[Fatherof4]

What are most ignorant solutions to Peak Oil you've ever heard?

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Fill your tank half full instead of full (that alone will solve the "peak") and instead of on your way home, wait until the next morning.

[killJOY]

"Let's invade Iraq!"

[0mar]

Lots of people believe in the invisible hand of the market

[UIUCstudent01]

Lot's of people believe that humans are special - and moral.

(They are capable of being moral. It isn't exactly a natural characteristic.)

"We'll just invade Iran!"

or better yet,

"We'll just use nukes to get what we want."

I couldn't tell if they were being facetious or not...

[PenultimateManStanding]

'They'll think of something' The first thread I ever started some five or six months ago was called "Stupidest Quotes" It's still back there somewhere I'm sure. Some good ones there, too.

[savethehumans]

YES, PMS!

"They'll think of something" has always been my #1 stupid human rationale. This blind faith (and they criticize FUNDAMENTALISTS?!) boggles my mind. The idea that THEY (not "I" or "we") will think of something infuriates me. It is a lot like "the hand of the market" theory ( ), in that people honestly get to the point that they just figure if they go on with their normal lives, it'll all just magically work out, somehow.

There was a TV miniseries back in the 1980s based on Albert Speer's recollections of Hitler and WWII. Close to the end--and the end of the war, when Germany was basically surrounded by Allied Forces and they were coming inside the country, more each day. So one night, Speer is reconnoitering the countryside near Berlin. His jeep has stopped for some reason, and some beraggled people recognize him, and come up to him. (Tattered clothes and starvation was the norm.) One woman assures him that she knows things look bad--but THEY hadn't lost faith in the Furher! No, they KNEW about that secret weapon he was developing, so powerful that it'd turn the war completely around in Germany's favor! He was just to tell the Furher that they still believed in him, and the ultimate victory of the Third Reich.

Speer, knowing the truth, was horrified--though he kept a poker face on. The jeep moved on. So did history--and the ultimate victory of the ALLIES.

When I hear the "don't worry," "they'll think of something," "we've still got PLENTY of oil" lines from people, I think of that scene from that series--which apparently DID really happen. This is the way human minds THINK. It's a very special kind of denial--one that makes the assumption that nothing bad can TRULY happen to them, so there MUST be an answer! And they'll be saying these lines even when things get their bleakest. Because humans are creatures of habit, and will be unable to even CONTEMPLATE any other ending but a triumphant one. (This is especially bad in Americans--cuz we're the greatest nation and greatest people in the world, of course! )

Yeah, "they'll" think of something all right--the same thing most people will be thinking--how they can save their hides till this "transition" passes!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('savethehumans', ' ')
"They'll think of something" has always been my #1 stupid human rationale.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fatherof4', 'W')hat are most ignorant solutions to Peak Oil you've ever heard?

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[Raxozanne]

A few days ago someone suggested that to solve peak oil we needed to make the barrels bigger.

[Liamj]

I still like the mining methane from Neptune idea. If only we could find a way to get ALL the morons on the one ship, i say go for it.

Then theres the old 'conserve' furphy, thats a classic, sure to be revived with increasing frequency.

[chargrove]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') few days ago someone suggested that to solve peak oil we needed to make the barrels bigger.

[ArimoDave]

"Scientist say that the oil fields are refilling continuously."

What credible scientist says that? Perhaps at an ifintesimal rate compared to pumping, that may be true in some cases, but . . . .

ArimoDave

[KiddieKorral]

From a friend of mine:

"I grew up in Virginia, and I remember seeing a lot of oil wells there. Pennsylvania too. So what's the problem?"

I had to explain to her the concept that 100 oil wells producing 1 barrel each a day extract less oil than one well producing 500 barrels a day.

[pea-jay]

From my collegues: "Don't worry, ethanol will fill the gap."

[k_semler]

My father: "The government wouldn't let this happen!" Yes he admitted in the next sentence that it was a dumb thing to say, but he did say it none the less.

[bart]

Something I just read today, said by Peter Huber, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and co-author of the book, "The Bottomless Well."
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')In the meantime, Mr. Huber says, wasting energy should be a virtue, not a vice, because the faster we use it up, the better we get at finding new supplies, and the less our economy depends on energy.

"Energy begets more energy; tomorrow's supply is determined by today's demand," Mr. Huber and Mr. Mills conclude in The Bottomless Well. "The more energy we seize and use, the more adept we become at finding and seizing more."

Welcome to the Age of Scarcity, Globe and Mail

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raxozanne', 'A') few days ago someone suggested that to solve peak oil we needed to make the barrels bigger.

[chargrove]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f I'm really hungry I order my pizza cut into 12 slices instead of 8.