During WW II tens of millions of cars, trucks, tractors, vans, buses and all internal combustion engines were converted to use wood gas with the wood gasifier generator connected to them at the back of their vehicles. They've used fast growing coppiced and pollarded trees and shrubs and woody grasses as their main fuel during WW II. With today's advanced technologies it can be made to be just as convenient to use just like gasoline and diesel fuel by pelletizing the woody biomass. Why not do it?
I like where is says the U.S "is being held hostage to countries that aren't that friendly to us", he is speaking of the all the countries that the U.S has invaded and occupied, is it any wonder and that they would keep it for themselves especially as there is not a lot left. over 1 million innocents murdered recently in the mid east alone just so that the average jo in the States can sit in his car and go nowhere.
As for recent vast oil finds, this guy is a joke, he should be on Disney channel
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Oil companies have not built oil refineries since the 1960's they control the supply and demand of oil by cutting back production which pushes up the price. it is because of oil company greed that oil prices are so high and all thier excuses are complete bullshit. do not believe for 1 minute anything oil companies tell you about the reasons for the high price of oil
firstly there is no shortage of oil. secondly peak oil is nothing more than a scam to ensure oil companies can raise the price of oil to what ever price they like. there is an abundant supply of oil world wide moere than enough for at least 800 years. the problem is THE OIL COMPANIES.
if you are not worried about Peak Oil due to finite reserves of oil, then consider another form of Peak Oil that is caused by resource nationalism in developing nations that won't allow Western oil companies to assist with raising oil output in those places. Wars and hostile foreign policies by other nations will effectively keep oil from being produced and put on the world market. another aspect to Peak Oil, what happens to countries like Nigeria or Ven when the oil is gone ?
Peak just means the peak of production not the end of production. From Peak the cost of oil extraction increases. We hit a peak in oil discovery in 1960. But who knows about new tech and deap sea drilling.
Every planet in our solar system ,including Earth, has basic building blocks that are made of hydrocarbons...we'll run out of oil shortly after the Sun super nova's..
@VousEnculez not at all dude! actually the gas price in US is the cheapst in the world!!!! countries like India China are already paying peak oil price... and they have much bettter public infrastructure in place compared to US! ppl in US are like pampered in luxury in other words.... Ppl here might point finger to developing countries but the fact is US being US, they get subsidized rates!
@tigersoup You are partly right... I think and Venezuela and some middle easter countries they pay about 25 cents to keep the people calm. Remember when the gas stations in Iran were being burned by the people a few years ago? The gov't raised the price like a penny or something ridiculous.....
Shit is peaking and I predict that shit will be $7 a pound. Since we have only 7 billion people the maxim shit we can produce a day is about 7 billion pounds. I suggest people start saving shit right now.
I'm half dutch and half american, I've moved back and forth a few times throughout my life, and visit both places often (family). Whenever I go back to the US Im shocked by how oil dependant your entire culture is, driving from the grocery store to pick up kids from school and then back home and god knows where else. Everywhere you go you need a car apparently. In holland most people bike when they go places.
@sciath And it is the best way to get around, I loved Amsterdam for the dependancy on bikes. It was an entire culture, and bikes were respected and never really a subject of crime, or rarely so. The air is so fresh there from the sea and lack of CO2. The trams work well, and walking is keenly encouraged. Europe IS different to USA they have greater surface area than all of Europe. That said I have no idea why many countries in Europe manage to make more of their energy resources
@sciath than the USA do. WIth all the "brains" in USA, and land mass, and sunshine they get every year I have no idea at all WHY they are not the world leaders of renewable resources. USA comsumes 45% of the worlds oil, you would have thought they would rather rely on themselves ans save a HUGE oil bill they could then keep in their back pocket. I just don't understand why they STILL cling onto this oil culture, maybe they'll get their act together when they see Germany's law on energy.
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Please bear with me. I am just a dumb brick layer. In 1984, a mason I worked with told me of his newly bought Delta 88, V-8, automatic, with all options he bought in California, whilst working at Northrop Aviation, years before I met him. As per the warranty, he took the car in to the Buick dealer for oil, anti-freeze, brake fluid checks, ect. They attempted to get him to sign a paper to "allow" them to replace the carburetor to another that was "correct" for his car. He said "Kiss off",
That story was really popular in the 1970s and early 1980s. I heard it several times in several variations. Nobody ever got the magic carb first hand; it was always a friend-of-a-friend kind of thing. Now that I'm an engineer and know how to calculate thermodynamics I realize that it was a hoax. But it seemed plausible at the time.
Why has our Congress been so conviently silent about all this for so long? Why did we vote these low-lifes into office to look after the American people? It maybe too late, but it's time to re-evaluate who we are giving our votes to.
Why has our Congress been conviently silent about this? Try incompetance, political catfighting, just not giving a damn aout the people and fianlly are you gonna be the Sen or Congressman who tells the People of the US the party is over? Kill the messenger will have a new meaning when you tell people who have never known hunger in their lives, that have lived in the lap of luxury that it is over and that your Goverment has failed you.
millions of verweight anericans will have to learn to walk,bicycle or starve!
Bye bye globalization & the dinosaur empire which spawned you;The next 20 years are going to be fascinating for students of history as we witness the collapse of an empire.
peak oil, what were doing is buying everyone elses oil, we got our own, we just need to get it, but when you got the money to buy, thats what you do, let's think about cornering the market, they get sucked dry, we'll have on we need, oh, they do have to pay for dubai. when they run out, then they'll realize what has happened.
Markmarsgall39, I suppose you know where this easy to get at cheap oil is in the US? Please let us know cause if it was there somebody would be tapping it don't ya think?
You got it mixed up, it's not when they run out they will realize what has happened it is US who has run out and we are just catching wind of our very own incompetance and foolishness. We will pay dearly for this Arab oil, say $200 a barrel. So you might want to hook a mule to pull your Ford F150.
when we get rid of these pussies that are so earthy, maybe we could drill, we approve(the citizens), but by god the alaskan buggle bug, might not have a home, you see what im saying, we have to many earthy people, its to late for globing warming i think, lets get all we can and when we are in control of it, maybe it will go down, but all in all, do you know where i can get a good mule, and let me ask you if any one would attack iran, no matter who does it, it is no2 producer, they would stop.
I think the Alaska Caribou Anwar crap is a Straw Man, I got no problem drilling anywhere inluding my backyard! Put a Nuclear plant in my backyard! If it gives me gasoline and money I got no problem. But I think they use envirmentalist to blame fore these problems.
All these problems are due to foolishness & incompetance from many people including you & me. I take responsibility for the energy I have wasted & I am trying everything within reason to change, how about you Mark?
what ever animal, where ever, if we can get it, get it, i try to do all i can jo jo, but i catch myself all the time, turning on the t.v., the computer, and listening to the radio all at the same time, letting the car run to heat it up or il let the car run when i go inside the quick shop, so yes, i could do alot more, but you are right, what ever the pro's say we listen and panic, or it seems that way, it'll take everyone, every one.
I realized we can't rely on goverment to fix this. A lot of the political rhetoric is an illusion to pacify us. So I agree, anything that will help america get off the Arab tit,I am for.
JO JO, "Get off the Arab TiT", wouldnt you love to here a presidential hopeful say that, we'll never here that, i give you a 10 on that comment alone, peace to ya jo jo, mark. lets hope we end up on the right road.
I read an article just the other day where people in South Dakota were hitting wells in their own back yards and becoming Millionaires overnight. We are of course, being had. That same old supply and demand bull shit. This is another case of 'fear tatics' to lead the sheep.
Peak oil is bull shit. There is tons and tons of oil available. Cheap oil might decline. But Alberta (that's in Canada folks) has enough oil to feed the US for 100 years.
Hemp for victory !!! 10% of food crop space would power america? why are we allowing our country to slowly degrade into a third world level? And now L.E.A.P. is questioning our methods against the drug concept... I truly want to understand so i can feel like patriot.
