“A recent survey on the environment found that seventy percent of people worldwide think that the planet is running out oil.”
And the other 30% think there’s an unending supply? We will run out of oil some day...but I’d prefer to keep exploring until we’ve found a viable alternative (not ethanol).
Good Article, BTTT
The question is why no one is calling the dims on the carpet as this is no coincidence!
>>Profoundly misinformed and alarmed, people place false hopes in misguided alternatives. Rather than implementing harmful, inefficient and expensive substitutes, we should insist that our government lift the obstacles which prevent us from availing ourselves of this superabundant resource<<
This bears repeating. Over and over,
but anyway some day this planet will be “sucked dry” so we need to find other energy sources. btw. do we really want to be depending on such lovely unstable countries in the ME and else where around this planet?
So what’s the problem here?
1. the “cheap oil” is either used up in the United States or in the hands of other nations.
2. the current cost of commercial exploitation of “alternate oil” in the US has not been economical, although recent changes in the market may change that.
3. Whether or not we’re willing to pay the costs of start up of the alternate petro industries and the time to bring them to commercial production.
4. Whether we can ever get our government to ignore the enviro-whackos who wish to put a stop to this. (I wish those hypocrites would just go live in the woods like they want everyone else to do).
For the purpose of manipulation.
I guess the lack of refineries is the biggest problem.
I personally hold to Thomas Gold’s theory on oil myself.
So, I think I remember we desire ME oil because it is the sweet kind.
That being said ... how much of all of this oil is sweet, and where is it ... and how much is the 'sour' ?
* Cease all ethanol production. It requires more energy to make than it yields and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. Corn production shifted from feed-corn to subsidized corn for ethanol. Just say "no" to ethanol!
* Immediately create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and cease regional blends which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Even if this is the "cleanest" blend, just make it ONE and be done with it. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful.
* Drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.
* Construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production.
* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful.
* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Reactors (or other similar designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design.
* Use the residual heat from the reactor above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.
* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.
* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or cap the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer. The Federal government could compel the states (and locals) to cap the fuel taxes.
Our congress is incapable of addressing this problem.
Real truths:
1.) There are several hundred years worth of hydrocarbon deposits known in the world.
2.) With a big enough sack of money, a good chemical engineer can turn any hydrocarbon into any other hydrocarbon.
3.) The solution to high prices is high prices.
Great article. I would like to see a similar one on tha amount of proven uranium reserves.
If the ecofresk's strangle hold on Congress can't be broken we are doomed to continue paying through the nose to import oil from people who hate us and want to see our nation destroyed. It seems that the greenies and their congressional allies would rather see the Chinese communists, who care little or nothing about the global ecology, use our oil than for us to use it ourselves.
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I’m almost to a point of saying let the Rats have the House, 60 in the Senate and the Presidency because when they get done destroying America hopefully there will be more people with common sense that will run all the bums out of town then we can start rebuilding.
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This is Peak Oil now. This is what Peak Oil is like.
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