There is enough oil in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming, in the Green River Formation to last over 100 yrs, at America`s current, 20 million barrel a day usage. Its "shale oil". You fucking morons are worrying about how long it takes for a dead squirrel to turn into a quart of Penzoil 10-30W?
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OT: "we want to have discussion for people to discuss..." duh! what else u can possibly have discussion for? Discussion for people to eat donuts? I know I am being rude but still... duh!
I would be interested to see what becomes of the United States and China when the transportation ability of these countries are greatly diminished (providing they don't nuke each other.) It will take weeks to travel across the USA by horse, Washington won't be able to run the place and will have to rely much more on individual states. The best people can hope for is telephone but that won't speed up the military if somewhere in the South or midwest revolts or splits from the Union.
This is stupid. There is PLENTY of oil, and it is constantly being regenerated close to the center of the Earth. Even if Earth runs out of oil (which is impossible), other planets and stars can be mined for more energy. It's not that big of a problem!!
@ImoenOfTelengard we dont have the technology to mine other planets. However you are correct that we can't run out of oil. but there is not plenty of oil. when you mine oil at a faster rate than the earth can regenerate all of the newwst oil is trapped so deep that we can't get to it. and once that happens we won't be able to get to it or hundreds of years.
@ImoenOfTelengard we dont have the technology to mine other planets. also you CANNOT mine stars they are balls of burning gas... However you are correct that we can't run out of oil. but there is not plenty of oil. when you mine oil at a faster rate than the earth can regenerate all of the newwst oil is trapped so deep that we can't get to it. and once that happens we won't be able to get to it or hundreds of years.
@ImoenOfTelengard we dont have the technology to mine other planets. also you CANNOT mine stars they are balls of burning gas... However you are correct that we can't run out of oil. but there is not plenty of oil. when you mine oil at a faster rate than the earth can regenerate all of the newwest oil is trapped so deep that we can't get to it. and once that happens we won't be able to get to it or hundreds of years.
@WhatTheHeckAnimation earth can regenerate oil? are u high? do u have any education whatsoever? i am surprised that u actually watched this video, i would be guessing u are more kinda "sneezing panda" guy (no offence).
@MrKovlad ok smartass,the earth does not LITERALLY regenerate oil. animals die and break down and turn to oil over long periods of time. now that I've broken it down into dumbass terms can you understand it?
@WhatTheHeckAnimation and by long periods of time you mean 150 000 000 years, which we obviously dont have and ONLY IF conditions for oil formation are particularly favourable which are not. It happend only twice in history of earth (mass extinction of species, temperature, pressure..) mr. smartass so once oil is gone its gone for good as well as 90% of population.
@MrKovlad ok? right I'm agreeing with you? I believe in a collapse after peak oil declines to a rate where it literally goes extinct. but it technically IS renewable even tho we call it non-renewable because it will always comeback. bu it takes thousands of years so its obviously not ideal. I guess I just didn't make the numbers as clear as you wanted. I don't see how that makes you freak out so much but okayyyyy.
@MrKovlad hold on did you think you were talking to the idiot who posted "the world will never run out of oil" right above my reply? cuz if you did that's not me that's "ImoenOfTelengard" your gunna wanna be telling this to
@WhatTheHeckAnimation There is enough oil in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming, in the Green River Formation to last over 100 yrs, at America`s current, 20 million barrel a day usage. Its "shale oil". You fucking morons are worrying about how long it takes for a dead squirrel to turn into a quart of Penzoil 10-30W?
You're saying that the US goes out its way to import oil just for fun?
Why do we bow to Saudi Arabia for oil when we don't need to? Obviously, we use more oil than we can produce domestically. Pretty soon, the world will use more oil than the Earth can be produce.
@Judas1of12 The US demands more oil than our Corporations are able to produce here in the States. Not because it doesnt exist, but because it is illegal to do so. Permitting, EPA, etc. Govt prohibitions. Few nations on earth behave this way. Most all see financial benefits in producing resources. We see political benefits in stopping oil exploration and development.
What are u talking about? Its got nothing to do with the EPA. Only a minute amount of oil is inaccessible because they are on wildlife preserves, public parks etc. Plus, its a good thing not to destroy those places for a little bit of oil. When talking about a natural resource like oil, there are are the cheap easy to get to oil, and the more expensive harder to get to oil. We've run out of cheap oil. Thats why we import so much oil. Get the facts staight.
@Judas1of12 Oil is available all over in shallow waters, but rich people who live on the water bitch. Plenty in Alaska too, but environmentalists prefer making corps drill in deep, deep water way offshore, where it is expensive, dangerous and difficult. Why? Dont scare the squirrels.
@luvcheney1 You are making extraordinary claims. I am for environmentally responsible drilling, I was even present at the first Earth Day in 1970. But there is now way that I would encourage drilling in deep water over shallow water. The proven oil reserves in Saudi Arabia are estimated at 267 billion barrels. Reserves for Alaska are estimated at at most 16 billion barrels. World oil consumption is around 86 million barrels per day, or 31 billion barrels a year. Do the math.
@shishkabobby Think for a moment. IF you allowed Corps to drill i shallow water, or on land in Alaska, wouldnt that be cheaper, easier than deep water drilling? They drill deep, because it is available, they do NOT, where they cant. Look up the oil in "Green River Formation", in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. About 1.5 Trillion barrels, 800 billion economically viable. Do the math, we have many times more oil than SA.
When are u going to get that there just isn't enough oil even in Alaska, shallow waters, and land preservations in America. The people who are pushing for drilling more in these places are desparate and ignorant. We have been using too much oil. There is no more cheap oil that is WORTH going after. Does it make sense to go after oil that number only in the hundreds of million of barrel (a few weeks worth of oil based on our consumption) and risk destroying our beach or wildlife?
Oil companies are spreading propaganda that there will always be a steady supply of oil in the future. They then list things like low quality shale oil and tar sands as proof of the abundance of oil. But they don't mention that these are much more expensive to make useful. If you're going after these sources, it means that you're out of the good quality stuff, which means the supply of oil and we know it, with reasonable price, is hitting peak.
@Judas1of12 Propaganda? Sure......... Go look up Green River. It will be expensive, but the ex- CEO of Shell USA estimates it would be cost effective at over $75 barrel. Thats about the current price. Of course, most of that area is illegal to work. US Govt likes making production illegal. At US 20 million barrel a day usage, that is enough for over 100 years. By then we may have better options, or just go drill elsewhere. Again.
As an example of lies and distortions, take a look at the estimated deposits. They will always use the projected amount underground. But they don't mention that only a fraction of it can actually be mined with current technology. Then they say that the amount will last over a hundred years. But they use the value of current usage forgetting that usage is increasing at a steady rate, add in the boom in China and India, the actual amount maybe less than 25 yrs.
Respond to this video... Canada is already working it. The Athabasca deposit is largest reservoir of crude bitumen in the world, along with the nearby Peace River and Cold Lake deposits. Together, these oil sand deposits lie under 141,000 square kilometres (54,000 sq mi) of sparsely populated boreal forest and muskeg (peat bogs) and contain about 1.7 trillion barrels (270×109 m3) of bitumen in-place, comparable in magnitude to the world's total proven reserves of conventional petroleum.
You need to stop blaming others, the EPA, the environmentalists, the US gov, landowners who doesn't want a well in their backyard, or the rich people with their beach houses. The ones responsible are us, the consumer of oil. We consume too much oil, beyond what we can can produce ourselves and what the world can supply. And by the way, I wouldn't trust any estimates made by anybody associated with the oil industry. They lie, exaggerate, and distort.
@Judas1of12 Yes, the evil oil industry. They produce. They fuel our economies, enable the greatest standards of living in all of fucking history. Those evil producers. They need to become politicians, just stealing and redistributing. Or, lawyers, like most in Congress. They are great at redistributing too. Produce? Ha! That was the OLD way. Now, its redistribute.
Not evil, just selfish and greedy. They don't want their industry to decline so they pretend like they will always be the only game in town. And its not toil companies that enabled us to progress. Its cheap oil, the energy source that we relied on for our economic growth, that gave us our progress. But at the same time it has cost us too, because it pollutes, hindered our investment in other energy sources, and we have to depend on foreign oil that hinders our national security.
@Judas1of12 Any other technology that works cheaper would already have terminated their business. There isnt any. There is no way for them to stop development of hybrids, electric cars, manure mobiles, piss porters, or any other thing an inventor can do. The Prius exists, the Leaf. SO? We buy most of our coffee from foreign sources, our computers, who actually cares? If you want more security, then let the companies go explore and produce. If not, they go elsewhere. Big deal...............
The infrastructure for oil is already in place for over 100 years, so no other technologies can compete. Oil companies lobby Congress to ignore the costs of oil, like pollution, and lie that there's plenty of oil so we see no urgency to develop alternative energy sources. And when we rely on foreign energy, we mostly rely on oil in unstable or dictatorial nations which dictates our foreign policy and makes us less secure. Its way different than buying other foreign goods.
