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Re: PO denied in Congressional hearing on Big Oil Profits

Unread postby Novus » Wed 02 Apr 2008, 01:19:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('shortonoil', '[')b]FreddyH said:

RENEWED OIL EXPLORATION COMING UP SHORT

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ince 2000, oil companies working in the U.S. have doubled the number of wells drilled per year – with a glaring lack of results.


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I wonder why such charts aren't presented before congress. PO is Fact that when a certain point is crossed it becomes impossible to increase production. America is long past this point as are many former oil exporting nations that are now importing oil.
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Re: PO denied in Congressional hearing on Big Oil Profits

Unread postby KillTheHumans » Wed 02 Apr 2008, 01:35:42

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I wonder why such charts aren't presented before congress.


Because pointing out an obvious and well known fact in the natural discovery process is only a surprise to the amateurs?

Fill up 100 ballons and tape them to the wall in your apartment/house/garage bungalow/hovel. Make 80 of them smaller than your head, ranging in size from your thumb to your head. Lets call this group "the majority". For the other 20, start at the size of your head and blow them up to a maximum size of a 52" plasma TV. Call these "the minority".

You have just synthesized a lognormal distribution of sizes of oil fields, a bulk of them are small and not near as interesting as the big ones. The "majority" represent the main body of field sizes, the "minority" represent a truncated tail of a lognormal distribution as it stretches off to infinity.

Put on a blindfold. Spin around a few times. Throw 10 darts at the wall. Take off the blindfold and quantify which sizes of ballons you deflated. Repeat as necessary until the wall is covered with darts.

Graph the results. Create a creaming curve. Go ahead...its easy.

When complete, you will have a good handle on a natural discovery process model which explains why no one except people who DON'T understand this process think your chart shows anything which wasn't obvious BEFORE you even started throwing darts at the wall.
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Re: PO denied in Congressional hearing on Big Oil Profits

Unread postby kpeavey » Wed 02 Apr 2008, 03:47:44

A few years back the tobacco industry leaders all told a congressional hearing that they did not believe tobacco was addictive.

See if you can guess who wrote this:$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.


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Re: PO denied in Congressional hearing on Big Oil Profits

Unread postby KillTheHumans » Wed 02 Apr 2008, 09:41:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kpeavey', 'A') few years back the tobacco industry leaders all told a congressional hearing that they did not believe tobacco was addictive.

See if you can guess who wrote this:$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.


Dr Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment


Didn't he work in the Clinton Adminstration?
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Re: PO denied in Congressional hearing on Big Oil Profits

Unread postby vision-master » Wed 02 Apr 2008, 10:35:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kpeavey', 'A') few years back the tobacco industry leaders all told a congressional hearing that they did not believe tobacco was addictive.

See if you can guess who wrote this:$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.


Dr Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment


Smoking a pipe is NOT addictive. I'd say you are the one brainwashed, my friend.
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Re: PO denied in Congressional hearing on Big Oil Profits

Unread postby TheDude » Wed 02 Apr 2008, 21:36:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('[s]ReserveGrowthRulz[/s]KillTheHumans', 'P')ut on a blindfold. Spin around a few times. Throw 10 darts at the wall. Take off the blindfold and quantify which sizes of ballons you deflated. Repeat as necessary until the wall is covered with darts.


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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FreddyH', 'T')he Avg of the 23 recognized forecasts of Peak Oil is 91-mbd in 2013


You mean 2018. :roll:

Have you followed my advice of creating a trendline from your eternally shifting peak dates?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FreddyH', 'C')olin Campbell's first declaration that All Liquids had peaked already was back in 1989. Next year will be the 20th anniversary of these ludicrous pronouncements by McPeaksters and thus all credibility among Legislators has been lost.


Campbell has no credibility, got it.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FreddyH', 'I')ncluded in the 23-model analysis are studies by Campbell of ASPO-Ireland, Laherrere of ASPO France, Koppelaar of ASPO Netherlands, Skrebowski, Husseini, Bauquis, Robelius & Matt Simmons.


[Insert wife beating joke here]

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