in Russia there is a song from a famous singer called "when the oil runs out" a very heartwarming song how people get closer and how they become human again. I like it
Bye bye civilization. The animals won't care that we are gone. If they could think at that level I'm sure they would be glad to see us go. We did it to ourselves. Who will get on the tiny boats that the elite will try to float, not most of the billions that's for sure.
What about the Jed Clampett oil field. Was it the last large basin to be discovered by a hunter? And do our modern oil explorers use the hunt for possum methods so successfully by our beloved Beverly Hillbillies?
What say Canada or the US starts seriously to develop the tar sands and oil bearing shale. What a monumental affront to the environment. How can we continue to absolutely ruin the earth in such a way? The forever oil optimists are forever in a denial phase. The truth will rear it's ugly head this year and millions are about to suffer for it. Is there any other way at this time?
Hmm...all of mans pre-oil use recorded history shows less than a billion people supported by a years worth of sunlight. Now, since using the supersunlight concentrated energy oil, we are pushing the seven billion mark. As the oil production slows what will happen to the extra billions. "Magic food?" What alternative energy source is even remotely close to taking the place of oil, enlighten us someone? Here we have come to the resource wars as we struggle to survive. Hello 2011.
Natural gas can be converted into liquid fuel for current engines. Engines can be converted to run on natural gas. Hydraulic fracturing allows us to extract shale gas. Unfortunately, this probably won't negate the need to conserve. Shale gas is several times more expensive to extract than at our current prices. Gas to Liquids infrastructure will take decades of time and trillions of dollars to build. Converting engines also takes time and money.
Oil companies have strangled technological innovation into alternatives because they are greedy bastards. So are the governments that also profit from oil with taxes..
Do we really think that oil comes from dead dinosaurs ??
Oil companies have deliberatley strangled technology for cleaner alternatives and governments have backed them so the revenue stream and carbon taxes can continue into these greedy bastards pockets.
Think of it this way, look at the area around your PC.
Imagine the whole construction process for everything around you right now from raw resource to finished product in the shop.
How many things were only possible to make & transport with the use of oil?
The only way demand for crude oil won't go up is if our entire economy shrinks, and what do you think will happen if we can't get shale oil out of the ground fast enough to keep prices down?
Right, and our food might not have petroleum in it but think how much of it goe's toward's agriculture? If we haven't prepared we'll need to enforce collecivised collectivized labour just to feed the population. It's going to be complete mayhem if we ignore this problem.
and most people don't know how to grow anything. well, i guess i don't want to feed anyone's fear. I'm hoping to open a CSA here in the next few years, i hope it helps.
"Peak oil all rests on one major assumption. THAT DEMAND INCREASES."
Are you crazy? Our whole system is built on economic growth that means increased demand for EVERYTHING! Think to yourself how meany things are made useing oil? How meany things are made useing oil in there consruction process? Never mind transport costs or population growth, and the factorys that make the solar panels & wind turbines you think there all running on solar power? Wake up man this isn't just about your car.
@kingsman565 Yeah, and don't forget about plastics, fertilizers, and the polyester (that's some kind of plastic, right?) that's in our clothing. hygene products have petroleum in them, almost everything but our food has some kind of oil or oil by-product in it.
Only partially correct. Peak Oil can also rests on the assumption that demand will hold constant while production declines.
Whatever the case, you are right that higher prices will drive demand for alt energy substitutes.
However, solar and liquid fuels are totally different; you can't fill the gas tank with solar power. Expect digital tech to thrive; heavy mechanical tech will need to be rescaled or otherwise suffer attrition.
We need more Corporate Welfare, unwarranted and illegal Wars that require HUGE amounts of oil/gas so that we can hand over more of our treasure to Neocon Greedbags so we can transfer more of our nations welath to OPEC which by the way has had it with our Imperialistic Behavior. Homosexuals bother you? Are you not 'secure' with your sexuality?
I am. You want to live in a country run by religion? Move to IRAN! We need a COMPLETE shift from oil now!!! THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL. CON-servatives
It's not from dinosaurs, it's from microorganisms, a massive die off, like edsanville said. You guys want to believe the earth is flat, fine. Jasong, the Saudis are injecting water and CO2 into their wells now- oil is going to be harder and harder to get out, and they risk collapse of the fields in injection process...
