donstewart wrote:@AdamB
Incremental improvements such as streamlining trucks and perhaps working on the backhaul issue, but nothing dramatic so far as I know.
Most mass transport issues devolve down to the last mile issue. And these might not be in your neighborhood, but after the delivery folks came the garbage trucks, powered by the same thing, instead of crude based fuels.
And as we know, moving people around is not only easy, but my wife is collecting free fuel for her crude oil free commuting transport. And that Hirsch report from 2005 or so? He claimed that 1/2 of American personal transport was discretionary, so guess what? If people weren't so busy enjoying cheap crude oil based fuels, we could stop importing oil, to join of export business of coal and..coming to a LNG facility near you soon...natural gas.
DonStewart wrote:The question of whether oil has passed its half-way point, as Mr. Hill maintains, is just as relevant as it ever was.
The answer is easy. We haven't. Anyone who says otherwise just isn't familiar with the research into resource volumes and might not have access to the measures of oil volumes from the big commercial databases. Even the publicly available information.
DonSteward wrote:Whether light, tight oil is a thermodynamically suited fuel for carrying payloads has been a subject of dispute here.
Don Stewart
There is no dispute. Light, tight oil can make wonderful fuels like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel all day long, and twice on Sundays. Can do the same thing with natural gas.
Plant Thu 27 Jul 2023 "Personally I think the IEA is exactly right when they predict peak oil in the 2020s, especially because it matches my own predictions."
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"