Peak Oil people are scare mongers. When the price of oil goes up so does the supply. Coal to Oil and Shale Oil is now cost effective. We are the Saudi Arabia of Coal. We have 100 or more supply of oil, coal, and oil shale. What types of energy can we come up with in that time?
Whats my story ? Well. I don't want to live in a communistic society that the environmental extremist offer us. I don't want to give money to people who want to kill us and take our money with a smile. If there is no oil left as enviro-extremist claim. THEN LIFT THE RED TAPE AND THE ABILITY TO GET IT! WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF ?????
You really need to improve your English. What are you saying we have 100 more of? Years supply? Please explain how we have 100 more years of oil left if that's what you're saying. And please don't say "at current levels of consumption" because you know that won't happen.
We have at least 100 years of oil even WITH CURRENT ESTIMATION of future consumption of oil. According to the experts we were supposed to run out of oil 10 years ago.
What expert said we would run out of oil 10 years ago? I did hear that Hubbert said we might reach peak oil in the early 90s. Is that what you mean? How can I refute your claim of 100yrs if I don't know where you got it from? If oil consumption doubles every 35 years (I think it's longer now), that means that in order to have enough oil for 100 years, we would have to have 4 times the oil we ever used up to this point. That's still an amazing claim you're making.
I can't look up what's a lie. Maybe I should get the Grimm's Fairy Tales out. You people always say we have a gazillion years of oil left, but when it comes to proving it, you wander off.
bossman, we got 100 years of oil, so how do you account for $140 bbl. today, $70 bbl a year ago, $29 bbl. in 03.
You don't understand Peak Oil, it's not about running out knucklehead. It's about a "shift" from inexpensive easy to get at oil, to expensive hard to get oil. Thus the price dumbass.
To xxxabbccxxx: There is plenty of a supply of oil. The North American continental shelf, and the Alaska tundra and wilderness near the Arctic circle are sufficient.
Mreover, the United States has the world's largest oil shale reserves found in the American West. Some estimates value it around 800+ billion barrels of useable fossil fuels. There is plenty of oil, there just needs to be a willingness to find it and drill it.
the usa consumes 12 million barrels of oil to run their motorboats, RV's, SUV's and hummers. If the government had any brains they would tax fuel to decrease consumption and increast incentives for more fuel efficient cars. In canada they tax the shit out of gas, as they should.
AndyPandy202000: Not idiots, but ignorants. Head in the sand (or sand in the head) style of living. If something is cheap it must be infinite, isn't it? But markets are not the truth. Artificial capital is nothing, natural capital everything. Problem is, nobody looks at the natural capital.
700 million barrels a "tremendous discovery"? What an idiot. 700 million barrels is 9 days global or 60 days US-demand. To call this a "tremendous discovery" is incompetent and dangerous.
This is all bull shit. the goverment and all involved, oil companies. want us to think we are in for a shortage so they could bleed us for more money, we should have had an allternative solution years ago, thanks to all involved we don't
did you hear Robert Zubrin on coast to coast?The unsubsidized price of methanol(55% as pwerful as gasoline) is 1.50$ a gallon.Our car makers REFUSE to make for us multifuel vehicles.Brazil stood up to them and said either make multifuel vehicles or you cant sell them in Brazil.We should do that for our domestic cars because it doesnt even cost more to make them multifuel.
Dual385 is correct. We need at least 20 years to segue into a new type of energy course. This isn't just about cars but food, farming, production, manufacturing, etc.
Yeah and the scary part to me is that we haven't even started transitioning yet. Lets assume it will be 5 years before we can confidently see alternatives trickling in and another 20 years before 80 % of all cars are changed over to something else. Hybrids do not count at all. You can get only so efficient with gasoline before saying, "wait this stuff is really expensive and is climbing. I'm hurting." Efficiency is excellent, substitution is better here.
He's looked at Peak Oil, deforestation, population growth, global warming, water supply, soil erosion, species loss, air pollution and the whole depressing mess. (the first few chapters will make you want to put the book down and never pick it up again..but keep reading!)
If there is a major disruption any time soon even the electric car won't save us. We have waited way too long. I think its too far out of control now.
And lets not forget all the flabby, obnoxious kids who do not need automobiles; all the millions of people who would not be hard-pressed to use an alternative form of transportation...yeah ok, forget it. This debate tends to assume that there are either alternative fuels or not alternative fuels. This debate forgets that there are alternatives vehicals...bicycles, buses and trains..."but you can't carry dry-wall around on a bike."..sorry for mentioning it. Good luck with your coal fuel...:)
The main causes of the 1973 oil crisis were our relations with Israel and inability of domestic production to meet foreign imports. So if domestic production cannot satisfy oil consumption in the 70's how can it now? Please, devote a research paper topic to this oil crisis, and you will understand that maintaining cordial relations with oil producing nations (esp. Saudia Arabia and Iraq) until we run out of oil are the only methods to our survival as a nation.
There will come a point when the Middle East will run out of oil. And that day is fast approaching. Now if the United States plays it's cards right, it will wait for about 30 years or so when the world becomes thirsty for oil, namely China. And if and then whaen that happens, the United States will then start drilling in Alaska where it is oil rich and therefore charging $300-$400 a barrel for such a precious commodity that the United States will have a hold over.
sorry the north slope is well into decline and ANWR is pipe dream. The USGS fudges its figures. Like so
95% their is 3 million barrels.
5% chance their is 14 million barrels.
round the figures and the mean is 6-8 million barrels. Which is ridiculous because their is 3 million. (all of which isn't worth going after)
the whole world is like that. The age of oil is coming to an end. The only smart move is to get out of oil. On an individual and social level. Get out. Crazy though, huh?
To BanjoNaps: That is fine because when the first truly all powered electric cars come off the assembly line in 2011, I'll be one of the first people in the dealerships to buy one.
To BanjoNaps: Plow fields like they did in the old days-- horse. My grandfather tended to the fields without power and did just fine.
As for declining food stocks. Grow your own vegetable garden and can food for the winter. Buy wholesale and lot's of nonperishable foods.
Many people live in rural areas where public transportation is not available. They will have to purchase an electric or energy efficient vehicle to commute every day.
Oh I know I have plenty of crops. I can't afford a horse and I don't really like them so I just tilled by hand. I've set up a little fish farm to add NO2 to my watering system. I havn't saved up for a way to can, but I'm more concerned with getting my blacksmith shop up and running at the time. I'm not worried about the city I live near, its small and upriver from the state capitol. Its the capitols I"m concerned about. I don't see the transition being a smooth one for them. Too much suburb.
Yes but at the rate we are useing oil we will run low and that sets the stage like already for higher prices which will drive every thing else way up eventually there will be a killer blow to the middle class which is due to GREED and ignorance of our goverment and our jobs that have gone to other countrys THANKS George hope your sleeping well
Peak Oil explains the behavior of the Bush regime and the US empire -- why they stole the 2000 election, allowed (and assisted) 9/11, enacted the Patriot Act, created Homeland Security and invaded the Middle East oil fields.
Time to go solar. That's where ALL energy comes from anyway. We've just been subsidizing the dirty stuff for decades! $200 per barrel by the end of the year at this rate. Sell your cars, demand electric ones and strap a solar panel on yer roofs. Nuclear energy ain't going to save us and it sucks away plenty of tax dollars.
This is what I don't get...........why, oh why did the government allow big cars/trucks/SUV that need so much gas to run to be built and sold to us knowing that oil could/would/has peaked? Bastards!!...I'm glad I never bought into the SUV craze and stuck to my little honda civic....I look at those people filling up and pass by the pumps and watch them fill up costing them hundreds of dollars...this is unsustainable...but who will buy these cars from them if they want to downsize?!
Well Yayapilo remember Jimmy Carter? The worst American president in U.S. living memory. He put a 55 mph speed limit on roads and higher CAFE standards and a lot of emphasis on alternative energy. And what happened to this 25 year head start on peak oil? Ronald Reagan took a flamethrower to all those initiatives. That is why there is a push to put his face on Mount Rushmore by American conservatives. The American electorate have spoken and they loooooove their 12 mpg SUVs.
