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5/18/08 10:09 PM |
cindy | | northwestern PA | | | |
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Neil,I apologize if I came across as rude because I did not respond to your comment but as before on this site and others that I have left comments, I did not want it to turn into a polemic merry-go-round because I simply do not have the time to interact. Blogging and interacting on the internet is indeed time consuming. So in response to your comment on 4/17 @ 11:49 am, I will leave this: You are correct in saying no one knows for sure the reserve estimates but I will say that the earth's crust contains only so much oil that can be extracted for a (and here's the operative word) "reasonable cost", that even no amount of money or brain can change that fact and the reason the oil industry needs all the technology is because oil is becoming more difficult to find and extract. And yet all our technology has been unable to prevent the decline in US oil production over the past 30 years. Money and brains cannot repeal basic geological laws. Since there is only a finite number of economic oil patches in the world, global oil production must eventually decline. Without cheap energy, our civilization would be unable to sustain itself much above the 19th century. We no longer have an infrastructure that works without cheap oil. |
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4/24/08 10:40 AM |
Cindy | | northwestern PA | | | |
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The government is making a very costly mistake is giving billions of dollars in tax subsidies to farmers to produce ethanol.......an alternative energy source. That clearly is not going to fix our energy dependence and energy crisis. They need to invest in nuclear energy but the environmentalists have our hands tied behind our back. What is it going to take and how high is gas going have to go before something is done.Now we have food crisis due to shortages around the globe due to not only demand but high gas prices for fuel to transport that food and a shortage of wheat and corn from ethanol production. Rice has nearly doubled. I read in the Economist that Brazil was the latest country to find oil. Rio Je Janero (I think I spelled that right) was the exact place. Apparently this puts them as an oil producing country on par with Saudi Arbia and Venezuella. But Venezuella's oil is crappy compared to the light sweet crude from the Saudi fields. We get most of our oil from the Canadian tar sands and we are the leading coal producing country in the world, but burning coal to make gasoline emits fossil fuels into the ozone causing "global warming". Clearly we have LARGE problems! |
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