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CB: What should be our response to peak oil?

M: Petroleum is too valuable to be burned in motor cars. We need to cut back on our use in transportation in order to have oil for use in other things for which there are not necessarily substitutes.

[Leanan]

Great article. I've put it on the front page.

[shakespear1]

This observation is a GEM !!!!

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ' I was teaching environmental geology in Greeley at the time, and after I heard that oil had peaked in the U.S. I wanted to talk about it to my class, to show it in a graph. And I remembered that the Oil & Gas Journal each week had published the production curve. But when I went to the Oil & Gas Journal to find it, it was gone. Later, I discovered that when oil production in the U.S. peaked, they just stopped publishing it. People just didn’t want to admit that oil could peak, because it has implications for stock prices that people don’t understand.')

[UIUCstudent01]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')B: How will this decline in world oil supplies affect Colorado?

M: Declining oil supplies are likely to result in more nuclear power plants. But we have declining supplies right now of uranium, about 80 million pounds per year. The result we saw was 8,500 new mining permits for uranium filed in Eastern Utah and Western Colorado. The pressure will mount to develop those resources.

[eric_b]

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')M: Petroleum is too valuable to be burned in motor cars. We need to cut back on our use in transportation in order to have oil for use in other things for which there are not necessarily substitutes.

[Novus]

This was posted a few days ago but really does show how Merkins are reacting to peak oil.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('arocoun', '
')For them:
Step 1--"Hey, slow down! Now, what's this crude oil stuff again?"
Step 2--Denial
Step 3--More denial
Step 4--"Don't worry, They will fix it."
Step 5--Nothing
Step 6--"Look at those gas prices! Greedy executives!"
Step 7--More nothing
Step 8--"Look at those gas prices! That peaking oil stuff might just be true..."
Step 9--More nothing, ad nauseam...
Step 10--"Why can't I drive anymore? Or, for that matter, afford food?"

Something tells me, however, that after peak oil, we broken humans might outnumber the normal ones.