[ROCKMAN]

Y'all are so mean beating up that poor conspiracy theorist. Now he knows we're all part of the plot too.

Well, he is right about the well plugging. Virtually every well ever plugged is making some oil/gas at the time. As mentioned, it wasn't making a profit but let's not spoil a good consiracy with facts. Actually, under most leases, as long as the well is netting $1 a month you can perpetuate the lease. Even if the well isn't making any money it is holding the lease. Eventually the operator, or someone else, may come up with another well to drill on it. It also costs $3000 to $10,000 to plug a well so if an operator can put it off for a while he's happy.

I always love the "tankers circling in the ocean" story. Ignore the fact that those tankers cost a lot to just have them run idle, if the oil companies want to hold crude off the market to run prices up all that have to do is reduce production at the well head or not buy as much imported oil. Despite some general misconceptions, the oil comapnies are not public utilities. They are free to produce or buy as little oil as they want. The worse penalty they could suffer would be to hurt their public image. I'm sure that fear would keep them awake at night.

[skeptik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yesplease', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coyote', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yesplease', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coyote', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('tedbohne', 's')cience will find a way, and I suspect they already have, to use hydrogen as a motor fuel.

[yesplease]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('skeptik', 'L')et me have a guess at what Coyote meant. False = Where are the Hydrogen wells? I'll give you that 'False' is an exceedingly obscure answer to anybody not familiar with the arguments! Hydrogen, unlike oil, is not an energy resource.

[Quinny]

One of the most frightening aspects (apart from the maths) of PO is that those in denial almost always point to some kind of conspiracy theory to explain events. I've seen a lot of bad situations in business and life, and over 90% of the time they come down to cock-up rather than conspiracy.

I believe conspiracy is often simply used as a smokescreen to hide holes in the argument.

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('skeptik', 'H')ydrogen, unlike oil, is not an energy resource.

[zoidberg]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('VMarcHart', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('skeptik', 'H')ydrogen, unlike oil, is not an energy resource.

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('zoidberg', 'h')ehe dinosaurs.

[Nordsven]

Thanks a lot guys,

once again it appears that you have ran someone away from the forum, away from peak oil, and away from star trek.


Why can't people be kind to first posters before they get run through the dryer?

I'm sure glad i didn't get slammed on my first post, then again this guy makes no sense

hydrogen is not free energy, actually its real expensive.