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The oil must be renewing at an incredible rate even as we speak, because all of the known wells would all be dry by now if it wasn't. Look at how long we have been using oil!!!!
The reason we haven't drilled any new wells is because the "owners" being the oil companies, make more money when there is less fuel. That is why we went in to Iraq. To shut down the production. They told us the oil would pay for the war. It has. Only it's the Military that gets paid. Not our troops by the way. It's a very simple process. Less oil. More profit. That's why we're going in to Iran. Why would the Oil companies want to bring the price of oil down?
Interesting, how many anti-PO people fall back on conspiracy theories. Tell us do the Illuminati or the aliens control these coordinated moves by the oil companies and government?
Even if it is not peak (lets just say) They are NOT drilling to extract it for our use affordably. So either way we are screwed because its either peak oil (by means of supply) or peak oil (by way of it being affordable for people to purchase it). Whatever the truth is dont much matter if you cant get it or afford it, its peak for whoever its peak for either way.
The guy with the green shirt in the video just sat there and popped his mouth off. He didn't substantiate anything he said. How about some facts to backup his outrageous claims?
No, there are hydrocarbons and methane on other planets, because there is no oxygen present on those other planets. Terrestrial oil and natural gas is not from dinosaurs, it came from decaying algae and plant matter tha fell to the bottom of the world's oceans during the last anoxic ocean period.
That's a trustifarian mantra! For the rest of us lowly non-trusty types (slobs that we are), the situation at hand cannot be dismissed lightly. We'd happily join you in your call to "enjoy life", but desperation compels us to be preoccupied with the issue and finding workable solutions for ourselves and for the country.
That's the abiotic oil theory. It is not substantiated anywhere in geologic science - as far as I can tell - but it is a much more optimistic take the current situation.
Gas is not free nor is life so stop complaining and get a better job or another job and pay for the gas you buy if you dont like gas dont buy it but dont come looking for a gas handout either
how much is a brent vs gallon us ? here in the US they seem to be rejecting ethanol we dont know why i guess that we grow so much food for the world here they cant give up that much corn
I'm not worried about it. We were blessed with this planet and we are the only species that uses it all up and destroys it. The future generations will look back and be disgusted that the people of Earth were so greedy, materialistic, and superficial, that they would kill, lie, and destroy anyone and everything to get what they wanted.
I tend to agree completely. Human beings have not "evolved" over the past 1000 years; it's simply too short a period of time for any significant evolution to occur.
Modern values are very much a product our current comfortable existence.
and btw, bush has already authorized a new energy campaign by endorsing ethanol, an alternative that's just as harmful to the earth, and will actually cost people more money since it combusts less energy than regular gasoline. this will keep all bush's energy buddies very happy.
It's also good to point out that corn requires a massive amount of nitrogen fertilizer (which takes a lot of energy to make, as you have to break the triple bond in the N2 molecule) and petroleum-based pesticides. Heavy N-fertilization also results in quite a bit of N2O production directly from agricultural soils. N2O is 310 times more powerful as a warming agent than CO2.
Sure oil companies might try to limit production, but it won't work in the end just like it has not worked in the past in many other industries. There will always be greedy companies that will try to cheat and get a bigger piece of the pie. When you look at the history of price fixing you see this problem all the time. Just one company breaking away ruins the whole thing.
The tart sand in canada is being used since 2006, it provides 1 million barrel of oil daily to the US. We are indeed at its peak. Only the gullible and naive people who are in DENIAL.
in Russia there is a song from a famous singer called "when the oil runs out" a very heartwarming song how people get closer and how they become human again. I like it
jaykayses 2 months ago
- Is the bottle empty yet?
- No.
- Good! Then it will last forever!
- Hey, I didn't say...
- LalalalalaIcan'thearyoubecauseIliveinahappyworldHarryPotter!
bvssvni 8 months ago
@bvssvni Fucking yes, thank you for this.
durkadurka91 3 months ago
Everyone, PREPARE for the COllAPSE. goverment wont help us.
235RB 1 year ago
I wonder how the masses will react once they realize our economy and growth is all based on something we are running out of....CHEAP OIL.....
