GAO Report on the Peak and Decline of Oil Production

emersonbiggins

Mea culpa. I didn't spot any mention of commercial airlines or trucking, either. Extremely myopic.

If keeping the cars running at the expense of the economy is of the utmost importance to the feds, then we are doomed.
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chuck6877 · Heavy Crude Joined: May 16, 2005 Posts: 490

CNBC talked about the GAO study today.
Matthew Simmons was interviewed again on this topic.

Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fo3sxhBylw&eurl

edit; link replaced with youtube link

DantesPeak

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chuck6877 · Heavy Crude Joined: May 16, 2005 Posts: 490

Khebab,

Thanks. It was bugging me that every time it made it to around 4:37 it would stop!

The obsessive compulsive in me made me try to watch it about 5 times to see if it would ever show me the last 3 minutes Smile

Thanks again,
Chuck

max_power29

I do not want any government to do anything about peak oil. they tend to make problems worse and will ruin everyone's individual preps.
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Barbara

Many other MSM are discussing GAO: BW, WSJ etc.
Main quote?
"Peak oil in 2040".

There's no hope. Crying or Very sad

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MD

The point is exactly that the debate has been legitimized.

Quick picking at the content; it's irrelevant, for now.

Government is about to step in. It will get ugly.
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JPL

Twilight · Expert Joined: Mar 02, 2007 Posts: 2759 Location: UK

Pathetic. They're boasting about asking questions, yet reproduce claims such as the IEA's projection without analysis. This is what these people think. This is what these other people think. These people are doing that. No attempt to dig into the data. Sure it's crap, but it's not that crap. Peak in 2040 would need the past to have looked different. Peak in 2020 needs the past to have looked different. They don't yet realise that stuff can be determined already, probably got blinded by the sort of near-term detail we argue about and reduced it to "uncertainty". Just because a bunch of pundits can't agree on the detail of the next 10 years doesn't mean events over multiples of 10 years are subject to the same uncertainty.

I don't know. With that level of getting their act together, maybe we're better off with governments not addressing the problem?
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