@Judas1of12 IF other technologies made economic sense NOW, capital would flow into the sources NOW. The REASON capital doesnt flow NOW, is because it does NOT make sense NOW. Oil, nat gas, coal is far cheaper NOW. Yet, as prices rise, for the reasons YOU state, a point will come where those expensive forms of energy DO become competitive, and then capital will flow to them. Why? Greed. And not one second before it makes sense. Why? Greed. You can depend on GREED to solve this.
@walter0bz It is already controlled by Military and Police States. What was Qaddafy about? Saddam? Ahmadinejad? Saud? And, whose military might be that be for all that?
The thing that most concerns me is that China is working very closely with Iran to foil our little plan in the ME. Things were working well all spring... until now. We've got world-wide heavy sanctions ruining Iran's economy, and suddenly China steps up further the pipeline plans / friendship building with Iran. If they get a pipeline system for crude and/or NG through Pakistan before we get the job done (which should take another 10 months or more), plan B is "AirSea Battle" (Google that).
Since Obama has been in office, gas is up 87% ($1.34/gallon in Feb. 2009 to the national average of $3.58 today). Last week in Ca , I paid $4.19 it will be over $5.00 by Christmas... it will not go down.
Remember, Obama said his plan would cause energy prices to “skyrocket.” This is one promise he has kept.
Since Obama has been in office, gas is up 87% ($1.34/gallon in Feb. 2009 to the national average of $3.58 today). Last week in Ca , I paid $4.19 it will be over $5.00 by Christmas... it will not go down.
Remember, Obama said his plan would cause energy prices to “skyrocket.” This is one promise he has kept.
Eventually oil will run out period. At that point countries will have to rely on coal, natural gas, wind, nuclear, hydro-electric, etc. The countries investing in the infrastructure for these alternatives to OIL will be the ones who survice and dominate the new world order.
What everyone is missing, is that the US imports large quatities of oil, but doesn't pump its own reserves down. Why, simple answer, run out the oil that other countries are producing now. When these countries no longer have oil to sell, they will collapse. The US as well as many other countries will have their own reserves to use. He who has the oil runs the world. OPEC dictates the price now, but wait about 30 years when the members of OPEC dry up, then what will become of them?
AMERICA 4% of the worlds population creating 25% of the worlds pollution through greed and ego..let's have a million man match demanding the removal of ronald fat fuck Mc Donald
Peak Oil is a huge scam. Just like americas "global warming" scam. Russians proved that oil is a mineral and not a fossil feul. Petroleum is a renewable source. I wish all the idiotic conspiracy theorist would just give it a break already. Everything conspiracy theorist say is wrong...global warming, illuminati, peak oil bla bla bla shut up already! shit who pays u idiots
Everything you just said here is non-sensical and have no barren of proof. Stuff like this have been taught in science middle-high school. I'm guessing you ether never paid attention or simply failed school. Global warming have been found in the past and been documented. See Third major Extinction. It was the result of high increase in temperature and lack of ozone layer to protect the animals plants.
Everything you just said here is non-sensical and have no barren of proof. Stuff like this have been taught in science middle-high school. I'm guessing you ether never paid attention or simply failed school. Global warming have been found in the past and been documented. See Third major Extinction. It was the result of high increase in temperature and lack of ozone layer to protect the animals plants.
@SgtThom .. im pretty sure american education is very low compared to europes. I passed high school here in america easily without and problems haha...global warming is bull shit just like all the other propoganda america teaches. Al Gore has been proven wrong about global warming.... While we are on the subject of oil....let me tell you a little secret ...why do u think america invaded iraq? lol ...well its simple...saddam started trading oil in euro's..,,,,
@SgtThom This would destroy americas economy within 5 yrs. Dont you realize that the dollar isnt worth shit unless oil is traded in the american dollar...thats the only reason it has any value right now...if this changed hyper inflation would hit and you would be fked... america wouldnt be able to buy oil cause the dolla wouldnt be worth sht...and than the "peak oil" bs would sound pretty good lol..but the american public would never know...just go back to the stone age lol
How is the human race disgusting? By what metric can you measure our "disgusting'ness". We're doing what we do because it's... what we do! I don't think we're anymore disgusting than bacteria decimating its food supply in uncontrolled growth. I will agree the human race being contemptible to some degree, afterall we saw this coming long ago...appropriate preparations could have saved a lot of grief. Whatever! I'm just a spectator in all of this. Bring on the apocalypse!
I love the idea of peak oil its one more reminder that people will one day die by the billions and they fuckin deserve it. I can't wait to whole populations ravaged by infection, people murdering eachother for scraps of food. People love it when a criminal gets the chair well i say this is the comsic capitol punishment for the whole disgusting human race
@noobcrusher141 The U.S. uses 20,000 barrels per day. The entire planet uses 85,000 barrels per day. The U.S. has 8 years of oil reserves left. Iraq has the second largest reserve in the world (after Saudi Arabia) with 10 billion barrels which will last 142 years. Good thing the government and media lied about WMD's and invaded Iraq to keep us in oil....
The world consumes 85 million barrels a day not 85,000 barrels a day. Watch the movie called "collapse" by Michael Ruppert an eye opener to the peak oil.
We will never run out of oil. Never, never, never. Today it is around $90 per barrel. In the future it will be $90 per drop. It will never run out. But it will price many people out.
Colin Campbell in his 8 part interview (yes, I watched them all) was a captivating speaker who explained in laymans terms the whole peak oil business as well as educating this non-geologist on the reality of oil prospecting and production, Well done Mr Campbell! It is well worth watching.
It's all about food production and transport..... Post peak oil we might be able to feed 2-3 billion in a sustainable way but that's pushing it. It will be interesting to see what the people in first world nations are willing to give up when when they see large parts of continents starving.....
@MrEnergyCzar - I think it's more like 2.165135477 billion, and we'll need to get sustainable by March 18th 2012 at 6:15PM and 831 microseconds. I think Microsoft's stock will grow by 13.848487% after their earnings report, so I may invest 13571 dollars and 8 cents in their stock. That's pushing it.
@MrEnergyCzar the majority of the population lives in easily controlled cities like new york. They will be the first to starve, leaving the rest of the rural world.
@MrGnarus they will try to migrate, but they will starve or just become exhausted. I don't believe in the police state. Only way that could happen is if all the police were given some sort of crazy drug, Like when the kamikazes were given large amounts of meth. But the US is screwed with there gmo crops and land thats barely usable anymore.
@lastmondaypast1 Police are given a drug. It is called power coupled with authority and orders it is the perfect receipt to achieve compliance. Don't believe people will follow orders look up the Milgram Experiments/study
@MrEnergyCzar It is already controlled by Military and Police States. What was Qaddafy about? Saddam? Ahmadinejad? Saud? And, whose military might be that be for all that?
The economy today means energy. All other forms of commerce is the direct result of cheap and abundant energy. People will not be told when peak oil has arrived, it will just happen to them. We may be forced back to a sub-billion population if we don't get the fossil fuel substitute sorted out soon, and that will be one of mankind's most important undertakings to date. Strange times we may see. The whole planet is connected to this.
We can get fuel, food, plastics, oils, insulation, textiles, paper, and thousands of other superior products. It can end our dependency on foreign oil that fund extremist regimens and terrorism. It can solve our deforestation problem as virtually no tree would have to be cut down for its products. Why are we humans so dumb? When are we going to get out of our way? This incredible plant had been used for thousands of years.Making hemp illegal is a crime against humanity.
@TheNorweiganHippie Yeah, that's usually the only use most people think it has. I ran out of characters otherwise I would've added how it's also medicine for our soul, mind, and body.
Hemp is an answer on a small scale. With more than 6 Billion people hemp would only support a small fraction of them. Oil is in everything. It's in your tires, it paints your house, it delivers water to your kitchen, it's the reason you can see this text right now. We cannot continue the path of infinite growth. No matter what we do there will be a collapse. The best thing is to just prepare for it. Start growing organic local food. Stock up on solar equipment and electric heaters.
I did just recently watch Collapse lol. Michael C. Ruppert makes a very compelling argument. The realization of finite resources versus infinite growth is heavy shit. I died a little on the inside when I came to realize a large portion of us will perish. It's just sad that wasteful governments seem to be amping up the social control for when it happens. Either man or nature shall reduce the population. I just hope it's nature.
Peak Oil, is about Controlling the minds & will of the masses through fear. This is a hoax predicated upon the masses to keep them trembling before their rich, elitist masters. Without oil we die, if they are willing to pull the plug on oil, billions will perish, there will be chaos, war, total anarchy. I call the bluff of these elitists motherfuckers do it! They need us more than we need them! Time is running out for the master, his name is Satan. Christ is coming soon. Praise Him!
@persevere67 - it was our ancestors fault for becoming dependant on a distant resource and using it to multiply beyond the capacity of more local, personally controllable resources.
Even if oil wasn't finite, the hazard of excessive dependance should have put you off.
Most of preparing for peak oil is psychological. Tell your kids they will not live like you did unless they get into that top 1% wealth so they can buy whatevery resources they want.
