Peak oil's a bust, eco fags

[puddytat]

Don't watch TV and prefer my insults a little punchier than that... but you show promise. Maybe less TV and more practice?

Nah I dont really do insults as Im a New Age kinda guy who is focusing on getting in touch with my feminine side whilst opening my third eye....

[carbonhed]

Nah I dont really do insults as Im a New Age kinda guy who is focusing on getting in touch with my feminine side whilst opening my third eye....

Good for you.

[Tigadee]

Nah I dont really do insults as Im a New Age kinda guy who is focusing on getting in touch with my feminine side whilst opening my third eye....

I touched my feminine side but she slapped me and accused me of sexual harassment, and then went on a talk show bitching about me and how hard it is to live in me... Bitch!

[schrodingers cat]

Peak oil - Probably just a clever ruse by all the oil tycoons past to raise the prices of oil so they can have more money to develop the technology to tap into the harder-to-reach deposits, all while enjoying higher profits than ever before...

What? Technologies like seam gas extration techniques that have been in use since the 50's? And now are the new great evel.

I think you're right about the big profits. I just disagree that much was spent on developing technologies...

Actually I think the bullshit futures market has driven price up, not so much the oil industry itself

[Matt Bleck]

maybe someone should tell the yanks about all that oil they found in their own back yard!

keep the blinkers on peep's!!

[SPman]

How will you explain away the doom laden childhoods you've inflicted on a generation when all your bullshit evaporates in front of your eyes?

- The flipside of no peak oil would be runaway climate change.
- The report Monbiot’s article is based on is a load of shit that basically predicts Iraq will stumble on endless cheap oil and we’ll all live happily ever after.
- A report from an oil executive that says production will increase by 17 million barrels a day to 110 mbd in 2020 (the executive uses a wide definition of oil including stuff with low net energy density to say we’re currently producing 93mbd, when most sources, including the authoritative BP statistical review of world energy say 83mbd, really narrow definitions say 73mbd).

- According to the report, despite world oil production having been flat for 6 years, barely budging in response to the biggest price signals for increased demand in history with oil price spikes every two years since 2008 (and one in 2005), we’re going to see a 20% increase in the next 8 years!

- The peak of conventional oil extraction was 2005 to 2006. Maintaining current production is relying more and more on unconventional extraction (fracking, etc), which is expensive and inconsistent


Monboit is also right when he says we will never reduce energy consumption to save ourselves or the planet. The more likely outcome is Malthusian collapse accompanied by endless wars for scarce resources. The winners, as always, will be the tooled up rich nations who will simply take what they need with fig leafs of justification.
I think that the environmental movement has to face the fact that their campaign objectives in relation to climate change – reduced consumption, move away from fossil fuels, population reduction – have been completly re-routed by a powerful propaganda campaign run by large corporations who have successfully taken a scientific debate and polarised and politicised it. The corporations have succeeded in making belief in climate change a matter of political persuasion.

[The Pastor]

yeah! oil! Woooo!

[flyingcrocodile46]

Peak oil production... Pffffffffffffft

We don't want to know about no stinking 'peak oil production' while riding $wiftly where and when we want with impunity
We care not for the $acrifice$ that must be made by the corporations that are here to serve us.
Nor do we care for petty concerns over the future of para$ite$ yet to be inflicted on us.

Give us our daily oil and just $hut the puck up.

[Winston001]

One of the odd facts is we don't really know where oil comes from. Coal is the result of millions of years of plant growth compressed into layers of organic carbon and dates from 350 million years ago.

Oil is different. It is the remains of living creatures, mainly prehistoric plankton and is about 70 million years old although there are older deposits. But its all pretty much theory because microscopic organisms don't leave fossils for us to study, unlike the trees and ferns in coal.

There are other theories that the oil we draw is incredibly ancient, dating from one billion years ago and seeping up from deeply within the Earth's mantle. Or oil is created daily everywhere within the Earth's crust by the organisms which live there.

None of which means we won't use it up. Or that we won't poison the biosphere using it. Cos we are.

[Winston001]

And for the doubters regarding human industrial pollution (including burning coal and oil) Google organic carbon and inorganic carbon. Assuming you don't remember 5th form chemistry.

[SPman]

Peak oil production... Pffffffffffffft

We don't want to know about no stinking 'peak oil production' while riding $wiftly where and when we want with impunity
We care not for the $acrifice$ that must be made by the corporations that are here to serve us.
Nor do we care for petty concerns over the future of para$ite$ yet to be inflicted on us.

Give us our daily oil and just $hut the puck up.

Yeah.......91 was only $1.22/l this week at our local - quick ....fill up all the 2 strokers.......

[carbonhed]

I think that the environmental movement has to face the fact that their campaign objectives in relation to climate change – reduced consumption, move away from fossil fuels, population reduction – have been completly re-routed by a powerful propaganda campaign run by large corporations who have successfully taken a scientific debate and polarised and politicised it. The corporations have succeeded in making belief in climate change a matter of political persuasion.[/I]

Wow someones drunk deep from the Koolaid!

So have you heard where they're going to be settting up the death camps? Will you be volunteering for termination for the sake of the planet, or is the plan just to keep picking on those coloured folks in the third world, whose arses you never tire of kicking?

[SPman]

So have you heard where they're going to be settting up the death camps? Will you be volunteering for termination for the sake of the planet, or is the plan just to keep picking on those coloured folks in the third world, whose arses you never tire of kicking?

Been reading Alex Jones's Prison Planet site a bit too much, methinks.

[Berries]

So have you heard where they're going to be settting up the death camps?

Lower Hutt apparently.

[carbonhed]

Lower Hutt apparently.

The Hutt's the home of the living dead... which isn't the same at all.