Everyone still requires gasoline for their daily lives. If everyone agreed not to buy gas on a certain day, they would need to fill up either before or after. The same volume of gas will still be pumped that week. Want to 'stick it to the oil companies'? Buy an electric car. Walk. Ride a bike. Ride the train. Don't buy anything made of plastic. Don't buy anything that was created, processed, or shipped using oil in any form. And good luck with that.
amazing what the bible describes the garden of eden as, as a lush paradise created by God, a fertile land and now what is it ???? A friggin' desert, dry as a bone with oil wells everywhere . . . way to go mankind . .
Unless it was a hot bulb engine there is no way an engine that is not a diesel can burn hemp oil.Please research ICE tecnology before you go "policing" comments
Hemp oil is the best solution to this problem. Most people don't known that Ford built one of his prototypes of the Model-T to run on hemp oil. Everything in the petroleum industry could be replaced with hemp oil (fuel, plastics, pesticides, etc). All these products would be biodegradable, and we could use the pulp and fibers for paper and clothes. Unfortunately people can't seem to separate quality hemp products from the idea of "Pot". It is renewable and unlike corn ethanol, realistic.
derjew- It wasn't a diesel engine. Google the topic and you will see that it is verifiable historical fact. I have seen pictures of original magazine articles from that time which describe his car running on hemp oil. Try some unbiased research before you label my claim "bs" please.
BlackSwanThe0ry- Hemp grows in land that is not airable for food crops, and it enriches the soil, so it can be rotated into the crop cycle the way that some farmers use soybeans now. On top of that, the capital we would make from selling hemp products could 'buy' food supply. It certainly isn't a panacea. We would still need conservation and increased fuel economy. The best option would be augmenting hemp fuel with other alternative fuels. But it actually REPLACES petro-chemicals.
hydrogen is not an energy source. It requires energy to seperate hydrogen in the first place. I.E. electricity.. I.E. coal power plants. Hydrogen is just a way to get energy from one place to another. In that respect, batteries are much more efficient at storing and releasing energy than an explosive, leaky, hard to store gas such as hydrogen. We need a new SOURCE of energy if we are to continue growth. Period.
Using fast breeder reactors and nuclear reprocessing we can produce 30 times more energy per unit of uranium than todays obsolete nuclear plants. There is enough fuel to last thousands of years. With nuclear reprocessing the environmental problems are solved. Almost all of the longer lasting radioactive waste is gone using this method. In several hundred years there is very little radioactivity. This is current technology.
Google the "THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPTION" and click on the first result.
I think the most promising source of energy to replace hydrocarbons is fusion. They have been pouring billions into D-T fusion in tokamaks but that produces so much radioactivity and the machines are ungodly expensive. Much promise lies in Inertial Electrostatic Confinement fusion using Helium3 or Boron11 as fuels. A nuclear fusion reactor which does not release most of its energy as neutrons would be the most ideal source of energy to power the worlds enormous demand. Look into it!
Fusion has been financed by governments because it can't make it on the free market - ie it does not work yet - and we have been told for decades that a breakthrough is around the corner. Meanwhile nuclear energy is a proven technology, and as I have said, the latest technology gets 30 times more energy out of a unit of uranium than before with a very manageable amount of radioactive waste. It is the best energy source by far, but it is being suppressed in much of the west for political reasons.
Fusion has been financed by governments because it can't make it on the free market - ie it does not work yet - and we have been told for decades that a breakthrough is around the corner. Meanwhile nuclear energy is a proven technology, and as I have said, the latest technology gets 30 times more energy out of a unit of uranium than before with a very manageable amount of radioactive waste. It is the best energy source by far, but it is being suppressed in much of the west for political reasons.
Uranium is an extremely rare and radioactive resource. Demand to feed fission reactors has far outstripped supply for several decades now. Even if we get better nuclear fission reactors, we still need a limitless supply of uranium and we would add even more to our never-ending stream of radioactive waste. no one wants that. That is why we're not building those kinds of reactors. But as oil declines we will be looking at alternatives that were previously dismissed
Google "Global Uranium Resources to Meet Projected Demand"
"the total identified amount of conventional uranium stock, which can be mined for less than USD 130 per kg, to be about 4.7 million tonnes. Based on the 2004 nuclear electricity generation rate of demand the amount is sufficient for 85 years, the study states. Fast reactor technology would lengthen this period to over 2500 years.
However, world uranium resources in total are considered to be much higher"
In my last comment I gave a link that showed that we have plenty of uranium, unless of course you think you know more than the IAEA.
You also don't know what your talking about when you say that radioactive waste is a big problem. With nuclear processing the radioactivity is much reduced and they have ways to get rid of it that are extremely safe.
Apparently you did not even look at the link I provided. Google the "THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPTION"
We have passed Peak Oil! That means there will be no oil for the reactors to operate, pardon me you do know that they require oil for the moving parts? Elevators, trains, Planes, factories, farm equipment etc. all require maintenance and w/o oil, what do you propose? I'm stating the inevitable, lights, TV's and radios out. Kindly tell us where the new reactors are coming from? They require 10 years to build and test before going on line. Start a garden and learn to shoe Horses.
In your sick little mind you are looking forward to that.
By the way peak oil means the end of cheap oil, not the end of oil. There's a solution looking you right in the face, but the truth is you long for a return back to the stone age.
It seems to me in your reply that you are taking this just like the bikers I use to ride with, by STICKING THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND.
No, my friend I'm not cautioning you about Peak Oil. Heaven forbid that I should try to tell you what to do. Continue doing whatever it is you do and ignore the rest of the world.
Or take some of these pundits seriously, in the 11th hour and start taking measures to avoid being one of the 4 billion stats in
I'm so happy to have rechecked this site, as I do believe you've either misinterpreted what I said or have a deep seeded hatred for something you refuse to understand.
YUPPIE??? You learn to live on 450 dollars a month and see if you feel like a YUPPIE! I'd prefer to stick w/ the handle Jackson awarded me "TREEHUGGER" That makes more sense.
I joined a "Green Group" (1 of many) about 5 months ago in hopes of learning what we might be headed for & the preparations we might
Using fast breeder reactors and nuclear reprocessing we can produce 30 times more energy per unit of uranium than todays obsolete nuclear plants. There is enough fuel to last thousands of years. With nuclear reprocessing the environmental problems are solved. Almost all of the longer lasting radioactive waste is gone using this method. In several hundred years there is very little radioactivity. This is current technology.
Google the "THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPTION" and click on the first result.
Fuel economy laws and solar powered plug-in hybrids are the sissys way out of a mans problem. Fuel economy admits defeat. Solar power funds the liberal agenda. Plug-in hybrids will allow people to make their own gas - possibly terrorists, pot growers and others who should not be independent.
With the reality of peak oil approaching, the world will be put in a precarious position if we do not invest in alternative GREEN energy. Maintaining our dependence on petroleum energy will push world powers to do one of two things: 1)Grab Up as much oil reserves possible through contracts or by FORCE OR 2)Deal with an economic disaster and possible Global Depression
The more oil costs, the more jobs it will create. Liberals don't want jobs so they can buy oil, they want solar power plug in hybrids so they wont have to get a job.
How will higher prices create jobs? That is utter rubbish. What it will create is runaway inflation, massive interest rates and, as such, wide ranging loan delinquency and unemployment. Do you actually know what you are talking about? This is not a political issue!
I don't understand your argument. I know for a fact that if there was a GREEN Revolution A TON of jobs would be created! Think about it- you need manufacturing/distributing/installing of solar panels and wind turbine parts, the construction and maintenance of clean coal plants and new nuclear power plants- All of this would create jobs in America for centuries more to come. Also it is expected that more oil will be IMPORTED-so I don't see how oil would create jobs for Americans!
Nuclear power is cleaner than solar power because nuclear waste can fit into a shot glass but lots of material is used to make solar panels. But liberals dont like nucular power because they dont want REPUBLICANS getting rich. Only LIBERALs profit on solar so they lie about all the other clean renewable energies like nuclear power.
