Davos Annual Meeting 2009 - Jeroen van der Veer

[kolovee]

I want to form an Alliance with Royal Dutch Shell plc. Working for Shell in the past, I have obtained the necessary skill.

[brisa0725]

It matters not how much oil is in the ground or in what form. What is critical is how much and how soon can it be brought to market; and at what cost both in terms of dollars and energy used to harvest it. Once it takes more than a barrel of oil's worth of energy to get a barrel out of the ground, that field will be abandoned.

Globalization promises the American energy intensive lifestyle to the world, but resource depletion lays bare the ficticious nature of that promise.

[prelan]

anything even near that output ratio is poor for energy economics. it takes two barrels to get three from tar sands, it was one to thirty in the early days of conventional oil production. and there will never be 9 billion people on this earth. don't believe.

[DaveyKiddy]

This whole thing was very obviously scripted. The interviewer is reading his questions and the answers are well rehursed.

[CanyonLakeTX]

You are correct, energy is the only answer.