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

[watchingfromafar]

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.

ABC News

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Yes, your math is off. Every bit of it.
1,651,000,000,000 / 31,536,000,000 = 52.3528665652 years.
Sorry Chuck.
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Thanks for correcting my math errors. So, according to the numbers; at current consumption rate all the known oil reserves will be pumped out of the ground and gone within 52 years.
The point I was trying to make still stands;
So what do we do next?

The point I was trying to make still stands;

Did you miss the headline at your link?

Worldwide oil, natural gas reserves inch higher in 2017

Despite a year of drilling and consumption, reserves were higher a year later.

So what do we do next?

We continue to allow the market and the march of technology to create improvements.
More efficient use, more efficient discovery and drilling, more efficient production.

 

[watchingfromafar]

Update----

Monaco—

Since 1994, the Government has been encouraging the use of clean energy vehicles in the Principality, in particular by granting purchasing subsidies. The Government wished to adapt the scale of subsidies to take account of the increased availability of hybrid versions, as this had led to the granting of subsidies to vehicles that cause too much pollution. With this in mind, the State took note of incentive schemes in operation in neighbouring countries, especially in France. It also demonstrated a more proactive policy, modifying these policies to suit the needs of Monaco – a step that continues to favour electric technology.

In this new scheme, subsidies for electric vehicles are still 30% of the purchase price including all taxes, with a ceiling of 9,000 Euros. There is a ceiling of 3,000 Euros for two-wheeled vehicles.

Electric vehicles also benefit from specific advantages, such as free recharging at the 574 charging points in public car parks, and at the fast and semi-fast charging points on public roads: at the lower end of Rue Grimaldi, on Place des Moulins and at 24 Avenue de Fontvieille (in front of the Single Buoy Mooring building). They also have their own special identification, "VE" (for véhicule électrique - electric vehicle), which offers free on-street parking in Monaco and a free annual sticker.

Subsidy scheme for electric and hybrid vehicles / Soft mobility / The Environment / Policy & Practice / Portail du Gouvernement - Monaco

 

[sparky]

I heat w/wood

i figure we;re not runnin' outta that soon

~S~

 

[Unkotare]

I heat w/wood

i figure we;re not runnin' outta that soon

~S~

We're not running out of oil soon either.

 

[Freiheit]

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?

Why of course we will go back to living in the 18th Century. The end of oil has been happening since the 70s. It is time for a human race die off.

 

[Unkotare]

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?

Why of course we will go back to living in the 18th Century. The end of oil has been happening since the 70s. It is time for a human race die off.

Well? What are you waiting for?

 

[miketx]

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?

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.

'Cept at night.

 

[watchingfromafar]

Oil companies; this period in our transition to renewables is waiting for you to do the right thing. You can use your current profits to design and manufacture a new energy wave that will glide us into a great future.

Convert your gas stations to support hybrid cars and at the same time invest in hybrid car manufacture. You were the leaders in the fossil fuel industry and you can continue to be the leaders in our future energy needs.

Please do it, for your future and the future of modern civilizations to come.

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[Toddsterpatriot]

Oil companies; this period in our transition to renewables is waiting for you to do the right thing. You can use your current profits to design and manufacture a new energy wave that will glide us into a great future.

Convert your gas stations to support hybrid cars and at the same time invest in hybrid car manufacture. You were the leaders in fossil fuel industry and you can continue to be the leaders in our future energy needs.

Please do it, for your future and the future of modern civilizations to come.

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Nah.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Oil companies; this period in our transition to renewables is waiting for you to do the right thing. You can use your current profits to design and manufacture a new energy wave that will glide us into a great future.

Convert your gas stations to support hybrid cars and at the same time invest in hybrid car manufacture. You were the leaders in the fossil fuel industry and you can continue to be the leaders in our future energy needs.

Please do it, for your future and the future of modern civilizations to come.

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/——/ You big dope. That’s not their job.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Oil companies; this period in our transition to renewables is waiting for you to do the right thing. You can use your current profits to design and manufacture a new energy wave that will glide us into a great future.

Convert your gas stations to support hybrid cars and at the same time invest in hybrid car manufacture. You were the leaders in the fossil fuel industry and you can continue to be the leaders in our future energy needs.

Please do it, for your future and the future of modern civilizations to come.

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/—-/ You realize oil companies don’t make very high margins, don’t you?

 

[Wyatt earp]

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?

how many of these idiot threads will you guys make?

they have been saying we will run out of oil since before the Titanic sank.

 

[beautress]

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?

how many of these idiot threads will you guys make?

they have been saying we will run out of oil since before the Titanic sank.

I don't know why running out of oil in 19 years bothers anyone. The world is gonna end in 12 years, anyway, according to a certain congresscritter.

Oh, those sanctimonious talking points.

 

[Frannie]

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?

Your math is wrong because the current rate of consumption is falling, and there are quickly becoming new ways to produce oil substitutes that will be both cheaper and cleaner. Oil is dominant chiefly because oil is easy

 

[beautress]

hmmmm..... crack co-oil... lol

 

[watchingfromafar]

The end of the Fossil Fuel era is upon us so what are we going to do next-?
Started by tooldtocare on Apr 29, 2011 2:42:41 AM
NOTtheTalk - The end of the Fossil Fuel era is upon us so what are we going to do next-? (Environment)

After 3,138 posts in the above topic I no longer need to beat my drums on this issue. Now we have hybrids, electric cars and a new fuel source that is not derived from oil.

The world is unfolding as it should

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[Wyatt earp]

The end of the Fossil Fuel era is upon us so what are we going to do next-?
Started by tooldtocare on Apr 29, 2011 2:42:41 AM
NOTtheTalk - The end of the Fossil Fuel era is upon us so what are we going to do next-? (Environment)

After 3,138 posts in the above topic I no longer need to beat my drums on this issue. Now we have hybrids, electric cars and a new fuel source that is not derived from oil.

The world is unfolding as it should

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we had Electric cars in the 1800's you moron.

 

[sparky]

Any suggestions?

~S~

 

[beautress]

The end of the Fossil Fuel era is upon us so what are we going to do next-?
Started by tooldtocare on Apr 29, 2011 2:42:41 AM
NOTtheTalk - The end of the Fossil Fuel era is upon us so what are we going to do next-? (Environment)

After 3,138 posts in the above topic I no longer need to beat my drums on this issue. Now we have hybrids, electric cars and a new fuel source that is not derived from oil.

The world is unfolding as it should

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Don't worry, watchingfromafar. They just developed led lights that burn for 35 years on less than 10 KWH, (kilowatthours) and put out 100 W (watts) apiece. They're expensive, but they last half a lifetime. In the meantime, the cutting edge of the most important sciences are getting more done with less fossil fuels. We need more people like Donald Trump who can say no to bullies with some teeth. The libbies and some conservatives do not hear this calling, but will eventually catch on: conservatism will have to become a way of life, but we will be able to harness energy from the sun, running water, possibly from someone who comes up with a way to turn sea water into an energy enterprise to replace oil and gas. If we can channel the nutcase hate-conservatives professors into productive endeavors like math and science cutting edge energy-finding work, it will help a lot.