[TheTurtle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', 'I') fear for the forests, if thousands if not millions of people revert to wood burning to heat their homes.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', 'A')nd if the forests go, what then will become of the temporarily warmed people?

[pea-jay]

With the advent of thermal depolymerization an effective oil replacement would be oil generated from...people.

Just think about it. An average 38 lbs of oil per 175 lb person
THen there is the added bonus of the removal of surplus population above the planets carrying capacity.

Lets use an average global weight of 135 lbs equalling 29.3 lbs of oil multiplied agains 5 billion surplus people = 418,571,428 million barrels. (350 lbs per barrel)

418Million barrels is not a huge number, with only a billion folks on the planet, consumption rates would decline.

Add in our pets and livestock and we could get up to a billion barrels.

[DavidProvost]

So why isn't any body doing anything about it than?

[Raxozanne]

Because really doing something about it would involve changing our way of life in a big way and no government wants to do that.

Plus the economy relys on us buying ever more consumer crap and that crap takes a lot of oil to make. Also transportation is a no-touch subject.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DavidProvost', 'W')hat resources can take the place of oil? Once all the oil is gone whats the world gona run on?

[DriveElectric]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DavidProvost', 'S')o why isn't any body doing anything about it than?

[DriveElectric]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raxozanne', 'A')lso transportation is a no-touch subject.

[BiGG]

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Pain

[PhilBiker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DriveElectric', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raxozanne', 'A')lso transportation is a no-touch subject.

[Vexed]

DavidProvost wrote:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat resources can take the place of oil? Once all the oil is gone whats the world gona run on?

[Omnitir]

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Pain

[0mar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BiGG', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', '
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Pain

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DavidProvost', 'W')hat resources can take the place of oil? Once all the oil is gone whats the world gona run on?

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DavidProvost', 'S')o why isn't any body doing anything about it then?

[Cool Hand Linc]

Monte, Can you explain this?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he only viable, readily accessible source of energy in the near future is the American standard of living. Period.

[rowante]

Simple Linc, energy will be saved for other purposes by reducing the living standards of the population. This could be achieved in various ways from free-market solutions to direct government intervention. Either way, with your service based economy it's not going to be pretty. The only real long term solution will be to reduce population to increase energy per capita.

You will have to provide better access to sex education, contraception and abortion. That could be pretty difficult in the U.S.A. with all those pro-lifers and Christian fundies. You will also have to get pretty strict on immigration as well, that's going to piss off the lefties.

You can talk about the environment and peak oil till your blue in the face but really the problem is population. As everybody's favourite professor, Albert Bartlett asserts, choose how you reduce your population or nature will do it for you.

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cool Hand Linc', 'M')onte, Can you explain this?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he only viable, readily accessible source of energy in the near future is the American standard of living. Period.

[TheTurtle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'A')gain, a short-term solution as sheer population growth will consume up all that we free up quite readily. Back to population reduction being part and parcel to any energy solution to peak oil.

[Optimist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he only real long term solution will be to reduce population to increase energy per capita.