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1. Economic recession
Already going on.

2. New capacity coming on line
Nothing can come on line to offset current declines - not even those that are postulated already.

3. Every new car ...

Time to work on the flux capicator... I need to get back to '85 asap..

I bought the replica.

http://www.bttf.net/Back_to_the_Future_Flux_Capacitor_p/21007.htm

I am not a 'proponent' of the market but products ARE sold to bidders by sellers and this relationship could be defined as a market. If the prices set by OPEC are too high then people conserve and the ...

The market does not "set" the price of oil. The sellers of the oil set the price. OPEC sets the price of the oil it produces and sells. OPEC has to set its prices accordingly if it wants to both sell ...

The problem with technologies like EEstore if legit and become available in say next decade or so, is that it will accelerate overall consumption in the developing world by a huge factor and in no tim ...

No I was responding to the claim (not yours) that none of this is sustainable in the long term, which doesn't make any sense to me. A solar powered society seems perfectly sustainable to me. What the ...

Energy to produce steel have to come from fossil fuels.
That is because:
Fe3O4 + 4CO ---> 3Fe + 4CO2
CO is made by partial oxidation of coke and synproportionation of CO2 with coke.

We do n ...

I honestly don't think at this point there's always a clean explanation for a swing of a couple bucks. Maybe back at $20/barrel this would be the case. I know the media likes to do it but the explanat ...

For steal smelting you need coke.
Many other car parts are made of organic polymers made of oil.
30% of energy ever used by car is expended to build it and most of this energy must be from fossil ...

Long term, none of this is sustainable anyway, especially in a MadMax world.

Explain to me how electric is not sustainable in the long term? The sun is not going to stop putting out sunlight.

Well I've been following PO for 3 years but done nothing. I decided 2 years ago that if it got to $145 I would start preparing. So that's my personal SHTF scenario.

If it hits $145 then we'll know for sure that TS has HTF.

I'm somewhere between panic attack and nervous breakdown tonite as I read these headlines. I'm supposed to start a new job in the morning and my head says I should show up. My gut on the other hand is ...

First of all there's no such thing as a negative EROEI. Secondly, if it goes less than 1, that won't mean the oil is unbuyable because there are other sources of energy in the world. Oil will have a f ...

Obesity is a symptom of lots of available cheap food and a natural instinct to eat. It's not a mental problem.

Sadly, many people do overeat because they are depressed. Physical activity can sol ...