In a breaking article, we look forwards 23 years to the outbreak of the final world war. But let us begin at the beginning. In the beginning, there was oil. And then there wasn’t. And it was a disaster for a man. A giant leap backwards for mankind.
That’s right folks, it turned out that fracking, loved in the US, scorned in the UK, was totally unnecessary. Peak oil wasn’t an issue after all. We just woke up one day and decided: no more oil. We are going cold turkey. And we’re setting the date just after we, the current crop of politicians, retire. And that date was set by France recently, and by the UK today. In a move that certainly heralds another of those wonderful EU directives, we will be off the gas by 2040.
Before then, there is much to do. There will be a scrappage scheme for diesel cars. You fell for that clean diesel rot, did you? Never mind, you’ll be paid to dump it. But you must be daft. What? You fell for clean coal too! Fool me twice. What about clean nukes? Excuse me, my sides are splitting clean open.
The environmentalists, predictably, are not happy. They are unhappy, as usual, for the wrong reasons. They want more to be done sooner. Typical. We could all stop working tomorrow, turn vegan, stop farting out our beef exhausts, and just sit still until we die. That’s the kindest thing for the environment, but it doesn’t sound like fun.
Why are they unhappy about the wrong thing?
They have overlooked the incontrovertible, nailed on eco disaster that will follow the 2040 cut off. All out nuclear war. No, not North Korea. By 2040 it will either be part of ‘real’ Korea, and capitalist, or part of China, and communist. The current Kim will be the last. So, who?
Step forwards, our friends and allies: Saudi Arabia. Come on down!
If you thought there was a little bit of a kerfuffle going down in Qatar, you’re thinking too small. Their troubles will all be resolved before the Football World Cup there in 2022. Otherwise there won’t be a World Cup there in 2022. It would have to be somewhere nearer. And cooler. The really, really good news for non-football fans is that the World Cup in 2038 will be the last. Because by 2042, we’ll all be gone. Which, frankly, is the kindest thing for the environment.
Why all the doom and gloom?
Imagine, if you will, a world without cars and vans. I know it’s difficult, and you don’t need to do it. Try this. Imagine a world with cars and vans, but ones that run only on batteries, solar panels and cow farts. That world has no need for gas stations (known as petrol stations outside North America). Instead, there are only car parks, with little bits of technology in the ground that charge your car while it sits waiting for you to do some shopping. There will be such a gizmo in your drive at home too. It will be unbelievable. There will be no pollution at all, at least not in civilized urban areas. Just don’t go near those godawful battery factories! Or the places where they decommission the old batteries.
The running costs of these amazing vehicles, which by the way will drive themselves, will be almost zero. Apart from tires. Unless they come up with new taxes, of course. Which they will. You can’t just cancel all the petrol tax and not notice it. It needs to come from somewhere.
So, imagine driving around, without any engine noise. No fumes killing your kids in the back. What a future. What a vision. Except it’s fiction.
The reason it is fiction? Because if you think the middle east is a little… a little… edgy right now, it might just be because the oil is running out. What is the one thing holding the middle east together, as it has for fifty years? Oil money. And gas money.
The race is on. Unless the oil emirates can diversify fast and completely wean off oil by 2040, we’re all done for.
Before we leave you in a depressed state, there is hope. There is a precedent. Once upon a time, there was a deadly killer that was taxed very highly. It seemed impossible to imagine a world without cigarettes. But that world is very close, and the tobacco companies are still going strong. They went into all kinds of things other than tobacco, quietly pushing their lethal product to kids overseas, out of sight.
Assuming, as we do, that the EU and America comes off oil by 2040, we equally confidently predict Russia, China, India and South America will not be so quick to change. If we’re right, the world might not end until 2100. But we’ve been wrong before.
rockman on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 8:03 am
Apparently someone doesn’t understand the concept of a “world war”. LOL. We’ve been having local military conflicts over controlling oil resources for decades. I see no reason for that situation to not continue. IOW I doubt the 2040’s will look much different.
Sissyfuss on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 8:35 am
Should be called the zzzzzzzzzzz review for the ability of this article to induce sleepiness in the reader.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 8:43 am
This is why we actually need somebody to
RUN THIS WEBSITE. Instead of just nobody,
and the anarchy we have now.
Cause that was a dumb article. Not
very peaky oily either.
NOW, check out this article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy-idUSKBN1AE0H2?il=0
SOMEBODY Should POST that article. It’s
about the Venezuelan’s having to wheelbarrow
their money to the store, to buy a loaf of bread.
Now ya could say that’s not peaky or oily.
BUT it is what happens when the oil runs out.
