning the US off Arab (and Arab wannabes) Oil.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The current global warming carbon grab fits their agenda nicely. John Kerry and Charlie Rangel ain't gonna ride no bus to work.

[Paladin2]

I'd guess that it only takes a second of two's worth of fuel to restart an already warm car or light truck engine.

[uglybiker]

I wish people would jsut shoot thes brats and use their bodies for fertilizer.

With all the chemicals they injest, they'd be better used as pesticides.

[avg_freeper]

"Patzek, a recent guest lecturer of the UW Energy Institute, suggests that people must think of the Earth as a bigger tank, which is also finite, and is being drawn down rapidly of its petroleum reserves. "

I wish there was a finite supply of leftist twits.

[Niuhuru]

Ugh, good point.

[RightWhale]

Even if everybody went to those hybrid cars, the problem would only be delayed by something like three years. If we aren't building nuke plants now we are getting into a classical existential situation.

[RightWhale]

Yes, that is totally true. It is amazing more of them don't self-detonate any given day.

[capt.P]

I happened to recently read a National Geographic printed in 1974. As you said, 32 years ago, the finest scientific minds said that global famine, no oil and massive dieoffs would occur by the late 90's.

What will they think of us 30 years from now?


That being said, REAL conservation never gets implemented. Imagine if 90 % of the interstate tractor-trailer traffic was eliminated along the eastern seaboard of the US in just 2 years. One container ship can do the same job as 10,000 big rigs for a fraction of the cost in fuel and insurance... if the Dems would only reduce the massive moneymaking tax on goods shipped between US ports.
That's conservation. Never mind the scaremongering.