DON'T WORRY, DRIVE ON: Fossil Fools & Fracking Lies

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In recent months we've seen a spate of assertions that peak oil is a worry of the past thanks to so-called "new technologies" that can tap massive amounts of previously inaccessible stores of "unconventional" oil. "Don't worry, drive on," we're told.

We can fall for the oil industry hype and keep ourselves chained to a resource that's depleting and comes with ever increasing economic and environmental costs, or we can recognize that the days of cheap and abundant oil (not to mention coal and natural gas) are over.

Unfortunately, the mainstream media and politicians on both sides of the aisle are parroting the hype, claiming — in Obama's case — that unconventional oil can play a key role in an "all of the above" energy strategy and — in Romney's — that increased production of tight oil and tar sands can make North America energy independent by the end of his second term.

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[ClarksonsinUSA]

postcarboninstitute Liar - liar....Natural gas and oil is by far the cheapest high performance fuels there are,and the oil and gas companys get more efficient at extracting that fuel every year........postcarboninstitut­e probably has a stock in so called green energy......Natural gas is the king of low cost,anything that runs on diesel or gasoline can run on Natural gas.............Even that said,petroleum will be an important resource in the future...

[postcarboninstitute]

We agree with you: fossil fuels have been the "cheapest," most energy rich resource we've ever discovered. But we've picked the low-hanging fruit. Why do you think we're drilling 18,000 feet down in deep water? Or needing to explode rocks below the ground and inject a bunch of waters and chemicals to get at the stuff?

Yes, technology has made it possible to get at unconventional resources that were previously inaccessible. But it requires higher costs to justify. And they deplete very quickly.

[Borja Flagg Díaz]

Hydrocracking increases the porosity of rocks allowing natural gas rise to the crust for extraction. By my understanding, it probably would make oil (high quality or low quality) diffuse away from the petroleum reservoirs, hence making it harder to extract; countering the info included in the video. This brings a whole new dimension to the argument, such as nat gas being intended to offset our dependence on foreign oil, but I'd hate to mislead the masses. Other than this... good video.

[postcarboninstitute]

Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is used for both shale gas and tight oil (shale oil). The technique, in fact, was first developed for oil. It's true that the characteristics of oil and gas are not the same, but both suffer from very high depletion rates. As a result we have to keep drilling more and more in order to maintain production. This becomes increasingly difficult (and comes with rising environmental and energy costs) as the most concentrated resources are drilled first.

[SPAnsw]

"We've got to wean ourselves off our high-energy lifestyle. We'd be foolish to wait for events to settle the debate once and for all." (2:14) ...And yet the longer we keep campaigning on this cause to so little effect, the more it looks like civilisation will just wait for events to settle things once and for all... Look forward to hearing Richard Heinberg speak the truth to us here in Australia in 2 weeks!

[Lucas Fernández]

good video but is soo short

[Stephen Nielsen]

Oil for products represents a small fraction of the oil that we consume. It is the oil that we BURN that we must get off of. There is nothing nutty in this fundamental truth. BTW, more and more we are able to synthesize petroleum based products using new chemistry techniques.

[robert ludlum]

These envirowingnuts forget that oil is more than gasoline. It is your cellphone, new clothes, new flooring carpeting, TV's etc etc. So much is made from oil that until a real replacement is found, we could not live without it.

[MegaSavethequeen]

excellent video...thank you

[NoEcologyNoEconomy]

Well, "100 years" seems like an eternity to the average person who only seems capable of projecting their own lifetime.

The other big downside to gas drilling is how much land it actually impacts, which is also being lied about in investment portfolios.

[Hexx Bombastus]

Sunlight is even cheaper, inexhaustible, absolutely clean, and given time to develop the right technology for it, even more efficient than oil could ever dream to be.

[GGWdodge simmon]

How can you not buy it we need oil like we need food how you expect to get any where without a car?

[spud5051]

Besides, after "100 years", then what? That's not exactly an eternity.

[ClarksonsinUSA]

Believe what ever you want,you should read up and compare many sources of information....I don't care what you believe...Good day...

[NoEcologyNoEconomy]

Natural gas has much less energy density than oil. It's not a viable substitute for many applications, and it also peaks, as do all fossil fuels. The talk of "100 years of natural gas in America" doesn't stand up to scrutiny when you study well depletion rates. I think Obama bought into that hype prematurely.