Well about to go to work but have to post.
You guys obviously haven't grasped the scope of the problem. Oh well.
READ THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY STUDY!!!
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf
Blzr, you obviously didn't read the Department of Energy report. Obviously.
Yes we are going to have to drill in Alaska. Yes we're going to have to drill off both U.S. coasts including Florida and California. Soccer Moms in their SUV's will be begging oil companies to drill in these areas soon.
We're going to turn coal to oil. We're going to use the oil shale, oil sands, etc.
Conservation will be the best thing possible. We're going to have to find a different way to make pesticides and fertilizers in America besides using fossil fuels. We're going to have to stop making PLASTICS or RECYCLE EVERYTHING. Glass will have to make a major comeback on everything. Etc. etc.
From the Department of Energy report Blzr doesn't want to read:
Decline rates for the worldwide oil production are supposed to be about 3-4% or more. So we'll be losing about 3 million barrels of oil/year from worldwide production.
OK SO THE OIL SANDS TOOK CARE OF ONE YEAR'S LOSS by 2017. Too bad peak oil is in the next couple years plus, you know I'm bored.
Blzr you're not stupid. Educate yourself. Oil sands are not oil. They are sand. You have to dig it up, and use natural gas which is about to go into decline in North America or nuclear or coal plants to turn it into oil. Even Canada is building Liquified Natural Gas ports to bring in Natural gas now. We used to think we had an infinite amount of NG.
Coal to oil will be the the most effective measure. Ethanol is a joke and takes more energy to make than it gives. Cellulosic ethanol on the other hand has potential but they don't even have the first full-scale plant built yet and it will replace less than 1% of our oil needs in 10 years.
I could go on and on, but this is where I get bored. There are people like Blzr that will call me a scaremonger, when I'm trying to do a good thing for the world. I'm trying to help everyone's children. We need to all wake up!!
We need to be dumping 10X more money into these projects and drilling in Alaska, making every new car A PLUG-IN HYBRID, Developing NUCLEAR PLANTS all across America, Making COAL-TO-OIL PLANTS which there are NONE right now. ETC. ETC. ETC.
These things should have been done in the 70's. We shouldn't have the coming problem, but we do. We're shortsighted and UNINFORMED.
First we have to realize there's a problem and noone realizes it!!
Blzr, questioning my motives, is ok, but you're wrong. I care about us all more than you think. I am one of hundreds running around trying to wake people up. Bush knows. He's told us we're addicted to oil. He's had meetings with Roscoe Bartlett and Matthew Simmons about peak oil. He's trying to do his part and I wish he'd do more.
Roscoe Bartlett, Republican, has spoken in Congress 10+ times now giving speeches shown on C-SPAN. He's scared to death. He's calling for a MANHATTAN PROJECT FOR ENERGY.
BLZR READ THE DOE REPORT. You'll realize it's not going to be as simple as drilling in Alaska and Raping Canada of their oil sands. Unfortunately one day you'll realize that.
I'm getting tired of talking about this. I really am like a broken record lately. I could sit here and dispute this for hours, but I'm going to go on my trip and not even post for a while.
I'll come back after my trip, and people will be posting how we'll be saved by hybrids or hydrogen cars or something. YEa we'll be saved, huhh, huhhh, huhh<---like Beavis. That Jetflyer is just a scaremongerer, yea huhh, huhhh, huhh.
Oh well, think what you want. I just ask you all to educate yourselves. After you educate yourself, educate others.
I unfortunately have learned the scope of the problem and it is frightening. Unfortunately because people are so shortsighted and confident in quick techno-fixes our slow pace to deal with a very scary problem is going to show everyone the scope of the problem in the next couple years.
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf
Good luck,
Jet