Peak Oil - How Will You Ride the Slide?

We've already burned through almost half the world's supply of oil. How will we ride out the slide down the other side of Hubbert's Curve? For more information, go to: http://thefuelfilm.com/ , http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashco... , and
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[Archibald Clapperfield]

This is absolute scaremongering bullshit. I bet you were devastated when the news about fracking came out - we'll all be dead long before this planet runs out of oil.

[Oilyboyd]

Devastated? No, that's a feeling I reserve for finding out that, thanks to our continued burning of fossil fuels, we're on track to warm the planet by 4-6 degrees C, rendering it unlivable. Fracking, deep sea drilling, tar sands, the switch to natural gas, even the possibility of methane hydrate extraction are all highly predictable strategies of our desperation now that conventional oil has essentially plateaued. See that bumpy line right before the downslope? That's where we're at.

[degree7]

OH GOD, 2010 WE'RE ALREADY PASSED IT, WHAT DO WE DO???????

lol, what a load of BS.

[Oilyboyd]

Yeah, it's 2012, and everything has worked out just fine. Not a cloud on the horizon or a (fiscal) cliff in sight. Must be that the actual peak of conventional oil extraction passed us by in 2006 with nary a consequence. Except, of course, $100 a barrel oil. And the global economy in contraction mode. Party on, dude!

[RandyProductions2015]

The bakken formation alone has enough oil to supply the world for at least another century. Gas prices are going up as America goes deeper into debt. Every year in the past couple years oil production has increased 2500% and isn't slowing down. People need to stop worrying. Anyone agree?

[Oilyboyd]

2500%!? Every year? Your'e either hallucinating, or employed by some investment firm trolling for suckers. While estimates for the Bakken formation guess at a reserve figure that might put it close to a century's worth of oil and NGLs, the reality will depend on the rate of extraction, the rate of usage, and the economic viability of the processes involved, horizontal drilling and fracking. Not to mention the environmental costs. It's actually past time to start worrying.

[Oilyboyd]

Which "original books"? Hubbert based his 1956 prediction on the idea that the peak of discovery of large oil fields would precede peak extraction by about forty years, and that prediction proved true in the Lower 48 US states, where it's been downhill ever since the early 70s. Global discoveries peaked in the mid 60s, and the rate of extraction worldwide appears to have stalled around 2006. It's not a theory, and it hasn't been debunked. The facts speak for themselves.

[Keinlicht]

Truly we had all we could have needed to create a just, sustainable society which looks towards science and human betterment. The temples of the ancients would be but miniature sets for the grandeur an enlightened age could have brought us at this time..

But instead we built endless miles of suburbs, strengthened the institutions which have led before to so much pain and bloodshed. We squandered our gift and filled the skies with the stain of our indifference, now we will suffer.

[Justanotherlobster]

Theres enough uranium for 300 years. Plus India, France and China are working on thorium reactors which will never peak as its almost everywhere.

[Sanyabagdan]

And what do you think, the electric car has not need fuel? :) the uran is the same as the oil, we have to mining it, and it is running out as well

[Justanotherlobster]

How much oil did we produce in 2005, the year so many say we peaked? 76 mbpd. How much oil are we producing in 2013? 92 mbpd. We'll most likely hit 100 mbpd by 2020.

Sure, it'll get more expensive and more polluting, but a "peak" is still years ahead. And when that happens, electric cars will be very popular and soon take over the market.

[AaronD12a]

@Standuble: If you seriously considered suicide, please contact the suicide prevention hotline at 1-800-273-8255. They will help you.

How will I ride the slide? In style: In my Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car. I love plugging my car into the wall like my cell phone. My electric plan uses 100% wind power for its sources. Still paying less in electricity than I did with gas.

[1991stratplus]

2500% ?? where did you get that from? WTF?

[Dale Norman]

Fucking moron.

[Jason Marter]

I never said it was hard to make, all i said was that it requires energy from another source to break its chemical bonds and it requires more energy to break those bonds than you would get from burning it to power anything. This is basic science mate

[bluesjammingman .]

I'm not your mate. Keep drinking the fluoride. I MAKE HYDROGEN IN MY GARAGE WITH EASE!!! i CAN WELD WITH IT, AND CAN COOK WITH IT, AND SOON MY TRUCK WILL BE RUNNING ON IT.

NOW GO TELL YOU FASCIST PROFESSORS I SAID FUCK YOU.