Peak Oil

[nadinbrzezinski]

When many of us speak of this people think of we running out of oil. Well not quite, but the disaster in the Gulf is part of it.

Wait, you mean a spigot we can't close?

Not quite... the disaster happened since we have now gone too deep, where we can barely do this, but god help us if there is an accident. In other words, it has become too technically hard to do this, and it is increasingly expensive. To put it in other words, the risk \ benefit ratio is increasingly making it not economically feasible to drill, baby, drill.

So what's next? If we have reached the limit... we are at peak oil... like it or not...

Ponder on that one.

[FBI_Un_Sub]

1. Predicted generally by Kenneth Deffeyes

"Peak oil" may not be an absolute geological limit --- but it is a relative limit based on technology and geopolitics. This is what James Howard Kunstler calls "technological cornucopialism."

It may be time to get HFCS (as in diabetes and obesity) out of our food chain and bodies and use the freed corn oil to synthesize EtOH motor fuel, to push CAFE to the limits, and to get serious about new urban mass transit and urban planning paradigms.

Meanwhile - my wife and I drive a five door mini-car and follow a "locavore" cuisine.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Welcome to DU

same here, hybrid... and we use locavore as well.

[depakid]

2. The low lying fruit is mostly gone...

and much of what's left is in places where people don't like us very much.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Or so damn deep that the pressures

are almost incomprehensible