The world is going to run out of gas!!!!!!! Make shelter + food reserves soon!
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<< They don't know what to do! So they keep it quiet! >>
Great, more international conspiracy rantings. They know that the petroleum supply is not going to run out in "7 to 12 years".
<< Where do you think the electricity comes from ? >>
I know where electricity comes from you nitwit.
<< Just use your head and stop badmouthing me! >>
I will stop badmouthing you when you GO AWAY.
<< Great. Than be unprepared to die! >>
You're funny. Safe to say any intelligent person knows that everyone is not going to die when the oil runs out.
<< They don't know what to do! So they keep it quiet! >>
They also don't know what to do about the hordes of alien fleets that are approaching Earth, so they're keeping that quiet too. Last week they found out that the sun will die out in 1 month, but they've got no contingency plans for that either, so they're keeping that quiet too.
Understand?
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You fools! I knew that the sun would explode/die out in October of 2000 several years ago! I have been building a spaceship ever since then. Now I just need a good fuel to get me into orbit...
GreenBeret
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I can live w/o gas. We'll adapt. Those cool 40mph bicycles. Geothermal. Wind. Solar. Piped in from mars! We'll figure something out. It's faith in human perseverence (sp) that will carry us onward.
No, we'll run out of solar power first, so we need to use AS MUCH GAS AS POSSIBLE TO COMPENSATE for the power we'll lose from the sun. THINK ABOUT IT PEOPLE!!! The numbers I haven't supplied speak for themselves!!! ARMAGEDODDON IS COMMING SAVEE YORSELVES!
Sigh... Yet again, so much misinformation....
There is about 50 years left of oil consumption left in the world THAT CAN BE CHEAPLY extracted.
Believe it or not, there are hardly any new oil reserves left in the world. Most of the remaining ones are very expensive to drill for. How do I know this? Well, my girlfriend works for the Canadian Geological Survey, which actually monitors this sort of thing all over the world. The people who work at the Survey are long haired, weird scientists with PHDs up their ying yang. They know what they're talking about.
Let's put this all into perspective. In Saudi Arabia, you can poke a stick into the ground and oil will come gushing out. This method of stick poking is no longer feasible.
Oil in Alberta costs about ~$12-18 to drill out, due to the oil being trapped in sand. More processing = higher costs.
Oil in Hibernia costs about $23 to drill out, because it's in the Atlantic Ocean.
Oil in the polar ice caps would cost about $40 to drill out, at least. Not to mention most people would not want to live in the sh!t hole that are the polar ice caps.
Oil would cost so much that it would price itself out of usability. Less supply + equal or rising demand = high, high prices. Economics 101. Learn it.
There is about 50 years left of oil consumption left in the world THAT CAN BE CHEAPLY extracted.
Believe it or not, there are hardly any new oil reserves left in the world. Most of the remaining ones are very expensive to drill for. How do I know this? Well, my girlfriend works for the Canadian Geological Survey, which actually monitors this sort of thing all over the world. The people who work at the Survey are long haired, weird scientists with PHDs up their ying yang. They know what they're talking about.
Let's put this all into perspective. In Saudi Arabia, you can poke a stick into the ground and oil will come gushing out. This method of stick poking is no longer feasible.
Oil in Alberta costs about ~$12-18 to drill out, due to the oil being trapped in sand. More processing = higher costs.
Oil in Hibernia costs about $23 to drill out, because it's in the Atlantic Ocean.
Oil in the polar ice caps would cost about $40 to drill out, at least. Not to mention most people would not want to live in the sh!t hole that are the polar ice caps.
Oil would cost so much that it would price itself out of usability. Less supply + equal or rising demand = high, high prices. Economics 101. Learn it.
Your conspiracy theories hold no water whatsoever. Perhaps those little guys with the big eyes gave you one too many deep anal probes and took out something vital.
Not only are there enough reserves for 40 - 50 like Denill said but there are still billions of tons of oil locked in rock formations. While oil share is no economically expoloitable right now, emerging technologies will allow us to tap those eventually.
Crawl back into your bunker cause you're scaring the youngins.
Windogg
Not only are there enough reserves for 40 - 50 like Denill said but there are still billions of tons of oil locked in rock formations. While oil share is no economically expoloitable right now, emerging technologies will allow us to tap those eventually.
Crawl back into your bunker cause you're scaring the youngins.
Windogg
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50 years for that can be RECOVERED ECONOMICALLY with CURRENT technology and KNOWN reserves are the key words. There are many other sources of oil that can be tapped in the future. Check out this except from Encyclopedia Britanica:
<< Oil shale deposits that are commercially viable at present are the Estonian shales and the Manchurian shales in China. Nearly 60 percent of the world's potentially recoverable shale oil resource is concentrated, however, in the United States (see Table). The aforementioned western and minable eastern oil shales of the United States have been estimated to contain an in-place oil resource of some 1,670,000,000,000 barrels. Using a 50 percent allowance for unrecoverable shale and a 25 percent allowance for conversion to synthetic fuel, the production potential for shale oil in the United States is estimated to be 626,000,000,000 barrels. The Mahogany Zone of the Parachute Creek Member of the Eocene Green River formation in the Piceance Basin of northwestern Colorado is a major target for future shale oil production. Estimated to contain some 59,000,000,000 barrels of recoverable shale oil, it is a thick, rich, consistent, saucer-shaped bed that outcrops around the edges of the basin, offering opportunities for mining by adits (nearly horizontal passages from the surface). At the centre of the basin the zone is more than 150 metres deep and accessible only by vertical or inclined shafts. >>
Read the rest here:
Oil Shale Lowdown
<< Oil shale deposits that are commercially viable at present are the Estonian shales and the Manchurian shales in China. Nearly 60 percent of the world's potentially recoverable shale oil resource is concentrated, however, in the United States (see Table). The aforementioned western and minable eastern oil shales of the United States have been estimated to contain an in-place oil resource of some 1,670,000,000,000 barrels. Using a 50 percent allowance for unrecoverable shale and a 25 percent allowance for conversion to synthetic fuel, the production potential for shale oil in the United States is estimated to be 626,000,000,000 barrels. The Mahogany Zone of the Parachute Creek Member of the Eocene Green River formation in the Piceance Basin of northwestern Colorado is a major target for future shale oil production. Estimated to contain some 59,000,000,000 barrels of recoverable shale oil, it is a thick, rich, consistent, saucer-shaped bed that outcrops around the edges of the basin, offering opportunities for mining by adits (nearly horizontal passages from the surface). At the centre of the basin the zone is more than 150 metres deep and accessible only by vertical or inclined shafts. >>
Read the rest here:
Oil Shale Lowdown
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