ALSO, it is what happens when a country
doesn’t agree to pump out all their oil for
cheap.
USA needs that oil. For all the welfare
meth-mamma’s on crack to drive their
1977 Ford LTD rust-bucket to the store and
buy more Monsanto bread and squirt-cheese, with their Food Stamps.
Darrell Cloud on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 8:48 am
Somewhere, anywhere, some sub commander and crew may have a bad hair day and up it goes. These are the near misses we know about during the Cold War. http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/5-cold-war-close-calls
Makati1 on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 9:02 am
Darrell, more likely the bear will be pushed into a use em’ or lose em’ situation and your sky will light up with nuclear flashes some 3AM. Keep in mind that Russia’s day is the U$’ night.
Cloggie on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 9:12 am
This is why we actually need somebody to
RUN THIS WEBSITE. Instead of just nobody,
and the anarchy we have now.
What is it you don’t understand about peak-oil?
Oil and the rest of fossil dregs are going to be phased out, just like the horse tram.
Peak oil in hindsight will be peak oil supply.
Next.
bobinget on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 9:22 am
Chat room gossip;
Saudi Arabia: The coming civil war (Their hypish title but a very interesting article)
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/saudi-arabia-coming-civil-war-978876236
11.7 million foreigners in Saudi Arabia, 7.4 million of whom work and the remaining 4.3 millions who are companions.
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btw…do that math…is companion a word for escort which is a word for prostitute? Because that’s like 11% of the population….
Now my snark aside. If you ADD A RIYAL COLLAPSE TO THIS MIX IN THIS ARTICLE…..I would say yes…you might get your war.
Hubert on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 10:04 am
@NOW, check out this article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy-idUSKBN1AE0H2?il=0
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Venezuela wouldn’t be having a food crisis if the stupid socialist government didn’t take the farms away from the private citizen in the first place.
This has always been a problem with third world idiots who has always bought into socialist garbage nonsense.
No one is going to produce anything if they can’t make money doing it.
Hubert on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 10:12 am
Most of the world will pretty much follow Venezuelan model:
Major economic collapse, followed by mass starvation+riots, then subsistence living based on farming culture.
Anonymouse on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 1:49 pm
Hubtard, I take it from your ‘comment’ that you believe Venezuela is experiencing mass starvation and constant rioting, right at this very minute? You subscribe to washingdum composts endless tales of people there eating cats and dogs, empty grocery stores, and no TP? This image you have of the situation there has been manufactured and sold to gullible amerikants like yourself.
Hate to be the one to break it to you, pretty much all washcomposts and friends stories on Venezuela are fake. Your ‘Venezuela model of collapse’, is the result of washingdums deliberate policy of economic and political warfare. It is not, as you seem to want to believe, a poster child for industrial civilizations impending collapse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYWrPiUeWY
Ill repeat if again for you to help it seep past your washpo, Jew York times narratives.
People not starving to death in the streets of Venezuela.
Davy on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 2:31 pm
Mouse, I take it things are fine there per your assessment. It’s just a Jew conspiracy, right. Lol, what planet you on kid? Planet X-Box. Your jew obsession makes you look ridiculous and intellectually lite.
.5mt on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 4:10 pm
19 lbs. The average per capita weight loss since the beginning of the food crisis. Venezuelan Population…
Of course gasoline is free.
Move along, nothing to see here, what’s that man doing you ask, why he’s sorting the garbage of course.
Anonymouse on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 5:03 pm
Battling fake amerikunt news, and those that endorse and promote it exceptionalist, is a good as calling as any. Of course,I can see why you would have such a problem with it.
Oh, speaking of fake ‘news’ and facts exceptionalist, look, there is another fact, context, and source-free assertion that Venezuelans and withering away to nothing…lol. 19lbs per huh? Where and who compiled that little ‘factoid’. Ill admit, that would be pretty bad news .5IQ, if the average Venezuelan weighed, say, 30 or 40 lbs. Speaking of weight loss, I can think of a certain cuntry, where over 1/3 of its serfs are chronically obese, and could stand to lose 19 pounds on average(or more!), let me see if I can dig that one up for you.
Oh, here it is
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
Fact (real).
Apneaman on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 6:30 pm
Study finds 90 percent of American men overfat
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170724105111.htm
Davy on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 6:58 pm
Canadians, you do realize you sluts are just as fat and stupid…plus you stink. What is it about Canadians and that smell. Yuk.
Apneaman on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 8:25 pm
Davy, how thin your skin must be. Why not contact the people who did the study and yell and scream at them? If that’s doesn’t get it out of your system then write a hate filled email to science daily for writing the story. After that you can spew out your rant to the other 4557 online and print publications that ran a version of the story too.
