What will we fight about when the oil's gone?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
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CHRISISALL

Sunday, March 26, 2006 4:42 AM

Thanks to my Missus, here's a must-look-at observation:

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

An excerpt:

Quote:

The effects of even a small drop in production can be devastating. For instance, during the 1970s oil shocks, shortfalls in production as small as 5% caused the price of oil to nearly quadruple. The same thing happened in California a few years ago with natural gas: a production drop of less than 5% caused prices to skyrocket by 400%.

Fortunately, those price shocks were only temporary.

The coming oil shocks won't be so short-lived. They represent the onset of a new, permanent condition. Once the decline gets under way, production will drop (conservatively) by 3% per year, every year.

I been sayin' it, the economic world of Dark Angel ain't all that far away....

And it won't even take a 'pulse' to get us there Chrisisall

JOSSISAGOD

Sunday, March 26, 2006 5:06 AM

If, there's six BILLION people on earth NOW and the link predicts an increase of around another six by 2020, Earth-That-Was may not be 500 years away, there's a scary thought!

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

GINOBIFFARONI

Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:30 AM

Your assuming we'll get out of this one.....

" Over and in, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done "

The Killers

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/killers/allthesethingsthativedone.html

STDOUBT

Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:44 AM

EDIT: Had to self-censor. I get too worked up by politics. Especially American politics.
I agree with Fletch. It'll be water.

FLETCH2

Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:49 AM

Water.

THEGREYJEDI

Sunday, March 26, 2006 7:23 AM

Who gets to kill the liberals. because we are all t3h d00m3d. And when the oil is gone only conservatives will want to fight, but they'll want to fight everyone all the time. And only the liberals will want peace, but they'll be absolute pushovers. Because everyone and everything will be polarized in such a way as to demonize the right so the left can say "I told you so." just as the conservatives nuke the whole planet.

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DREAMTROVE

Sunday, March 26, 2006 12:44 PM

The next oil will be oil.

What we haven't sorted out yet, because we're morons, is that burning oil is a horrible waste, it's really far more valueable than that. Pure Fresh Water will always be common because it can be made from ocean saltwater pretty easily.

Oil represents the viable carbon base of the world, and in a ready and usable form. At a time when the world's topsoil is becoming seriously depleted and the human population is going up. The need for land resurection techniques will become critical. Land in places like Iraq and Nigeria, which is reaching a point where it can no longer support life will have to be re-vitalized with a large fluid carbon base, and that will undoubtedly be oil.

When oil stops being burned for fuel, I think there will be a brief dip in the price, and then it will gradually start to soar again as other uses pile up.

ps. conservatives are not more warlike than liberals.

CBY

Sunday, March 26, 2006 12:52 PM

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Originally posted by Fletch2:
Water.

Exactly. I saw an interesting documentation about it lately. They contrasted Las Vegas with South Mexico for instance. Really something to think about.

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INDYBLUES

Sunday, March 26, 2006 1:26 PM

Haven't any of you seen Spaceballs:The Movie??
We'll be fighting over "air"!!
'Blues

CITIZEN

Sunday, March 26, 2006 1:57 PM

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Originally posted by Dreamtrove:
The next oil will be oil.

Not when there is no oil it won't.

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ps. conservatives are not more warlike than liberals.

No, they're both as bad as each other.

But by the virtue that your always spouting the nonsense that any war ever and any aggression in the history of Human existance is caused by Liberals (your definition of Liberal being someone who goes to war, again with the bizzare illogical circular arguments of yours) we need someone to lay the blame on Conservatives at every turn in order to maintain balance here.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

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