KK guys, without oil, well still survive, ur all stupid cuz u cant realize that humans only were living with oil in out modern lives for about 150 years. What about the old days, how did we live huh?
but it should be obvious with fairly basic education.
our complexity (our bodies & our civilization) is a function of the energy we can harness. and the end result of any organism is turning fuel(food) into entropy.
People make the mistake of attributing the progress purely to 'human ingenuity' omitting the contribution of millions of years of dead plants... many of natures machines are far more sophisticated and efficient than ours
@29Gixxer I know, I know too! Green revolution=hydrocarbon fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. Not to mention phosphorus peak (at least it can be recycled). Simple really: less hydrocarbon energy=less food. We'll have to get by on our yearly dose of sunshine instead of our magic concentrated fossils.
i have read about a guy that predicted that world's population will die out from 900milion to 300 million, that was before the industrial revolution happened :) thanks to industry we were able to expand so drastically and feed such a huge increase in population
Conservatives are the most selfish babies on earth. They refuse to drive less, to go vegan to prevent the needless murder of animals, to make the most insignificant sacrifices such as buying products not tested on animals that would have the most significant impacts. Then these same irresponsible conservatives demand the government bail them out, giving TRILLIONS of dollars to unnecessary military contractors or the NSA, so the conservatives can have jobs doing crap we don't need.
States would open up drilling for oil in the East and west Coast. Today you can not drill for oil on the East or west Coast ! There is a estimate of 2 Trillion Barrels of oil waiting to be drilled for. No one will say anything about it, for it is not drilled for by the Tree Huggers are holding back on drilling in that area ! if we drilled for oil in that area gasoline will go to 50 Cents a Gallion ! when ask about it, you will be told go away !
@turtle4aire You blame the tree huggers and government regulation. If you were coming from the left you would blame OPEC and the oil companies of with holding oil from the market. Both premises are less relevant in light of resource draw down. The US is one of the most heavily explored regions of the world (since 1859). If there are mega fields remaining we would have found them by now. If you think we are in Iraq simply to get rid of a dictator you are mistaken. We bank rolled Saddam in the 80s
@turtle4aire haha, if there is such a great amount of oil, then tehre are other reasons than your so called "tree huggers". economic doesnt care about that issue. and if goverment would say: we cut the trees and drill for oil OR we send our youth in war, what do u think ppl would vote for? what the hell cost a gallon in usa, in germany we pay around 1,40€ per liter. that would be around 7$ per gallon.
When you invent there numbers out of thin air, do you believe that God follows your orders and creates the oil to match? Does God change the world to fit you imagination?
I agree with you 100%,alot of people do not realize how big the 'oil sands' of Alberta really is.I have been working in the business for a number of years and see it first hand.The really big problem facing Albertans,Canadians and the rest of the world is water.Some of the facilities up here are looking at using 8 barrels of water to produce 1 barrel of oil only to an 'up-graded' stage,it still has to be refined further after that.A good book to read,'Tar Sands" Andrew Nikiforuk.God have mercy.
Peak oil is the biggest hoax of modern times,come up to Alberta and see 175 billion barrels we have to sell to pretty well anyone.There has been not even a hiccup in the economy,let alone a recession.I make $8000 a month driving truck,and there is such a shortage of workers here,companies are paying workers to commute clear across the country after a 2 week shift.The amount of reserves is truly staggering,yes there is a shortage of the inexpensive West Texas Light Crude, learn about Alberta !!!!
LIfe will be hard, sometimes very hard, but I can't say it can be much worse than living in the sick society we have today. Hopefully we learn our lessons this time.
@ubbecykelkedja As of spring 2008,the Tar Sands in Northern Alberta produced 1.3 million barrels a day.Expansion and new projects will add 3 million barrels a day to southbound pipelines by 2015.Many forecasts expect the tar sands to reach 5 million barrels a day by 2030.The Alberta government has a plan to accelerate to 8 million barrels a day 2050.In 2004 Canada surpassed Saudi Arabia as the #1 exporter of oil to the U.S.Yes,Canada exports more oil to the U.S. than anyone else.
@sportyrabbit2008 Peak oil a hoax? Are you aware of that our sick civilization wants infinite, exponential growth, 6000 years and counting? Do you understand that the neverending increasing demand is the big problem? That's the whole point, increase in production CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THE FASTER INCREASE IN DEMAND, it only makes us run out of all oil faster.
Infinite growth in a system with finite resources leads to WHEN things go to hell, not IF. Our ancient civilization is fundamentally flawed.
@ubbecykelkedja We are going to get to a point where the air is un-breathable,we run out of water,and massive crop failures around the world,all of this we will see in our life time.If you knew what I know about the oil and gas biz in Alberta,the hair on the back of your neck would stand up,and have a sick feeling.Dear God,have mercy on us,and our children.we WILL NOT run out of oil before we kill everything with the pollution we are going to create.PEACE
@sportyrabbit2008 The question is when our society will perish, not if. Agreed. Our ancient love for wealth and growth will destroy us. Wealth corrupts the human mind and those have the always had the most influence. But no one is actually in control. Our "civilization" brings destructive brutality, cynicism, chaos and barbarism, under the illusion of order and safety.
We have to realize, what we see as huge problems, are not the same as our ancient system sees as problems. It promotes them.
I live in an oil and gas area of Canada. Thanks to oil the city I live in is dripping with money. It's nice. A friend of mine that owns a small oil company which produces only 200 barrels a day suggests if the price gets high enough they'll figure out a way to "wring it from the air".
@HBOMB99 Hey,Peak oil.....................what a freakin joke ! As a fellow Albertan,we both know this is just hype to inflate prices.Alot of people are really being brainwashed.The bitumen producing zone in Northern Alberta contains approx. 175 BILLION barrels in proven reserves,or about 1/4 the land mass of Alberta.Tar sands investments equals around $200 Billion dollars.Yes,there is a shortage of the cheap oil,no amount of dead ducks landing on tailings ponds will slow this down.
@MrEnergyCzar ..........??? WTF ? Is the U.S. military extracting oil from the Tar Sands in Nothern Alberta.......FYI..........Canada surpassed Saudi Arabia in oil exports to the U.S. in 2004.If this is a little hard for you to understand,it simply means Canada supplies more oil to the U.S. than any other country in the world.Please educate yourself,with all respect I realize that the media is not giving out the real facts.Come up to Alberta(that's in Canada)and see for yourself.
@lucasleivia I heerd the fat muscle bulge between the thumm and the wrist is the tastiest meat on a human, specially after you broily it. I don't know this 1st hand, I jest heerd it from somebody else
This video shows that while demand will be able to be met for a while by deeper ocean wells, thicker oil that is more expensive to produce, and tar and shale, those are more expensive ways to meet demand, which will cause the prices to rise. Even if the peak can be held off until 2030, they rise in prices will cause major problems in the world. Coal is a very dirty alternative. We need alternative fuel systems now, not when the rising prices cause the world to fall apart.
Rightwing conservatives are not mentally able of doing math. They cannot conceive of finite resources. They have been the biggest bunch of selfish freeloaders throughout history. If they can't get what they want from someone else, they use big government militaries to take it by force and rely on slavery. They refuse to take responsibility for their actions: polluting the environment & warming the globe.
Solar, nuclear, wind power? It still takes OIL to produce all of that - for the transportation of the materials for the construction of infrastructure, and the materials themselves. Since the US doesn't produce much anymore, then oil will have to be used to move those materials overseas on ships that use oil as well.
It's really sad that Gautier, the first speaker, sounds and presents so horrible. Her accent is annoying, and the audio processing makes it even worse. Next time find someone who can present the facts better than this, and get a good audio engineer and do a proper soundcheck before you start recording an event like this. Such a waste of knowledge and money!
@Meowbay "It's really sad that Gautier, the first speaker, sounds and presents so horrible. "
I think you meant to say "horribly" rather than "horrible".
You've never been to a scientific conference before, have you? They always have people with thick accents, and the audio is usually iffy. Scientific discovery is NOT about audio engineering. You would probably have a hard time getting your thoughts together, too with all that stuff to learn, and speech to memorize, etc. Don't be a jerk.
@ManicEightBall No, I really meant to write that she sounds horrible, both the audio job is done bad, as well as the way she presents the facts. I'm only giving an honest and valid authoritative opinion (because I know a lot about the subjects I'm criticizing). The fact that you can't handle the truth is not my problem, and has nothing to do with my intellect. Which is obviously much higher than yours. I'm not being a jerk, you are. A pitiful one at that.
Guys, nothing to worry about. Again, when the price is right ($100 per barrel or so) we have new solar technology that is as cheap as coal (about $1 per watt). With the creation of better batteries, and quality electric substitutes for every gas powered device.
The fix can happen almost overnight as the price skyrockets. there will be a little pain, but not that much.
@clubadv It's not that simple. Electricity didn't cause the population to go from 1 billion people to 7 billion people. The oil age did. People have to stop thinking about gasoline, cars, and lawnmowers as the problem to solve. All plastic is from oil. 8 gallons oil in every tire. Mass crop production is solely based on oil (fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides, seeders, harverters, etc).
