How To Boil A Frog presents Peak Oil pt. 1 - What's Peak Oil

Pt. 1 of 4 gives a humorous overview of the looming threat of peak oil - features Matthew Simmons, author of "Twilight in the Desert" and Charles A. Hall, professor of Forestry at SUNY.

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• Peak
• oil
• depletion
• Ghawar
• Saudi
• Arabia
• petrol
• petroleum
• gas
• gasoline
• prices
• price
• barrel
• tar
• sands

[smilie3232]

Im not sure why so many people and the goverments seem to turn such a blind eye to all of this ...money.?I work and live in oil and gas country when its gone what will we have left? ,polluted dying land,undrinkable water?makes you think.

[howtoboilafrog]

@smilie3232 Those are good questions. There will come a time when we're going to have to live without oil, or with a lot less (except for billionaires, of course), so why not work our way off it now? Our desperation is what drives us into the Gulf of Mexico, into tar sands, into fracking - if there were any easy stuff left, we wouldn't be doing any of that. I'd rather we cut back while there are still forests and drinkable water!

[anthonytrip80]

shift

lol

[howtoboilafrog]

@anthonytrip80 Ha! I think the latter will be simultaneous with the former if global oil production actually starts declining year over year. Even the CEO of Total expects that to be by 2015. I'm hoping to spread the word long before that. I think we'll have a much better chance of a productive reaction if people are forewarned - as is, Robert Hirsch says there's an intentional blackout on the topic at the highest levels of government, for fear of panicking the markets. Er, more, I guess.

[anthonytrip80]

great vid, ive watched your feature on the movie chanel 3 times in the last 24hrs..wow a real eye opener.....my comment is

we as the human race will never change unless something big happens or unless its made world wide law

[howtoboilafrog]

@anthonytrip80 You never know - if we could project How to Boil a Frog on the moon and all watch it at once, it might create that shift in global consciousness that we need!

[OperationCrossroad]

As bad as Peak Oil is; Peak Export is even more frightening. It's nice to see both concepts presented in a nutshell in one single short video. Outstanding!

[gingercat2222]

5 Stars isn't enough. Bravo!!!!

[YTad2]

1 child... hmmmm? Try telling that to the people of the Middle East, Africa, the Stans, India. Last I checked, the Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus etc... didn't care what The Pope thought. Hell, very few Catholics care what The Vatican's view is on anything... especially condoms.

The industrialized world is already is running at 1 child or less and the Japanese race is literally going extinct. So, the very people who need to stop procreating are the people who r called "MMGW victims"

[boumar19721972]

Enhanced Geothermal Energy is the solution to all our energy problems. 90% of the earth is internal heat. We can tap that anywhere on the globe. Once the wells are drilled and the plants in operation, it's virtually FREE renewable energy. Use the internal heat of the earth to generate electricity and from there make hydrogen for cars or use the electricity directly.

[rickyd0821]

hello Rupert Giles. LOL. Sorry. Nice Vid.

[EmbrunFalcon91]

As a canadian. Im glad most of the oil is comming from here. WHen we start running dry I assume were gonna keep it for ourselves. And you better hope the US wont be sending theyre army over. Thats just gonna start a whole mess

[anthonytrip80]

jon i do hope that we can see a shit in global consciousness...for our sakes and our kids sake.....but like i said its going to take something very big before humans see the changes that need to be made....i think that will happen when the oil runs out... you dont know what u got till its gone....i hope enough people see your movie....