The Days After Peak Oil

7 Comments on "The Days After Peak Oil"

J-Gav on Wed, 2nd Jul 2014 12:56 pm 



Nice, properly concerned people here.

Unfortunately, those squares in the Sahara desert (at about 7′) cast a veil of ridicule over the message. Those solar arrays will never be built, punto e basta!

Steve on Wed, 2nd Jul 2014 4:11 pm 



Not sure but I think peak oil happened in 2005…

GregT on Wed, 2nd Jul 2014 4:21 pm 



Only 86,000 views, that sums up the direction we are heading in very concisely.

Northwest Resident on Wed, 2nd Jul 2014 4:59 pm 



GregT — I agree. Instead of “The few. The proud. The Marines.” it will be “The few. The prepared. The peak oil survivors”. One day coming up, soon enough.

Steve — Conventional oil production peaked in 2005, I think is commonly accepted.

rockman on Wed, 2nd Jul 2014 8:24 pm 



“The Days After Peak Oil”. And once again, IMHO, an emphasis on the meaning date of PO. The world is currently deal with the Peak Oil Dynamic. It isn’t important if conventional oil has peaked. It isn’t important if liquid hydrocarbons of any gravity haven’t peaked.

What’s important is the world is suffering under the high price of liquid hydrocarbons and the political instability and violence brought on by efforts to secure energy producing regions. And nether is dependent on the “magical” date of PO be it 2005 or 2020. IMHO.

Makati1 on Wed, 2nd Jul 2014 8:50 pm 



rockman, you are correct as usual. We are living in the days after peak oil. We have been for a long time. Some may even say since the 70s, when the US went off the gold standard so it could survive importing that black blood. It has been downhill ever since with the printing press making up the difference and covering over the decline.

Theedrich on Wed, 2nd Jul 2014 10:02 pm 



The absolute date of Peak Oil, however defined, is somewhat variable, within a bracket of about a decade either side of 2012.  Nonetheless, the government, the investment-dependent international oil companies, Wall Street and various other clueless or hypocritical organizations promote the message that, aside from minor changes, “growth” will be infinite.  This quasi-religious belief in eternal BAU is generating an ever more extreme strain on the economy of the U.S. and the globe.  The inexorable result must be a collapse much more severe than if we had acted rationally in the first place.  But given our evolutionary past, the thin veneer of reason in humanity cannot be expected to play any real role in saving us from our own destruction.