World Oil Production to Peak in 2013

Hello,

does everybody know that according to some Oil Geologists (e.g. Colin
Campbell) in 2013 the world oil output is going to peak ? Are you
aware what this does mean for all of us ? We have 4 years from now,
until there will not be enough energy for travelling, heating and the
most important for food for everybody of us. Oil prices will begin to
peak, not 150 USD/barrel, much much higger prices are expected. Many
people will loose their jobs and many of us will begin to starve.
Alternatives will also be more expensive since the demand will
increase astronomically. Alternative energy will also be much much
more expensive, due to the demand and due to much higher costs. Making
a wind turbine cost a lot of energy. Making ethanol cost a lot of oil
(pesticides, insecticides, transportation, production, harvesting,
fertilizers etc.). Making insulations cost also a lot of oil.



What is the solution ? The only way is to act now, individually. Now,
where the oil prices are still cheap, although there is an increase,
each individual can begin to prepare himself for these hard times in
near future. Insulation of houses, solar cells, which are now more
affordable (in ebay 1 W solar cells cost 1 USD or even less), solar
water heating, solar heating with mirrors reflecting the sunlight to
your home in winter, making your own wind turbine (a lot of
instruction of cheap design can be found in the internet), buying a
plug-in car or a hybrid vehicle, using energy efficient lightning,
heating with heat pumps, making a winter garden etc. are some of the
things each of us can do to prepare himself/herself for hard times and
to save money and energy. There are also ways to save energy and try
to extend the date a little bit by using the car only when necessary,
using the bike instead of your car, using public transportation,
converting the car to methane fueling, saving energy where ever it is
possible, not only in your home also in your work, etc. will help to
extend the date.



The other alternative is to wait until this date, actually the
economical crisis is in its ending phase and the oil prices will again
rise to record highs. But this is nothing compared to the prices when
world oil supplies will deminish 4% yearly. And after this date (2013)
very very hard times may come. Starvation and even worse things like
war are the alternative.



If you act now, you will also help to produce new jobs in your
country.



Regards.


You can find much more on: http://www.peakoil.net/

 

Uh, the former NHL Commissioner?

 

You're thinking of CLARENCE Campbell, and he was NHL President, not
Commissioner.

But when he was President, many players oiled their hair, sometimes into
peaks, so maybe there's a connection there...somewhere...

Here's a photo of the famous "Rocket" Richard, a player from Campbell's
time.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maurice_richard_profile.jpg>
Try and tell me there's no oil in that hair...

 

Yep. The bad old days.

Colin Campbell is currently NHL Senior Executive Vice President (WTF?
Title inflation?) and Director of Hockey Operations

 

And he doesn't even seem to be related to Clarence. Or maybe he's hiding
that relationship because he doesn't like oiled hair. It's a conspiracy...

 

Don't believe a word of it.

There is more oil underground that they know what to do with.

Tens of thousands of years worth of oil.

There's more oil in the shale in Colorado and Montana than all the oil that
has been pumped since the beginning of the oil age. And it can be
economically extracted even if oil were selling for only $30.00/barrel.

They are hiding oil fields in Prudho Bay. They are pumping natural gas back
underground just to keep the price where they want it.

We have been programmed to think of oil as a "fossil fuel". And we have
been told that we're using it up faster than it is being made. Also not
true. A recent discovery of oil was carbon dated and found to be only 200
years old. Oil is being made constantly underground. We will never run out.

That.s not to say we shouldn't find alternate energy sources. We must.
It's the only way we will ever be free of the oil and money barons
controlling our lives.

 

The sooner we use up all the oil, the sooner we get alternative energy...

John-put the petal to the metal!

 

I once read somewhere that people in the future will hate us for
burning all the oil rather than saving some for other (many other)
uses.

 

They said the same thing about whale oil.

....and mastodon oil, before that.

 

4ax.com:

People were using almost none of that oil until the internal combustion
engine came along. Farmers had for countless generations regarded "rock
oil" as a simple nuisance.

 

He had said peak was in early 1990s at one time.

The US and several Oil Majors suggest around 2030-ish.

 

What was his call on peak whale oil?

 

"Director of Hockey Operations"? As opposed to, say, baseball
operations? Or cocaine trafficing operations?