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago 10
Bye bye civilization. The animals won't care that we are gone. If they could think at that level I'm sure they would be glad to see us go. We did it to ourselves. Who will get on the tiny boats that the elite will try to float, not most of the billions that's for sure.
jjstoney1 1 year ago
What about the Jed Clampett oil field. Was it the last large basin to be discovered by a hunter? And do our modern oil explorers use the hunt for possum methods so successfully by our beloved Beverly Hillbillies?
jjstoney1 1 year ago
What say Canada or the US starts seriously to develop the tar sands and oil bearing shale. What a monumental affront to the environment. How can we continue to absolutely ruin the earth in such a way? The forever oil optimists are forever in a denial phase. The truth will rear it's ugly head this year and millions are about to suffer for it. Is there any other way at this time?
MrTAKESINBJS247 1 year ago
Hmm...all of mans pre-oil use recorded history shows less than a billion people supported by a years worth of sunlight. Now, since using the supersunlight concentrated energy oil, we are pushing the seven billion mark. As the oil production slows what will happen to the extra billions. "Magic food?" What alternative energy source is even remotely close to taking the place of oil, enlighten us someone? Here we have come to the resource wars as we struggle to survive. Hello 2011.
MrTAKESINBJS247 1 year ago
Can anyone tell me where natural gas fits into the issue of peal oil? I have a friend who thinks that this is the answer to the oil problem.
iankyoko 1 year ago
@iankyoko Peak gas was a LONG time ago!
neergdde 1 year ago
@iankyoko
Natural gas can be converted into liquid fuel for current engines. Engines can be converted to run on natural gas. Hydraulic fracturing allows us to extract shale gas. Unfortunately, this probably won't negate the need to conserve. Shale gas is several times more expensive to extract than at our current prices. Gas to Liquids infrastructure will take decades of time and trillions of dollars to build. Converting engines also takes time and money.
mollytherealdeal 1 year ago
Scarecity = profit.
Does Oil really come from dead Dinosaurs ???
Oil companies have strangled technological innovation into alternatives because they are greedy bastards. So are the governments that also profit from oil with taxes..
Luxorishome 1 year ago
Scarecity = profit...
Do we really think that oil comes from dead dinosaurs ??
Oil companies have deliberatley strangled technology for cleaner alternatives and governments have backed them so the revenue stream and carbon taxes can continue into these greedy bastards pockets.
Luxorishome 1 year ago
great stuff why dont they say this nightly on the news
go Solar, Wind, Water, and Geothermal!!!
skeight976 1 year ago
i don't even see how this is peak oil thing is controverseal. if we use something, we eventually run out.
IamMeredithK 2 years ago
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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
the reduced production is do reduce supply, if u reduce supply with a high demand the price flies up.
ALRoUMi 2 years ago
I agree with the girl..
Battery9876 3 years ago 4
i read this comment before watching the video, and at the end i thought about it and lol'd.
jobogee 2 years ago
Think of it this way, look at the area around your PC.
Imagine the whole construction process for everything around you right now from raw resource to finished product in the shop.
How many things were only possible to make & transport with the use of oil?
The only way demand for crude oil won't go up is if our entire economy shrinks, and what do you think will happen if we can't get shale oil out of the ground fast enough to keep prices down?
kingsman565 3 years ago
@kingsman565 and i forgot about the the medical field! Good God, think about all the procedures that depend on cheap energy and quick transportation!
IamMeredithK 2 years ago
Right, and our food might not have petroleum in it but think how much of it goe's toward's agriculture? If we haven't prepared we'll need to enforce collecivised collectivized labour just to feed the population. It's going to be complete mayhem if we ignore this problem.
kingsman565 2 years ago
and most people don't know how to grow anything. well, i guess i don't want to feed anyone's fear. I'm hoping to open a CSA here in the next few years, i hope it helps.
IamMeredithK 2 years ago
Well I hope it happend's for you, It's alot better than the rat race, plus someone's got to keep small business alive...
kingsman565 2 years ago
"Peak oil all rests on one major assumption. THAT DEMAND INCREASES."
Are you crazy? Our whole system is built on economic growth that means increased demand for EVERYTHING! Think to yourself how meany things are made useing oil? How meany things are made useing oil in there consruction process? Never mind transport costs or population growth, and the factorys that make the solar panels & wind turbines you think there all running on solar power? Wake up man this isn't just about your car.
kingsman565 3 years ago
@kingsman565 Yeah, and don't forget about plastics, fertilizers, and the polyester (that's some kind of plastic, right?) that's in our clothing. hygene products have petroleum in them, almost everything but our food has some kind of oil or oil by-product in it.
