So?
I'm supposed to believe YOU know exactly where the oil is, and in what amount.
No, no one does. Because it doesn't exist. Are you starting to get it now?
I'm challenging your team to link to new oil going forward that will sustain our global appetite of 86 million barrels per day, and growing. I know you won't provide it, because it's not out there to be found. Period.
Why?
I'm not debating that oil is a non-renewable resource.
No, amazingly, you're just debating that it's a serious problem at all.
What I'm astonished with is that Peak Oil THEORISTS somehow believe, and have believed, for every 5 years for the past 50 years that practically every major event in Human History is related (often through some wildly convoluted conspiracy theory), to the volume of oil that YOU GUESS may be on the planet, discounting any and all other energy sources, and the potential to develope energy sources.
Not really an accurate depiction of what we believe, but I see the lame point you're trying to make, so I'll play along.
It took 50,000 years for man's population to get to 1 billion. Yet, 150 years later, we're at 7 billion. That's directly because of the advent of harnessing cheap, abundant fossil fuels. Period. Oil is at the heart of almost all geopolitical conflict and has been for decades. So, yeah, practically every major event since the early 20th Century, sure.
What's amusing is the way you guys can't grasp nuance and accept the ball park estimate given by world energy entities who track this stuff for the sake of the global economy. You play the over-literal card at every turn. If we estimate the planet held 2.1 trillion barrels, and God came down and told us 2.3 trillion was the total sum, you clowns would declare victory. "Ah ha! You were wrong!!!!!!"
You just don't get it, and don't want to get it. ... The seismic models are basically correct.... Perhaps off by few dozen billion, maybe a hundred billion barrels, but whatever. ... The fact is, 1) new discoveries are not keeping up with dying existing capacity, and 2) global demand growth continues to rise (albeit slower than pre-meltdown 2008). Those are quantifiable and undeniable.
The only possible explaination for such a ridiculously dogmatic POV is that the exploitation of oil equates to EVUL "capitalism," opposed to some vague notion of economics about which you seem to have a tenuous grasp, at best.
What an arrogant jackass. Clearly, I have a far better grasp of global economics than goofy you, because you still insist that economics dictates to energy. Ooops, dead wrong. Energy dictates to the markets.
The only "possible explanation," moron, is the geological data. Data that you can't deny, can't find to fight back, and can't fathom.
Do yourself a favor... and try reading more.
Shhh.
Rising oil prices, the recession and a new world order - The Mainichi Daily News