@clubadv 747's won't run on batteries. Bye bye global airlines. Warships, tanks, militaries can't run on batteries. Bye bye big battle weapons, missiles. You can't forge steel without searing melt furnaces (electric furnaces? Electric elements don't get that hot - or they'd melt themselves!) Bye bye skyscrapers and steel infrastructure.
@clubadv You have to think of the world just before oil. Where we were. Then add electricity. But we're still back to farming with mules & horses, human labour, wooden structures, fire & hand-forged metals, zero rubber, zero plastic, and a world population that cannot be sustained on traditional farming. It cannot be fed. We'll be dead, but within 60-100 years, these are the realities when crude is gone.
EVery time the economies of the world threaten to go back into growth mode the price of oil will go up due to expected higher demand the high price of oil will kill the economic growth. But each swing of the pendulum between growth and recession will be greater. During each recession/depression the chances of civil disorder if not outright revolution or war between nations will increase.
In the long term the only good thing you can say about the next 100 years is that the human population will drop to whatever is sustainable, probably less than 10% of what it currently is.
There used to be a lot of Oil under Texas and it is pretty much gone. Wells dry up and there is only so many Oil fields and the amount of Oil is very limited.
@SkygreenLeopard Not fast enough, though. The non-trolls: those who have taken anthropogenic GW seriously since 1990 and the AMAZINGLY "difficult" concept of finite resources, as I have, will be starved out, too. We gotta deliberately starve and execute the anti-enviromentalists NOW.
There is enough new reserves in Northern Albert Canada alone to supply Canada for 500 years. In one province. Saudi says it could more than double it's output if inclined. Turns out Iraq may have the largest reserves in the world and the US has Iraq. The US has enough Coal and Natural Gas to last 100 years plus, easy!
@itisaduck the fact that we are in iraq means that we must need to be. second the fact that we are exploring even more must mean that people in the know are worried about depletion. canada's oil is in shale which is harder to extracted the oil and will only get harder to retrieve
@MrGnarus My point is we are not peaking nor will we be peaking in your lifetime. This peaking scare is a leftist idea with the intent to slow the USA in order to allow our enemies to advance on us. You think you were being educated when in fact you were programed. We have many sources of energy which are being used now. My state has 34 Geothermal electric plants, for example. Oil is abundant but we must go after it. We have more coal than any other country.
@itisaduck "go after it" lol, perfect analogy for Iraq. You know Dick Cheney takes Peak Oil very seriously right ? He *did* work for Haliburton.
Being programmed, what a laugh, like you haven't been programmed from the 1800's to believe that America is the greatest and we deserve the best and we're invincible ? Limits to growth you idiot they're a reality however painful it is and however much whining and killing you do!
@itisaduck Saudis are now drilling offshore, Gwar is drying up, you think they'd want us to know that ? The Bakken formation for which you cite the ridiculous 500yr figure is ugly, bastard hard to refine SHALE, you think thats going to save us and be nice and cheap like it is today ? face-palm. The peak is not going to come because of lack of oil, its lack of CHEAP oil, and it will cause a contraction in growth. You think its a GOOD thing we went and ass-fucked Iraq ? you cold bastard !
I live in Des Moines, Iowa. A mega-millionaire car conglomerate is opening the first dealership in America that sells cheap, chinese made cars under $10,000 that get 50 mpg - they guarantee credit approval to anyone with a job. It will be the Walmart of cars. Pretty soon, everybody will be forced to buy one due to their financial position. Globalization - helping spread poverty everywhere while making the rich richer.
Most countries that produce oil are past their production peaks (including the U.S.)...it's only a matter of time when tar sands, heavy oils etc...won't be able to replace the easy stuff we built our world on...
@SuddenCatharsis This should be called peak greed and the decline of the middle class.Where is the expert Petroleum Geologist Jeffrey J. Brown. I don't understand Nazi!! That's a pun
What the hell? The Liberals told me the price of oil was controlled by George Bush. Now you're tell me it's supply and demand. Ah gees, I don't know what to believe now.
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There is enough oil in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming, in the Green River Formation to last over 100 yrs, at America`s current, 20 million barrel a day usage. Its "shale oil". You fucking morons are worrying about how long it takes for a dead squirrel to turn into a quart of Penzoil 10-30W?
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hamiltonjsh 6 months ago
OT: "we want to have discussion for people to discuss..." duh! what else u can possibly have discussion for? Discussion for people to eat donuts? I know I am being rude but still... duh!
MrKovlad 6 months ago
I would be interested to see what becomes of the United States and China when the transportation ability of these countries are greatly diminished (providing they don't nuke each other.) It will take weeks to travel across the USA by horse, Washington won't be able to run the place and will have to rely much more on individual states. The best people can hope for is telephone but that won't speed up the military if somewhere in the South or midwest revolts or splits from the Union.
Standuble 6 months ago
This is stupid. There is PLENTY of oil, and it is constantly being regenerated close to the center of the Earth. Even if Earth runs out of oil (which is impossible), other planets and stars can be mined for more energy. It's not that big of a problem!!
ImoenOfTelengard 7 months ago
@ImoenOfTelengard we dont have the technology to mine other planets. However you are correct that we can't run out of oil. but there is not plenty of oil. when you mine oil at a faster rate than the earth can regenerate all of the newwst oil is trapped so deep that we can't get to it. and once that happens we won't be able to get to it or hundreds of years.
WhatTheHeckAnimation 7 months ago
@ImoenOfTelengard we dont have the technology to mine other planets. also you CANNOT mine stars they are balls of burning gas... However you are correct that we can't run out of oil. but there is not plenty of oil. when you mine oil at a faster rate than the earth can regenerate all of the newwst oil is trapped so deep that we can't get to it. and once that happens we won't be able to get to it or hundreds of years.
WhatTheHeckAnimation 7 months ago
@ImoenOfTelengard we dont have the technology to mine other planets. also you CANNOT mine stars they are balls of burning gas... However you are correct that we can't run out of oil. but there is not plenty of oil. when you mine oil at a faster rate than the earth can regenerate all of the newwest oil is trapped so deep that we can't get to it. and once that happens we won't be able to get to it or hundreds of years.
WhatTheHeckAnimation 7 months ago
@WhatTheHeckAnimation earth can regenerate oil? are u high? do u have any education whatsoever? i am surprised that u actually watched this video, i would be guessing u are more kinda "sneezing panda" guy (no offence).
MrKovlad 6 months ago
@MrKovlad ok smartass,the earth does not LITERALLY regenerate oil. animals die and break down and turn to oil over long periods of time. now that I've broken it down into dumbass terms can you understand it?
WhatTheHeckAnimation 6 months ago
@WhatTheHeckAnimation and by long periods of time you mean 150 000 000 years, which we obviously dont have and ONLY IF conditions for oil formation are particularly favourable which are not. It happend only twice in history of earth (mass extinction of species, temperature, pressure..) mr. smartass so once oil is gone its gone for good as well as 90% of population.
MrKovlad 6 months ago
@MrKovlad ok? right I'm agreeing with you? I believe in a collapse after peak oil declines to a rate where it literally goes extinct. but it technically IS renewable even tho we call it non-renewable because it will always comeback. bu it takes thousands of years so its obviously not ideal. I guess I just didn't make the numbers as clear as you wanted. I don't see how that makes you freak out so much but okayyyyy.
WhatTheHeckAnimation 6 months ago
@MrKovlad hold on did you think you were talking to the idiot who posted "the world will never run out of oil" right above my reply? cuz if you did that's not me that's "ImoenOfTelengard" your gunna wanna be telling this to
WhatTheHeckAnimation 6 months ago
@WhatTheHeckAnimation There is enough oil in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming, in the Green River Formation to last over 100 yrs, at America`s current, 20 million barrel a day usage. Its "shale oil". You fucking morons are worrying about how long it takes for a dead squirrel to turn into a quart of Penzoil 10-30W?
luvcheney1 5 months ago
@luvcheney1
You're saying that the US goes out its way to import oil just for fun?
Why do we bow to Saudi Arabia for oil when we don't need to? Obviously, we use more oil than we can produce domestically. Pretty soon, the world will use more oil than the Earth can be produce.
Judas1of12 5 months ago
@Judas1of12 The US demands more oil than our Corporations are able to produce here in the States. Not because it doesnt exist, but because it is illegal to do so. Permitting, EPA, etc. Govt prohibitions. Few nations on earth behave this way. Most all see financial benefits in producing resources. We see political benefits in stopping oil exploration and development.
luvcheney1 5 months ago
@luvcheney1
What are u talking about? Its got nothing to do with the EPA. Only a minute amount of oil is inaccessible because they are on wildlife preserves, public parks etc. Plus, its a good thing not to destroy those places for a little bit of oil. When talking about a natural resource like oil, there are are the cheap easy to get to oil, and the more expensive harder to get to oil. We've run out of cheap oil. Thats why we import so much oil. Get the facts staight.