IamMeredithK 2 years ago
Only partially correct. Peak Oil can also rests on the assumption that demand will hold constant while production declines.
Whatever the case, you are right that higher prices will drive demand for alt energy substitutes.
However, solar and liquid fuels are totally different; you can't fill the gas tank with solar power. Expect digital tech to thrive; heavy mechanical tech will need to be rescaled or otherwise suffer attrition.
tgold1968 3 years ago
as price of oil goes up our Quality of Life goes up as well
but please....before responding...give this some thought...
observe, read the news, look at exactly whats happening...
lets stop the blame...we did this to ourselves by consuming all this commodity
this is nothing new we've experience it worse in the 70's why have we forgotten the lessons from the past ??
emforty2 3 years ago
The fact is we cannot refine it fast enough for our demand rather than the commodity itself. Still, we need to get away!
oldphoque 3 years ago
PEAK PEAK PEAK ALREADY!!!
it's only killing our planet.
Kinkyilu 3 years ago 3
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We need more Corporate Welfare, unwarranted and illegal Wars that require HUGE amounts of oil/gas so that we can hand over more of our treasure to Neocon Greedbags so we can transfer more of our nations welath to OPEC which by the way has had it with our Imperialistic Behavior. Homosexuals bother you? Are you not 'secure' with your sexuality?
I am. You want to live in a country run by religion? Move to IRAN! We need a COMPLETE shift from oil now!!! THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL. CON-servatives
tainoaz 3 years ago
It's not from dinosaurs, it's from microorganisms, a massive die off, like edsanville said. You guys want to believe the earth is flat, fine. Jasong, the Saudis are injecting water and CO2 into their wells now- oil is going to be harder and harder to get out, and they risk collapse of the fields in injection process...
lisamann 3 years ago 3
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The oil must be renewing at an incredible rate even as we speak, because all of the known wells would all be dry by now if it wasn't. Look at how long we have been using oil!!!!
jasong19711 3 years ago
We haven't peaked? Look at the price rises since this was produced.
776281 3 years ago
The reason we haven't drilled any new wells is because the "owners" being the oil companies, make more money when there is less fuel. That is why we went in to Iraq. To shut down the production. They told us the oil would pay for the war. It has. Only it's the Military that gets paid. Not our troops by the way. It's a very simple process. Less oil. More profit. That's why we're going in to Iran. Why would the Oil companies want to bring the price of oil down?
LiononoiL 3 years ago
Interesting, how many anti-PO people fall back on conspiracy theories. Tell us do the Illuminati or the aliens control these coordinated moves by the oil companies and government?
lorax2013 3 years ago
the people I read and listen to don't talk in terms of "illuminati ro aliens". They name names, dates and events that led us up to this.
One of them is Lindsey williams, and I have yet to hear anybody refute what he has said.
They just ignore it.
If it is not true, we need reasons why it isn't or we need to pay attention to ut.
Ba101 3 years ago
Even if it is not peak (lets just say) They are NOT drilling to extract it for our use affordably. So either way we are screwed because its either peak oil (by means of supply) or peak oil (by way of it being affordable for people to purchase it). Whatever the truth is dont much matter if you cant get it or afford it, its peak for whoever its peak for either way.
KARStarla 3 years ago
The guy with the green shirt in the video just sat there and popped his mouth off. He didn't substantiate anything he said. How about some facts to backup his outrageous claims?
halfdead44 3 years ago
the Earth is continuing to make oil, oil will not peak.
oil is NOT the result of dead dinosaurs.
pwnage0013 3 years ago
how is the earth doing that ?
Hellaciousoutlaw 3 years ago
through dynamic forces thermal and otherwise.
