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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby dinopello » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 17:17:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oil_rocks', 'w')ell i'm just trying to help you guys out. I provided a clear version of the peak oil crisis theory that i'm sure 90% of you sign on to (which shows us running out of oil in about 15 years).


I think it has already been said that probably more like 0% of the people on this board sign on to your parenthetical assertion.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oil_rocks', 'I')ts just meant to be a helpful service and allow you guys to get some much needed sleep at night. a simply 'thank you' would be appeciated.


Many may find it helpful in getting to sleep to count the sheeple.

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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby Bas » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 17:17:49

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clueless', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')hich shows us running out of oil in about 15 years


We will never run out of oil.


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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby Ingenuity_Gap » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 17:57:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oil_rocks', 'w')ell i'm just trying to help you guys out. I provided a clear version of the peak oil crisis theory that i'm sure 90% of you sign on to (which shows us running out of oil in about 15 years). But every year that goes by you guys end up scratching your heads and saying, "I don't understand it. Our projections all show that we should have hit the peak by now but it just never seems to happen". Well, I have shown many reasons for why we have not hit the peak yet and why we will not be hitting it any time in the next 20 years. Its just meant to be a helpful service and allow you guys to get some much needed sleep at night. a simply 'thank you' would be appeciated.


Clear version of PO theory? You must be joking. You have no clue about PO. You read almost nothing about it. All you know is bits and crumbs and you are really bad at putting them together.

You have shown nothing, you supplied no valuable proofs, you provided no conclusive links, and your calculations suck big time.

Your whole approach is a joke, starting with the already famous assertion that on a finite Earth there is infinite oil to be found. Nobody on this forum, from the bleakest doomer to the most clueless and happiest cornucopian, had the audacity and stupidity to affirm such nonsense.

And don't worry about our sleep, most of us are way past the "scary" phase. Unfortunately you are still in denial.

All you show is a big bag of hope. Well, guess what? We hope too. That a miracle will come down from the sky and will save us.

Now you tell us: how much can we bet on that?
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby clueless » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 18:00:36

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clueless', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')hich shows us running out of oil in about 15 years


We will never run out of oil.


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let me clarify...But we will run out of recoverable oil.

But I am sure Oil_rocks has concocted a thoery that by then we will "find" a way to recover it.
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby Ingenuity_Gap » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 18:01:22

What's going on? Are we running out of debunkers?

Peak Debunkers already?
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby Bas » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 18:03:35

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clueless', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clueless', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')hich shows us running out of oil in about 15 years


We will never run out of oil.


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let me clarify...But we will run out of recoverable oil.

But I am sure Oil_rocks has concocted a thoery that by then we will "find" a way to recover it.


no, no, I thought you were referring to the fact that earlier in the thread his prediction was that we wouldn't hit peak oil in our lifetimes...
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby Ingenuity_Gap » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 18:07:52

What's going on? Are we running out of debunkers?

Peak Debunkers already?
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby dinopello » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 18:09:00

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('clueless', '
')
let me clarify...But we will run out of recoverable oil.

But I am sure Oil_rocks has concocted a thoery that by then we will "find" a way to recover it.


All depends on who 'we' is. Oil is a renewable resource, we all agree on that - right?

It just takes a few hundred million years (or so) to renew.

Some day, oil_rocks may actually be oil. How ironic. I hope if I become oil, I will be made into a lacquer to be applied to a future musical instrument or nice piece of furniture (at least).
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby TonyPrep » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 18:11:53

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oil_rocks', 'w')ell i'm just trying to help you guys out. I provided a clear version of the peak oil crisis theory that i'm sure 90% of you sign on to (which shows us running out of oil in about 15 years). But every year that goes by you guys end up scratching your heads and saying, "I don't understand it. Our projections all show that we should have hit the peak by now but it just never seems to happen". Well, I have shown many reasons for why we have not hit the peak yet and why we will not be hitting it any time in the next 20 years. Its just meant to be a helpful service and allow you guys to get some much needed sleep at night. a simply 'thank you' would be appeciated.
The only thanks due is that you've illustrated, yet again, that the optimists arguments are based on belief.

By the way, the peak oil arguments don't show oil running out in 15 years, they show a peak of production probably within 0 to 30 years. Running out will not happen for another 100 years (much longer, if societies collapse) but running down, will start to happen post peak. Again, you misrepresent the peak oil position.
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby mekrob » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 18:12:04

Twenty pages have gone by. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY. This idiot will never learn about peak oil because he doesn't want to learn about it. You are wasting your time trying to educate fools like these.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')od has set a ... covering over their eyes, and there [will be] a great punishment for them.


