Revi wrote:I think you guys are getting a little too worked up. I agree that the fuel that frack ing provides is gasoline. In abundance. We aren't getting much other stuff.
What?! Sure we get other stuff...here is what we use natural gas to manufacture. I recommend using some in your automobile, it displays a wonderful Noack number, when blended properly.
Revi wrote:
The whole thing is going down soon enough.
Well, we've heard this one before,and to be honest Revi, we're all still waiting. If it goes down, it sure doesn't look like oil is going to be the thing that does it.
Revi wrote: Let them go to Disneyland. That's pretty much where everyone is living anyway. Meanwhile I spent the last week sugaring, getting exercise and getting ready for production of a product that might be useful if the world goes to hell. We will be able to put it stuff, trade with it etc. Who doesn't like maple syrup? If the world is going to go down we may as well have pancakes for a little while...
Absolutely! And because it isn't oil that will stop us from eating pancakes, we can have them flown or trucked to maybe even road trip out to New England to eat them right there where the syrup comes from?
But the oil fears of a decade ago just aren't holding together very well. Now...climate change! That might be the NEW peak oil, the only problem being, it operates on a much longer frequency. No one has been able to even scare ocean front property owners away from their real estate yet, let alone stopped others from buying it, and with another 4 or 5 inches of sea level rise in the next 85 years, it might not even be scary enough in our lifetime, let alone the useful life of a dwelling by the ocean.
But we can hope, right?
Revi wrote:Meanwhile we are getting the film together. Any input? I think it will be an amusing look at this kooky guy who is obsessed with peak oil. I have even offered to not talk about peak oil to anyone who donates $100. My wife took me up on that offer immediately! All she has to say is kickstarter and I'll stop talking about peak oil immediately. Not a bad deal for her!
I wouldn't cast it as "the kooky guy". When the eggheads began to fear being associated with peak oil, and TOD imploded in 2013, you could just see what was going to happen next. Just subsitute "Harold Camping" for "that peak oil kooky guy" and half your audience will chuckle politely and move along right there.
Maybe a contrast, between your basic life with little or no oil inputs, and the world as it exists, luxuriating in abundance and low cost, and polite mentions about how it can't go on forever, and is expected to get more expensive and less available over the next half century or so? Need to avoid the pitfalls made by the doomsayers, and stick to hard core, technical facts, why oil is abundant and has exceeded all expectations, how it might be able to stay cheap for a decade or two more but after that...could get pricey! Speculate on the consequences, within 20 years there will be a few less travelers to New England for syrup, road trips might get a little pricier, and mention your EV, that is always a good example of New England ingenuity, even if most folks are thinking about buying jet skiis and dirt bikes and whatnot because electrics just haven't been able to fill that niche yet.