Well with nuclear you do have a couple of problems like waste-it'll be more than a shot glass and also could be dangerous if something were to go wrong-like an explosion. I'm not against nuclear but I don't think we should invest everything into one kinda of a system. We need to diversify it to maximize optimal energy performance.
If you really think all liberals are against nuclear power you are mistaken. Obama for instance sees it as an option. Also look at very liberal European countries like France-they get most of their power from nuclear. Also don't count out equally useful renewable energies like Wind power-that needs only a simple turbine or even Ocean current power.
Al Gore is also a big nuclear advocate. Also labeling something as "liberal" makes it good not bad. Labeling something "republican" is like saying George Bush advocates this or that.
News FLASH: There's more oil in America than we could use for two hundred years.
The supply could be changed any time they want by simply extracting the proven reserves on the North Shore of Alaska; at $3/bbl it's cheaper to extract than even Saudi Arabia which is $5.00 per barrel.
As a Christian and a Republican, I am offended by these lies by liberal agenda to confuse and scare the American public about "peak oil". Just like overblown "global warming" lies. I have complete faith in the government and corporate leaders to find more oil. We want SUVs not want to recycle oil based plastics. We ARE entitled to the riches of the earth that GOD gave us. If we have to, we should take over all the arab countries. It's better than horses, plug in hybrids and solar.
Dude, trusting people in the government or the corporate world is very naive. These people have their own agendas and it involves lots of money, what's good for society is not even of their radar.
That's the problem with you religious types, you're IDIOTS! What do you know about science, or the economy or oil for that matter? Do you really believe God wants us to treat this beautiful planet and all it's creatures with so little respect? What's Christian about that? If you think we can continue to rape this planet of it's resources without consequence you are in for a rude awakening you selfish, self-absorbed hypocrite!
You're a funny moron. You're playing up to the masses on this thread knowing full well your comments are incestuously driven to cause a response. Stop 'gaming' the thread.
The numbers put out by the oil and gas industry itself show that world oil production peaked in May 2005. Some of the deficit has been made up by other fossil fuels.
During WW II tens of millions of cars, trucks, tractors, vans, buses and all internal combustion engines were converted to use wood gas with the wood gasifier generator connected to them at the back of their vehicles. They've used fast growing coppiced and pollarded trees and shrubs and woody grasses as their main fuel during WW II. With today's advanced technologies it can be made to be just as convenient to use just like gasoline and diesel fuel by pelletizing the woody biomass. Why not do it?
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@darthvader5300 Use industrial hemp instead of wood, modify existing engines to aid roll out and we got a winner.
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global warming is a moot point, it was just the "least alarming" way of preparing people for the end of the oil age
walter0bz 1 year ago
its all a scam to make money there are record reserves the oil companys lobby so theres only so much REFINERIES
twisted45 1 year ago
We hit Peak in 2008. Only thing holding back the upwards price trajectory at the moment is the present Worldwide recession.
boscoesarmy 1 year ago
The government's job is to do nothing until after the shit hits the fan. Thank you special interests,
Unclesamslair 1 year ago
All that he has to say is that most oil producing countries are now past their peaks that eventually the global peak must be reached...
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago
Opps i stand corrected, CNBC he is on Disney channel :)
geemoore 1 year ago
I like where is says the U.S "is being held hostage to countries that aren't that friendly to us", he is speaking of the all the countries that the U.S has invaded and occupied, is it any wonder and that they would keep it for themselves especially as there is not a lot left. over 1 million innocents murdered recently in the mid east alone just so that the average jo in the States can sit in his car and go nowhere.
As for recent vast oil finds, this guy is a joke, he should be on Disney channel
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OilTradingAcademy 2 years ago
Oil companies have not built oil refineries since the 1960's they control the supply and demand of oil by cutting back production which pushes up the price. it is because of oil company greed that oil prices are so high and all thier excuses are complete bullshit. do not believe for 1 minute anything oil companies tell you about the reasons for the high price of oil
neozzyinu 2 years ago
firstly there is no shortage of oil. secondly peak oil is nothing more than a scam to ensure oil companies can raise the price of oil to what ever price they like. there is an abundant supply of oil world wide moere than enough for at least 800 years. the problem is THE OIL COMPANIES.
neozzyinu 2 years ago
You are funny. "There is oil for 800 years". Who told you such a thing?
FMMAROTO 2 years ago 2
if you are not worried about Peak Oil due to finite reserves of oil, then consider another form of Peak Oil that is caused by resource nationalism in developing nations that won't allow Western oil companies to assist with raising oil output in those places. Wars and hostile foreign policies by other nations will effectively keep oil from being produced and put on the world market. another aspect to Peak Oil, what happens to countries like Nigeria or Ven when the oil is gone ?
stybarrow 2 years ago
Peak just means the peak of production not the end of production. From Peak the cost of oil extraction increases. We hit a peak in oil discovery in 1960. But who knows about new tech and deap sea drilling.
vanfarowe 2 years ago
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oil is abiotic meaning it's a renewable resource - end of discussion ..
florgat91 2 years ago
Russian Premier Vladimir Putin says research shows that Russia has enough oil and gas for itself and for Europe for the next 100 years.
secretkgbuy 2 years ago
hehe.. make it 20-25
multiverse3 2 years ago
Every planet in our solar system ,including Earth, has basic building blocks that are made of hydrocarbons...we'll run out of oil shortly after the Sun super nova's..
bellcord 2 years ago
let us go , get it ! :)
multiverse3 2 years ago
jimmy carter predicted peak oil in the mid-1980s. nobody remembers mad max? it's all a joke really
aussiesta 2 years ago
well. it's two years later and the report on peak oil turned out to be more total horse shit from the bush oil baron's..
bellcord 2 years ago
i reckon, it's *total* horse shit.
everyone knows a finite supply of oil will last forever, it's basic mathematics!
moondog999 2 years ago 4
bullshit
ridgid300 2 years ago
We are already at Peak Oil.
VousEnculez 2 years ago 12
@VousEnculez not at all dude! actually the gas price in US is the cheapst in the world!!!! countries like India China are already paying peak oil price... and they have much bettter public infrastructure in place compared to US! ppl in US are like pampered in luxury in other words.... Ppl here might point finger to developing countries but the fact is US being US, they get subsidized rates!
tigersoup 1 year ago
@tigersoup You are partly right... I think and Venezuela and some middle easter countries they pay about 25 cents to keep the people calm. Remember when the gas stations in Iran were being burned by the people a few years ago? The gov't raised the price like a penny or something ridiculous.....
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago 5
For those of you interested in Peak oil and peak many other things go to Chris Martenson's website and take the free Crash Course, enjoy.
niruobas55 3 years ago
Shit is peaking and I predict that shit will be $7 a pound. Since we have only 7 billion people the maxim shit we can produce a day is about 7 billion pounds. I suggest people start saving shit right now.
moniequa 3 years ago
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Peak oil has been proven a myth. How does the crow taste? Want some fries with that?
Stan1208 3 years ago
I'm half dutch and half american, I've moved back and forth a few times throughout my life, and visit both places often (family). Whenever I go back to the US Im shocked by how oil dependant your entire culture is, driving from the grocery store to pick up kids from school and then back home and god knows where else. Everywhere you go you need a car apparently. In holland most people bike when they go places.
sciath 3 years ago 10
@sciath And it is the best way to get around, I loved Amsterdam for the dependancy on bikes. It was an entire culture, and bikes were respected and never really a subject of crime, or rarely so. The air is so fresh there from the sea and lack of CO2. The trams work well, and walking is keenly encouraged. Europe IS different to USA they have greater surface area than all of Europe. That said I have no idea why many countries in Europe manage to make more of their energy resources
ednuttah 1 year ago
@sciath than the USA do. WIth all the "brains" in USA, and land mass, and sunshine they get every year I have no idea at all WHY they are not the world leaders of renewable resources. USA comsumes 45% of the worlds oil, you would have thought they would rather rely on themselves ans save a HUGE oil bill they could then keep in their back pocket. I just don't understand why they STILL cling onto this oil culture, maybe they'll get their act together when they see Germany's law on energy.
