Inside Story- Oil Production- 23 Oct 07- Part 2

[richardfrederickson]

Wow! Filmed in 2007 the question was will the high price of oil cause a global recession, can anybody tell me what happened the very next year? Answer: a global recession!!!!!! Which was later blamed on a credit crunch but was in fact caused by peak oil and the massive increase in a barrel of oil! You Tube rocks.

[itillbeme]

Did you notice how the guest was cut off by the host at 9:05 in, after he mentions using hydrogen from water in fuel cell to drive cars.

[BrightHumanist]

Clean coal? What a fraud!

[ericshantz]

PETRODOLLAR! LOOK IT UP...

[wittyvegan]

In the near future we have to realize that there is a limit to growth. We will run out of non-renewable resources and this is not limited to fules. It's not a question of IF. It's a question of WHEN. And at that point we will have to switch to renewable resources. From there the economy won't be able to use resources exceeding the growth of the plants. At the moment the world economy doubles about every 20 years and when the "end" comes it will result in a collapse if don't start to change now!

[crazycatfguy]

That won't work. Topsoil does not replenish itself as fast as we are depleting it and it is not possible to grow anything in much of the world without using the soil as just a sponge to pump fertilizer and pesticides on. About 90% of the world population would have to die in order for the land to support life without hydrocarbon products.

[wittyvegan]

That is not a question of options. When we run out of petrol we will have a big problem. And we better start searching for a solution right now. And it will get even worse once the supply of one of the important metals drops.

Of course this solution can't be limited to agriculture. But it will have an important factor because this is the only renewable source for "petrol-products" I know.

[wittyvegan]

I don't know where you have got the 90-percent-figure from, but you could reduce this number massively if we would stop wasting agriculture products for feeding livestock.

According to a study (sorry don't have the source anymore) we could feed 5 billion people if everyone eat as much meat as the US, 10 billion people if as much as india and I guess (was not in the study) if we go almost vegan it will exceed 20 billion.

[crazycatfguy]

Google eating fossil fuel or really any discussion of peak oil will explain the reality of the food/hydrocarbon link. It takes about the same amount of fossil fuel to make biofuel unless you make it from sugar cane. When the Soviet Union collapsed N Korea lost their oil imports and went all natural and you can see how that worked out for them.

[wittyvegan]

Personaly I doubt that you need more fossils than you get. How would this be profitable?

And I'm not saying I have a solution for this: But we really have to start to look for one. Otherwise we will get a collapse by the time we run of petrol.

[crazycatfguy]

I spend so much time trying to figure out what is really going on the world that I don't have the time to make shit up. My research leads me to believe that alternative energy sources are not as practical as they are made to be and are held out to be so to make people worry less about the end of oil. I have no credibility make up your own mind.

[swankrecords]

Excelent program. Thank you Al Jazeera.

[msgg81]

we have to resort to public transport then to save the supplies and only drive when there is a need to

[1oneundergod1]

clearly brazil with the burning of the cane isnt egologiclly sensitive

people need to be releasing the free energy renewables [the big guys have kept shutdown]

we will be measured by how we resist special intrests intent on maximising economic gain, while yet destroying gods creation via thier greed