World map of Peak Oil Production

This animated map is an excerpt from a conference presentation by Randy Park. It shows the peaking of oil production (peak oil) for countries around the world. It also shows oil consumption.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Peak
• oil
• energy
• decline
• world
• fuel
• gasoline
• transportation

[MrEnergyCzar]

I wonder how they'll keep the masses calm when they find out that cheap oil is the only thing keeping our lives from drastically changing.....

[ohyes247]

@arxidamos13 my keyboard is made of aluminium

[38snipshow]

North America will not be able to sustail development in the suburbs, everyone will eventually have to give up their cars......nuff said.  Watch the documentary "The End of Suburbia"

[adam29ification]

@twilight8181 its one of the ingredients alright :/

[twilight8181]

@adam29ification plastic is made from oil

[banq0o]

@darthsalvo I will live without oil better then with it .. I don't understand your logic .. if I don't need it how can I depend on it?

[adam29ification]

@arxidamos13 how can you make a keyboard from oil you need water cut plastic and silicone :D

[darthsalvo]

Imagine computers made from bamboo (a renewable resource) then you will begin to see how we are so dependant on oil. Thousands of years from now, archeologists will find things like plastic bowls, computer monitors, plastic bottles, and other evidence of our existance on this planet. We will be know far and wide as "The Great Polluters of the Oil Age", and generations to come will embrace other forms of energy to prevent the fall of great societies.

[moonsugar1]

@Theimmortalwhitewolf There will never be, simply because of the amount of oil that goes into creating a car. From transporting the parts to a factory, to the plastic in the dash or the fibres in the seat belts.

People need to undestand that although we have alternatives to oil in most sectors, transition is a challenge within itself.

Even if you could replace todays cars, we would need a system that could expand to 1.2 billion cars by 2030 to continue as we are today unaffected. Scary stuff.

[Theimmortalwhitewolf]

@moonsugar1 and how do you know that there will never be? Same could be said for fossil fuel vehicles at the beginning of last century. It's already been showing that most of the US. fleet could be charged at night when electrical demand is at it lowest.(be it electrical or used to produce hydrogen(though i would prefer ti see hydrogen, even though it it would require more energy the just pure electrical cars yo don't need the materials for the battery) ) .

[Theimmortalwhitewolf]

@moonsugar1 (cont2) In 2010 ~211 billion was invested world wide for renewable energy . From 2008 to 2010. Total installed capacity went from 1.15 TW to 1.32 TW. The rate of renewable energy being installed has held steady or even grown even with the world recession.

Scientists have advanced a plan to power 100% of the world's energy with wind, hydroelectric, and solar power by the year 2030.

stanford(.)edu/group/efmh/jaco­bson/Articles/I/sad1109Jaco5p.­indd.pdf

[moonsugar1]

@Theimmortalwhitewolf Last year, Renewable energy counted for just 16% of the worlds power consumption. Thats Solar, Tidal, Wave, Waste, Wind, all of it added together. Oil was still the largest at 33% but is starting to decline, and thats not because its being replaced.

Its clear that renewable energy isnt contributing enough at this point in oils decline. Dont forget as well that power consumption itself increases every year.

There will never be six hundred million Hybrid/Elec/Hydro cars.