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PSPHACKERGEN 8 months ago
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fooschnikens 3 years ago
If we disclose ETs technologies we would never have energy problems anymore.
Starteller 3 years ago
as oil price goes up our quality of life goes up im not afraid bring it on !!!
but please...!!! .....just think about it for just a minute as to why ...please think, read the news, observe.....before you respond
read whats happening and what people are doing now
see ....quality of life gets better do you agree?
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khunpaiboon 3 years ago
Lindsey williams says that Peak Oil is a missnomer, and that there is plenty of oil.
He quotes the governer of Alaska who says that there is enough oil in the north slope of Alaska to last USA a couple hundred years, etc.
Ba101 3 years ago
Oh don't try to tell the truth now, people don't want to hear it. They like to hear about peak oil and shit.
moniequa 3 years ago
Please bear with me. I am just a dumb brick layer. In 1984, a mason I worked with told me of his newly bought Delta 88, V-8, automatic, with all options he bought in California, whilst working at Northrop Aviation, years before I met him. As per the warranty, he took the car in to the Buick dealer for oil, anti-freeze, brake fluid checks, ect. They attempted to get him to sign a paper to "allow" them to replace the carburetor to another that was "correct" for his car. He said "Kiss off",
HarcourtMarketing 3 years ago
He got 64 Miles per Gallon with that car with the air conditioning going full blast.
HarcourtMarketing 3 years ago
That story was really popular in the 1970s and early 1980s. I heard it several times in several variations. Nobody ever got the magic carb first hand; it was always a friend-of-a-friend kind of thing. Now that I'm an engineer and know how to calculate thermodynamics I realize that it was a hoax. But it seemed plausible at the time.
cablemanbearpig 3 years ago
Why has our Congress been so conviently silent about all this for so long? Why did we vote these low-lifes into office to look after the American people? It maybe too late, but it's time to re-evaluate who we are giving our votes to.
cinemaarts 3 years ago
Why has our Congress been conviently silent about this? Try incompetance, political catfighting, just not giving a damn aout the people and fianlly are you gonna be the Sen or Congressman who tells the People of the US the party is over? Kill the messenger will have a new meaning when you tell people who have never known hunger in their lives, that have lived in the lap of luxury that it is over and that your Goverment has failed you.
valhala56 3 years ago
millions of verweight anericans will have to learn to walk,bicycle or starve!
Bye bye globalization & the dinosaur empire which spawned you;The next 20 years are going to be fascinating for students of history as we witness the collapse of an empire.
DFORCE1969 3 years ago
peak oil, what were doing is buying everyone elses oil, we got our own, we just need to get it, but when you got the money to buy, thats what you do, let's think about cornering the market, they get sucked dry, we'll have on we need, oh, they do have to pay for dubai. when they run out, then they'll realize what has happened.
markmarshall39 3 years ago
Markmarsgall39, I suppose you know where this easy to get at cheap oil is in the US? Please let us know cause if it was there somebody would be tapping it don't ya think?
You got it mixed up, it's not when they run out they will realize what has happened it is US who has run out and we are just catching wind of our very own incompetance and foolishness. We will pay dearly for this Arab oil, say $200 a barrel. So you might want to hook a mule to pull your Ford F150.
valhala56 3 years ago
when we get rid of these pussies that are so earthy, maybe we could drill, we approve(the citizens), but by god the alaskan buggle bug, might not have a home, you see what im saying, we have to many earthy people, its to late for globing warming i think, lets get all we can and when we are in control of it, maybe it will go down, but all in all, do you know where i can get a good mule, and let me ask you if any one would attack iran, no matter who does it, it is no2 producer, they would stop.
markmarshall39 3 years ago
I think the Alaska Caribou Anwar crap is a Straw Man, I got no problem drilling anywhere inluding my backyard! Put a Nuclear plant in my backyard! If it gives me gasoline and money I got no problem. But I think they use envirmentalist to blame fore these problems.
All these problems are due to foolishness & incompetance from many people including you & me. I take responsibility for the energy I have wasted & I am trying everything within reason to change, how about you Mark?
valhala56 3 years ago
what ever animal, where ever, if we can get it, get it, i try to do all i can jo jo, but i catch myself all the time, turning on the t.v., the computer, and listening to the radio all at the same time, letting the car run to heat it up or il let the car run when i go inside the quick shop, so yes, i could do alot more, but you are right, what ever the pro's say we listen and panic, or it seems that way, it'll take everyone, every one.
markmarshall39 3 years ago
I realized we can't rely on goverment to fix this. A lot of the political rhetoric is an illusion to pacify us. So I agree, anything that will help america get off the Arab tit,I am for.
valhala56 3 years ago
JO JO, "Get off the Arab TiT", wouldnt you love to here a presidential hopeful say that, we'll never here that, i give you a 10 on that comment alone, peace to ya jo jo, mark. lets hope we end up on the right road.
markmarshall39 3 years ago
i wish oil would extinguish already.
True, made our life easier but has been killing our planet slowly.
hope it runs out faster than expected.
Kinkyilu 3 years ago
I read an article just the other day where people in South Dakota were hitting wells in their own back yards and becoming Millionaires overnight. We are of course, being had. That same old supply and demand bull shit. This is another case of 'fear tatics' to lead the sheep.
57girl 3 years ago
Peak oil is bull shit. There is tons and tons of oil available. Cheap oil might decline. But Alberta (that's in Canada folks) has enough oil to feed the US for 100 years.
Brazil is doing new drilling.
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altfueltechnology 3 years ago
Hemp for victory !!! 10% of food crop space would power america? why are we allowing our country to slowly degrade into a third world level? And now L.E.A.P. is questioning our methods against the drug concept... I truly want to understand so i can feel like patriot.
hoppermantis 3 years ago
If we disclose aliens technologies we wont need oil forever
Starteller 3 years ago
Peak Oil people are scare mongers. When the price of oil goes up so does the supply. Coal to Oil and Shale Oil is now cost effective. We are the Saudi Arabia of Coal. We have 100 or more supply of oil, coal, and oil shale. What types of energy can we come up with in that time?
bossman068410 3 years ago
Erm, no. 5-7 years at least, $14b investment, use of potable water & natural gas. Maybe then. Only high oil prices will allow further investment.
But hey, you know that. So whats your real story?
YesCircus 3 years ago
Whats my story ? Well. I don't want to live in a communistic society that the environmental extremist offer us. I don't want to give money to people who want to kill us and take our money with a smile. If there is no oil left as enviro-extremist claim. THEN LIFT THE RED TAPE AND THE ABILITY TO GET IT! WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF ?????
bossman068410 3 years ago
You really need to improve your English. What are you saying we have 100 more of? Years supply? Please explain how we have 100 more years of oil left if that's what you're saying. And please don't say "at current levels of consumption" because you know that won't happen.
ManicEightBall 3 years ago
We have at least 100 years of oil even WITH CURRENT ESTIMATION of future consumption of oil. According to the experts we were supposed to run out of oil 10 years ago.
bossman068410 3 years ago
What expert said we would run out of oil 10 years ago? I did hear that Hubbert said we might reach peak oil in the early 90s. Is that what you mean? How can I refute your claim of 100yrs if I don't know where you got it from? If oil consumption doubles every 35 years (I think it's longer now), that means that in order to have enough oil for 100 years, we would have to have 4 times the oil we ever used up to this point. That's still an amazing claim you're making.
ManicEightBall 3 years ago
I'm not doing your homework for you. Look it up.
bossman068410 3 years ago
I can't look up what's a lie. Maybe I should get the Grimm's Fairy Tales out. You people always say we have a gazillion years of oil left, but when it comes to proving it, you wander off.
ManicEightBall 3 years ago
bossman, we got 100 years of oil, so how do you account for $140 bbl. today, $70 bbl a year ago, $29 bbl. in 03.
