And what are you gonna do without your car, heat, plastic, and every other freaking thing that required petroleum to be created?
I just finished up my final research paper dealing with petroleum. Just about everyone I could find (books, scholarly journals etc) agree that oil production is going to peak around 2010 (5 freaking years from now) and current known oil reserves will run out by 2045-2050. We have roughly 5 years until a bidding war starts as to who gets the remaining oil. We then have to come up with an alternate renewable energy source.
The worst part is the fact that most other sources of energy (hydrogen, nuclear etc etc etc) really won't work. They all either require petroleum to be produced or the net energy output is less than the energy needed to create it.
So, what are your thoughts on the subject? How are we supposed to get our government more interested in alternative fuel sources.
**I am not a environmentalist or anything, just a realist. Oil will run out, no one knows the exact date but it will happen.**
I just finished up my final research paper dealing with petroleum. Just about everyone I could find (books, scholarly journals etc) agree that oil production is going to peak around 2010 (5 freaking years from now) and current known oil reserves will run out by 2045-2050. We have roughly 5 years until a bidding war starts as to who gets the remaining oil. We then have to come up with an alternate renewable energy source.
The worst part is the fact that most other sources of energy (hydrogen, nuclear etc etc etc) really won't work. They all either require petroleum to be produced or the net energy output is less than the energy needed to create it.
So, what are your thoughts on the subject? How are we supposed to get our government more interested in alternative fuel sources.
**I am not a environmentalist or anything, just a realist. Oil will run out, no one knows the exact date but it will happen.**