Don't worry about people who don't wish to know. Pass him over and focus on your loved ones who may heed your warnings. Fools like these have a great punishment indeed around the corner. No need to let him drag you and those around you to the punishment, now is there?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Peak Debunkers already?


No. It won't happen until after peak oil. There is still hope, which is all these people have to grasp onto. When hope is evaporating and reality sets in, peak debunkers will finally occur. But we'll stop caring (about them and their arguments) long before that point occurs. At least I will.
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby clueless » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 18:46:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome day, oil_rocks may actually be oil. How ironic. I hope if I become oil, I will be made into a lacquer to be applied to a future musical instrument or nice piece of furniture (at least).


I want to be burned in the engine of a 1972 Ford Pinto, Automatic of course, with no gas tank retrofit.

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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby oil_rocks » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 20:45:55

hey, i'm on your side! i agree we are running out of oil, but i am trying to provide you with some wisdom as to the more accurate time frame so that you don't run around looking foolish, claiming that civilization is going to come to an end in the next few years. however, if my goal is to prevent you all from looking foolish, I must confess that I have been failing misserably!

my point from the beginning has been that there are many factors that the conventional peak oil crisis theory does not take into account which is going to push the peak date back further than most people expect. Now some people may be taking a few or even some of these factors into account, but that vast mejority of people do not. and they just dismiss it as "hopeful thinking" rather than trying to say, "well to what degree will technologies play a role in our long term forcasting?" I think its more intelegent to ask that question and perhaps argue that they will play a very limited role. but to dismiss the entire debate as hopeful wishing is to miss the point and be off the mark of forcasting.

So the bottom line is these things are factors whether small or large we can argue that, but until i see a peak oil crisis theory that includes all of these factors then i wil continue to say that the current models ARE NOT accurate.
1) New deposit discoveries
2) New technology for drilling
3) New technology for energy (ethanol, potential others)
4) Future price increases
5) Society's desire to inovate
6) Society's ability to adapt
7) Conservation potentials

once again, i am not asserting that oil will last forever. I am merely questioning whether the current peak oil crisis has taken into account all of the variables. and clearly it has not.
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby clueless » Tue 13 Feb 2007, 20:58:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '1')) New deposit discoveries
2) New technology for drilling
3) New technology for energy (ethanol, potential others)
4) Future price increases
5) Society's desire to inovate
6) Society's ability to adapt
7) Conservation potentials


This is no different than the way things have been SINCE oil was discovered and produced. Nobody here denies these things as being alternatives to oil - Just not nearly as efficient and convenient. The substitutes will not be as abundant, inexpensive or convenenient. I really don't see where you are getting the :

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'c')laiming that civilization is going to come to an end in the next few years.


You are the only one who has made any mention of this - You are really arguing with yourself my friend. Civilizations rise and fall and are in a constant state of change - The United States is clearly on the downslope of being a global power, It really only has the ability to bomb and destroy whereas once we were major exporters, now we consume, invade and destroy to keep our style of living. That too, will end one day.
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby oil_rocks » Wed 14 Feb 2007, 15:13:59

Here is a quiz you guys can take to demonstrate the flaws of peak oil crisis theory:

1) How many new deposits will be found in the future?
a) None
b) Some, at a rate consistant with the past 10 years
c) infinate new deposits will be found

2) How many new drilling technologies will be developed?
a) None
b) Some, history has shown this to be true
c) infinate new technologies will be developed

3) How much oil demand will ethanol replace?
a) None, not even 1 drop
b) Likely some cars will start running on ethanol
c) 100% replacement

4) Will a new yet undiscovered fuel ever be found?
a) No
b) maybe
c) Yes

5) What will happen to oil use if the price spikes?
a) Nothing, demand will always go up
b) If the price spikes, demand will go down
c) people will just stop using oil altogether

Ok, check your answers. If you answered "b" to every question, you get 100%! good job. Most of you probably picked "a" to most or every question, which means your beliefs are based on emtion and not real science. sorry.

And just to let you know, no one picked answer "c" to any questions even though peak oil people believe that anyone who disagrees with them must believe all the "c" answers. That is part of the problem with the peak oil belief system is that you believe all other people are trolls and idiots who blindly belive in non-sense. but in reality, people like me believe in the "b' answers. all of which are not factored into any peak oil crisis theories.

this has only been a test. if this had been a real emergency you would have been instructed to burn SUV's and run around telling people to store bottled water and learn how to farm.

