[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fergus', 'N')ot to be picky here, but the title is wrong. You asked in the title is anyone older then (greater) 20. remember the alligator always eats the bigger number. < is greater then - > is less then.

[gego]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', '.').."greenie" is just another name for Communists/Socialist slavery.

[Fergus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fergus', 'N')ot to be picky here, but the title is wrong. You asked in the title is anyone older then (greater) 20. remember the alligator always eats the bigger number. < is greater then - > is less then.

[MattSavinar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', '.').."greenie" is just another name for Communists/Socialist slavery.

[MattSavinar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', '.').."greenie" is just another name for Communists/Socialist slavery.

[Taskforce_Unity]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', 'T')FU, you seem to ignore geopolitics when it comes to NG production. Tell me, where is most of the NG located in the World? Let's see here: Russia, Iran, Qatar, SA, UAE, Nigeria, Algeria, Venezuela, Iraq, Indonesia, Kuwait. Now those don't seem like very friendly allies, do they?

North America has already peaked in NG production. How much longer are we going to be relying on unstable, unfriendly regimes for our increase in NG consumption (and decline in our own production)?

It doesn't matter at all if there is capacity. What really matters when people are starving and NG is in short supply in North America is the ability and capacity to obtain our enemies' lands, it doesn't quite help us out, now does it? That's where the doomerism comes into play.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fergus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fergus', 'N')ot to be picky here, but the title is wrong. You asked in the title is anyone older then (greater) 20. remember the alligator always eats the bigger number. < is greater then - > is less then.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')fcourse you are correct that the picture is more complicated then I paint it. I'm not in America but in Europe, this makes me view the natural gas picture differently.

Anyway, geopolitical instability will not cause a peak in production but a slower increase given the amount of countries that there are. Greed rules the world, people will want to sell the stuff. So some countries may not invest enough or lower output. Others will do the other thing around. Natural Gas production will therefore keep increasing worldwide. North America may be f****, that's correct, but honestly, that's not something I am worrying about..... from my personal perspective in the Netherlands.

[Fergus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fergus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fergus', 'N')ot to be picky here, but the title is wrong. You asked in the title is anyone older then (greater) 20. remember the alligator always eats the bigger number. < is greater then - > is less then.

[Comp_Lex]

@mekrob:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')atural Gas

Proved natural gas reserves of the Netherlands are estimated (as of January 2005) at about 50-60 trillion cubic feet, or about 0.9% of the world total. The Netherlands is presently the second-greatest natural gas producer in the European Union and the ninth-greatest in the world, accounting for more than 30% of EU total annual gas production and about 2.7% of the annual world total. Although the Netherlands owns substantial gas reserves in the North Sea, most of its production is presently from on-shore wells, and much of the natural gas produced by the Netherlands comes from Groningen Province, which borders the North Sea. Consumption of natural gas in the Netherlands is only about two-thirds of its production; the rest is exported and the Netherlands is presently the world's fifth-greatest natural gas exporter.

[Terran]

I'm 19 right now, doing a major in biotechnology.

I first heard about peak oil back when I was 17 year old, during my junior year of high school. I went on Matt's page on accident. I had a decent background in understanding science, and understood the logics.

I don't really bother with trying to convince people anymore, except during certain events. I do have my group of friends in the peak oil activist side, they attend the monthly meetings, etc....But those are mainly the older folks. Nobody even close to my age.

Outside of academia, I'm teaching myself skills on how to powerdown, working towards being self-sufficient. I've learned some skills in natural building, permaculture, and food production. In this country, 2% of the population produces all of our food. I think as the large scale industrial agricultural system start to have problems, we're going to need local food production.

In academia, I may switch majors if I have enough time and go into some form of engineering.

Most of the time I tend to look down at my peers in my age group in a condesending manner. When I was younger, many people said I was many years ahead people in my age group. Just having this knowledge, and knowing things most people don't know puts you at a advantage of over 99% of the population. In the 21st century those informed are going to need it, as we live though interesting times.

I do think over time more and more people will wonder. Of course there are those who know about peak oil, and dosn't do anything about it. There are those who don't see peak oil as a big issue. I think many people in the Unites States has heard of global warming at least once in their lifetime, but is anyone really doing anything about it? are they really making lifestyle changes?

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'A')TTENTION SAVINAR!

[Weatherman25]

Yeah, I'm 14, probably the youngest one here.

[Baron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Taskforce_Unity', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ajwald', '
')The only way we wouldn't starve is if we all grow our own organic food. But... again, none of my friends listen to me. So, they won't actually start building a mini greenhouse and growing gardens until they are starving.

[bl00k]

Im 18 years old, Dutch and learned about all this some two years back. Total shock, angry, confused etc..... but not depressed, im not that kind of person, luckily. Now that i finished high school (and have a year off because i failed to subscribe to a college on time) i am trying to prepare myself for what is bound to happen. So the good thing is that i know i *have* to prepare in order to survive, the bad news is that surviving here would mean waiting for most people to die. Holland is overpopulated and lies for a big part pretty much under sealevel.

My friends dont have the slightest idea of what is going to happen, every time they tell me how they would like to buy that awesome car in a few years i get a weird feeling. I won't tell them about peak oil though, because they'd never believe it and if they would believe it i don't know how they'd handle with it. With that comes the fact that my friends are still in the fase of "i want to make a lot of money when i'm a grown up", i left that fase at about 14, maby because i was obsessed with making as much money as i could until than...

I have know pretty much ONE person that knows about Peak Oil. He has even once told me, along with a few other students, that we rely of oil too much, on which one student promptly replied with that hydrogen was the future but that the big oil companies prevented this. Sometimes they make you wanna cry.

Since i was 12 i've loved everything that runs on gasoline. I therefor couldn't wait till i was 16 so i could drive mopeds, and couldn't wait till my 18th cause than i could drive cars. I remember saying to myself when i was 16 that i hoped there'd be enough oil around on my 18th so i could still drive cars. Well, turns out there still is 'enough' oil now, and i love driving every single time i turn on that gasoline engine. It's probably one of the worst hobby's to have a this moment, i won't stop driving though, Peak Oil is going to happen ANYWAY, so i might aswel enjoy myself in these last years of the oil age.

Another hard thing for me is picking what i have to do now high school is over. It's not like my dad tells me that i can pretty much do everything i want, i mean, i could, but some degrees just wont be needed in a while. My first choices are now going to the Military or Police Academy...

One thing is clear, we are going to have a very interesting future, and remember, we're going to get a lot further if we work *together*.

[Seksi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Weatherman25', 'Y')eah, I'm 14, probably the youngest one here.