joewp wrote:It was discussed last week, in this thread : http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic34636.html
shortonoil wrote:There are no contradictions in the above statement. People are not changing their behaviors, they are merely trying to affect a different outcome from their behaviors. --snip-- We will continue to overpopulate and we will continue to consume more resources than can be substainingly provided by our planet.
Also, as Cheney has pointed out, it will take the production equivalent of three more Saudi Arabias to get this to happen. This, of course, is why it will never happen.
They are going to be really ticked off when they find out they cannot get enough gas to run their new cars.
Lighthouse wrote:Where is New Zealand?
namenick wrote:Pixie- Not the answer but a useful bit of information in any case. You're assuming that all the people in the top 22 countries are the billion people in the world who consume the most oil. That's obviously not true and could skew the answer to the question many fold. I don't know of any way and don't think there is any way to determine who the top billion consumers of oil are. Remember, we started out by talking about the 6.5 billion people on this earth and how much oil they consumed compared to the other 5.5 billion.
Good work though!
venky wrote:I think this table is one of the main reasons why Peak Oil = Doom argument is wrong.
Clearly there are countries that use a fraction of the oil per capita (in some cases 2 orders of magnitude of the largest consumers) and do get along relatively fine with many of the benefits of modern life. We thus clearly have a lot of buffer in the West; production will have to drop a long long way(with no help from alternatives) in order to make modern life unlivable.
Pixie wrote: By 2022, we can expect to have to cut our oil use by at least a third.
It's not that we can't live that way, but do we know how?
Plantagenet wrote:Pixie wrote: By 2022, we can expect to have to cut our oil use by at least a third.
It's not that we can't live that way, but do we know how?
Just follow the EU example.
People in EU countries have a very high quality of life but use much less oil. A good place for the US to start copying the EU would be by constructing a modern electric high speed train system connecting major American cities, and by building more light rail within the cities.
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