Oil, the final countdown

[Mattk]

All propaganda. It fails to take into account the fact that new oil fields are discovered every so often. Besides, OPEC probably has stacks of it, only they don't tell us.

[Everlasting]

i try not to think about it

[Mattk]

Yeh, that's probably a good idea.

[saadie]

an even better idea lies beneath alaska :wink:

[Mattk]

Our current stockpile would last 40 years, yes, and we still have all that undiscovered oil.

[ARMAN]

Its oli companys propaganda imo so they can make the prices even higher, billions of dollars are behind it so they can create any documentary the want.

[RC45]

I don't care.

Why should I save oil, wood, sand or spotted owls? The chinese, north koreans, phillipinos, angolans, tanzanians, colombians, japanse, taiwanese, croates and russians aren't trying to save anything ...

So why should MY short term comfort wealth and stability be compromised?

:)

[Toronto]

us REAL men drink crude oil for breakfast... i don't care if my grandchildren have it,
the sun is going to go supernova is 4-5 billion years, and they are all gonna die :twisted:
and i will be in heaven with my 50 virgins

[RC45]

us REAL men drink crude oil for breakfast... i don't care if my grandchildren have it,
the sun is going to go supernova is 4-5 billion years, and they are all gonna die :twisted:
and i will be in heaven with my 50 virgins

Damn straight, shalom and all that ;)

[sameerrao]

us REAL men drink crude oil for breakfast... i don't care if my grandchildren have it,
the sun is going to go supernova is 4-5 billion years, and they are all gonna die :twisted:
and i will be in heaven with my 50 virgins

Make that 25 virgins ... Being the older, wiser one I would be up there on a rampage a few years before you.

[nthfinity]

hmm...

http://johnleach.co.uk/photography/selections/photoblog/050925-chicken.jpg

a doodle doo

[graywolf624]

Yes, all the predictions say that there's oil for least 30 years still, but what happens after that? New oil fields are discovered, but they are smaller and smaller and in places harder to get. Consumption is increasing and reserves are allready being used.
As we've been over a million times.. the fly in the ointment is that consumption will not increase indefinitly. If we consumed at our current rate we would run out eventually. But why would someone consume at the current rate if they can consume something else at the same rate for cheaper. Given a high enough price I could take you off the grid tommorrow and youd live without consuming gasoline another day. The cost of said move only goes down as inovation and inflation increase. Theres a few high dollar specialty cars right now that can do just that.. (including one recently on fifth gear that costs 400000). Take a look at the supercars of the early 80s and 70s. Compare their performance to the modern family car. Then realize the same thing is a certainty with gas alternatives. The title of the movie should have told you its the same old scare tactic.

[tanelvali]

Even if oil as we know it, runs out and ends. There is ALWAYS some more left, just that it is much more expensive to get it out of the earth's surface. And remember that fuel (bensin, benzin or whatever you call it, can be made out of some other raw matherials, not only oil or nafta. For example in estonia we have shit loads of "burning-rock" I have no idea how to call it in english.. its a verbatim translation. On 1960-s we were produsing bensin (fuel) out of it.

so, i guess everyday transportation will one day be electric, or hydrogen powered. But good old formula one or very exclusive cars - they are still able to use good old fuel, just that this shit is then much more expensice.. maybe 100 times, maybe 1000 times..

[AlienDB7]

They've been talking about running out of oil for like decades, seems like oil just keeps on coming. Who knows, after we run out of oil, we'll just go back to coal and have miniature steam engines?

As long as there's demand, some new technology will be affordable enough to solve the oil situation. There're already cars that can do 1L/100km.. worst case scenario, we'll all be driving cars weighting 50kg with 1hp :mrgreen:

[Mattk]

bensin, benzin or whatever you call it

Benzene. Well, yes, that's right. Less and less oil is being consumed, as things become more efficient. Oil is not going to run out anytime soon. It might get a little more expensive later, but probably not for a while.

[RC45]

How much of the crude oil is used to make petrol? Is it even 50% What's wrong in the scaring tactics, if it makes people think about their consumption?

Do you think the tuk-tuk driver in Vietnam thinks about fuel consumption?

If not - why should I? ;)

[graywolf624]

but it's only half of the crude oil that is refined to petrol etc. Other half is Ikea and chemicals and everything else.
Even those are replaceable. Hell we've only had plastics for about 50 years. It wasn't that long ago that the car industry was struggling with the scarcity of steel. Why is it so hard for alarmists to realize that something will replace it? (perhaps even some sort of carbon fibre type substance) I just don't get it, especially with a history riddled with similar situations over the last 3000 years (we even have documentation on these same fears with products we still use.. Including petrol). You would think the fears would subside at some point since the cry wolf of resources running out has now supassed so many generations its getting old. Where exactly is Malthus' we will all run out of food due to population growth by the end of his century again? Oh thats right...

[dangerously_cool]

My car's going to be finished in three weeks so as long as I have that much time left I'm happy.

[dangerously_cool]

You...bastard... :lol: