End of Oil is at our door step; what next?

[jamesduncan]

Climate Change will not bring about our end~~ but this will; within your grandchild’s life time





The climate has been changing since day one & it will continue to change, with or without us!!!

Today’s real issue is ENERGY, so let’s get together and fix this while we still can

The end of the Fossil Fuel era is upon us so what are we going to do next-?
Energy information Administration Official Energy Statistics from the US government
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/forecasting.html

The above report indicates that the US will be using primarily oil as our main energy source through 2030.

The world's total declared reserves are 1,317,400,000,000 barrels (January 2007).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves

World oil consumption 2005 is 80,290,000 barrels per day or 29,305,850,000 per year
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2174rank.html

Dividing annual consumption into total reserves gives us 44.9 years of oil supply at the current consumption rate.

That was eleven (11)years ago, we are not changing our habits and this spells doom for us all.

Do you have any suggestions--?

Libya will be an interesting place to watch.

· Libya’s current production rate is 1.8 million barrels of oil a day

· At that rate Libya will exhaust all its reserves within 63 years

· Existing oil fields undergoing a 7–8% decline rate

They have highways and freeways and use cars and trucks just like the rest of us do.

But up until now gas was pretty much free.

If there is going to be a drive to manufacture electric and hybrid cars for local consumption

now is the time for Libya to use its cash reserves and invest in local production of the next generation power systems.

At least in the US we have the cash and will to build a new future for America and the

people are willing to do their part too. Anyway

I hope people are trying to think this through?

Thank you all for participating in this discussion—

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Climate Change will not bring about our end~~ but this will; within your grandchild’s life time





The climate has been changing since day one & it will continue to change, with or without us!!!

Today’s real issue is ENERGY, so let’s get together and fix this while we still can

The end of the Fossil Fuel era is upon us so what are we going to do next-?
Energy information Administration Official Energy Statistics from the US government
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/forecasting.html

The above report indicates that the US will be using primarily oil as our main energy source through 2030.

The world's total declared reserves are 1,317,400,000,000 barrels (January 2007).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves

World oil consumption 2005 is 80,290,000 barrels per day or 29,305,850,000 per year
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2174rank.html

Dividing annual consumption into total reserves gives us 44.9 years of oil supply at the current consumption rate.

That was eleven (11)years ago, we are not changing our habits and this spells doom for us all.

Do you have any suggestions--?

Libya will be an interesting place to watch.

· Libya’s current production rate is 1.8 million barrels of oil a day

· At that rate Libya will exhaust all its reserves within 63 years

· Existing oil fields undergoing a 7–8% decline rate

They have highways and freeways and use cars and trucks just like the rest of us do.

But up until now gas was pretty much free.

If there is going to be a drive to manufacture electric and hybrid cars for local consumption

now is the time for Libya to use its cash reserves and invest in local production of the next generation power systems.

At least in the US we have the cash and will to build a new future for America and the

people are willing to do their part too. Anyway

I hope people are trying to think this through?

Thank you all for participating in this discussion—

The world's total declared reserves are 1,317,400,000,000 barrels (January 2007).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves

World oil consumption 2005 is 80,290,000 barrels per day or 29,305,850,000 per year
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2174rank.html

What are the 2017 numbers for reserves and consumption?

 

[Pete7469]

All the bullshit set aside, one day we will have a source of energy that replaces the internal combustion engine.

It will not be the result of crippling regressive policy.

 

[The Great Goose]

 

[william the wie]

proven reserves of petroleum energy keep going up. Bolivia, Brazil and Africa have trillions, maybe quadrillions, of barrels of proven reserves that are not worth developing at current prices. China will not build the needed pipelines because $10/bbl oil might mean war with Russia.

 

[HenryBHough]

There'll be an abundance of oil even after it has been rendered redundant by newer technologies, some of which aren't even visible to the general public at this moment.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

All the bullshit set aside, one day we will have a source of energy that replaces the internal combustion engine.

It will not be the result of crippling regressive policy.

Thanks to forward looking progressives, we already have it.

Yes, of course our economy could survive without oil. In fact, judging by other countries, it would thrive and so would our people.

jamesduncan -- Excellent OP.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

All the bullshit set aside, one day we will have a source of energy that replaces the internal combustion engine.

It will not be the result of crippling regressive policy.

Thanks to forward looking progressives, we already have it.

Yes, of course our economy could survive without oil. In fact, judging by other countries, it would thrive and so would our people.

jamesduncan -- Excellent OP.

Thanks to forward looking progressives, we already have it.

Yup, progressive nuclear power. Is there anything better?

 

[Zander]

We have over 150 years of oil in the Bakken.

 

[jamesduncan]

Climate Change will not bring about our end~~ but this will; within your grandchild’s life time





The climate has been changing since day one & it will continue to change, with or without us!!!

Today’s real issue is ENERGY, so let’s get together and fix this while we still can

The end of the Fossil Fuel era is upon us so what are we going to do next-?
Energy information Administration Official Energy Statistics from the US government
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/forecasting.html

The above report indicates that the US will be using primarily oil as our main energy source through 2030.

The world's total declared reserves are 1,317,400,000,000 barrels (January 2007).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves

World oil consumption 2005 is 80,290,000 barrels per day or 29,305,850,000 per year
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2174rank.html

Dividing annual consumption into total reserves gives us 44.9 years of oil supply at the current consumption rate.

That was eleven (11)years ago, we are not changing our habits and this spells doom for us all.

Do you have any suggestions--?

Libya will be an interesting place to watch.

