Nonsense wrote:A feeling of superiority?
Nonsense wrote:Start a real website when you have some facts which can be verified. Until then this "The sky is falling sometime between now & 50 years from now", just isn't very scary.
What do YOU anticipate mankind will use as a substitute for oil?
So I have been lurking & reading here for some time & I had a few comments.
Nonsense wrote:
Start a real website when you have some facts which can be verified. Until then this "The sky is falling sometime between now & 50 years from now", just isn't very scary.
Nonsense wrote:
So go ahead and censor or edit my post... seems like the norm around here; from my observations.
Last week the Government Accountability Office released its long-awaited report on peak oil. This report is clearly a milestone on our journey through the oil age for it is the first time the staff of a major government agency has looked at the issue and concluded that peak oil is real and, if it occurs soon, could cause a world-wide recession. Even more notable is that the Departments of Energy and Interior generally agreed with the conclusions.
There is little in the report those following the peak oil story do not already know:The US, as the world’s biggest consumer of oil, is the most vulnerable to the consequences of peaking;
Sixty percent of the world’s oil reserves now are controlled by unstable countries;
At best, the US could only hope to replace about 4 percent of its liquid fuel consumption with alternatives by 2015;
A hydrogen-based economy is not in the immediate cards;
And, most importantly, the US government had better get its act together soon to do something about all this.
Nonsense wrote:How can we make predictions based on our collective ignorance? What about the stuff we don't know, we don't know? This was my point about thermodynamics. Works fine predicting chemical reactions, but not very well predicting society & human behaviour.
vision-master wrote:Yeah, it can't be true, let the gas prices will tell the story. Oh wait, it's a refinery problem. Hum? I know, it's those oil companies ripping us off. Let's do a gas station boycott for one day. Hey, I got a better idea, let's make it one Month!
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