You don't understand Peak Oil, it's not about running out knucklehead. It's about a "shift" from inexpensive easy to get at oil, to expensive hard to get oil. Thus the price dumbass.
valhala56 3 years ago
Someone please explain what they mean with "peak oil"
DemiroBiH 3 years ago
Peak oil is the highest point of oil production before it begins to decline. It has actually already occurred.
dgontar 3 years ago
IT mean we're RUNNING out of OIL that can be used. The TOTALITY of the available SUPPLY on EARTH.
xxxaabbccxxx 3 years ago
To xxxabbccxxx: There is plenty of a supply of oil. The North American continental shelf, and the Alaska tundra and wilderness near the Arctic circle are sufficient.
Mreover, the United States has the world's largest oil shale reserves found in the American West. Some estimates value it around 800+ billion barrels of useable fossil fuels. There is plenty of oil, there just needs to be a willingness to find it and drill it.
YogaNate79 3 years ago
the usa consumes 12 million barrels of oil to run their motorboats, RV's, SUV's and hummers. If the government had any brains they would tax fuel to decrease consumption and increast incentives for more fuel efficient cars. In canada they tax the shit out of gas, as they should.
krist300 3 years ago
"threaten sustainable society" - at what point in time did America think thnat using oil is sustainable? Are all Americans idiots?
andypandy202000 3 years ago 5
AndyPandy202000: Not idiots, but ignorants. Head in the sand (or sand in the head) style of living. If something is cheap it must be infinite, isn't it? But markets are not the truth. Artificial capital is nothing, natural capital everything. Problem is, nobody looks at the natural capital.
700 million barrels a "tremendous discovery"? What an idiot. 700 million barrels is 9 days global or 60 days US-demand. To call this a "tremendous discovery" is incompetent and dangerous.
WolYou 3 years ago
OPEC sells oil for $136.00 a barrel.
OPEC nations buy U.S. grain at $7.00 a bushel.
Solution: Sell grain for $136.00 a bushel.
Can't buy it? Tough! Eat your oil!
Ought to go well with a nice thick grilled filet of camel ass!!!
YogaNate79 3 years ago 2
THEY can PROBABLY buy grain from SOMEWHERE other than the US, ie CHINA.
xxxaabbccxxx 3 years ago
for a real solution for gas prices type in "sam donaldson gas card".
donsteitz 3 years ago
the ignorance on this message board is shocking. Some people just never 'get it' until they have been hit over the head with a club.
krist300 3 years ago
I couldn't agree more. Sad thing is, it's not just this message board. Idiocy is running rampant in America.
jjrglobal 3 years ago
Just more excuses to raise prices.
agoldcoin 3 years ago 2
bull. they're lying, as usual. they don't even make the effort to fabricate a somewhat believable excuse anymore.
hiodr 3 years ago
This is all bull shit. the goverment and all involved, oil companies. want us to think we are in for a shortage so they could bleed us for more money, we should have had an allternative solution years ago, thanks to all involved we don't
mutz265 3 years ago
did you hear Robert Zubrin on coast to coast?The unsubsidized price of methanol(55% as pwerful as gasoline) is 1.50$ a gallon.Our car makers REFUSE to make for us multifuel vehicles.Brazil stood up to them and said either make multifuel vehicles or you cant sell them in Brazil.We should do that for our domestic cars because it doesnt even cost more to make them multifuel.
tomterahedrob 3 years ago
I agree. It's a monopoly on a world wide scale.
meslem99 3 years ago
Dual385 is correct. We need at least 20 years to segue into a new type of energy course. This isn't just about cars but food, farming, production, manufacturing, etc.
The Amish may be way ahead of us on this.
rosethornil 3 years ago
Yeah and the scary part to me is that we haven't even started transitioning yet. Lets assume it will be 5 years before we can confidently see alternatives trickling in and another 20 years before 80 % of all cars are changed over to something else. Hybrids do not count at all. You can get only so efficient with gasoline before saying, "wait this stuff is really expensive and is climbing. I'm hurting." Efficiency is excellent, substitution is better here.
dual85 3 years ago
Check out Plan B 3.0 by Lester Brown.
He's looked at Peak Oil, deforestation, population growth, global warming, water supply, soil erosion, species loss, air pollution and the whole depressing mess. (the first few chapters will make you want to put the book down and never pick it up again..but keep reading!)
sdavis3398 3 years ago
If there is a major disruption any time soon even the electric car won't save us. We have waited way too long. I think its too far out of control now.
dual85 3 years ago
Ladies and gents say hello to the electric car.
dual85 3 years ago
Let's not forget that the us is the biggest reserve in the world for coal, which can be turn into fuel....
amanitephalloide 3 years ago
And lets not forget all the flabby, obnoxious kids who do not need automobiles; all the millions of people who would not be hard-pressed to use an alternative form of transportation...yeah ok, forget it. This debate tends to assume that there are either alternative fuels or not alternative fuels. This debate forgets that there are alternatives vehicals...bicycles, buses and trains..."but you can't carry dry-wall around on a bike."..sorry for mentioning it. Good luck with your coal fuel...:)
cheezycam 3 years ago
The main causes of the 1973 oil crisis were our relations with Israel and inability of domestic production to meet foreign imports. So if domestic production cannot satisfy oil consumption in the 70's how can it now? Please, devote a research paper topic to this oil crisis, and you will understand that maintaining cordial relations with oil producing nations (esp. Saudia Arabia and Iraq) until we run out of oil are the only methods to our survival as a nation.
cjcookie 3 years ago
There will come a point when the Middle East will run out of oil. And that day is fast approaching. Now if the United States plays it's cards right, it will wait for about 30 years or so when the world becomes thirsty for oil, namely China. And if and then whaen that happens, the United States will then start drilling in Alaska where it is oil rich and therefore charging $300-$400 a barrel for such a precious commodity that the United States will have a hold over.
YogaNate79 3 years ago
sorry the north slope is well into decline and ANWR is pipe dream. The USGS fudges its figures. Like so
95% their is 3 million barrels.
5% chance their is 14 million barrels.
round the figures and the mean is 6-8 million barrels. Which is ridiculous because their is 3 million. (all of which isn't worth going after)
the whole world is like that. The age of oil is coming to an end. The only smart move is to get out of oil. On an individual and social level. Get out. Crazy though, huh?
BanjoNaps 3 years ago
To BanjoNaps: That is fine because when the first truly all powered electric cars come off the assembly line in 2011, I'll be one of the first people in the dealerships to buy one.
YogaNate79 3 years ago
What about electric tractors?
What about non petral based fertilizers?
How will we deal with ever declining food stocks?
We don't need to drive around. You could walk 20 even 30 miles to work and back. you just don't want to.
Food on the other hand. Requires a sense of urgency and self sustaining home production.
BanjoNaps 3 years ago
To BanjoNaps: Plow fields like they did in the old days-- horse. My grandfather tended to the fields without power and did just fine.
As for declining food stocks. Grow your own vegetable garden and can food for the winter. Buy wholesale and lot's of nonperishable foods.
Many people live in rural areas where public transportation is not available. They will have to purchase an electric or energy efficient vehicle to commute every day.
Problem solved.
YogaNate79 3 years ago
Oh I know I have plenty of crops. I can't afford a horse and I don't really like them so I just tilled by hand. I've set up a little fish farm to add NO2 to my watering system. I havn't saved up for a way to can, but I'm more concerned with getting my blacksmith shop up and running at the time. I'm not worried about the city I live near, its small and upriver from the state capitol. Its the capitols I"m concerned about. I don't see the transition being a smooth one for them. Too much suburb.
BanjoNaps 3 years ago
Yes but at the rate we are useing oil we will run low and that sets the stage like already for higher prices which will drive every thing else way up eventually there will be a killer blow to the middle class which is due to GREED and ignorance of our goverment and our jobs that have gone to other countrys THANKS George hope your sleeping well
drummerofchicago 3 years ago
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North West Alaska has more Oil than Saudi Arabia! The Gull Island Oil Field is MASSIVE!
