Posted on 12/07/2006 11:39:21 AM PST by thackney
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posted on 11/26/2006 2:40:01 PM AKST by SunkenCiv
Peak Oil Theory – “World Running Out of Oil Soon” – Is Faulty; Could Distort Policy & Energy Debate
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Posted on 11/15/2006 11:13:09 AM AKST by E. Pluribus Unum
"Club of Rome" Early 70's "twenty years of oil left", After twenty years "200 years of oil left".
Freely expressed human energy, plus tools, consistently puts the lie to "limited pie" thinking.
There will always be more than enough, if we are "allowed" to go after it.
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Does that appear to be a fair statement of the thesis?
I finally figured out that one reason for the incomprehensible popularity of abiogenic oil theories is that people mistakenly assume that to oppose "peak" oil theory you have to believe in abiogenic oil.
Nothing could be further from the truth. You can fully believe that petroleum is biogenic and also be strenuously opposed to "peak oil" theories.
Well, that is quite a thesis. Doesn't Joseph's seven years of plenty; seven years of famine have validity anymore?
Bump to share with my "the sky is falling" liberal friends.
Tide, not waves. Things have obviously progressed since Joseph's last famine.
BTTT
I find that rather odd. It's almost like trolling.
Why bother worrying about it? Just accept that we are going to run out of oil and everyone will die, if we don't drown in Al Gore's global warming flood first.
Hey, I just stumbled on to something. Since we are running out of oil, we don't have to do anything to stop global warming. (not that we ever could do anything) The problem has it's own cure.
Screw you, Al Gore. I'm going to waste as much oil as I can and make sure I get my fair share, too bad if your jet runs out of gas before mine does.
Besides, I'll probably be long dead before this peak oil and global warming argument is, and I really don't give a damn about your grandchildren, and if they are slogging around in flood water, freezing their Gorish butts off.
Maybe, although my conservative bones don't trust that this era of non-scarcity will last forever. I would submit that we will never run out of oil because we will run out of cheap oil and the price will begin to regulate comsumption: the usual price/consumption chart we were put to sleep with in econ class.
Yes, it includes conventional and unconventional oils.
Exactly. Peak cash flow will come long before peak oil ever does.
Absolutely. We will transition to other energy sources, perhaps smoothly but most likely with some unpleasant bumps and a travel a few dead-end paths first.
thank you. That makes sense now how they would get to that total.
I am actually referring to the bigger picture in which our needs are constantly met in bigger and better ways through the combination of incentive based free expression of human energy (free enterprise) and tools (technology).
If oil disappears, something else will take it's place. It's what I consider to be the fundamental difference between left/right world views. The left looks at the limited pie and seeks to control it's distribution and manipulate power through that process (bread and circuses).
The right, ideally, sees an ever expanding pie and seeks to unfetter people so they can be free to participate in that expansion, and reap the rewards consistent with their participation.
I highly recommend "The Mainspring of Human Progress", by Henry Grady Weaver, for more on this.
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