Amory Lovins: We must win the oil endgame

http://www.ted.com In this energizing talk, Amory Lovins lays out his simple plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy.

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[laurasIs2c]

The major elephant in the room is the fact that the USA is an OPEC nation and therefore our corporations are co conspirators in the fixing of production and pricing.

Working with the same companies who haven't been part of the sustainability discussion at this point is working with a junky, who senses you have the junk he wants.

Also check out the University of Delaware automobiles that work to be part of electrical grid and move 120 miles at a speed of 90, charge in 2.5 hours.

[Paulginz]

Gas is dangerous (a minor leak or high speed car crash --> explosion).

Petroleum is heavy and full of crap. Refineries exist for a reason you know.

Even if there were no restriction at all on drilling in the US, that wouldn't matter. There's just not that much easily extractable oil. Also, the US has passed peak production decades ago.

Nuclear reactors are big and heavy. Also, good luck convincing public opinion that nuclear powered cars are safe.

[rayzars]

$26 per barrel in 2025!!!!  HAHAHAHA good estimate huh? I wish

great vid!!

[MrPEDOCTOR]

Great video... i like it a lot

[LKBM]

@robz40 ...sometimes.

[blackbeltcrane]

You forgot to mention all of the revenue lost through taxation of the oil industry and the massive job loss that would be the result.

[Proteus6684]

If oil consumption stops and nobody needs dollars to buy oil wont the american economy have problems? i.e. funding its incredibly expensive military?

[RamadaArtist]

[I hate these but this is too good]

8 people are the CEO's of major oil companies.

[mateo134]

I'll look more into what he's saying, but I'm very weary as an engineer of any big claims. People assume there's some super hyperdrive technology the corporations and the government are hiding, but there's really not. For example, carbon fiber costs 20 times more than steel and hybridization/electrification of cars may be a much more cost-effective route as oil prices continue to increase.

[keserak]

@laurasIs2c

The U.S. is not a member of OPEC. That being said, the interests of the former government and the latter organization are more closely aligned to each other than they are to the citizens under the control of either group, but still, the aforementioned fact remains.

[trakkaton]

@GiancarloD87

I googled it and read it.

It's called "Green Energy Advocate Amory Lovins: Guru or Fakir?" (What?!), and it's pretty dumb. It acts as if the possibilities that Amory Lovins pointed out would be immune to sabotage. Well, they are not, and the lobbying of Big Oil, the rampant corruption of the US, the psychotic war criminal Reagan that ended Jimmy Carters energy revolution, the petrod0llar, the car companies, the prehistoric energy infrastructure of the US, etc. are just sabotage.

[robz40]

Jevons paradox: increasing efficiency INCREASES absolute consumption.