When does the oil dry up?
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When does the oil dry up?
A few points to ponder over a pint and a bagel:
Intelligent banter welcome. This stuff will run out soon (even if it's not in our lifetime, it will dry up soon!). Then what?
~R.D.
- When is oil / gas, etc, forecast to dry up in “The Land Of Sand”?
- What's next? Bio-fuel? ???
- What will become of the "ME-ME-ME!!" society - those (thankfully few) neauvou-rich rude people who act, think, and talk like they control the taps?
Intelligent banter welcome. This stuff will run out soon (even if it's not in our lifetime, it will dry up soon!). Then what?
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The End Is Nigh
Who cares, it's all a lot worse than that!
Earth 'goes into the red'
LONDON: The world moved into 'ecological overdraft yesterday, the point at which human consumption exceeds the ability of the earth to sustain it in any year and goes into the red, the New Economics Foundation think-tank said.
Ecological Debt Day this year is three days earlier than in 2006 which itself was three days earlier than in 2005. NEF said the date had moved steadily backwards every year since humanity began living beyond its environmental means in the 1980s.
"As the world creeps closer to irreversible global warming and goes deeper into ecological debt, why on earth, say, would the UK export 20 tonnes of mineral water to Australia and then re-import 21 tonnes," said NEF director Andrew Simms. "And why would that wasteful trade be more the rule than the exception," he added.
Not only was there a massive gulf between rich and poor but there were deep variations in environmental profligacy between the rich countries, NEF said.
If everyone in the world had the same consumption rates as in the US it would take 5.3 planet earths to support them, NEF said, noting that the figure was 3.1 for France and Britain, 3.0 for Spain, 2.5 for Germany and 2.4 for Japan.
But if everyone emulated China, which is building a coal-fired power station every five days to feed its booming economy, it would take only 0.9 of a planet. The NEF report comes as diplomatic momentum builds for UN environment ministers meeting in December on the Indonesian island of Bali to agree to start talks on a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol.
Earth 'goes into the red'
LONDON: The world moved into 'ecological overdraft yesterday, the point at which human consumption exceeds the ability of the earth to sustain it in any year and goes into the red, the New Economics Foundation think-tank said.
Ecological Debt Day this year is three days earlier than in 2006 which itself was three days earlier than in 2005. NEF said the date had moved steadily backwards every year since humanity began living beyond its environmental means in the 1980s.
"As the world creeps closer to irreversible global warming and goes deeper into ecological debt, why on earth, say, would the UK export 20 tonnes of mineral water to Australia and then re-import 21 tonnes," said NEF director Andrew Simms. "And why would that wasteful trade be more the rule than the exception," he added.
Not only was there a massive gulf between rich and poor but there were deep variations in environmental profligacy between the rich countries, NEF said.
If everyone in the world had the same consumption rates as in the US it would take 5.3 planet earths to support them, NEF said, noting that the figure was 3.1 for France and Britain, 3.0 for Spain, 2.5 for Germany and 2.4 for Japan.
But if everyone emulated China, which is building a coal-fired power station every five days to feed its booming economy, it would take only 0.9 of a planet. The NEF report comes as diplomatic momentum builds for UN environment ministers meeting in December on the Indonesian island of Bali to agree to start talks on a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol.
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Seeing as this particular 'Think Tank' has been around for over 15 years and are yet to be 'debunked' it would be fair to consider NEF to be just as long on knowledge as thought. Ever considered lengthening your thought processes?
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It is difficult to debunk information like that. It is even more difficult to prove it.
Don't get me wrong. I do belive in global warming and the rest, but to me, information like that is almost as strange as that produced by the global warming deniers.
The real problem I have with you friend though, is that they make their living by telling you the obvious without having a clue as to prescribing a real alternative. Electic cars you say or even fuel cells. Guess what you have to you to generate the electricity to charge the batterys or worse to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen?
Don't get me wrong. I do belive in global warming and the rest, but to me, information like that is almost as strange as that produced by the global warming deniers.
The real problem I have with you friend though, is that they make their living by telling you the obvious without having a clue as to prescribing a real alternative. Electic cars you say or even fuel cells. Guess what you have to you to generate the electricity to charge the batterys or worse to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen?
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hey DD
why you so concern about our oil.....concern about your country man...........again we do not need any other resource....we had enough .........judgment day is so close..............
if you so concern............go some where else which alternate avil
if you so concern............go some where else which alternate avil
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When will the oil run out?
Well, lets see....
Oil was first discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938 in the alHassa basin, by a Chevron/Texaco joint venture.
Last I heard, the production there now is about 10million barrels/day.
In the alRhub al Khali (empty quarter) of Saudi exists proven reserves that are at least six times the amount of oil extracted from the alHassa basin, to date, since 1938.
In other words...a whole bunch.
Oil exploration in west Africa (excluding Nigeria) has turned up (recently) nealry half as much as stated above....and countries are still looking.
Mauritania for example, has discovered at least 8 billion barrels.
Don't count on oil disappearing any time soon....
Oil was first discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938 in the alHassa basin, by a Chevron/Texaco joint venture.
Last I heard, the production there now is about 10million barrels/day.
In the alRhub al Khali (empty quarter) of Saudi exists proven reserves that are at least six times the amount of oil extracted from the alHassa basin, to date, since 1938.
In other words...a whole bunch.
Oil exploration in west Africa (excluding Nigeria) has turned up (recently) nealry half as much as stated above....and countries are still looking.
Mauritania for example, has discovered at least 8 billion barrels.
Don't count on oil disappearing any time soon....
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Could have sworn I posted this here yesterday but maybe not, a different forum perhaps?
As those that have worked in the industry will know, gas usually comes first followed by the oil and Qatar are sitting on a gas/oil field that is said to have the ability to last until year 2500!
As those that have worked in the industry will know, gas usually comes first followed by the oil and Qatar are sitting on a gas/oil field that is said to have the ability to last until year 2500!
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take a read of this
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/II27Ag01.html
I doubt the Russians will have much need for us expats as the ME does
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/II27Ag01.html
I doubt the Russians will have much need for us expats as the ME does
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When does the oil dry up?
Not in my days, and I still have a long way to go...,
I think. There is still plenty of untapped oil around despite the some skeptics. These guys want to continue scaring the oil (not free) markets to keep it at the levels they are today. They use all sorts of "excuses". News like (just recently) a little girl (oil worker daughter) being kidnapped in Nigeria, cold winters in the US and the oil riggers in Norway going on strike, made oil prices reached "never seen" heights. I'm more concerned about the climate changes than anything else.
I think. There is still plenty of untapped oil around despite the some skeptics. These guys want to continue scaring the oil (not free) markets to keep it at the levels they are today. They use all sorts of "excuses". News like (just recently) a little girl (oil worker daughter) being kidnapped in Nigeria, cold winters in the US and the oil riggers in Norway going on strike, made oil prices reached "never seen" heights. I'm more concerned about the climate changes than anything else.
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I'm more concerned about the climate changes than anything else.
Hmmm, had you been around in 1957, you could have whitnessed the cover of an issue of Life magazine, which quite broadly proclaimed...'Danger, the coming mini ice age.'
'Twas International Geophysical Year, you see, and 'weather scientists' were all worried about severe cooling....
