Anyone else wonder about the Oil Crash?

[JoLLyRoGer]

Disclaimer: This thread borders that grey area between Off Topic and P & N. Mods, feel free to move if necessary.

I stumbled onto a webiste that gave me some pause and got me thinking. It focuses on the concept of "peak oil" and what to expect after what this site calls the oil crash.

Understant that I take everything from the web with a heavy dose of salt, and I hardly think that that the sky is falling or the end of the world is coming just because the oil will someday run out, but the idea does raise some interesting questions.

Take a look and post your thoughts/comments.

Here's the link:
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

JR..

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: JoLLyRoGer
Disclaimer: This thread borders that grey area between Off Topic and P & N. Mods, feel free to move if necessary.

I stumbled onto a webiste that gave me some pause and got me thinking. It focuses on the concept of "peak oil" and what to expect after what this site calls the oil crash.

Understant that I take everything from the web with a heavy dose of salt, and I hardly think that that the sky is falling or the end of the world is coming just because the oil will someday run out, but the idea does raise some interesting questions.

Take a look and post your thoughts/comments.

Here's the link:
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

JR..

It is crock. Every other technology/natural resource is completely ignored by that website.

 

[rahvin]

He dismisses all alternative energy sources as impracticle. Individually they all are as replacements for oil. The solution is a mix of alternatives with the flexability of a hydrogen based energy supply system that is no reliant on the method that the hydrogen is generated. This will allow great flexibility in production of the hydrogen from a multitude of sources and the capitalistic system will find the cheapest way to produce elemental hydrogen even if it uses a dozen or more of the alternates listed on the site.

Just as an example, a demo electricity turbine system based on wave energy installed on the coast of england provided enough energy that England could go completely to wave produced energy by installing the wave generation systems on the rest of the coastline. Add in wind, solor and thermal depolimerzation and you England could be completely renewable. Other nations may have to mix in nuclear but the solution is a mix of non-petroleum based solutions.

The rising price of oil is a definitive indication to me that the peak oil production has already been reached and we are in the downward slide. This rise in prices will drive the production of alternative energy. I just wish we could move it along a little quicker with some government intervention, a rise in the gas tax to support our crumbling infastructure (with a drop in diesal taxes to avoid an impact to consumer prices) and an increase in the CAFE standards at a minimum is what should be done.

 

[LordMagnusKain]

I listened to this guy on art-bell and he's so far-left he's a kusenitch voter. He rejects alternative energy as viable when it becomes necessary because he doesn't understand that when the cost goes up we'll use less oil for personal consumption and more oil for construction of alternative energy.

the government is out to make sure we all can't work, the economy won't re-dedicate rare-oil to power-generation, and Americans wont' change driving habits and car-buying habits when gas prices increase. -these predications are just silly.

he's actually a progressive out to try to make an argument about why the Iraq war was all about oil.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: rahvin
He dismisses all alternative energy sources as impracticle. Individually they all are as replacements for oil. The solution is a mix of alternatives with the flexability of a hydrogen based energy supply system that is no reliant on the method that the hydrogen is generated. This will allow great flexibility in production of the hydrogen from a multitude of sources and the capitalistic system will find the cheapest way to produce elemental hydrogen even if it uses a dozen or more of the alternates listed on the site.

Just as an example, a demo electricity turbine system based on wave energy installed on the coast of england provided enough energy that England could go completely to wave produced energy by installing the wave generation systems on the rest of the coastline. Add in wind, solor and thermal depolimerzation and you England could be completely renewable. Other nations may have to mix in nuclear but the solution is a mix of non-petroleum based solutions.

The rising price of oil is a definitive indication to me that the peak oil production has already been reached and we are in the downward slide. This rise in prices will drive the production of alternative energy. I just wish we could move it along a little quicker with some government intervention, a rise in the gas tax to support our crumbling infastructure (with a drop in diesal taxes to avoid an impact to consumer prices) and an increase in the CAFE standards at a minimum is what should be done.

I think thats what should be done, it will reduce our dependence on foriegn countries for our almighty oil supply and make the country more self sufficient. The renewable energy, made on the homefront, will likely increase jobs somewhat for the construction and management of said renewable energy sources. Of course thats not going to happen, it would require vision in the government and a nation willing to make a small sacrifice in the short term for gain in the long, neither of which we are likely to get. We're going to wait until we're fresh out and then scream "Oh sh|t where'd all the oil go?!"