Oil Outlook

Oil suppliers are tightening taps, with Jeff Rubin, CIBC World Markets chief economist. His views are very similar to the Export Land Model proposed by Jeff Brown (http://graphoilogy.blogspot.com/2007/09/declining-net-oil-exports-temporary.htm­l).

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News & Politics

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• peak
• oil
• exports

[s0cks1985]

A lot of people just don't get it. They'll be the ones blaming governments and crying and whining because its too expensive to drive the SUV, or they can't get the really cheap TV made in China, and the grocery bill is more than 1/10th of their annual income!! Its not just the end of oil, its the end of these dream we've all been living.

[Epicx1984]

3:37 "we can just invade Canada"... Fck you buddy.

[Flagstaff12]

3:37 Well said, and in typical American fashion. Funny how their first reaction is through violence, than by other means. Surely he's joking (hopefully), but you get the point.

[Binoplus]

Jeff nailed it. His book is a must read!

[acsial]

His employer has been lobbying to nearly DOUBLE our immigration rates, to 400k a year.

No amount of New Urbanist densification will arrest the urban sprawl and loss of farmland that adding hundreds of thousands of people annually causes. More people also means more freshwater and food use, more CO2 emissions (warm-climate immigrants to Canada need fossil fuel energy for home heating) and, yes, more cars.

We need a serious, un-PC reconsideration of our immigration policies, above all else,

[RandomishhOne]

just finished jeff's new book. pretty eye opening

[mrslair]

This was said before the 2008 oil spike. Good job Mr Rubin

[mikey71]

gladly no-one laughed

[drmodestoesq]

Wow indeed, its amazing how we "Peak Oilers" can just sit back and let the facts speak for themselves. All the opposition has is woolly headed belief in boosterism and consumerism. As Dick Cheney said, "The American way of life is non-negotiable." And as James Kunstler said, "Sometimes people who refuse to negotiate have a negotiating partner; and that negotiating partners is named reality.

[postpeakman]

If you are new to this topic, check out the work of Dr. Albert Bartlett, the man is a genius and he explains it quite well.

Then watch a few interviews with Richard Heinberg, Matt Simmons, check out theoildrum dot com and the ASPO site relevant to your region.

Then -very important!- DON'T FREAK OUT MAN! Yes, this is happening now, but there is still time to act. There are many things that need to be done, work out what skills you need to learn and what actions you need to take, then do it.

[postpeakman]

Regarding this unproven energy source, yes, it sounds promising in theory...

But how much energy is it going to take to retrieve it?

Sorry, H3 from the moon sounds about as feasible to me as magical self-recharging energy jewels from leprechauns...