Memo to Robert Hirsch

[Brooma100]

TRUST ME It was reverse psychology

[Brooma100]

Trust me, It was reverse psychology

[PeakOilCountdown]

BEST

VIDEO

EVER .

[cyclenut]

OH MY GOD! RIDE A BIKE. Ha Ha Ha....

Ignorence is bliss - it really is. But I find biking to work to be a very blissfull experance.

Peak oil is a problem to me too, I need tires, chains and breaks that oil is used to make.

It makes since to me to CHANGE america to a bicycle country and make the oil last for maybe a hundred or two years.

[KrunchyJD]

@cyclenut Peak oil will not be an issue for bicycles until long after it is an issue for cars, keep on riding mate. I ride more now then I drive, although my weekend job requires driving, it may have to go/ change. when you suggest people ride a bike it seems as though you are asking them to be tortured or something, judging by many of the reactions I get.

[shox007]

Yeah, like Rob Hirsch is the enemy!! He's written up a report for the US government warning about peak oil, he educated leading citizens and he received the 2009 ASPO award for his commitment towards dealing with the issue. He's one of the few leading men who actually care enough to devote his precious time to preparing people!!!!

Why don't you stop posting this crap and talk to the trees instead. If they could talk back they would tell you to shut up. Stupid girl!

[christo930]

We have yet to find the biggest source of energy the earth has to offer, it's even bigger than Saudi Arabia! It's going to take high prices to make it feasible though.

It's the newly discovered conservia field and it can peak out at over 20mb/d, let's get drilling.

[KrunchyJD]

@christo930 Um, keep on dreaming. 20mb/d right!

[christo930]

@KrunchyJD You don't think it's possible to conserve 20mb/d? You think we actually NEED all this oil we use? We have the technology and the infrastructure to allow a large chunk of the workforce to work from home.

[KrunchyJD]

@christo930 The peak of World oil discoveries was in 1960 from then on fewer and fewer new oil discoveries have been made. The Peak of US oil production was in 1970, since then the US has produced less and less. The US consumes 20 Billion barrels per yr.

[christo930]

@KrunchyJD The world peak was probably in 2005 or 2008, depending on what numbers you use. Like it or not, we are all going to have to dig in our heels and conserve oil.

[KrunchyJD]

@christo930 That is probable from the numbers I have seen, although there is a suggestion of 2012. It is trivial though because the peak is around now. Like I said to someone else, why do people hate the idea of riding a bicycle so much though?

I drive, but I also ride a bike when I can. It improves your health, and saves a ton of money, and its good fun!

[christo930]

@KrunchyJD I enjoy bicycling very much, but there are a lot of practical problems using them for transportation. Heavy traffic, sweating, bike theft and other things really relegate bikes to the fun/exercise realm. They do sell electric engines for bikes that make them a little more practical.

[KrunchyJD]

@christo930 Peak oil makes bikes, the most important vehicle. As for sweating, the cost of showers pays for itself in not that much time. The people of Copenhagen bicycle in the SNOW!

Velomobiles are one solution to overcome the rain issue, as a velomobile is basically an enclosed recumbent trike. Heavy traffic will not be there after a few decades post peak oil, and if it is govt should give cyclists more seperated bicycle facilities, to get people out of a car, post peak oil.

[christo930]

@KrunchyJD We have managed to set up a society based on the notion that there will always be an abundance of cheap fuel. Most people live too far from their jobs to bicycle. Taking a bicycle shopping is impossible. Better public transit and electric vehicles would go a LONG way, much more practical than bikes.

[KrunchyJD]

@christo930 In part I agree, but people may have to move, and they may NEED to re- design towns around bicycles. You can take a bike shopping, they do in the Netherlands, Denmark etc. I know a few people where I live who do, they use bike trailers. What about Portland Oregon in the USA, they are a bicycle friendly city?

[KrunchyJD]

@christo930 Im not sure what you are saying here, are you talking about conserving, as in saving 20mb/d due to efficiency or producing that much more oil?

I do know that it is possible for the US to USE MUCH LESS OIL, through working from home, using lighter more efficient vehicles, AND dare I say it riding bicycles. On that we are agreed.

[christo930]

@KrunchyJD Read the name of the field I was talking about... conservia, kind of a joke/play on the word conservation. I don't think Americans will be riding bikes any time soon, but lighter vehicles, better mass transit, more working from home and less sitting in traffic could really make a difference, not 20mb/d for just America, but world wide, sure.

[KrunchyJD]

@christo930 Fair enough, but why is there the resistance to bike riding. I dont understand the big objection to riding a bike. Sure its not practical for long trips, but for shorter trips 5 kms or less a bike is a good option. It uses NO petrol (gasoline).

[LaPandilla01]

you´re hot but i don´t care...

[UnderseaCaveman]

Kris,

OUch.....cool critique!

Check out the show (I posted video on where/how to watch).

The show definitely illuminates how Matt and Robert think quite differently. Matt sounds like he's getting more and more depressed, to the point of resignation (like, "Well, I guess we all have to die sooner or later").

[BubbFromGEI]

Good one, Kris!

"Why would you want them to know...?" Indeed.

Keep them coming.

[fossilman2]

Oh, this is brilliant. Hilarious, except the gravity of it all feeds an undercurrent of dread.

[depoisoned]

I read his memo...it makes no sense. If the economy is rebuilt with the old model of unlimited cheap oil, it will fail, and we will have squandered our investment on a fool's mission. This message MUST be communicated.

[kriscanshow]

thank you!