Davy you have the worst case of PC fever ever. The only other people I know who are so easily offended are Antifa and a million trangender-benders Snowflakes on college campus.
BTW, let’s see this data that Canadians are just as fat. Good luck.
Makati1 on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 8:35 pm
Ap, Davy has blinders and rose colored glasses with respect to Amerika. I never see any respectable articles to back up his bullshit. His skin is so thin, it make tissue paper look like plate steel. It’s fun to poke the Missouri Mule.
Davy on Sat, 29th Jul 2017 9:14 pm
What’s da matter Ape can’t you take your own medicine you pussy? Lol. Go whine with makati your dork buddy.
Erebus on Sun, 30th Jul 2017 12:27 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w&feature=youtu.be
peakyeast on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 8:56 am
Obesity Canada: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/health81a-eng.htm
Apneaman on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 10:21 am
peaky, so? When doing a comparison, you need more than one set of stats…duh. Is it any wonder the white man is finished?
The 20 most obese places in the world
American Samoa
Nauru
Cook Islands
Tokelau
Tonga
Samoa
Palau
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Kuwait
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Micronesia
The Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Qatar
Egypt
United States
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/the-most-obese-fattest-countries-in-the-world/
GregT on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 12:23 pm
“Canadians, you do realize you sluts are just as fat and stupid…plus you stink. What is it about Canadians and that smell. Yuk.”
“What’s da matter Ape can’t you take your own medicine you pussy? Lol. Go whine with makati your dork buddy.”
You sound more like a spoiled 8 year old brat, than an adult male Davy. Grow up already.
peakyeast on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 12:37 pm
@ape: I am SO sorry. I just saw the request for obesity numbers on Canada and this place looked like you could get all the numbers on Canada..
Actually I couldnt care less about who is fat and who is not.
Btw. I am not a white man. Nor black. Nor yellow. Nor red. Nor brown.
So take a guess….
Sissyfuss on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 12:48 pm
You’re a yeast infection?
Hello on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 1:00 pm
I thought egypt is starving and overpopulated and post peak and all that. Now all of a sudden they are among the best fed?
peakyeast on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 1:34 pm
@hello: Perhaps its like wealth distribution – there is a widening gap between those who has money and those who dont.
peakyeast on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 1:40 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/07/egypt-obesity-battle-calories-overweight
““City planning is responsible,” she said. “There should be proper places for playing sports. Overcrowding in schools also means no sports classes; 75% of Egyptians aren’t doing any vigorous physical exercise.”
Naga said the Egyptian government could easily switch from subsidising sugar and oil to healthier options such as milk. Kiosks and corner shops throughout the country offer a range of sugary and salty snacks, a cheap option for children and their parents. “
Davy on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 2:02 pm
Greg, look in the mirror idiot you and your stupid Canadian compadres are soaking the site with American trash. You then get upset when reality shows through and you yourself look bad. Canadians are fat and stupid too. That is a fact. I imagine ape is especially fat eating ice cream all day and tapping on his computer. Most all the Canadians on this board are childish especially you with your hypocrisy and false self-righteousness.
Cloggie on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 3:40 pm
Btw. I am not a white man. Nor black. Nor yellow. Nor red. Nor brown.
So take a guess….
If you insist… Danish woman?
Makati1 on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 6:07 pm
GregT, you have irritated the school yard bully and he has resorted to name calling again. His IQ doesn’t allow him to debate as an adult. He is a good example of how far the US educations system has fallen, but how very successful its brainwashing has worked. Just laugh at him as I do. He cannot handle reality and hates anyone who doesn’t see the world thru his dirty, warped glasses.
boat on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 6:40 pm
peakyeast on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 1:34 pm
@hello: Perhaps its like wealth distribution – there is a widening gap between those who has money and those who dont.
50 billion chinese died from famine in the 50’s. It was all about wealth distrihbution eh? Blame the rich?
Davy on Tue, 1st Aug 2017 8:15 pm
makat, quit being a dork. You are such an awkward unimaginative dunce. If you were not so hateful you would almost be funny. Just shut up and you will be further ahead.
wfank on Wed, 22nd Aug 2018 8:06 am
50 billion boat idiot? The world population was barely 3 billion before the great leap forward, 1958-2962, death tool for Chinese famine is 43 million, know facts before speaking dumbo.
wfank on Wed, 22nd Aug 2018 8:08 am
50 billion boat idiot? The world population was barely 3 billion before the great leap forward, 1958-1962, death tool for Chinese famine is 43 million, know facts before speaking dumbo. sorry about typo earlier (wrote 2962 in mistake, its 1962), still boat you are an idiot.