Do you think that dead dinosaurs are the reason
there are hydrocarbons and even methane on some of the moons in this very Solar System??
pwnage0013 3 years ago
No, there are hydrocarbons and methane on other planets, because there is no oxygen present on those other planets. Terrestrial oil and natural gas is not from dinosaurs, it came from decaying algae and plant matter tha fell to the bottom of the world's oceans during the last anoxic ocean period.
edsanville 3 years ago
if the oil is going to run out it is going it run out no matter how slowly we use it.
stop worrying and enjoy life!
escueladeleyi 3 years ago
escueladeleyi:
That's a trustifarian mantra! For the rest of us lowly non-trusty types (slobs that we are), the situation at hand cannot be dismissed lightly. We'd happily join you in your call to "enjoy life", but desperation compels us to be preoccupied with the issue and finding workable solutions for ourselves and for the country.
tgold1968 3 years ago
Hehe. *Thumbs up.*
jmariemo 2 years ago
we won´t be enjoying anything after the last peak unless we prepare for it.
pohjalo 2 years ago 2
Of course it is. We just have to wait another 90 million years for it. And what is this stuff about dinosaurs?
waxenwings89 3 years ago 2
That's the abiotic oil theory. It is not substantiated anywhere in geologic science - as far as I can tell - but it is a much more optimistic take the current situation.
tgold1968 3 years ago
Gas is not free nor is life so stop complaining and get a better job or another job and pay for the gas you buy if you dont like gas dont buy it but dont come looking for a gas handout either
Conservativesaregood 3 years ago
wow thats like 80cents a gallon LOL if i did my math right
aflacduky 4 years ago
I'm an agronomist.Here in Brazil, a brent of ethanol costs just US$40.
daltonagre 4 years ago
how much is a brent vs gallon us ? here in the US they seem to be rejecting ethanol we dont know why i guess that we grow so much food for the world here they cant give up that much corn
aflacduky 4 years ago
A brent is 158 liters, while a gallon is 4.5 liters.Take a calculator a make a count.
daltonagre 4 years ago
thanks
aflacduky 4 years ago
NOP!
twotonestory 3 years ago
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what WE don't understand is that EARTH is our GOD !
worldcouncil 4 years ago
I'm not worried about it. We were blessed with this planet and we are the only species that uses it all up and destroys it. The future generations will look back and be disgusted that the people of Earth were so greedy, materialistic, and superficial, that they would kill, lie, and destroy anyone and everything to get what they wanted.
amusedbythematerial 4 years ago 9
Au contraire. Our current moral values are a luxury afforded by the ubiquitous cheap energy, international trade and communication.
If ever that were to change you'd see a slip back to the barbarism, racism, slavery and war of the past.
soylentgreenb 4 years ago 9
I tend to agree completely. Human beings have not "evolved" over the past 1000 years; it's simply too short a period of time for any significant evolution to occur.
Modern values are very much a product our current comfortable existence.
Gregamania69 3 years ago
@soylentgreenb Barbarism, racism, slavery, and war are still going on in the world, just not to the degree you imagine where you imagine.
quidproquo2004 1 year ago
@soylentgreenb
I wouldint necesarily say we ever bucked these trends')
otaku8489 8 months ago
Good videos on PO, but to find out how to protect and profit YOURSELF, watch the videos at lorax2013 or sussmank
lorax2013 4 years ago
and btw, bush has already authorized a new energy campaign by endorsing ethanol, an alternative that's just as harmful to the earth, and will actually cost people more money since it combusts less energy than regular gasoline. this will keep all bush's energy buddies very happy.
talktal 4 years ago 3
Excellent point, talktal. And don't forget that it takes energy (oil) to harvest the corn that's turned into ethanol.
zohar18 4 years ago 3
It's also good to point out that corn requires a massive amount of nitrogen fertilizer (which takes a lot of energy to make, as you have to break the triple bond in the N2 molecule) and petroleum-based pesticides. Heavy N-fertilization also results in quite a bit of N2O production directly from agricultural soils. N2O is 310 times more powerful as a warming agent than CO2.
msrosamo 4 years ago 3
Here's a novel idea: Let's drive less, consume less, and go green locally.
hunkeymunkey 4 years ago 2
they see a decline because they are declining production to drive oil prices up.
talktal 4 years ago
Sure oil companies might try to limit production, but it won't work in the end just like it has not worked in the past in many other industries. There will always be greedy companies that will try to cheat and get a bigger piece of the pie. When you look at the history of price fixing you see this problem all the time. Just one company breaking away ruins the whole thing.
jackson32 4 years ago
The tart sand in canada is being used since 2006, it provides 1 million barrel of oil daily to the US. We are indeed at its peak. Only the gullible and naive people who are in DENIAL.
oilcrisis2010 5 years ago 2
Good short interview. I hadn't heard of this film before.
newculture 5 years ago