Judas1of12 5 months ago
@Judas1of12 Oil is available all over in shallow waters, but rich people who live on the water bitch. Plenty in Alaska too, but environmentalists prefer making corps drill in deep, deep water way offshore, where it is expensive, dangerous and difficult. Why? Dont scare the squirrels.
luvcheney1 5 months ago
@luvcheney1 You are making extraordinary claims. I am for environmentally responsible drilling, I was even present at the first Earth Day in 1970. But there is now way that I would encourage drilling in deep water over shallow water. The proven oil reserves in Saudi Arabia are estimated at 267 billion barrels. Reserves for Alaska are estimated at at most 16 billion barrels. World oil consumption is around 86 million barrels per day, or 31 billion barrels a year. Do the math.
shishkabobby 5 months ago
@shishkabobby Think for a moment. IF you allowed Corps to drill i shallow water, or on land in Alaska, wouldnt that be cheaper, easier than deep water drilling? They drill deep, because it is available, they do NOT, where they cant. Look up the oil in "Green River Formation", in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. About 1.5 Trillion barrels, 800 billion economically viable. Do the math, we have many times more oil than SA.
luvcheney1 5 months ago
@luvcheney1
When are u going to get that there just isn't enough oil even in Alaska, shallow waters, and land preservations in America. The people who are pushing for drilling more in these places are desparate and ignorant. We have been using too much oil. There is no more cheap oil that is WORTH going after. Does it make sense to go after oil that number only in the hundreds of million of barrel (a few weeks worth of oil based on our consumption) and risk destroying our beach or wildlife?
Judas1of12 5 months ago
@luvcheney1
Also, I don't know what you are talking about with the Green River Formation. Those are not cheap oil.
They are low quality shale oil and require a lot of energy therefore money to extract and make useful.
Judas1of12 5 months ago
Oil companies are spreading propaganda that there will always be a steady supply of oil in the future. They then list things like low quality shale oil and tar sands as proof of the abundance of oil. But they don't mention that these are much more expensive to make useful. If you're going after these sources, it means that you're out of the good quality stuff, which means the supply of oil and we know it, with reasonable price, is hitting peak.
Judas1of12 5 months ago
@Judas1of12 Propaganda? Sure......... Go look up Green River. It will be expensive, but the ex- CEO of Shell USA estimates it would be cost effective at over $75 barrel. Thats about the current price. Of course, most of that area is illegal to work. US Govt likes making production illegal. At US 20 million barrel a day usage, that is enough for over 100 years. By then we may have better options, or just go drill elsewhere. Again.
luvcheney1 5 months ago
@luvcheney1
As an example of lies and distortions, take a look at the estimated deposits. They will always use the projected amount underground. But they don't mention that only a fraction of it can actually be mined with current technology. Then they say that the amount will last over a hundred years. But they use the value of current usage forgetting that usage is increasing at a steady rate, add in the boom in China and India, the actual amount maybe less than 25 yrs.
Judas1of12 5 months ago
Respond to this video... Canada is already working it. The Athabasca deposit is largest reservoir of crude bitumen in the world, along with the nearby Peace River and Cold Lake deposits. Together, these oil sand deposits lie under 141,000 square kilometres (54,000 sq mi) of sparsely populated boreal forest and muskeg (peat bogs) and contain about 1.7 trillion barrels (270×109 m3) of bitumen in-place, comparable in magnitude to the world's total proven reserves of conventional petroleum.
luvcheney1 5 months ago
@luvcheney1
You need to stop blaming others, the EPA, the environmentalists, the US gov, landowners who doesn't want a well in their backyard, or the rich people with their beach houses. The ones responsible are us, the consumer of oil. We consume too much oil, beyond what we can can produce ourselves and what the world can supply. And by the way, I wouldn't trust any estimates made by anybody associated with the oil industry. They lie, exaggerate, and distort.
Judas1of12 5 months ago
@Judas1of12 Yes, the evil oil industry. They produce. They fuel our economies, enable the greatest standards of living in all of fucking history. Those evil producers. They need to become politicians, just stealing and redistributing. Or, lawyers, like most in Congress. They are great at redistributing too. Produce? Ha! That was the OLD way. Now, its redistribute.
luvcheney1 5 months ago
@luvcheney1
Not evil, just selfish and greedy. They don't want their industry to decline so they pretend like they will always be the only game in town. And its not toil companies that enabled us to progress. Its cheap oil, the energy source that we relied on for our economic growth, that gave us our progress. But at the same time it has cost us too, because it pollutes, hindered our investment in other energy sources, and we have to depend on foreign oil that hinders our national security.
Judas1of12 5 months ago
@Judas1of12 Any other technology that works cheaper would already have terminated their business. There isnt any. There is no way for them to stop development of hybrids, electric cars, manure mobiles, piss porters, or any other thing an inventor can do. The Prius exists, the Leaf. SO? We buy most of our coffee from foreign sources, our computers, who actually cares? If you want more security, then let the companies go explore and produce. If not, they go elsewhere. Big deal...............
luvcheney1 5 months ago
@luvcheney1
The infrastructure for oil is already in place for over 100 years, so no other technologies can compete. Oil companies lobby Congress to ignore the costs of oil, like pollution, and lie that there's plenty of oil so we see no urgency to develop alternative energy sources. And when we rely on foreign energy, we mostly rely on oil in unstable or dictatorial nations which dictates our foreign policy and makes us less secure. Its way different than buying other foreign goods.
Judas1of12 5 months ago
@Judas1of12 IF other technologies made economic sense NOW, capital would flow into the sources NOW. The REASON capital doesnt flow NOW, is because it does NOT make sense NOW. Oil, nat gas, coal is far cheaper NOW. Yet, as prices rise, for the reasons YOU state, a point will come where those expensive forms of energy DO become competitive, and then capital will flow to them. Why? Greed. And not one second before it makes sense. Why? Greed. You can depend on GREED to solve this.
luvcheney1 5 months ago
@ImoenOfTelengard Just curious - where do you get your figures on world reserves of oil from?
dbrotman 7 months ago
@ImoenOfTelengard Are you living in Disneyland?
dbrotman 7 months ago
after peak, remaining oil will be controlled by (police) States & Military, not free market.
walter0bz 8 months ago 11
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@walter0bz It is already controlled by Military and Police States. What was Qaddafy about? Saddam? Ahmadinejad? Saud? And, whose military might be that be for all that?
planckbrandt 5 months ago
@walter0bz It already is
Denoomi 1 month ago
"It's a system built on an infinite rate of increase against a finite resource base"
Sounds familiar. Thats what we did with housing prices, too.
Puke.
HopeForPeaceNow 8 months ago
The thing that most concerns me is that China is working very closely with Iran to foil our little plan in the ME. Things were working well all spring... until now. We've got world-wide heavy sanctions ruining Iran's economy, and suddenly China steps up further the pipeline plans / friendship building with Iran. If they get a pipeline system for crude and/or NG through Pakistan before we get the job done (which should take another 10 months or more), plan B is "AirSea Battle" (Google that).
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Since Obama has been in office, gas is up 87% ($1.34/gallon in Feb. 2009 to the national average of $3.58 today). Last week in Ca , I paid $4.19 it will be over $5.00 by Christmas... it will not go down.
Remember, Obama said his plan would cause energy prices to “skyrocket.” This is one promise he has kept.
onstageagain 9 months ago
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Since Obama has been in office, gas is up 87% ($1.34/gallon in Feb. 2009 to the national average of $3.58 today). Last week in Ca , I paid $4.19 it will be over $5.00 by Christmas... it will not go down.
Remember, Obama said his plan would cause energy prices to “skyrocket.” This is one promise he has kept.
onstageagain 9 months ago
Eventually oil will run out period. At that point countries will have to rely on coal, natural gas, wind, nuclear, hydro-electric, etc. The countries investing in the infrastructure for these alternatives to OIL will be the ones who survice and dominate the new world order.
Lucianomarq 9 months ago
What everyone is missing, is that the US imports large quatities of oil, but doesn't pump its own reserves down. Why, simple answer, run out the oil that other countries are producing now. When these countries no longer have oil to sell, they will collapse. The US as well as many other countries will have their own reserves to use. He who has the oil runs the world. OPEC dictates the price now, but wait about 30 years when the members of OPEC dry up, then what will become of them?
Lucianomarq 9 months ago
4 dollars a gallon of petrol!
wow that's cheap...and they're complaining!
in france it's about 2.30 dollars a liter!
metamaggot 10 months ago
@metamaggot in the uk it's probably about 3 dollars a liter
metamaggot 10 months ago
@velcroglove well in that case...were have all the good assasins gone?
kakmolnia 10 months ago
AMERICA 4% of the worlds population creating 25% of the worlds pollution through greed and ego..let's have a million man match demanding the removal of ronald fat fuck Mc Donald
hebay2 10 months ago
Peak Oil is a huge scam. Just like americas "global warming" scam. Russians proved that oil is a mineral and not a fossil feul. Petroleum is a renewable source. I wish all the idiotic conspiracy theorist would just give it a break already. Everything conspiracy theorist say is wrong...global warming, illuminati, peak oil bla bla bla shut up already! shit who pays u idiots
kakmolnia 10 months ago
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SgtThom 10 months ago
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@kakmolnia
Everything you just said here is non-sensical and have no barren of proof. Stuff like this have been taught in science middle-high school. I'm guessing you ether never paid attention or simply failed school. Global warming have been found in the past and been documented. See Third major Extinction. It was the result of high increase in temperature and lack of ozone layer to protect the animals plants.