Title inflation? Nah, ego inflation.

"Hey mister, that's a pretty big title. Can you use it?"
--

- dillon I am not invalid

"Gee, Jimmy,I'm sorry to hear that your girlfriend
turned out to be a Cylon."
-Special Agent Tim McGee, "NCIS"

 

"Senior Executive Vice President"

 

Bingo!

It's high time for us to resume a leadership role in alternative
technology NOT because fossil fuels are getting scarcer but because it's
the right thing to do in view of being held hostage by numerous third
rate fiefdoms around the world.

And I'm not talkin' about wind, solar etc. as they currently stand but
for revolutionary technology to equal that of fossil fuels played at the
turn of the 20th century.

But all this requires leadership and there ain't none of that showin' up...

JT

 

Actually, a surprisingly small amount comes from
hostage-taker countries.
<http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html>

And even less would come from the hostiles if the US would
loosen environut and NIMBY rules to allow more drilling on
US lands. "Leadership" in this case would be more accurately
described as "backing off", or "getting out of the way";
a Thomas Jefferson, Grover Cleveland or Calvin Coolidge approach.

Canada and Mexico aren't particularly hostile to the US. Mexico is
hobbled by the sort of government currently lusted after by those
in power in the US for the last 9 years or so, and its output
is a small fraction of what it could be if individuals not beholden
to political interests were in charge.

It's interesting to note how far Venezuela's output has declined
in the last few years as Chavez has made open war upon the evil
capitalist foreigners, and chased them out. The /good/ technicians
have mostly vamoosed, leaving behind the sort of engineers that would
otherwise work for (ugh) Pemex.

They are permanent losers, for ever and a day; forever dependent upon
tax money to even begin to approach break-even for the producers.
Tax funding will ensure forevermore that they will remain permanently
unworkable, and forever a ball-and-chain for those forced by the
tax code to pay for them.

Petroleum is the only practical energy solution for transportation.

Ain't gonna happen. Not in your lifetime or in mine, anyway.

My personal belief (based on nothing but my own personal
prejudices) is that the future lies in electricity storage,
or voltage potential, perhaps in the form of batteries.

When and where, and how? I have no idea. And neither does anyone else,
the power brokers of Washington included. Unpredictable individuals,
often mavericks or pariahs, doing unpredictable things with
unpredictable resources and unpredictable sources of funds, are the
true founts of technological progress. Government cannot help them,
but can hinder them most impressively.

 

Hey,foreign countries don't HAVE to sell to us.
They can keep their oil in the ground.
But they PROFIT from it greatly.

We should utilize our domestic petro sources,while we work on alternatives.
Not tax,freeze or halt domestic petro production,at the cost to our economy
and safety.
Buying foreign oil sends money to people who wish to destroy us.
It also increases the risk to our coastlines from oil spills,which mainly
occur in shipping oil in tankers.

Such as?

all the leadership in the world is not going to bring about a
"revolutionary technology".(It seems to be HINDERING the process.)
That's a matter of scientific discovery.

 

Well stated..!

http://tinyurl.com/cow45

 

I should have included as hostile influence that of the speculators who
are largely unregulated.

Not necessarily. Rail transport could be largely electric and the
construction of a hundred nukes as an intermediate measure would go a
long way in this effort.

We have to abandon the inefficient such as trucking in favor of rail
long distance freight.

Battery technology is coming of age faster than most realize. Two
hundred mile range is now reality and this covers the needs of better
than fifty percent of the populace.

Guv'ment still is and has always been the bottleneck of progress.

As an aside... Maybe if Yellowstone blows its top, thinking will change.
After all, it's 30,000 years or so overdue... <G>

JT

 

Can you name one of those speculators?

Trucking is the most efficient thing going.

One problem with rail is severe restrictions on location, and even more
severe restrictions on timing. It takes days to ship something by rail.
Our business, just for one, would be dead if we didn't have instant LTL
trucking available anywhere in Canada and the US. I can have a load at a
particular dock in Chicago (or from there to our place) in half a day. Try
that with rail.

Electric long-distance rail in North America makes no economic sense,
unless it's diesel-electric, which it already is.