Sure, oil may be renewable if you want to wait a hundred million years for a century's worth of fuel. I say "may be" because the geological conditions would have to be right.
There was one blip in the history of this earth that produced 'oil'-it isn't and wasn't a cycle.
Nice try lad.
Rogo
No idea what caveman argument is. Fire is a renewable "resource", fire was around much longer than before Promithius.
No, oil was not made in one blip of time. It was a continuing process that takes millions of years, and that process is still going on today.
who cares about how long it takes to make the process has already started, it has more to do with the consumption rate vs formation rate.
there are no renewable resources if you don't limit the consumption.
and what blip was this?
there are no renewable resources if you don't limit the consumption.
and what blip was this?
mugs
Lifer
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Oil has been created in the last 100 years. Did the processes that make oil just decide to stop for one century?
It is bogus.
There are no numbers to back it up. I've posted the EIA's chart for supply and demand based on real numbers, but none of the trolls have responded to it
Rogo
this thread is just idiotic, the OP asks a stupid question and then gets mad when people don't give him the answer he wants to hear. We don't need you people from peakoil.com coming over and talking down like we don't already all know that oil is not renewable. However the fact is that oil IS produced by decaying organic material now just like it was millions of years ago, however the rate of production is insignificant compared to current consumption. WE can argue technicalities about oil being renewed, we can just as easily say wind and solar will some day run out (when the sun goes bye-bye) however for all intents and purposes wind and solar are constant and oil is diminishing. This is COMMON KNOWLEDGE and it doesn't take a stupid thread to tell people stuff that we have probably all know wince we were 10 years old.
That was my reason for creating this poll. It's 44% proven that the cross-section of this forum doesn't have ANY COMMON KNOWLEDGE.
Wind and sun don't run out unless you're Descartes-but then again he couldn't see.
Are one of the same?
Rogo
It renews at a pace slow enough to consider it a non-renewable source.
To consider it a renewable source of energy, it would need to reproduce at a rate that equals consumption and maintains pace with consumption growth.
It doesn't even come close, so it isn't.
To consider it a renewable source of energy, it would need to reproduce at a rate that equals consumption and maintains pace with consumption growth.
It doesn't even come close, so it isn't.
BT
You post a sig that states many people need to understand logical fallacies before they post-yet you presuppose that people understand the finite level of oil? If they can't use logic as a tool then they can't understand the basic premise of resource levels.
You might want to use your own sig as a map to thinking and posting in my threads.
Rogo
You post a sig that states many people need to understand logical fallacies before they post-yet you presuppose that people understand the finite level of oil? If they can't use logic as a tool then they can't understand the basic premise of resource levels.
You might want to use your own sig as a map to thinking and posting in my threads.
Rogo
For all practical purposes - no. We are not going to see the change in our lifetime because it takes thousands of years to happen.
Theoretically - yes.
Theoretically - yes.
Gunslinger08
Lifer
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Wow, you're such a pompous ass. Did you make this thread just to say "hey, look how smart I am!"?
Everybody knows that, all the yes votes are just to piss off this sky is falling troll who suddenly can't stop talking about energy.
Gunslinger08
Lifer
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