SgtThom 10 months ago
@kakmolnia
Everything you just said here is non-sensical and have no barren of proof. Stuff like this have been taught in science middle-high school. I'm guessing you ether never paid attention or simply failed school. Global warming have been found in the past and been documented. See Third major Extinction. It was the result of high increase in temperature and lack of ozone layer to protect the animals plants.
SgtThom 10 months ago
@SgtThom .. im pretty sure american education is very low compared to europes. I passed high school here in america easily without and problems haha...global warming is bull shit just like all the other propoganda america teaches. Al Gore has been proven wrong about global warming.... While we are on the subject of oil....let me tell you a little secret ...why do u think america invaded iraq? lol ...well its simple...saddam started trading oil in euro's..,,,,
kakmolnia 10 months ago
@SgtThom This would destroy americas economy within 5 yrs. Dont you realize that the dollar isnt worth shit unless oil is traded in the american dollar...thats the only reason it has any value right now...if this changed hyper inflation would hit and you would be fked... america wouldnt be able to buy oil cause the dolla wouldnt be worth sht...and than the "peak oil" bs would sound pretty good lol..but the american public would never know...just go back to the stone age lol
kakmolnia 10 months ago
@kakmolnia We'll see about that later, won't we?
chuckbyf1 9 months ago
what is this lady talking about. I can't stop yawning.
sqlmstr58 11 months ago
How is the human race disgusting? By what metric can you measure our "disgusting'ness". We're doing what we do because it's... what we do! I don't think we're anymore disgusting than bacteria decimating its food supply in uncontrolled growth. I will agree the human race being contemptible to some degree, afterall we saw this coming long ago...appropriate preparations could have saved a lot of grief. Whatever! I'm just a spectator in all of this. Bring on the apocalypse!
PrimalPrime0 11 months ago
I love the idea of peak oil its one more reminder that people will one day die by the billions and they fuckin deserve it. I can't wait to whole populations ravaged by infection, people murdering eachother for scraps of food. People love it when a criminal gets the chair well i say this is the comsic capitol punishment for the whole disgusting human race
richardfuck 11 months ago
@noobcrusher141 The U.S. uses 20,000 barrels per day. The entire planet uses 85,000 barrels per day. The U.S. has 8 years of oil reserves left. Iraq has the second largest reserve in the world (after Saudi Arabia) with 10 billion barrels which will last 142 years. Good thing the government and media lied about WMD's and invaded Iraq to keep us in oil....
planet9 1 year ago
@planet9
The world consumes 85 million barrels a day not 85,000 barrels a day. Watch the movie called "collapse" by Michael Ruppert an eye opener to the peak oil.
dontxspeed 1 year ago
@planet9 lmao 20,000 barrels a day? Where are you getting your facts from? The united states uses 9 billion barrels a day for transportation alone.
humandelusion 1 year ago
@humandelusion million*
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planet9 1 year ago
We will never run out of oil. Never, never, never. Today it is around $90 per barrel. In the future it will be $90 per drop. It will never run out. But it will price many people out.
kw0s 1 year ago 3
Colin Campbell in his 8 part interview (yes, I watched them all) was a captivating speaker who explained in laymans terms the whole peak oil business as well as educating this non-geologist on the reality of oil prospecting and production, Well done Mr Campbell! It is well worth watching.
jjstoney1 1 year ago
It's all about food production and transport..... Post peak oil we might be able to feed 2-3 billion in a sustainable way but that's pushing it. It will be interesting to see what the people in first world nations are willing to give up when when they see large parts of continents starving.....
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago 85
@MrEnergyCzar
why would it be interesting? you dont know what will happen?
AntiVenomFangX 9 months ago
@MrEnergyCzar - I think it's more like 2.165135477 billion, and we'll need to get sustainable by March 18th 2012 at 6:15PM and 831 microseconds. I think Microsoft's stock will grow by 13.848487% after their earnings report, so I may invest 13571 dollars and 8 cents in their stock. That's pushing it.
CHUCKYCHUCKYBOBUCY 9 months ago
@MrEnergyCzar the majority of the population lives in easily controlled cities like new york. They will be the first to starve, leaving the rest of the rural world.
lastmondaypast1 8 months ago
@lastmondaypast1 Possibly be shot trying to escape the police state/chaos/starvation or sit around and definitely starve to death
MrGnarus 7 months ago
@MrGnarus they will try to migrate, but they will starve or just become exhausted. I don't believe in the police state. Only way that could happen is if all the police were given some sort of crazy drug, Like when the kamikazes were given large amounts of meth. But the US is screwed with there gmo crops and land thats barely usable anymore.
lastmondaypast1 7 months ago
@lastmondaypast1 Police are given a drug. It is called power coupled with authority and orders it is the perfect receipt to achieve compliance. Don't believe people will follow orders look up the Milgram Experiments/study
MrGnarus 7 months ago
@MrEnergyCzar Where do you get the 2-3 billion number?
whaaaaateverful 6 months ago
@MrEnergyCzar I will keep my V-8 Ford. What you had for lunch isnt any of my business any more than what I drive is of yours.
luvcheney1 5 months ago
@MrEnergyCzar It is already controlled by Military and Police States. What was Qaddafy about? Saddam? Ahmadinejad? Saud? And, whose military might be that be for all that?
planckbrandt 5 months ago
The economy today means energy. All other forms of commerce is the direct result of cheap and abundant energy. People will not be told when peak oil has arrived, it will just happen to them. We may be forced back to a sub-billion population if we don't get the fossil fuel substitute sorted out soon, and that will be one of mankind's most important undertakings to date. Strange times we may see. The whole planet is connected to this.
TheNorweiganHippie 1 year ago
***HEMP IS THE ANSWER!***
We can get fuel, food, plastics, oils, insulation, textiles, paper, and thousands of other superior products. It can end our dependency on foreign oil that fund extremist regimens and terrorism. It can solve our deforestation problem as virtually no tree would have to be cut down for its products. Why are we humans so dumb? When are we going to get out of our way? This incredible plant had been used for thousands of years.Making hemp illegal is a crime against humanity.
djlazlow1 1 year ago 2
@djlazlow1 I have....hmmm......used the hemp plant for other purposes so far. I know I always heard it made good rope too!
TheNorweiganHippie 1 year ago
@TheNorweiganHippie Yeah, that's usually the only use most people think it has. I ran out of characters otherwise I would've added how it's also medicine for our soul, mind, and body.
djlazlow1 1 year ago
@djlazlow1
Hemp is an answer on a small scale. With more than 6 Billion people hemp would only support a small fraction of them. Oil is in everything. It's in your tires, it paints your house, it delivers water to your kitchen, it's the reason you can see this text right now. We cannot continue the path of infinite growth. No matter what we do there will be a collapse. The best thing is to just prepare for it. Start growing organic local food. Stock up on solar equipment and electric heaters.
DethPandable 1 year ago
@DethPandable Netflix? Hemp Revolution? Collapse? Among other interesting findings on Netflix, Awesome! and Agreed!
Jedwardkakin 1 year ago
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DethPandable 1 year ago
@Jedwardkakin
I did just recently watch Collapse lol. Michael C. Ruppert makes a very compelling argument. The realization of finite resources versus infinite growth is heavy shit. I died a little on the inside when I came to realize a large portion of us will perish. It's just sad that wasteful governments seem to be amping up the social control for when it happens. Either man or nature shall reduce the population. I just hope it's nature.
DethPandable 1 year ago
Peak Oil, is about Controlling the minds & will of the masses through fear. This is a hoax predicated upon the masses to keep them trembling before their rich, elitist masters. Without oil we die, if they are willing to pull the plug on oil, billions will perish, there will be chaos, war, total anarchy. I call the bluff of these elitists motherfuckers do it! They need us more than we need them! Time is running out for the master, his name is Satan. Christ is coming soon. Praise Him!
persevere67 1 year ago
@persevere67 - it was our ancestors fault for becoming dependant on a distant resource and using it to multiply beyond the capacity of more local, personally controllable resources.
Even if oil wasn't finite, the hazard of excessive dependance should have put you off.
walter0bz 1 year ago
@persevere67 doubt it.
TACGNOLTACGNOL 11 months ago
Most of preparing for peak oil is psychological. Tell your kids they will not live like you did unless they get into that top 1% wealth so they can buy whatevery resources they want.
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago
KK guys, without oil, well still survive, ur all stupid cuz u cant realize that humans only were living with oil in out modern lives for about 150 years. What about the old days, how did we live huh?
sabzz23 1 year ago
@sabzz23
With 5 billion fewer mouths to feed and a world rich in easy to access resources.
Weaseldog2001 1 year ago
@sabzz23
>>"What about the old days, how did we live huh?"
- we lived by having under 800million mouths to feed.
oil made the billions of extra people possible (petrochem agriculture) - thats the problem.
walter0bz 1 year ago 2
@walter0bz
Your the only person I have come across on YT who understands the conection between oil and the rapid increase in earths population.