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eddietru 3 years ago
there's plenty of oil.....it's just no longer easy to reach and becoming less cost effective to even do so.
jrock714 3 years ago
Time to go solar. That's where ALL energy comes from anyway. We've just been subsidizing the dirty stuff for decades! $200 per barrel by the end of the year at this rate. Sell your cars, demand electric ones and strap a solar panel on yer roofs. Nuclear energy ain't going to save us and it sucks away plenty of tax dollars.
jmtoriel 3 years ago
This is what I don't get...........why, oh why did the government allow big cars/trucks/SUV that need so much gas to run to be built and sold to us knowing that oil could/would/has peaked? Bastards!!...I'm glad I never bought into the SUV craze and stuck to my little honda civic....I look at those people filling up and pass by the pumps and watch them fill up costing them hundreds of dollars...this is unsustainable...but who will buy these cars from them if they want to downsize?!
Yayapilo 3 years ago
Well Yayapilo remember Jimmy Carter? The worst American president in U.S. living memory. He put a 55 mph speed limit on roads and higher CAFE standards and a lot of emphasis on alternative energy. And what happened to this 25 year head start on peak oil? Ronald Reagan took a flamethrower to all those initiatives. That is why there is a push to put his face on Mount Rushmore by American conservatives. The American electorate have spoken and they loooooove their 12 mpg SUVs.
drmodestoesq 3 years ago
start collecting cows farts so we can run our cooking stoves
JUUUMMM!!!
bababookaka 3 years ago
watch "the most important video you'll ever watch" the man is a genius
johnwelsh696969 3 years ago
Everyone still requires gasoline for their daily lives. If everyone agreed not to buy gas on a certain day, they would need to fill up either before or after. The same volume of gas will still be pumped that week. Want to 'stick it to the oil companies'? Buy an electric car. Walk. Ride a bike. Ride the train. Don't buy anything made of plastic. Don't buy anything that was created, processed, or shipped using oil in any form. And good luck with that.
proaudiohd 3 years ago
amazing what the bible describes the garden of eden as, as a lush paradise created by God, a fertile land and now what is it ???? A friggin' desert, dry as a bone with oil wells everywhere . . . way to go mankind . .
coolhand1005 3 years ago
bob pissoni get soils himself over 105.00 oil.
garyowen4ever 3 years ago
it seems to me that the whole cnbc not ready for prime time circus team is cheering for oil to hit the stratosphere.........
garyowen4ever 3 years ago
Unless it was a hot bulb engine there is no way an engine that is not a diesel can burn hemp oil.Please research ICE tecnology before you go "policing" comments
derjew 3 years ago
Hemp oil is the best solution to this problem. Most people don't known that Ford built one of his prototypes of the Model-T to run on hemp oil. Everything in the petroleum industry could be replaced with hemp oil (fuel, plastics, pesticides, etc). All these products would be biodegradable, and we could use the pulp and fibers for paper and clothes. Unfortunately people can't seem to separate quality hemp products from the idea of "Pot". It is renewable and unlike corn ethanol, realistic.
PropagandaPolice 3 years ago
bs, ford probably never even heard of a diesel engine
derjew 3 years ago
derjew- It wasn't a diesel engine. Google the topic and you will see that it is verifiable historical fact. I have seen pictures of original magazine articles from that time which describe his car running on hemp oil. Try some unbiased research before you label my claim "bs" please.
PropagandaPolice 3 years ago
And where will we grow our food if all the quality agricultural land is given over to fuel and platic production?
BlackSwanThe0ry 3 years ago
BlackSwanThe0ry- Hemp grows in land that is not airable for food crops, and it enriches the soil, so it can be rotated into the crop cycle the way that some farmers use soybeans now. On top of that, the capital we would make from selling hemp products could 'buy' food supply. It certainly isn't a panacea. We would still need conservation and increased fuel economy. The best option would be augmenting hemp fuel with other alternative fuels. But it actually REPLACES petro-chemicals.
PropagandaPolice 3 years ago
today 100 usdollars and 90 cents for oil 26/02/2008
we need hydrogen infrastacture and electric hybrids
time to stop using oil it is fucking the world up
theoneagain 3 years ago
hydrogen is not an energy source. It requires energy to seperate hydrogen in the first place. I.E. electricity.. I.E. coal power plants. Hydrogen is just a way to get energy from one place to another. In that respect, batteries are much more efficient at storing and releasing energy than an explosive, leaky, hard to store gas such as hydrogen. We need a new SOURCE of energy if we are to continue growth. Period.
proaudiohd 3 years ago
Using fast breeder reactors and nuclear reprocessing we can produce 30 times more energy per unit of uranium than todays obsolete nuclear plants. There is enough fuel to last thousands of years. With nuclear reprocessing the environmental problems are solved. Almost all of the longer lasting radioactive waste is gone using this method. In several hundred years there is very little radioactivity. This is current technology.
Google the "THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPTION" and click on the first result.
jackson32 3 years ago
I think the most promising source of energy to replace hydrocarbons is fusion. They have been pouring billions into D-T fusion in tokamaks but that produces so much radioactivity and the machines are ungodly expensive. Much promise lies in Inertial Electrostatic Confinement fusion using Helium3 or Boron11 as fuels. A nuclear fusion reactor which does not release most of its energy as neutrons would be the most ideal source of energy to power the worlds enormous demand. Look into it!
proaudiohd 3 years ago
Fusion has been financed by governments because it can't make it on the free market - ie it does not work yet - and we have been told for decades that a breakthrough is around the corner. Meanwhile nuclear energy is a proven technology, and as I have said, the latest technology gets 30 times more energy out of a unit of uranium than before with a very manageable amount of radioactive waste. It is the best energy source by far, but it is being suppressed in much of the west for political reasons.
jackson32 3 years ago
Fusion has been financed by governments because it can't make it on the free market - ie it does not work yet - and we have been told for decades that a breakthrough is around the corner. Meanwhile nuclear energy is a proven technology, and as I have said, the latest technology gets 30 times more energy out of a unit of uranium than before with a very manageable amount of radioactive waste. It is the best energy source by far, but it is being suppressed in much of the west for political reasons.
jackson32 3 years ago
Uranium is an extremely rare and radioactive resource. Demand to feed fission reactors has far outstripped supply for several decades now. Even if we get better nuclear fission reactors, we still need a limitless supply of uranium and we would add even more to our never-ending stream of radioactive waste. no one wants that. That is why we're not building those kinds of reactors. But as oil declines we will be looking at alternatives that were previously dismissed
proaudiohd 3 years ago
From the IAEA
Google "Global Uranium Resources to Meet Projected Demand"
"the total identified amount of conventional uranium stock, which can be mined for less than USD 130 per kg, to be about 4.7 million tonnes. Based on the 2004 nuclear electricity generation rate of demand the amount is sufficient for 85 years, the study states. Fast reactor technology would lengthen this period to over 2500 years.
However, world uranium resources in total are considered to be much higher"
jackson32 3 years ago
In my last comment I gave a link that showed that we have plenty of uranium, unless of course you think you know more than the IAEA.
You also don't know what your talking about when you say that radioactive waste is a big problem. With nuclear processing the radioactivity is much reduced and they have ways to get rid of it that are extremely safe.
Apparently you did not even look at the link I provided. Google the "THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPTION"
Listening to "treehuggers" is usually a bad idea.
jackson32 3 years ago
We have passed Peak Oil! That means there will be no oil for the reactors to operate, pardon me you do know that they require oil for the moving parts? Elevators, trains, Planes, factories, farm equipment etc. all require maintenance and w/o oil, what do you propose? I'm stating the inevitable, lights, TV's and radios out. Kindly tell us where the new reactors are coming from? They require 10 years to build and test before going on line. Start a garden and learn to shoe Horses.
oandersan 3 years ago
"Start a garden and learn to shoe Horses."
In your sick little mind you are looking forward to that.
By the way peak oil means the end of cheap oil, not the end of oil. There's a solution looking you right in the face, but the truth is you long for a return back to the stone age.
jackson32 3 years ago
It seems to me in your reply that you are taking this just like the bikers I use to ride with, by STICKING THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND.
