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

should this concern you

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    Votes: 2 6.5%
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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?

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
Exploration crews find more and more oil deeper and deeper and in the seas and coastal waters.

What is next is more technology to dig it up.

And more oil spills.

You could not be more wrong.
 
Exploration crews find more and more oil deeper and deeper and in the seas and coastal waters.

Honestly, I hope you are right. Having said that, I doubt it. Some real evidence on your part would be real nice., so go for it; what's your proof?

just asking :)-
 
Honestly, I hope you are right. Having said that, I doubt it. Some real evidence on your part would be real nice., so go for it; what's your proof?

just asking :)-
North and South Dakota? To begin. Brazilian offshore oil. Caspian sea oil. Natural gas off the coast of Israel? We have barely even begun to tap into the vast reserves of oil on this earth.
 
North and South Dakota? To begin. Brazilian offshore oil. Caspian sea oil. Natural gas off the coast of Israel? We have barely even begun to tap into the vast reserves of oil on this earth.

Sorry but one liners falls short. Post some links stating the quantity of oil/gas found then we may have something to debate. Frankly I hope you are right but then again even the discoveries you allude to are finite. My hope is the human race will still be around after these new findings are all gone. Which will occur in your grandchildren's life span.

:)-
 
New estimates of worldwide crude oil reserves total 1.651 trillion bbl
(1,651,000,000,000)
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In 2010, global crude oil demand was 86.4 million barrels per day.
86,400,000,000x365=315360000000000000
Daily global crude oil demand 2006-2018 | Statistic

1,651,000,000,000/315360000000000000=19 years left

My math might be off but it looks like, at current rate of consumption all the known oil reserves will be used up in 19 years.

If the numbers are correct, we need to act now before it is too late !!

Any suggestions?
 
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Convert all engines to run on alcohol and corn goes to at least $50 a bushel.

Life is good.

*****CHUCKLE*****



:)
 
humans adapt
I think oil is not one of our top worries
19 years? can't/won't they invent something else to help ease the 'problem' in 5 or 10 years?
 
New estimates of worldwide crude oil reserves total 1.651 trillion bbl
(1,651,000,000,000)
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In 2010, global crude oil demand was 86.4 million barrels per day.
86,400,000,000x365=315360000000000000
Daily global crude oil demand 2006-2018 | Statistic

1,651,000,000,000/315360000000000000=19 years left

My math might be off but it looks like, at current rate of consumption all the known oil reserves will be used up in 19 years.

If the numbers are correct, we need to act now before it is too late !!

Any suggestions?

There will be a mad rush to nuclear in the short term. The obvious answer is solar for the permanent fix. Once the world is operating on solar the supply is limitless and free. It's the free part that has kept the fossil fuel industry fighting advancement in anything other than oil for half a century. They WANT the world to buy oil until it runs out.
 
New estimates of worldwide crude oil reserves total 1.651 trillion bbl
(1,651,000,000,000)
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In 2010, global crude oil demand was 86.4 million barrels per day.
86,400,000,000x365=315360000000000000
Daily global crude oil demand 2006-2018 | Statistic
1,651,000,000,000/315360000000000000=19 years left
My math might be off but it looks like, at current rate of consumption all the known oil reserves will be used up in 19 years.

If the numbers are correct, we need to act now before it is too late !!
Any suggestions?

I'm 67 years old and I'll be dead by then so really, should I care?
 
New estimates of worldwide crude oil reserves total 1.651 trillion bbl
(1,651,000,000,000)
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In 2010, global crude oil demand was 86.4 million barrels per day.
86,400,000,000x365=315360000000000000
Daily global crude oil demand 2006-2018 | Statistic

1,651,000,000,000/315360000000000000=19 years left

My math might be off but it looks like, at current rate of consumption all the known oil reserves will be used up in 19 years.

If the numbers are correct, we need to act now before it is too late !!

Any suggestions?
/----/ Here we go again, the fear mongers predictions of the end of oil going back to 1909:
https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/weve-been-incorrectly-predicting-peak-oil-for-over-a-ce-1668986354
1909: 25 or 30 years longer
"Petroleum has been used for less than 50 years, and it is estimated that the supply will last about 25 or 30 years longer. If production is curtailed and waste stopped it may last till the end of the century. The most important effects of its disappearance will be in the lack of illuminants. Animal and vegetable oils will not begin to supply its place. This being the case, the reckless exploitation of oil fields and the consumption of oil for fuel should be checked."
— July 19, 1909 Titusville Herald (Titusville, PA)

1919: Two to five years until maximum production
"In meeting the world's needs, however, the oil from the United States will continue to occupy a less and less dominant position, because within the next two to five years the oil fields of this country will reach their maximum production and from that on we will face an ever increasing decline."
— October 23, 1919 Oil and Gas News
 
New estimates of worldwide crude oil reserves total 1.651 trillion bbl
(1,651,000,000,000)
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In 2010, global crude oil demand was 86.4 million barrels per day.
86,400,000,000x365=315360000000000000
Daily global crude oil demand 2006-2018 | Statistic

1,651,000,000,000/315360000000000000=19 years left

My math might be off but it looks like, at current rate of consumption all the known oil reserves will be used up in 19 years.

If the numbers are correct, we need to act now before it is too late !!

Any suggestions?

