by jeezlouise » Tue 18 Apr 2006, 21:47:50
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('common_sense', 'O')il is not going to run out.
Simple fact is that we've done mostly land drilling, with some offshore drilling.
Even in this insane scenario we completely run out in twenty years, there is still the fact we can drill in the oceans.
Oh, right, you forgot about the oceans.
Further, you fail to take into account that in the next ten years we'll have viable alternative fuel sources.
Jesus Christ. I'm tired of this paranoid, end of the world crap. You folks are almost as bad as the nuclear war people.
You actually registered to say THAT? My god... mass self-delusion is so hard to watch sometimes...
This is more than just a fuel problem. It is much bigger than that, it's a societal problem, an entrenchement of bad ideas. Not to mention that most of the food you see on your store shelf was grown on huge petrochemically-dependent corporate farm that derives both pesticides and fertilizers from oil. We cannot support our population, in these numbers, any other way than this at this point. Alternative fuels can't change that fact.
Modern society runs on cheap, available oil, much as your body runs on water. If you were forced to drink syrup instead of water for the rest of your life, it would be a very short life indeed. That is (simplistically) what is happening. You may be able to get lots of oil out of the middle of the ocean, but it ain't gonna be cheap, or of high quality. Society has refused to accept the reality of its predicament so geology will force us to do so.
What, praytell, is paranoid about that?