Posted on 09/01/2010 6:18:35 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
The German army doesn't want you to know how freaked out it is about peak oil. But an internal report has leaked to the internet, with excerpts translated by Spiegel.
The report says there is "some probability that peak oil will occur around the year 2010 and that the impact on security is expected to be felt 15 to 30 years later."
Nightmare scenarios include:
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Ha ha ha. What a comic!
Germany will be fine. America already had it’s nightmare scenario in 2008. TV (ALL of the networks & channels) will brainwashed the idiots who watch TV to keep O in power. They provide 24x7 propaganda between the stupid white guy commercials.
Oh...you touch my tra la la...
Kiss the monkey.. Kiss it!
Whatever the threat, the Bundeswehr will have the same response:
Run Away, Run Away.
As opposed to non-market economies, which are powered by purity of motivation.
Appears to be some sort of rape fixation going on in there....
Oil has been “peaking” for about 100 years now. They just keep finding more of the stuff.
Yea, read about this over the years and it just isn’t happening the way this author states. Israel just found oil and there are others fast coming along.
Somebody dig up Matt Simmons then nuke something.
I don’t care what, but a nuke will solve everything.
Are we supposed to believe the Germans have some special insight regard global resources?
The German army isn’t the only military concerned. The U.S. Military, in its March, 2010, Joint Operating Environment (JOE) report, cited the availability of crude oil as a significant threat beginning in the interval of 2012 to 2015. The report stressed the need for immediate investment. Of course, we all know what happened one month later in the Gulf.
For those not familiar with the topic, peak oil has nothing to do with the amount of oil. There is plenty of it. The problem is getting it out of the ground at an affordable price.
Look at where we are drilling: under a mile of ocean water in the Gulf, probes starting in the Arctic Ocean, where rigs can only operate in the summer months, mining operations (not drilling) in Alberta tar sands, where natural gas and huge quantities of water are needed and a nasty byproduct is left.
The days when we could set a rig up in East Texas and get a 100 barrels of crude oil for every energy equivalent barrel of oil invested in exploration and refining are over. That 100 to 1 ratio is down to 10 to 1 now, and new areas like the tar sands are closer to 3 to 1. When all the energy losses are computed, the oil taken through the refinery process, piped, and eventually trucked to your friendly local convenience market, 3 to 1 is not that far above break-even.
What we need is not more oil but more oil that is easy to extract, and that is getting harder to find. That is why oil has gone from under $11 a barrel in 1998 to its present range of $70 to $85 a barrel today, just 12 years later.
There are no substitutes. All the tree-hugging stuff about wind and solar or even ocean waves is fantasy. We need to develop our known reserves, regardless of where they are located. We also need to find ways to use oil more efficiently even as we improve our ability to extract it more cheaply.
The activists pushing climate change don’t realize how misguided and counter-productive their efforts are. The whole global warming campaign has poisoned any rational discussion of energy needs and made people rightly suspicious of any warnings about the limits to energy production. If we can’t focus on the real issues, then China and this country are on a collision course for ever more valuable energy resources.
The drilling far offshore is because of regulations not because there isn’t oil closer in.
So far we’ve never had a Malthusian scenario play out in the world economy ever. 180 years since Malthus and counting.
Would someone post the moving OMG ONOES thingie?
Allz I been hearin is that oilz so plentiful its washin up on our shores...
Given the size of the German military these days... I would think 40 gallons or so should hold em a while...
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