[SubtUtiles]

Last night I uploaded a copy of this clip with Spanish subtitles. I hope you (kris) dont mind, it's meant to be advertising of your series, which i really like. All the best, a.

/watch?v=1lvtP51XonI

[kriscanshow]

sounds great!

[tryitandpost]

Go oilycassandra!!! I'm your biggest fan!

Yeah!

[kriscanshow]

sorry, I'm not oilycassandra - different person, different video.

kriscan here.

thanks anyway.

cheers!

[panstriato2]

Lets close our eyes and everything will be all right!.

Great video!

[Teratornis]

In 1908, cities in Texas and China had electric trains powered by hydroelectric plants. At that time, the petroleum industry was tiny, and the petrochemical industry was negligible. People were already building sustainable transportation, largely without petroleum. Presumably with 100 years of technological advancement, we can at least do as well as our ancestors did in 1908. But we have to start trying.

[Teratornis]

This is not to say peak oil is not a problem - it is a huge problem. People will almost certainly have to become less physically mobile. Incomes could drop, poor people could starve. But oil as a feedstock for industry is less of an issue than liquid fuels, because feedstock is a smaller use of oil and thus easier to substitute for. Oil came from plants originally, and thus anything you can make from oil you can also make from plants. It just costs more when oil is cheap.

[Teratornis]

The need for oil is primarily economic. Chemical industries have used biofeedstocks for making products including soaps, plastics, lubricants, paints, etc., for more than 100 years. Petroleum became a much larger feedstock because it was cheaper for a while. When it stops being cheaper, industries will switch back to biofeedstocks. The switch will not be cheap or fast, but it is possible.

[valhala56]

Your right, Goverment is going to probaly take a sinister approach to the matter, The

APO people might want to use Social Psycholigists on their teams, of Petroleum engineers,economists,urban planners, and the like to maybe come out with some socital solutions or fixes for this problem.

[SubtUtiles]

this is great! go go kris! 5*

[valhala56]

The experts have made their predictions based on Oil extraction. The consequences of past inaction are dire. The economists, Goverment, oil companies et al have come up with all sorts of statistics and you have experts like Hirish saying maybe it's a bad idea for the govement to let people know what they are in for.

They "Goverment" if their not doing it already should employ social psycholigists to study the best way to approach the population about the problem. Letting it just happen is :(

[tobypocoyowestlake]

You are really helping us get through these dark days. Bless you, mate.

Thank you.

[cozmikzen]

another great one! you're on a roll!

[UnderseaCaveman]

In Hawaii, there is a small group working on solutions.....but, I fear misunderstandings and neglect will rule the day....and solutions will be heard only after significant human casualty and protest! why? Cuz, dumb-ass Narrsistic Politicians and Lawyers rule the day!

So, in the mean time, good comedy is needed! Mahalos Kris!

[Teratornis]

If EEstor can deliver on their press release hype, it might be possible to build new wind turbines using mostly the power from existing wind turbines. EEstor's ultracapacitors provide about 1/4 the effective energy storage density of gasoline, or so the company claims. That would enable trucks and cranes that build wind farms to run off the electricity from wind farms. Wind farms have a rapid energy payback, but they don't yet have a way to pay back the liquid fuels used to build them.

[InnocentByproduct]

Unfortunately, it takes more than mere electricity. Buiding wind turbines requires the blades be forged from very unique and exotic metal alloys. And the smelting of such alloys requires super-high temperatures only achieved via the industrial employemnt of fossil fuels.

We're unable to craft ANY of the items capable of supplying us with alternative energy (wind, solar, even nukes) without a foundational platform of fossil fuel technology underlying/upholding/perpetuat­ing the alt technology.

[Teratornis]

High temperatures can be attained in electric furnaces. Synthetic petroleum can be made from biomass - it just costs more than crude at $50/bbl. Norsk Hydro was making ammonia fertilizer from hydroelectric power before the year 1920. They stopped in the 1970s because natural gas became a cheaper source of hydrogen (via steam reforming). When fossil gets expensive we'll switch back. We can't do it instantly, hence the need for a massive effort now.

[TonyLambregts]

You are sooooo fun.

[sosaut]

This morning I backed into my nieghbour's car... oh crap... ran a stop sign, given a fine... got a parking ticket for a line violation... damn... please don't ask me to look at the gas guage, which BTW was on empty yesterday... I'll just lose it;-/ Still love my car, but using it less... Keep speakin' up Kris, I'm listening. Oil is not just a product, but about nations & power & politics &...

[blvoss]

Haha! Chris, you made by day! Thank you!

And yes, ignorance is definitely bliss.

[dugfriendly]

Well done! Best yet.

[InnocentByproduct]

OMG! Kris! This is your most bitingly and unmercifully funny video yet! I never before saw you go after current events before. And THIS --your debut effort at it-- was spectacular!

[BespokeGroupUK]

The US has enough oil reserves to keep the global economy going for 200 years, but they wont give it to us for economic reasons and the fact that the Globalist Agenda is about the destruction of Humanity and Society not the freeing of society and the deliverance of an expanding global population

[moviestony]

"BespokeGroupUK The US has enough oil reserves to keep the global economy going for 200 years"

ROTFLOL, do you think if there was that amount of oil it would be ignored? No, it would have already been exploited like all the other oil reserves in the US that have been worthwhile to extract.

Get real and leave conspiracy theories to US nuts.

"deliverance of an expanding global population" is exactly why we have so many problems, we have too many people not too few.

[BespokeGroupUK]

.... and they are just not telling you nothign about it. It is an economic gambit and not an energy crisis, just like allthe other crisis that we are given to belive in on a regular basis. Do more youtube searching "energy non-crisis"