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Topic: I have a bad feeling peak oil is upon us... |
ConCit
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:35 pm Subject: Re: I have a bad feeling peak oil is upon us... |
I recommend at LEAST 3 Xanax and a 6 pack of beer. If your goin, go all out. :D
Rush Limbaugh sez that should be half a dozen Oxycontin and a bottle of Glenfiddich.
I'm with you NV Ghost. That' ... |
Topic: THE OPEC Thread (merged) pt 1 |
ConCit
Replies: 1471
Views: 10466
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Forum: Geopolitics Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:26 pm Subject: THE OPEC Thread (merged) pt 1 |
| Don't be such an absoluteist. OPEC wouldn't need to cut off all the oil and they wouldn't have to do it all at once. If I were in their position and wanted to hurt the U.S. economically, I'd slowly ( ... |
Topic: The Guardian - Get used: cheap oil is OVER! |
ConCit
Replies: 1
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:43 pm Subject: Re: The Guardian - Get used: cheap oil is OVER! |
(did you get used? )
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OK, now I'm used to it. Thanks.  |
Topic: Al Jazeera: oil declining faster than thought! |
ConCit
Replies: 18
Views: 4095
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:33 pm Subject: Al Jazeera: oil declining faster than thought! |
Another good online source, which presents a more balanced view than Al-Jazeera is
Yes, I'll second that opinion. I discovered Asia times through some blog or another during the run up to the Ir ... |
Topic: U.S. Energy Policy - shh! It's a secret |
ConCit
Replies: 1
Views: 1462
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:37 pm Subject: U.S. Energy Policy - shh! It's a secret |
| No link here; try news.google.com. But by now most of my fellow Yanks have heard that the US Supreme Court ruled that the White House doesn't have to tell anyone ho they met with, what was discussed o ... |
Topic: THE Ghawar Thread (merged) |
ConCit
Replies: 288
Views: 4999
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:31 pm Subject: When Ghawar goes... |
| Thanks for the pointer to Simmons' presentation on the Saudi Oil Miracle. I was thinking about what things will be like after that but then I asked myself what the immediate effects will be when G. su ... |
Topic: Home Sweet Home |
ConCit
Replies: 13
Views: 4311
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:11 pm Subject: Home Sweet Home |
Yeah, but you know what will happen, radioactive mutant pelicans will become the dominant species on the planet and then they will have to worry about " Peak Fish ".
Good one! |
Topic: How true is Peak Oil when there is sand oil in Alberta |
ConCit
Replies: 23
Views: 9167
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:39 am Subject: How true is Peak Oil when there is sand oil in Alberta |
I just picked up the National Geographic issue today. Great article, and fantastic pictures. Was there a discussion of the article elsewhere on this site?
Even if we can pull all the oil out of t ... |
Topic: THE Peak Oil & MSM ('04) Thread (merged) |
ConCit
Replies: 112
Views: 2079
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 2:18 pm Subject: THE Peak Oil & MSM ('04) Thread (merged) |
| True, since BP and other majors have explicitly stated that they do not have any intention to significantly raise the refining capacity in the USA, it should be clear that this is the top (or very clo ... |
Topic: How true is Peak Oil when there is sand oil in Alberta |
ConCit
Replies: 23
Views: 9167
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 12:08 pm Subject: How true is Peak Oil when there is sand oil in Alberta |
To build on what Matt said about the poor ratio of energy-in to energy-out.
The article I mentioned has more pretty pictures. One is of the director of one of the energy companies involved in Alber ... |
Topic: How true is Peak Oil when there is sand oil in Alberta |
ConCit
Replies: 23
Views: 9167
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:53 am Subject: How true is Peak Oil when there is sand oil in Alberta |
| Actually, that NatGeo article for this month goes into the tar sands issue quite nicely. One point they make is that it takes 4000 Lbs. of sand to extract one barrel of oil. The process itself has sev ... |
Topic: Just a sample of things to come... |
ConCit
Replies: 7
Views: 2691
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 7:31 pm Subject: Just a sample of things to come... |
| I just submitted but wanted to comment. Notice that this is Shell Oil... the same Royal Dutch Shell that's had to reduce their reserves estimates 4 times this year. Refineries have more than a few ch ... |
Topic: How much Time? |
ConCit
Replies: 22
Views: 7696
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 10:31 am Subject: Re: How much Time? |
I keep reading more and more in the hopes of convincing myself that half of humanity isn't going to die in the next fifty years.
Just remember, in 120 years, every single person on Earth today will ... |
Topic: Has anyone critiqued Michael Lynch's anti-peakoil paper? |
ConCit
Replies: 6
Views: 2547
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 9:51 am Subject: Has anyone critiqued Michael Lynch's anti-peakoil paper? |
| They (The EIA) believe it's okay to use an industry accepted standard of 95% probability figure, dream up a pie in the sky 5% probability figure, and then use the average of these two figures as a bas ... |
Topic: Feeling like it's fairly hopeless after this... |
ConCit
Replies: 14
Views: 4500
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 7:15 pm Subject: Why I've given up hope |
My wife was dismisive at first but she has finally come around although she'd still like to know what I plan to do about it. SO I'm working on that cold fusion thingummy in my garage
But take ... |
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