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I think peak oil is going to be on the back burner for awhile.
Yup... not so much a peak as a long bumpy plateau with a fair old global recession induced dip in the middle

Plastic coffins.

Plastic coffins.

PLASTIC COFFINS.

Can anyone else point out the...somewhat minor flaw in this plan?
Thats becasue they're not coffins. They're grave liners. Polythene is the ...

China has triple the US population.
Try "China has 4.3 times the US population"

What will it take to wake people up to these kind of changes inour long term ice cover?
When it starts to effect the number of dollars/pounds/Yuan people have in their pockets to spend at Wal-Mart an ...

This is why I always say: "don't believe what you see on the internet".
Ho ho... my other favourite is "The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"

I must say though, theoretically.... oil is renewable, on a VERY LONG TERM BASIS...
I'll just get in my time machine and check it out a few hundred million years down the line...
Yup, you're right! ...

If you have inflation, most things - including assets - go up in price. Look at the last 10 years. Housing, gold, commodities, all going up. Inflation isn't limited to just food and gas. In genera ...

Oildummy,Please explain how oil can be infinite?It regenerates...natural product. It's not my theory, I can't explain it off the top of my head...just know some think that may be happening.
"It rege ...

Well, peck, you are exactly right and woefully wrong. I am fat, I am nearly bald too, but I have done the homework..
You unfortunately caused some confusion by stating that you haven't done your hom ...

A quick look around at the "science based fact" runs almost 180 deg. contrary to much of what I read...
The concept is actually remarkably simple. For any non-renewable resource the following occurs. ...

So... what is it precisely about the word 'finite' that you don't understand?

Thought we were discussing oil rigs and windmills.

Environmental impact is a big part of the OCS drilling debate.
Right. Different subject. Nothing to do with dead zones then. Environmental impa ...

Plenty of free space off Americas East & West coasts as far as I can see.

And thanks to the rapidly increasing dead zones, not a lot of environmental conerns either.
Thought we were discussi ...

Thanks for your points, skeptic, all points I am well aware of.

But do you really think Nepalese are no better adapted to their enviroment than anyone else would be? I'll have to track down source ...

Insanity. Thank god American forests are still thriving.

Really?... got some facts to back that up? That is, unless, you're just being facetious.
Good news and bad news.

Overall the total fores ...