DesuMaiden wrote:really this news is no surprise, given that there literally isn't any new oil to be found on this planet.
I seem to recall that one being said before, in different forms. Jimmy Carter used that angle to declare that the world would run out of the stuff by the end of the 1980's, and we all know how that went. Then "peak" got substituted in for "running out" because the malthusians figured that would allow them to discount all the new reserves that kept showing up, in order to declare the Rapture all over again.
And now you repeat the mantra of the early 21st century peakers, while failing to mention that they were laughed off the serious stage nearly a decade ago now.
DesuMaiden wrote: This planet has been thoroughly and vigorously explored for oil since the 1870s. They have detailed satellite images of almost every nook and cranny on the surface of this planet (Google Maps anyone?) I doubt they could have missed any significiant oil fields by now.
I'll take the experts word for it rather than some peak oiler who missed what happened during the past decade and a half.
DesuMaiden wrote:And besides, all of the easy-to-extract oil has already been discovered.
Yeah, saying what you said above again doesn't make it any more true.
DesuMaiden wrote:And most of those fields have ,or will soon be, completely depleted.
No. They aren't. And no. They won't. Stop being a peak oil infant.