· Libya’s current production rate is 1.8 million barrels of oil a day

· At that rate Libya will exhaust all its reserves within 63 years

· Existing oil fields undergoing a 7–8% decline rate

They have highways and freeways and use cars and trucks just like the rest of us do.

But up until now gas was pretty much free.

If there is going to be a drive to manufacture electric and hybrid cars for local consumption

now is the time for Libya to use its cash reserves and invest in local production of the next generation power systems.

At least in the US we have the cash and will to build a new future for America and the

people are willing to do their part too. Anyway

I hope people are trying to think this through?

Thank you all for participating in this discussion—

The world's total declared reserves are 1,317,400,000,000 barrels (January 2007).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves

World oil consumption 2005 is 80,290,000 barrels per day or 29,305,850,000 per year
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2174rank.html

What are the 2017 numbers for reserves and consumption?

Have you gotten a reply~~~

just asking -

 

[MarathonMike]

That's 100 years off at least. After that there is natural gas, nuclear, advanced batteries, hydrogen and yes, solar and wind.

 

[Bleipriester]

Oil is not only an energy source but also a construction material.

 

[BulletProof]

Our kids will have to learn to live in a low-energy economy, but technology will make it easy.

 

[jamesduncan]

China is joining France and Britain in announcing plans to end sales of gasoline and diesel cars.

China's industry ministry is developing a timetable to end production and sale of traditional fuel cars and will promote development of electric technology, state media on Sunday cited a Cabinet official as saying.

France and Britain announced in July they will stop sales of gasoline and diesel automobiles by 2040 as part of efforts to reduce pollution and carbon emissions that contribute to global warming.

Communist leaders also want to curb China's growing appetite for imported oil and see electric cars as a promising industry in which their country can take an early lead.

China passed the United States last year as the biggest electric car market. Sales of electrics and gasoline-electric hybrids rose 50 percent over 2015 to 336,000 vehicles, or 40 percent of global demand. U.S. sales totaled 159,620.

https://tinyurl.com/ycsg6xb6

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

China is joining France and Britain in announcing plans to end sales of gasoline and diesel cars.

China's industry ministry is developing a timetable to end production and sale of traditional fuel cars and will promote development of electric technology, state media on Sunday cited a Cabinet official as saying.

France and Britain announced in July they will stop sales of gasoline and diesel automobiles by 2040 as part of efforts to reduce pollution and carbon emissions that contribute to global warming.

Communist leaders also want to curb China's growing appetite for imported oil and see electric cars as a promising industry in which their country can take an early lead.

China passed the United States last year as the biggest electric car market. Sales of electrics and gasoline-electric hybrids rose 50 percent over 2015 to 336,000 vehicles, or 40 percent of global demand. U.S. sales totaled 159,620.

https://tinyurl.com/ycsg6xb6

They should sell coal burning cars.

 

[SSDD]

We will never run out of oil...while there may be some "fossil" fuel in the ground, most of it is abiotic...we have seen evidence of hydrocarbons on other planets in the solar system where no life ever existed....it strikes me as odd that people would think that here, hydrocarbons can only be the product of organic processes.

The russians tossed out the "fossil" fuel hypothesis quite some time ago and have taken to drilling in places where fossil fuel simply could not be found...and finding it...and then there is the tendency of dry wells to fill themselves up again over a period of years...

 

[BulletProof]

We will never run out of oil...while there may be some "fossil" fuel in the ground, most of it is abiotic...we have seen evidence of hydrocarbons on other planets in the solar system where no life ever existed....it strikes me as odd that people would think that here, hydrocarbons can only be the product of organic processes.

The russians tossed out the "fossil" fuel hypothesis quite some time ago and have taken to drilling in places where fossil fuel simply could not be found...and finding it...and then there is the tendency of dry wells to fill themselves up again over a period of years...

What does you dumb nut brain think abiotic oil comes from?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Peak oiLOL

 

[SSDD]

We will never run out of oil...while there may be some "fossil" fuel in the ground, most of it is abiotic...we have seen evidence of hydrocarbons on other planets in the solar system where no life ever existed....it strikes me as odd that people would think that here, hydrocarbons can only be the product of organic processes.

The russians tossed out the "fossil" fuel hypothesis quite some time ago and have taken to drilling in places where fossil fuel simply could not be found...and finding it...and then there is the tendency of dry wells to fill themselves up again over a period of years...

What does you dumb nut brain think abiotic oil comes from?

Same way it forms on planets that have never supported life...chemical and geological processes deep in the mantle of the planet. You believe in peak oil? Let me guess....you do. Of course it is necessary that people believe that line of crap...what would happen to oil prices should people wake up to the fact that it is never going to run out?

 

[IsaacNewton]

Global Warming will render the 'which energy to use' subject moot. The acidification of the oceans is already well under way, the Great Barrier reef was declared dead a couple months ago and reefs around the world are dying off because the acidity in the water causes the coral to eject the photosynthesizing organisms in it. Thus they turn white before dying. Microscopic and larger organisms that evolved to thrive in a particular pH in the ocean cannot construct shells as the excess CO2 absorbed into the ocean causes excess Carbonic Acid to form, making the water too acidic for these organisms to form their shells.

Scientists know all this and most of the world knows it. It is the backwards hillbillies in the US that are dragging the US's feet. The fossil fuel industry claims it isn't real because they stand to lose billions of dollars. The average idiot that carps their nonsense has no excuse. He or she is just too scared of the reality to believe it. Far easier to jam their heads in the sand and sing "la la la la la la" to themselves.

The world should put together a worldwide push to perfect fusion energy as quickly as possible and nuclear, wind, solar and hydro should fill the void until then. Carbon has to be left in the ground now, no other option.

No matter, something evil this way comes.