Thank you for taking this test. Let me know how you guys did on the test. i got all 5 right.
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby UncoveringTruths » Wed 14 Feb 2007, 15:38:42

My comments added in italics

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '1')) How many new deposits will be found in the future?
a) None
b) Some, at a rate consistant with the past 10 years The number of discoveries has fallen dramatically in recent years.
c) infinate new deposits will be found

2) How many new drilling technologies will be developed?
a) None
b) Some, history has shown this to be true But creates a cliff when production ultimately declines in a field
c) infinate new technologies will be developed

3) How much oil demand will ethanol replace?
a) None, not even 1 drop
b) Likely some cars will start running on ethanol however to this day I have not seen an Ethanol pump in my neck of the woods but my car will run on it.
c) 100% replacement

4) Will a new yet undiscovered fuel ever be found?
a) No
b) maybe But not in time to mitigate Peak Oil
c) Yes

5) What will happen to oil use if the price spikes?
a) Nothing, demand will always go up
b) If the price spikes, demand will go down and the economy will falter rinse and repeat
c) people will just stop using oil altogether
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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby UncoveringTruths » Wed 14 Feb 2007, 15:58:58

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '1')) How many new deposits will be found in the future?
a) None
b) Some, at a rate consistant with the past 10 years
c) infinate new deposits will be found


d) Consistently less!

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Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

Unread postby clueless » Wed 14 Feb 2007, 16:09:38

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:13 am Post subject: Re: Sorry, No such thing as Peak Oil

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ere is a quiz you guys can take to demonstrate the flaws of peak oil crisis theory:

1) How many new deposits will be found in the future?
a) None
b) Some, at a rate consistant with the past 10 years
c) infinate new deposits will be found

B. Which is dismal as of late


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '2')) How many new drilling technologies will be developed?
a) None
b) Some, history has shown this to be true
c) infinate new technologies will be developed


B. Unless new elements are found that will allow a four mile drilling shaft to be built, drilling technologies are most likely topped out - Drilling technologies are not the most critical, but extraction techniques. If you can figure out how to suck a bowling ball through a straw we will be all ears.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '3')) How much oil demand will ethanol replace?
a) None, not even 1 drop
b) Likely some cars will start running on ethanol
c) 100% replacement


A. Ethanol is a net energy loser and will not ever make any impact on gasoline consumption. If you really think growing, harvesting, fermenting, distilling, storing, and shipping food as a replacement for fuel is an option you are smoking crack. Even your questions are flawed - WHat you should be asking is how much of an impact will ethanol make on oil consumption, because no matter houw you slice it oil is required to produce ethanol, so you are in effect simply turning oil into ethanol

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '4')) Will a new yet undiscovered fuel ever be found?
a) No
b) maybe
c) Yes


A. No - Nothing that will replace liquid fuels which will power the current infastructure, this is true because the largest componet burned in an ice is air - which does not have to be transported. There will be alternative forms of transportation, but none that will allow us to transport the goods required to keep our standard of living the way it is

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '5')) What will happen to oil use if the price spikes?
a) Nothing, demand will always go up
b) If the price spikes, demand will go down
c) people will just stop using oil altogether

D. None of the above - Price has doubled in the last five years and global demand has increased every year, and that is because, oh clueless one, When money is printed and put into circulation it increases demand, not decreases it, especially in a "Global Economy", if we aren't buying it someone else will be. Chinese and Indian dollar holders will begin entering the "Consumer Economy" at record numbers as the dollar drops in value (which it will continue to do), as that happens foreign currencies will increase in value allowing foreigners to purchase dollar demoninated assets (like oil & other commodities) cheaper, so to answer your question no, overall demand will most likely, not ever dencrease with a "floating currency" monetary system, it will simply level out the playing field putting consumers on a equal playing field.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')k, check your answers. If you answered "b" to every question, you get 100%! good job. Most of you probably picked "a" to most or every question, which means your beliefs are based on emtion and not real science. sorry.

And just to let you know, no one picked answer "c" to any questions even though peak oil people believe that anyone who disagrees with them must believe all the "c" answers. That is part of the problem with the peak oil belief system is that you believe all other people are trolls and idiots who blindly belive in non-sense. but in reality, people like me believe in the "b' answers. all of which are not factored into any peak oil crisis theories.

this has only been a test. if this had been a real emergency you would have been instructed to burn SUV's and run around telling people to store bottled water and learn how to farm.

Thank you for taking this test. Let me know how you guys did on the test. i got all 5 right

OIL_Rocks - How about taking my test !

You are either a:

A. Troll
B. The Village Idiot
C. A hopelessly Naive American Consumer
D. All of the above
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