Robert McFarlane: Open Fuel Standards Are Critical To Fighting the Peak Oil Catastrophe
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Uploaded by ChrisMartensondotcom on Nov 2, 2011
"Well, I wish I had a more hopeful answer for you. You've nailed it. We really are very likely to face either a disruption violently [by terrorism] or a political decision by OPEC to change the price of oil to $200 to $300 per barrel and literally destroy the global economy."
So predicts Robert McFarlane in today's interview, which focuses on current US energy policy and the risks it faces. Mr. McFarlane's many decades of public and private service in both the Middle East and global energy markets make him uniquely qualified to opine on the merits (or lack thereof) of the energy strategy that the US is pursuing.
This podcast was originally publish on February 25, 2011 on Chrismartenson.com
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Brazil's energy independence is the story of controlling demand, not increasing supply. Mandates for flex-fuel ICEs that could accept sugar cane ethanol is not as important as the anti-car laws. There is a huge tax to buy a car, a huge tax each year to own a car, and a huge tax to drive a car on the road. There is bus rapid transit, which mean bus exclusive roads and buses move faster than cars on the stop light. There are also bicycle exclusive roads. A smaller % of Brazilians drive than here.
mollytherealdeal 3 months ago
Why isn't Chris pushing him on the E85 bullshit? He spends some time explaining how bad it is in the crash course, yet he is allowing this guy to on and on about ethanol. There will NEVER be an infrastructure for ethanol because it can't be piped, it has to be put on a truck and transported that way! E85 SUCKS!
christo930 3 months ago
People who drive ethanol cars in Brazil are driving rain forest cars, that is, they destroy the rain forest to raise sugar cane and process it into ethanol. Ethanol simply isn't a good idea. The only realistic biofuel is algae, preferably a closed system or a salt water algae, because open pond algae production uses A LOT of water.
christo930 3 months ago
The reality is that we don't NEED 21mb/d of oil, it's not like we are going do die without that much oil. We waste a large amount of our oil and we could get by on 1/2 of what we are using if we only made simple changes in our life, like combining trips, using public transit, no pleasure driving, no autoracing and the like.
christo930 3 months ago
LOL al queda...
forget about em, they're a busted flush nowadays..
oxusriver 3 months ago
Mr Robert is no doubt a acknowleged man,
I just wish he stop saying alqaeda this, alqaeda that as if "Al-Qaeda" was actually a significant political force,
The bulk of the arab urban, informed people are moderate and despises these extremists even more than people in the west
StraussBR 3 months ago