29Gixxer 1 year ago
@29Gixxer -
frustrates me when people can't see it.
but it should be obvious with fairly basic education.
our complexity (our bodies & our civilization) is a function of the energy we can harness. and the end result of any organism is turning fuel(food) into entropy.
People make the mistake of attributing the progress purely to 'human ingenuity' omitting the contribution of millions of years of dead plants... many of natures machines are far more sophisticated and efficient than ours
walter0bz 1 year ago
@29Gixxer I know, I know too! Green revolution=hydrocarbon fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. Not to mention phosphorus peak (at least it can be recycled). Simple really: less hydrocarbon energy=less food. We'll have to get by on our yearly dose of sunshine instead of our magic concentrated fossils.
jjstoney1 1 year ago
@walter0bz
i have read about a guy that predicted that world's population will die out from 900milion to 300 million, that was before the industrial revolution happened :) thanks to industry we were able to expand so drastically and feed such a huge increase in population
urungu21 9 months ago
@urungu21 -
thanks to FOSSIL FUELS - they just defered the die off.
if we get fusion, sure we can continue - but how much money are you willing to bet on that.
Are you investing your life savings in fusion research?
would you be willing so sign something saying: if we DONT get fusion, you starve before me?
walter0bz 9 months ago
Peak Oil = Peak Humans
walter0bz 1 year ago 3
Conservatives are the most selfish babies on earth. They refuse to drive less, to go vegan to prevent the needless murder of animals, to make the most insignificant sacrifices such as buying products not tested on animals that would have the most significant impacts. Then these same irresponsible conservatives demand the government bail them out, giving TRILLIONS of dollars to unnecessary military contractors or the NSA, so the conservatives can have jobs doing crap we don't need.
deskset24 1 year ago
Circumstantial evidence of Peak Oil:
1) Merger mania in the late 90's. Less oil to find so you gobble up your competition.
2) No new refineries built in the US since the 70's. Less crude to refine.
3) US occupation of Iraq. Would we be there if Iraq's main export was hemp or jute?
4) Oil companies going to deeper waters, more remote & unstable regions.
5) Global Discovery Peak in 1963. You can't produce what you can't find.
6) Secrecy in posting actual OPEC oil reserves.
rdsanchez1966 1 year ago 3
there is a shortage of oil but if the united
States would open up drilling for oil in the East and west Coast. Today you can not drill for oil on the East or west Coast ! There is a estimate of 2 Trillion Barrels of oil waiting to be drilled for. No one will say anything about it, for it is not drilled for by the Tree Huggers are holding back on drilling in that area ! if we drilled for oil in that area gasoline will go to 50 Cents a Gallion ! when ask about it, you will be told go away !
turtle4aire 1 year ago
@turtle4aire You blame the tree huggers and government regulation. If you were coming from the left you would blame OPEC and the oil companies of with holding oil from the market. Both premises are less relevant in light of resource draw down. The US is one of the most heavily explored regions of the world (since 1859). If there are mega fields remaining we would have found them by now. If you think we are in Iraq simply to get rid of a dictator you are mistaken. We bank rolled Saddam in the 80s
rdsanchez1966 1 year ago
@rdsanchez1966 "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."-Albert Einstein
neehahsq 1 year ago
@turtle4aire haha, if there is such a great amount of oil, then tehre are other reasons than your so called "tree huggers". economic doesnt care about that issue. and if goverment would say: we cut the trees and drill for oil OR we send our youth in war, what do u think ppl would vote for? what the hell cost a gallon in usa, in germany we pay around 1,40€ per liter. that would be around 7$ per gallon.
domdadon018 1 year ago
@turtle4aire
When you invent there numbers out of thin air, do you believe that God follows your orders and creates the oil to match? Does God change the world to fit you imagination?
Weaseldog2001 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
good video
if you want to know the true scale of this crisis see this
youtube.com/watch?v=ZEYUxOGPm-0
vengance89 1 year ago
the deniers have no idea how fast the world consumes oil
They think 175 billion barrels is a lot. I'd last a couple of years if it was the exclusive source.
The EIA admits that peak oil occurred in 2006
nellre 1 year ago
I agree with you 100%,alot of people do not realize how big the 'oil sands' of Alberta really is.I have been working in the business for a number of years and see it first hand.The really big problem facing Albertans,Canadians and the rest of the world is water.Some of the facilities up here are looking at using 8 barrels of water to produce 1 barrel of oil only to an 'up-graded' stage,it still has to be refined further after that.A good book to read,'Tar Sands" Andrew Nikiforuk.God have mercy.
sportyrabbit2008 1 year ago
Peak oil is the biggest hoax of modern times,come up to Alberta and see 175 billion barrels we have to sell to pretty well anyone.There has been not even a hiccup in the economy,let alone a recession.I make $8000 a month driving truck,and there is such a shortage of workers here,companies are paying workers to commute clear across the country after a 2 week shift.The amount of reserves is truly staggering,yes there is a shortage of the inexpensive West Texas Light Crude, learn about Alberta !!!!
sportyrabbit2008 1 year ago
LIfe will be hard, sometimes very hard, but I can't say it can be much worse than living in the sick society we have today. Hopefully we learn our lessons this time.
ubbecykelkedja 1 year ago
@ubbecykelkedja As of spring 2008,the Tar Sands in Northern Alberta produced 1.3 million barrels a day.Expansion and new projects will add 3 million barrels a day to southbound pipelines by 2015.Many forecasts expect the tar sands to reach 5 million barrels a day by 2030.The Alberta government has a plan to accelerate to 8 million barrels a day 2050.In 2004 Canada surpassed Saudi Arabia as the #1 exporter of oil to the U.S.Yes,Canada exports more oil to the U.S. than anyone else.
sportyrabbit2008 1 year ago
@sportyrabbit2008 Peak oil a hoax? Are you aware of that our sick civilization wants infinite, exponential growth, 6000 years and counting? Do you understand that the neverending increasing demand is the big problem? That's the whole point, increase in production CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THE FASTER INCREASE IN DEMAND, it only makes us run out of all oil faster.
Infinite growth in a system with finite resources leads to WHEN things go to hell, not IF. Our ancient civilization is fundamentally flawed.
ubbecykelkedja 1 year ago
@ubbecykelkedja We are going to get to a point where the air is un-breathable,we run out of water,and massive crop failures around the world,all of this we will see in our life time.If you knew what I know about the oil and gas biz in Alberta,the hair on the back of your neck would stand up,and have a sick feeling.Dear God,have mercy on us,and our children.we WILL NOT run out of oil before we kill everything with the pollution we are going to create.PEACE
sportyrabbit2008 1 year ago
@sportyrabbit2008 The question is when our society will perish, not if. Agreed. Our ancient love for wealth and growth will destroy us. Wealth corrupts the human mind and those have the always had the most influence. But no one is actually in control. Our "civilization" brings destructive brutality, cynicism, chaos and barbarism, under the illusion of order and safety.
We have to realize, what we see as huge problems, are not the same as our ancient system sees as problems. It promotes them.
ubbecykelkedja 1 year ago 2
Word is out: zombie apocalypse on the way.
samreznek 1 year ago
I live in an oil and gas area of Canada. Thanks to oil the city I live in is dripping with money. It's nice. A friend of mine that owns a small oil company which produces only 200 barrels a day suggests if the price gets high enough they'll figure out a way to "wring it from the air".
HBOMB99 1 year ago
@HBOMB99 "wring it from the air" -- I'd like to see that. Not gonna happen though.
featherjackMaine 1 year ago
@HBOMB99 Hey,Peak oil.....................what a freakin joke ! As a fellow Albertan,we both know this is just hype to inflate prices.Alot of people are really being brainwashed.The bitumen producing zone in Northern Alberta contains approx. 175 BILLION barrels in proven reserves,or about 1/4 the land mass of Alberta.Tar sands investments equals around $200 Billion dollars.Yes,there is a shortage of the cheap oil,no amount of dead ducks landing on tailings ponds will slow this down.
sportyrabbit2008 1 year ago
@HBOMB99 seems rather naive idea to me...
urungu21 9 months ago
Thank god we have a military complex to extract resources from other countries.... Let's hope they won't get too mad at us or China won't mind.
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago
@MrEnergyCzar ..........??? WTF ? Is the U.S. military extracting oil from the Tar Sands in Nothern Alberta.......FYI..........Canada surpassed Saudi Arabia in oil exports to the U.S. in 2004.If this is a little hard for you to understand,it simply means Canada supplies more oil to the U.S. than any other country in the world.Please educate yourself,with all respect I realize that the media is not giving out the real facts.Come up to Alberta(that's in Canada)and see for yourself.
sportyrabbit2008 1 year ago
this is all because of fat people and their fat kids, im going to eat them when the food runs out
lucasleivia 1 year ago
@lucasleivia I heerd the fat muscle bulge between the thumm and the wrist is the tastiest meat on a human, specially after you broily it. I don't know this 1st hand, I jest heerd it from somebody else
DancingSpiderman 1 year ago
if only Chindia didn't want to drive and live like us......
