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It Will Take 131 Years To Replace Oil, And We've Only Got 10
Business Insider ^
| 11/14/2010
| Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecast and Opinion
Posted on 11/14/2010 4:20:08 PM PST by WebFocus
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To: WebFocus
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posted on
11/14/2010 5:26:30 PM PST
by
sauropod
(The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
To: WebFocus; PadreL; Morpheus2009; saveliberty; fabrizio; Civitas2010; Radagast the Fool; ...
62
posted on
11/14/2010 5:27:13 PM PST
by
narses
( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
To: WebFocus
63
posted on
11/14/2010 5:27:38 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ~Mencken)
To: WebFocus
According to a new paper by two researchers at the University of California Davis...UC-Davis, eh?
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posted on
11/14/2010 5:28:04 PM PST
by
O6ret
(for)
To: WebFocus
In 1979 I was taught, in college, that at the current rate of 1979 consumption that we would run out of oil in the year 2000. Ten years ago. The bottom line is that nobody really knows how much oil is down there.
To: WebFocus
Convert Michael Moore to oil. We can drive for another hundred years.
66
posted on
11/14/2010 5:33:32 PM PST
by
Leisler
(They always lie, so much and for so long, that they no longer know what about.)
To: WebFocus
There is a 300 year supply of oil in Alaska. Start drilling.
67
posted on
11/14/2010 5:35:03 PM PST
by
ILS21R
("Every night before I go to sleep, I think who would throw stones at me?", she said)
To: WebFocus
I don’t buy the peak oil scam. It’s been around for a long time, and the date keeps getting pushed back. Deep wells, new oil fields, shale oil, clean burning coal, nuclear power, natural gas, and we are set for a couple of hundred more years, plenty of time for serious scientists who aren’t wasting their time on global warming to find exotic new energies. The ten year prediction of doom will turn into twenty years, will turn into fifty years, will turn into one hundred years. It’s how the prognosticators of doom and gloom work. The biggest threat to the world is big government and the control freaks who want it all.
68
posted on
11/14/2010 5:35:08 PM PST
by
pallis
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To: guerito1
So sad but true! I do expect that when things get dour that even a liberal Government would allow drilling - might be just optimism though... Never can ignore the stupidity of liberals idiots...
70
posted on
11/14/2010 5:47:49 PM PST
by
Deagle
To: Las Vegas Ron
I think I heard something like this 20-30 years ago.... Shoot, six months ago they said the BP oil leak was going to blast uncontrollably for 20 years. Now were back to the 'earth is running dry of oil' nonsense again.
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posted on
11/14/2010 5:49:29 PM PST
by
Never on my watch
(Never let a kid play with matches or run with scissors; and never give a gavel to a Democrat!)
To: facedown; WebFocus; All
Since the 1850's The USGS was formed in part because of fear of oil shortages in 1879, yet every year the reserves grow and grow.
Stop posting this peak oil propaganda, please. It just isn't true.
72
posted on
11/14/2010 5:51:53 PM PST
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: WebFocus
A few days ago someone sent me an e-mail with an excerpt from an upcoming book about the depletion of the world's natural resources. It is one of the most alarmist, "sky-is-falling" things I've ever read.
And yet even the author of that book acknowledges that the world isn't running out of oil anytime soon.
73
posted on
11/14/2010 6:00:21 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
To: Candor7
Very interesting information there.
A few days ago I saw what looked to be a pretty fascinating article -- about the potential for producing oil from plastics . . . basically by reversing the process that is used to create plastic out of oil in the first place.
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posted on
11/14/2010 6:04:01 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
To: Dallas59
Well then .....well just have to build Nuke power plants all over. Its the only way to be sure.We'll have to build nukes from orbit, it's the only way to be sure...
75
posted on
11/14/2010 6:06:05 PM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 663 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: no one in particular
Do we have enough time to start an intensive whale breeding program?
It has a certain symmetry, petroleum replaced whale oil, now it’s time for whales to step forward again.
76
posted on
11/14/2010 6:09:55 PM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 663 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: WebFocus
Ten years is pure crap. We are finding new deposits all the time.
77
posted on
11/14/2010 6:14:05 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
To: WebFocus
"It Will Take 131 Years To Replace Oil, And We've Only Got 10"
Wasn't this crap being peddled 30 years ago?
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posted on
11/14/2010 6:33:51 PM PST
by
Dacus943
To: WebFocus
he research was published on Nov. 8 at Environmental Science & Technology, which is based on the theory that market expectations are good predictors
Aren't these the same folks who said the earth would be too hot to live on by 2025? Didn't they also say that by 2020 or so the north and south poles ice would have melted and flooded most of the living space in the habitable world?
My guess is that these people are not a valid reference if you are a betting person.
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posted on
11/14/2010 6:34:33 PM PST
by
JSteff
((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
To: redpoll
Well anyone with half a brain can figure out green energy won’t do it for another 50 years at least.
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posted on
11/14/2010 6:49:23 PM PST
by
ully2
(ully)
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