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What Happens Once the Oil Runs Out?
NY Times ^
| March 25, 2005
| KENNETH S. DEFFEYES
Posted on 03/25/2005 6:50:44 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem; Dog Gone; BOBTHENAILER; wardaddy; Grampa Dave
"What Happens Once the Oil Runs Out?" We run on coal oil.
During the global anti-apartheid embargoes against South Africa, that nation ran its entire economy off of coal oil.
Further back, the entire German military machine ran on coal oil.
Coal oil is proven technology; every diesel engine in the world can run coal oil.
Per this article, the U.S. alone has a 300 year supply of coal. Now, 1 ton of coal makes 4 barrels of coal oil. One ton of coal currently sells for a mere $60, that means $15 per barrel coal oil compared to $55 per barrel crude oil.
This has been done before. South Africa ran out of crude oil; they made up for that loss with coal oil. Likewise, the WW2 German economy had to use coal oil because we stopped all of their crude oil imports. This is proven technology. Existing diesel engines can run coal oil with no changes in technology. Just pour in coal oil instead of diesel and your diesel engine will run just fine.
Your wallet will thank you for making the switch, too. Coal oil sells for far less than half of diesel's price.
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:17:43 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: speedy
Yeah, but warnings, however misguided, also serve a purpose. They spur innovation and ways to prove the doomsayers wrong. I think 'we're doooooooooomed!' does have a part to play in the ecology of opinions.
To: neverdem
There is no shortage of energy in the universe. I have infonate faith in the ingenuity of mankind and the efficiency of the free market to satisfy this problem.
To: GSlob
Of course the French reactors built by Frammatome were based on technology licensed from Westinghouse.
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:19:04 PM PST
by
meatloaf
To: Blurblogger
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. - Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)
We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion -- guilt-free at last! -- Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue
Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process . . . Capitalism is destroying the earth. -- Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects . . . We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land. -- David Foreman, Earth First!
Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed. -- Pentti Linkola
To: neverdem
I just bought this 2005 Trail Blazer two days ago. I didn't consider it an "SUV" but Illinois says it is and tacks on an extra $179 tax because of it.
Only Illinois and New Jersey taxes it that way.
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:24:55 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: neverdem
We need to drill in Alaska but at the same time we need to be looking seriously at alternative energy sources - this is a reasonable and risk-averse path of action.
> More efficient diesel automobiles
Could someone clue me in on this? Why and in what sense are diesels autos more effieicent.
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:24:59 PM PST
by
Avenger
To: neverdem
...In 1997 and 1998, a few petroleum geologists began examining world oil production using the methods that M. King Hubbert used in predicting in 1956 that United States oil production would peak during the early 1970's... It's a good thing that the enviroweenies prevailed in forbidding extraction of oil from the Carolina coast, the Gulf coast, The California coast and the Alaska tundra. Those petroleum geologists would have been really off of their estimates if we could have continued rational oil exploration in the US.
BTW, we will never, ever "run out" of oil. At some point, it will cease to be an affordable form of energy. At that time, entrepreneurs will discover other means to produce energy at lower costs than oil, and they will become the new billionaires. Anybody who thinks we will pump the last barrel of oil, and somebody will pay some exorbitant sum to own it, and they will simply burn it, that person will not be one of the new billionaires.
To: meatloaf
There's always dilithium!
To: LRS
I thought we would all be plugged into the Matrix and we all become batteries.
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:28:38 PM PST
by
Fee
(Great powers never let minor allies dictate who, where and when they must fight.)
To: G32
There is not enough fissionable material in the earth's crust to make up for oil for more than a few years.
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:28:41 PM PST
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
To: Avenger
A New Beetle TDI is using fuel that has more BTU's and the car gets upward of 50 miles per gallon. My wife had one. More BTU's per gallon equates to more efficient.
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:28:53 PM PST
by
Puckster
To: neverdem
The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population. -- Reid Bryson, "Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man", (1971)
The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer -- Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000 -- Paul Ehrlich in (1969)
In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)
Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion -- Paul Ehrlich in (1976)
This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century -- Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:30:48 PM PST
by
John Lenin
(Hey Frank, grow a brain)
To: John Lenin
"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects . . . We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land. -- David Foreman, Earth First! "
"TAKE CARE OF TRAITORS AND ANARCHISTS APPROPRIATELY" -- The U.S. Constitution (paraphrased)
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:32:11 PM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
To: conservlib
Once the oil runs out then Rush going to advise his listners to buy bigger SUVs?
Brilliant, idiot.
To: hoot2
Did you get all those people in that ittoh bitty SUV?
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:34:26 PM PST
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
To: neverdem
What Happens Once the Oil Runs Out? Two words - baby seals.
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:34:43 PM PST
by
Gumption
To: neverdem
What Happens Once the Oil Runs Out?
An intriguing theory now permeating oil company research staffs suggests that crude oil may actually be a natural inorganic product, not a stepchild of unfathomable time and organic degradation. The theory suggests there may be huge, yet-to-be-discovered reserves of oil at depths that dwarf current world estimates.
The theory is simple: Crude oil forms as a natural inorganic process which occurs between the mantle and the crust, somewhere between 5 and 20 miles deep.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38645
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:34:44 PM PST
by
Radix
(I could go on and on.........)
To: neverdem
There is plenty of Oil out there and there are some new theories on how it is formed as some old depleted wells have oil in them once again..Also off the Falklands there is allegedly a huge deposit..
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:34:49 PM PST
by
Fast1
(Destroy America buy Chinese goods,Shop at Wal-Mart 3/18/05 American was gone when I woke up)
To: Blurblogger
If these morons had their way we would go back to 14th century living, burning coal to stay warm, chopping down trees so we could have fire to eat and open sewers to preserve the fresh water.
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:36:51 PM PST
by
John Lenin
(Hey Frank, grow a brain)
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