There will be a mad rush to nuclear in the short term. The obvious answer is solar for the permanent fix. Once the world is operating on solar the supply is limitless and free. It's the free part that has kept the fossil fuel industry fighting advancement in anything other than oil for half a century. They WANT the world to buy oil until it runs out.

th


Solar panels cost money, maintenance, replacement, and the sun is only in the sky for maybe 12 hours a day if there isn't a heavy overcast. Additionally there's not that much energy is generated per foot to cover the energy requirements of the USA unless you're covering massive areas utilized for cropland.

Try again.

*****CHUCKLE*****



:)
 
New estimates of worldwide crude oil reserves total 1.651 trillion bbl
(1,651,000,000,000)
Login

In 2010, global crude oil demand was 86.4 million barrels per day.
86,400,000,000x365=315360000000000000
Daily global crude oil demand 2006-2018 | Statistic

1,651,000,000,000/315360000000000000=19 years left

My math might be off but it looks like, at current rate of consumption all the known oil reserves will be used up in 19 years.

If the numbers are correct, we need to act now before it is too late !!

Any suggestions?
We've known this since the 60's and Big Oil has made sure we ignore it as a Green Party nonissue cooked up by the Communists. We could be 75% alternatives by now, including nuclear, wind, solar and tidal. But there is still money to be made on oil. So we will continue to treat those alternatives as fringe technology until there is no choice.
 
New estimates of worldwide crude oil reserves total 1.651 trillion bbl
(1,651,000,000,000)
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In 2010, global crude oil demand was 86.4 million barrels per day.
86,400,000,000x365=315360000000000000
Daily global crude oil demand 2006-2018 | Statistic

1,651,000,000,000/315360000000000000=19 years left

My math might be off but it looks like, at current rate of consumption all the known oil reserves will be used up in 19 years.

If the numbers are correct, we need to act now before it is too late !!

Any suggestions?
Burn coal....... :eusa_whistle:
 
New estimates of worldwide crude oil reserves total 1.651 trillion bbl
(1,651,000,000,000)
Login

In 2010, global crude oil demand was 86.4 million barrels per day.
86,400,000,000x365=315360000000000000
Daily global crude oil demand 2006-2018 | Statistic

1,651,000,000,000/315360000000000000=19 years left

My math might be off but it looks like, at current rate of consumption all the known oil reserves will be used up in 19 years.

If the numbers are correct, we need to act now before it is too late !!

Any suggestions?
/----/ Here we go again, the fear mongers predictions of the end of oil going back to 1909:
https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/weve-been-incorrectly-predicting-peak-oil-for-over-a-ce-1668986354
1909: 25 or 30 years longer
"Petroleum has been used for less than 50 years, and it is estimated that the supply will last about 25 or 30 years longer. If production is curtailed and waste stopped it may last till the end of the century. The most important effects of its disappearance will be in the lack of illuminants. Animal and vegetable oils will not begin to supply its place. This being the case, the reckless exploitation of oil fields and the consumption of oil for fuel should be checked."
— July 19, 1909 Titusville Herald (Titusville, PA)

1919: Two to five years until maximum production
"In meeting the world's needs, however, the oil from the United States will continue to occupy a less and less dominant position, because within the next two to five years the oil fields of this country will reach their maximum production and from that on we will face an ever increasing decline."
— October 23, 1919 Oil and Gas News
This frakking thing is not good. It's too destructive. That's how we've been getting a lot of our oil lately, and it's not a good thing.
 
New estimates of worldwide crude oil reserves total 1.651 trillion bbl
(1,651,000,000,000)
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In 2010, global crude oil demand was 86.4 million barrels per day.
86,400,000,000x365=315360000000000000
Daily global crude oil demand 2006-2018 | Statistic

1,651,000,000,000/315360000000000000=19 years left

My math might be off but it looks like, at current rate of consumption all the known oil reserves will be used up in 19 years.

If the numbers are correct, we need to act now before it is too late !!

Any suggestions?
We've known this since the 60's and Big Oil has made sure we ignore it as a Green Party nonissue cooked up by the Communists. We could be 75% alternatives by now, including nuclear, wind, solar and tidal. But there is still money to be made on oil. So we will continue to treat those alternatives as fringe technology until there is no choice.

Or maybe until they actually are genuinely cheaper than oil....ie not welfare for the rich
 
New estimates of worldwide crude oil reserves total 1.651 trillion bbl
(1,651,000,000,000)
Login

In 2010, global crude oil demand was 86.4 million barrels per day.
86,400,000,000x365=315360000000000000
Daily global crude oil demand 2006-2018 | Statistic

1,651,000,000,000/315360000000000000=19 years left

My math might be off but it looks like, at current rate of consumption all the known oil reserves will be used up in 19 years.

If the numbers are correct, we need to act now before it is too late !!

Any suggestions?
You people need to pull your head out.
I have posted several times of early 1900's forecasts showing a decade supply.
 
/----/ Here we go again, the fear mongers predictions of the end of oil going back to 1909:
https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/weve-been-incorrectly-predicting-peak-oil-for-over-a-ce-1668986354
1909: 25 or 30 years longer.,.,.
1919: Two to five years until maximum production.,.,.,.,.

Those estimates were based on "known" reserves/consumption. Over time more oil is found and consumption goes up. The one fact you need to keep in mind is; oil is finite, our consumption is not.

Sooner or later the two (2) crash into each other & that day is 19 years away.
 

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