We’ve already burned through almost half the world’s supply of oil. How will we ride out the slide down the other side of Hubbert’s Curve? For more information, go to: http://thefuelfilm.com/ , http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse , and
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August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Yes, my grasp of …
Yes, my grasp of fundamental thermodynamics isn’t what it should be. Neither is my understanding of pandergestatory interluditude, or pericobobulation. But then again, I made them up. As I did with Hydrocarbonpolysultimate, Polyethylenemonoglucomide, and even Dr Ivan Wallberg of the University of Ohio! Did you really try and Google those non existent chemicals – as that is so funny! Or is it just an equally witty double bluff? Excuse me, I’m just off to fill up the Hummer.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
You seem to have a …
You seem to have a problem, Dave. You’re addicted to commenting on a cartoon.
Also, you don’t seem to understand fundamental thermodynamics. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt: send me a link to the information you’re referring to (I wasn’t able to locate anything even remotely like it online), and I promise you I’ll have a look at it. In my cave. While I am eating moss off the walls.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
We shouldn’t worry. …
We shouldn’t worry. There is a substance called Hydrocarbonpolysultimate, which is easily sustainable in terms of resources. Dr Ivan Wallberg, from the University of Ohio, has successfully produced an engine without moving parts that only requires a substance called Polyethylenemonoglucomide, which is a flour and grain based composite, highly compressed to form a flammable residue. These doom and gloomsters will have you living in a cave before you know it. Relax.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Yes but mine was …
Yes but mine was funnier and invited itself to a fatalistic overhyped overdramatised hyperbolic response. How long have we got until I have to start eating moss of the walls to survive?
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
paultheuglydog just …
paultheuglydog just told that joke a couple of comments ago, Dave. It’s sort of lost its humor value.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
I’ve just bought a …
I’ve just bought a 6ltr engined Lincoln and drive it around in second gear burning up as much fuel as possible in heavy traffic. I also leave my 72″ widescreen tv on standby overnight. How long until my actions wipe out San Francisco?
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Slower and less …
Slower and less volume, there will hardship even more than today
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Your right, …
Your right, business as usual will be a mess, and a lot of people will suffer for it, especially in developing countries, we can be knocked down a few notches and do without, but a country like Haiti can’t, there will be tremendous hardship one day, we’ve seen nothing yet.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Ah, I see the …
Ah, I see the problem here – you are asking, “How are we going to maintain business as usual as the oil supply declines?”
I don’t think we’ll be able to. You may have noticed that already things are not operating as usual, due to the credit crunch.
And yet people built boats and sailed them in some cases around the world for centuries before steam and the combustion engine were even gleams in their inventors’ eyes. Trade will continue. Everything will just move a little bit . . . slower.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Wind would be great …
Wind would be great i agree, but I was in the Navy for 20 years and we used gas and steam turbines (Canadian patrol frigate) and had a helecopter also, I don’t see how our ships can do there job using wind power, I went to the Persian Gulf, not much wind sometimes, dead calm.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Wind, bulk carrier, …
Wind, bulk carrier, huh???
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Wind, among other …
Wind, among other things.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
i just don’t …
i just don’t understand how we are going to ship things around the world without oil, what the is going to fuel at the ships out there.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Thank goodness I …
Thank goodness I love being wasteful. I am thinking of buying a H2 Hummer.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Yep, you can waste …
Yep, you can waste away until you die, and the pollution police will never come a knockin’ at your door. Of course, the planet will be a couple of degrees warmer, sea levels will have risen to wipe out coastal cities, and food and water could get really really expensive — but hey, you only live once, eh? Enjoy it while you can.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Do you think I will …
Do you think I will be able to live wastefully my whole life until I die if I am 32 years old? I leave all of my lights, radios, tv and computer on all the time. I leave the water run while I wash dishes and brush my teeth. I take really long showers. I never recycle. I order free magazines, books, and catalogs and then when I get them I just toss them in the trash without even looking at them. I litter too
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
i understand your …
i understand your point, and yes our way of life will change. We will be forced become more self sufficient!! how tragic!! western society has become lazy, obese, and too reliant on the motor vehicle. i look forward to declining oil. its the wake up call to our pathetic species. dont be fooled into all this peak oil propaganda. besides, there are alternatives such as biofuels, but you have to be willing to pay for it.
NO OIL NO WORRIES.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Pursued by Lord …
Pursued by Lord Humungus.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
i will be riding it …
i will be riding it madmax style
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
alternatives what …
alternatives what alternatives there is none , oil isnt going to run out but the costs are about to rocket within a few years due to low output ,food is also going to peak so thats bio fuels out the window and electric is generated using oil even a push bike at some point will need oil and the factory that makes push bikes has never got enough of it, a couple of windmills and fancy nuclear reactors and people driving around in electric hairdryers wont fit the bill , a war will though
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
there is so much …
there is so much oil I have tits
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Not sure what you …
Not sure what you think is garbage here, since you seem to agree that the end of oil will occur. Oil companies make ungodly profits and are supported by govt. subsidies and tax breaks, but we permit this because we are so heavily dependent on oil. There is literally no other single energy source that can replace it. We are in serious population overshoot thanks to the oil economy, and as supply declines, our way of life will change drastically. That may be for the good, but it will be painful.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
this is garbage. …
this is garbage. who cares if we run out of oil. there are many alternatives if needed. the mega oil corporations/government have a cash cow. they dont care about the environment, its billions in profits and taxes they are receiving. the end of oil will be a good thing. we will be forced into using the alternatives, but i think the damage is already done.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Peak oil is a …
Peak oil is a definite problem. Global warming is an unreliable theory and the last decade shows global temperature decreases which make it look stupid.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:15 am
If this is “Peak …
If this is “Peak Oil”. When where “Peak Ape” then? Cause it must have happened!? All the signs are here…