Peak Oil, a bleak future? (21)

2 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-07-28 13:59 ID:2yNLbmnm

Wrong...

If you believe Independent Reports from the Global Oil Industries, as well as studies by St.Petersburg Office of Energy Exploration, National Petroleum Institute, and Rand Reports. When you consider The Oil reserves in China, Russia, the Artic, the Antartic, the Continental USA and offshore Brazil: at current rate of consumption (which with growing population is still going down in per-capita usage), there's enough oil to last about 3,000 years.
This is also following the old false notion that Oil is a non-renewable fossil product, rather than that fact that oil is formed by Abiotic process.
Humanity has barely scratched at the total volume of oil the earth has to offer.

Furthermore, even though people like to look to solar, wind, tide, geothermic, hydroelectric, hidrogen and biomass energy as alternatives, there's no practical way these sources could ever totally replace the need for Oil, as their energy return rates are pathetically low in comparison.
Plus people protest the building of hundreds of square kilometers of solar arrays, or turning vast tracts of land into Wind Farms (and what happens when there's no wind?) And Hydroelectric... what about the fish? The damns would block the rivers, Hydrogen is so volitile that it is ABSOLUTELY INSANE that people are honestly considering this option as a public/commercial alternative to oil. Just imagine mini-Hindenburgs on the highway when there's a wreck. and Biomass, that still requires the growing of plants, the consumption of water, and oil to run the machines to sow/harvest, all the while reducing the available land on which to grow foodstuffs.
Geothermal is the only decent one, and even that is best used for simple domestic structure heating.

Even IF all of the world's societies stopped using Oil for fuel, it would still be necessary to have oil for lubrication of the machines, the making of clothes and technology. etc.

And yes, I keep 250liters of gas in a buried tank in the floor of my garage.

Also, people have been fear-mongering about a speculated Oil crash my entire life, so your post was nothing special or informative. Just an FYI.

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