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago 3
fuck, one generation too old to fully enjoy the oil one generation to joung to be mad max...
elmaxidelsur 1 year ago 26
Speculation
Mystery207 1 year ago
This video shows that while demand will be able to be met for a while by deeper ocean wells, thicker oil that is more expensive to produce, and tar and shale, those are more expensive ways to meet demand, which will cause the prices to rise. Even if the peak can be held off until 2030, they rise in prices will cause major problems in the world. Coal is a very dirty alternative. We need alternative fuel systems now, not when the rising prices cause the world to fall apart.
ziggyisme 1 year ago
She is perfectly understandable to me, in spite of her French (?) accent.
duck24x 1 year ago
Get micheal Rupperts book Collapse to learn more about peak oil
xxtupzxx 1 year ago
@xxtupzxx I enjoy Michael Rupperts documentary.
He cries like a baby at one point, whilst he's chain smoking like a 40's gangster.
DancingSpiderman 1 year ago
Rightwing conservatives are not mentally able of doing math. They cannot conceive of finite resources. They have been the biggest bunch of selfish freeloaders throughout history. If they can't get what they want from someone else, they use big government militaries to take it by force and rely on slavery. They refuse to take responsibility for their actions: polluting the environment & warming the globe.
duck24x 1 year ago 4
Solar, nuclear, wind power? It still takes OIL to produce all of that - for the transportation of the materials for the construction of infrastructure, and the materials themselves. Since the US doesn't produce much anymore, then oil will have to be used to move those materials overseas on ships that use oil as well.
Tirius9393 1 year ago
It's really sad that Gautier, the first speaker, sounds and presents so horrible. Her accent is annoying, and the audio processing makes it even worse. Next time find someone who can present the facts better than this, and get a good audio engineer and do a proper soundcheck before you start recording an event like this. Such a waste of knowledge and money!
Meowbay 1 year ago
@Meowbay "It's really sad that Gautier, the first speaker, sounds and presents so horrible. "
I think you meant to say "horribly" rather than "horrible".
You've never been to a scientific conference before, have you? They always have people with thick accents, and the audio is usually iffy. Scientific discovery is NOT about audio engineering. You would probably have a hard time getting your thoughts together, too with all that stuff to learn, and speech to memorize, etc. Don't be a jerk.
ManicEightBall 1 year ago
@ManicEightBall No, I really meant to write that she sounds horrible, both the audio job is done bad, as well as the way she presents the facts. I'm only giving an honest and valid authoritative opinion (because I know a lot about the subjects I'm criticizing). The fact that you can't handle the truth is not my problem, and has nothing to do with my intellect. Which is obviously much higher than yours. I'm not being a jerk, you are. A pitiful one at that.
Meowbay 1 year ago
Guys, nothing to worry about. Again, when the price is right ($100 per barrel or so) we have new solar technology that is as cheap as coal (about $1 per watt). With the creation of better batteries, and quality electric substitutes for every gas powered device.
The fix can happen almost overnight as the price skyrockets. there will be a little pain, but not that much.
clubadv 1 year ago
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kevinwayte 1 year ago
@clubadv It's not that simple. Electricity didn't cause the population to go from 1 billion people to 7 billion people. The oil age did. People have to stop thinking about gasoline, cars, and lawnmowers as the problem to solve. All plastic is from oil. 8 gallons oil in every tire. Mass crop production is solely based on oil (fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides, seeders, harverters, etc).
kevinwayte 1 year ago
@clubadv 747's won't run on batteries. Bye bye global airlines. Warships, tanks, militaries can't run on batteries. Bye bye big battle weapons, missiles. You can't forge steel without searing melt furnaces (electric furnaces? Electric elements don't get that hot - or they'd melt themselves!) Bye bye skyscrapers and steel infrastructure.
kevinwayte 1 year ago 3
@clubadv You have to think of the world just before oil. Where we were. Then add electricity. But we're still back to farming with mules & horses, human labour, wooden structures, fire & hand-forged metals, zero rubber, zero plastic, and a world population that cannot be sustained on traditional farming. It cannot be fed. We'll be dead, but within 60-100 years, these are the realities when crude is gone.
kevinwayte 1 year ago 2
EVery time the economies of the world threaten to go back into growth mode the price of oil will go up due to expected higher demand the high price of oil will kill the economic growth. But each swing of the pendulum between growth and recession will be greater. During each recession/depression the chances of civil disorder if not outright revolution or war between nations will increase.
TheRadicalLiberal 1 year ago 2
In the long term the only good thing you can say about the next 100 years is that the human population will drop to whatever is sustainable, probably less than 10% of what it currently is.
TheRadicalLiberal 1 year ago 2
There used to be a lot of Oil under Texas and it is pretty much gone. Wells dry up and there is only so many Oil fields and the amount of Oil is very limited.
vpaczkowski 1 year ago
Honestly, if the peak oil collapse manages to weed out the internet troll generation via starvation, I say bring it on, and fast!
SkygreenLeopard 1 year ago 3
@SkygreenLeopard Thankfully, most internet trolls do not reproduce (don't know how, couldn't get a date).
duck24x 1 year ago
@SkygreenLeopard Not fast enough, though. The non-trolls: those who have taken anthropogenic GW seriously since 1990 and the AMAZINGLY "difficult" concept of finite resources, as I have, will be starved out, too. We gotta deliberately starve and execute the anti-enviromentalists NOW.
duck24x 1 year ago
anybody seen collapse?
screenflicker1 1 year ago
There is enough new reserves in Northern Albert Canada alone to supply Canada for 500 years. In one province. Saudi says it could more than double it's output if inclined. Turns out Iraq may have the largest reserves in the world and the US has Iraq. The US has enough Coal and Natural Gas to last 100 years plus, easy!
itisaduck 1 year ago
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BubbaGump332 1 year ago
@itisaduck the fact that we are in iraq means that we must need to be. second the fact that we are exploring even more must mean that people in the know are worried about depletion. canada's oil is in shale which is harder to extracted the oil and will only get harder to retrieve
MrGnarus 1 year ago
@MrGnarus My point is we are not peaking nor will we be peaking in your lifetime. This peaking scare is a leftist idea with the intent to slow the USA in order to allow our enemies to advance on us. You think you were being educated when in fact you were programed. We have many sources of energy which are being used now. My state has 34 Geothermal electric plants, for example. Oil is abundant but we must go after it. We have more coal than any other country.
itisaduck 1 year ago
@itisaduck "go after it" lol, perfect analogy for Iraq. You know Dick Cheney takes Peak Oil very seriously right ? He *did* work for Haliburton.
Being programmed, what a laugh, like you haven't been programmed from the 1800's to believe that America is the greatest and we deserve the best and we're invincible ? Limits to growth you idiot they're a reality however painful it is and however much whining and killing you do!
dhymers 1 year ago 2
@itisaduck Saudis are now drilling offshore, Gwar is drying up, you think they'd want us to know that ? The Bakken formation for which you cite the ridiculous 500yr figure is ugly, bastard hard to refine SHALE, you think thats going to save us and be nice and cheap like it is today ? face-palm. The peak is not going to come because of lack of oil, its lack of CHEAP oil, and it will cause a contraction in growth. You think its a GOOD thing we went and ass-fucked Iraq ? you cold bastard !
dhymers 1 year ago
I live in Des Moines, Iowa. A mega-millionaire car conglomerate is opening the first dealership in America that sells cheap, chinese made cars under $10,000 that get 50 mpg - they guarantee credit approval to anyone with a job. It will be the Walmart of cars. Pretty soon, everybody will be forced to buy one due to their financial position. Globalization - helping spread poverty everywhere while making the rich richer.
mycatisromeo 1 year ago
Most countries that produce oil are past their production peaks (including the U.S.)...it's only a matter of time when tar sands, heavy oils etc...won't be able to replace the easy stuff we built our world on...
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago 3
My parents have horses. Sweeet.
Johnsonville87 1 year ago
lol. my parents have camels thank God!
gaajo99 1 year ago
You're parents are dune coons.
ALP5050 1 year ago
lol
Youmakemefart 1 year ago
We are all going to die.
SuddenCatharsis 1 year ago 46
@SuddenCatharsis To quote King Arthur from Monty Python and The Holy Grail, `RUN AWAY!!!`
NewYorkCanWait 1 year ago
@SuddenCatharsis This should be called peak greed and the decline of the middle class.Where is the expert Petroleum Geologist Jeffrey J. Brown. I don't understand Nazi!! That's a pun
Mystery207 1 year ago
@SuddenCatharsis BEST - YOUTUBE - POST - EVER! LOL!
openuniverse2003 1 year ago
@SuddenCatharsis ARE YOU THREATENING ME?
I weel trade my oil for your T.P.
T.P. for my BungHole.
My people, we have but one BungHole.
DancingSpiderman 1 year ago
@SuddenCatharsis Well yeah I knew that... I just didnt realise I was going to starve to death :D
qarkaserd 1 year ago
Speak english please!!!
booktop 1 year ago
What the hell? The Liberals told me the price of oil was controlled by George Bush. Now you're tell me it's supply and demand. Ah gees, I don't know what to believe now.
supermoto804 1 year ago