‘There is an open secret in the oil industry that dare not speak its name: peak oil. “
Well then we must just stop using it immediately. We wouldn’t want to run out of oil after all. Despite there being 300+ years of supply currently available.
300 years certainly isn’t long enough to develop an alternative. We must kill our economy right the heck now!
India and China are busy ramping UP to use gasoline. If it was “doomed” they should just start with the next generation technology.
Nope. This is about getting the United States off of oil because we are too productive and “consume too much of the world’s resources”.
I assert with little knowledge of the oil indistry.
1. There is enought oil to last us thru this cycle of civilization.
Use the Tar sand in Canada and the oil shale in the western united states. There also is oil in clay in the US southeast. Also convert coal, which we have a lot of to hydrocarbons. After all of that is done use the abundant natural gas found in the Marcellus shale deposits. All in all we are prabably good for 1.000 years if we don blow oulselves up or regress to the 14th century by letting the Muslims take over the country/world.
2. Use small nuclear generators to produce electricity for urban areas.
3. Turn some of our smart students loose on the problem in our major universities and see what they come up with.