No, my friend I'm not cautioning you about Peak Oil. Heaven forbid that I should try to tell you what to do. Continue doing whatever it is you do and ignore the rest of the world.
Or take some of these pundits seriously, in the 11th hour and start taking measures to avoid being one of the 4 billion stats in
just the 1st year.
You're no alarmist maybe anarchist?
oandersan 3 years ago
dont you ever forget that the oil comes from stone age: YOU YUPPIE, MONEY SICKO:!!!!
bababookaka 3 years ago
Yo Dude,
I'm so happy to have rechecked this site, as I do believe you've either misinterpreted what I said or have a deep seeded hatred for something you refuse to understand.
YUPPIE??? You learn to live on 450 dollars a month and see if you feel like a YUPPIE! I'd prefer to stick w/ the handle Jackson awarded me "TREEHUGGER" That makes more sense.
I joined a "Green Group" (1 of many) about 5 months ago in hopes of learning what we might be headed for & the preparations we might
take.
oandersan 3 years ago
Shoe horses? Back at the turn of the century, 19th century that is, 25 percent of the farm land in the U.S. was used to provide fodder for horses.
drmodestoesq 3 years ago
Using fast breeder reactors and nuclear reprocessing we can produce 30 times more energy per unit of uranium than todays obsolete nuclear plants. There is enough fuel to last thousands of years. With nuclear reprocessing the environmental problems are solved. Almost all of the longer lasting radioactive waste is gone using this method. In several hundred years there is very little radioactivity. This is current technology.
Google the "THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPTION" and click on the first result.
jackson32 3 years ago
It is a political problem. It's just that it will take all the bs out of politics. It's not going to be solved with ethanol.
youdumbyyou 3 years ago
the end is coming
fruitybud420 4 years ago
2040 is very, very, very optimistic. 2005-2010 is closer.
edsanville 4 years ago 7
Fuel economy laws and solar powered plug-in hybrids are the sissys way out of a mans problem. Fuel economy admits defeat. Solar power funds the liberal agenda. Plug-in hybrids will allow people to make their own gas - possibly terrorists, pot growers and others who should not be independent.
LatteLiberal 4 years ago
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With the reality of peak oil approaching, the world will be put in a precarious position if we do not invest in alternative GREEN energy. Maintaining our dependence on petroleum energy will push world powers to do one of two things: 1)Grab Up as much oil reserves possible through contracts or by FORCE OR 2)Deal with an economic disaster and possible Global Depression
speakupforjustice 4 years ago
dstevens: News FLASH: You are an idiot. There isn't enough conventional oil in any single country, much less Alaska, to power America for 200 years.
Cloud3205 4 years ago
The more oil costs, the more jobs it will create. Liberals don't want jobs so they can buy oil, they want solar power plug in hybrids so they wont have to get a job.
LatteLiberal 4 years ago
How will higher prices create jobs? That is utter rubbish. What it will create is runaway inflation, massive interest rates and, as such, wide ranging loan delinquency and unemployment. Do you actually know what you are talking about? This is not a political issue!
ads998 4 years ago 2
I don't understand your argument. I know for a fact that if there was a GREEN Revolution A TON of jobs would be created! Think about it- you need manufacturing/distributing/installing of solar panels and wind turbine parts, the construction and maintenance of clean coal plants and new nuclear power plants- All of this would create jobs in America for centuries more to come. Also it is expected that more oil will be IMPORTED-so I don't see how oil would create jobs for Americans!
speakupforjustice 4 years ago 2
Nuclear power is cleaner than solar power because nuclear waste can fit into a shot glass but lots of material is used to make solar panels. But liberals dont like nucular power because they dont want REPUBLICANS getting rich. Only LIBERALs profit on solar so they lie about all the other clean renewable energies like nuclear power.
LatteLiberal 4 years ago
Well with nuclear you do have a couple of problems like waste-it'll be more than a shot glass and also could be dangerous if something were to go wrong-like an explosion. I'm not against nuclear but I don't think we should invest everything into one kinda of a system. We need to diversify it to maximize optimal energy performance.
speakupforjustice 4 years ago
If you really think all liberals are against nuclear power you are mistaken. Obama for instance sees it as an option. Also look at very liberal European countries like France-they get most of their power from nuclear. Also don't count out equally useful renewable energies like Wind power-that needs only a simple turbine or even Ocean current power.
speakupforjustice 4 years ago
Al Gore is also a big nuclear advocate. Also labeling something as "liberal" makes it good not bad. Labeling something "republican" is like saying George Bush advocates this or that.
drmodestoesq 3 years ago
News FLASH: There's more oil in America than we could use for two hundred years.
The supply could be changed any time they want by simply extracting the proven reserves on the North Shore of Alaska; at $3/bbl it's cheaper to extract than even Saudi Arabia which is $5.00 per barrel.
ggl: "energy non-crisis"
dstevens101 4 years ago
ggl: "I am a complete dickhead"
You will find a photo of Lindsey Williams.
bustermk2 4 years ago
News flash: you have no idea waht you are talking about. The US has 1,460,000,000,000 recoverable barrels of oil in Alaska? Bull.
kkob 4 years ago
As a Christian and a Republican, I am offended by these lies by liberal agenda to confuse and scare the American public about "peak oil". Just like overblown "global warming" lies. I have complete faith in the government and corporate leaders to find more oil. We want SUVs not want to recycle oil based plastics. We ARE entitled to the riches of the earth that GOD gave us. If we have to, we should take over all the arab countries. It's better than horses, plug in hybrids and solar.
LatteLiberal 4 years ago
Dude, trusting people in the government or the corporate world is very naive. These people have their own agendas and it involves lots of money, what's good for society is not even of their radar.
jackson32 4 years ago
And I'm offended that a so-called Christian would be willing to sanction the murder of innocents for the sake of their SUV.
spectator59 4 years ago 3
That's the problem with you religious types, you're IDIOTS! What do you know about science, or the economy or oil for that matter? Do you really believe God wants us to treat this beautiful planet and all it's creatures with so little respect? What's Christian about that? If you think we can continue to rape this planet of it's resources without consequence you are in for a rude awakening you selfish, self-absorbed hypocrite!
JayKay62969 4 years ago 6
You're a funny moron. You're playing up to the masses on this thread knowing full well your comments are incestuously driven to cause a response. Stop 'gaming' the thread.
PPPCashDotCom 4 years ago
I think God would want us to share, not take over everyone else.
ccricers 4 years ago
Anyone who has "complete faith in the government and corporate leaders" is a sheep. I guess your Bible was right about Christians.
firstinthedance 3 years ago
Based on your handle I'm beginning to suspect that you are an purveyor of the fine American tradition of letters of the likes of Petroleum V. Nasby.
drmodestoesq 3 years ago
I do think Saudi can go up to 12.5mb/d over the next 3 years or so. Problem? We are losing that much to depletion... and more. Visit my blog...
kkob 4 years ago
"No coordinated plans by government"
But the military knows, they have a plan and they are implementing it.
google: Military peak oil
google: Military Solar Power Installation
Can anyone explain why one govt branch can do what the government can't do?
I think the problem is not that the government "can't" do it...
rspawn 4 years ago
Saudi oil production has started to increase again lately.
ZeketheSwede 4 years ago
If so, they are inflating their numbers so they can keep pumping. . . that's how it works.
rmcullar 4 years ago
The numbers put out by the oil and gas industry itself show that world oil production peaked in May 2005. Some of the deficit has been made up by other fossil fuels.
jackson32 4 years ago
Too early to say.
ZeketheSwede 4 years ago
Agreed. But I have feeling in the next year or two we are about to find out that it has indeed peaked.
jackson32 4 years ago
Petroleum Intelligence Weekly reported that OPEC has postponed the increase of production until at least March 2008.
rspawn 4 years ago
Guess I have to prpare my Nightrider outfit.....You females out there should look out.
geir44 4 years ago
Wow, I never thought I would come across a professional rapist in my life time...
It's an honor to meet you sir.
now I'm looking for a Professional Analrapist.
nurbsenvi 4 years ago