We cannot drill our way out of this oil crisis. Since 2000, oil companies working in the U.S. have doubled the number of wells drilled per year.
Although increased drilling has added new oil to the nation's supply, it has not done so fast enough to offset the terminal decline of existing fields.
We are going to have to import more of our oil. Period.
Don’t do a Sir Richard Mottram, the Permanent Secretary at the Department of Transport, who declared: 'We're all Fark. I'm Fark. You're Fark. The whole department's Fark. It's the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely Fark.'’
Wildwell- That's the funniest thing you've ever posted. I can't stop laughing! hahahahahahahahahahaha _________________ remember-we don't inherit the earth from our parents, we lease it from our children
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:00 pm Post subject: Re: Because you do want it to happen
hoplite wrote:
"The truth hurts"
--my father
"Peak Oilers", by and large seem to be a group of depressed, n'er do wells whom, for whatever reason have not succeeded (financially, personally, spiritually whatever) and feel they need a clean slate to make their mark. Total socio ecomic breakdown gives them that clean slate- or level playing field that they believe has been denied them...
Yeah, I have had quite a bit of failure and depression in my life, but the last year-and-a- half I have had a dramatic reversal of fortune and had things work out quite a bit better for me. I had quite a bit of hope for the future. Since I had some free time, and was having to make decisions about long-term investments, I started to look to see what was going on in the financial realm, real estate, etc... The more I looked into things, I was disturbed to say the least. Then, I read about peak oil, maybe unfortunately, maybe fortunately, through LATOC.net. It hit me like baseball hat to the head. Never having considered exactly how oil production works (damn I was ignorant), I had never even considered the idea of "peak" before, but the moment I read about the shape of the curve of production, I didn't need to read the rest to start to become quite concerned. However, I did read the rest, and it scared the crap out of me. Not to be insensitive to anybody that is ill, but it felt like I had been diagnosed with a terminal, fatal disease. It felt like my dreams had died. After researching, I feel that Matt might be kind of excessive on the doom and gloom, but I still don't think that downright catastrophic results are out of the realm of possiblity. I don't think PO will "level the playing field" or give me a new start in anything. If it is coming as soon as some predict (say right now!) then even knowing about it will do me absolutely no good as I am only a person of modest financial means. People who are strong and successful now will probably be able to find a way to prosper, whatever the definition of prosperity becomes, in future. One of my only motivations in telling people about peak oil is so that if and when we face hard times, they will understand the exact reason, and not go on a blaming and finger pointing spree that may ensue. That will only be a waste of time and effort, and we are going to need all the mental stamina we can muster to try to work towards a modified way of life, because it is clear to me that we won't be using energy in the same manner and scale in the future that we do now.
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