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Ron,
You never know how new technology might amazingly increase production! I mean, one of these days they might figure out how to re-inject associated gas, injecting CO2, or even drill wells sideways! Once they figure out how to drill wells sideways, they might even be able to create "branching laterals" for maximum reservoir contact! If they could do that, we could quintuple our current production rate and actually make oil magically appear in the ground!!
I think we should create a thread entirely dedicated to sarcasm.
I think we should create a thread entirely dedicated to sarcasm.
Why would you want to do that? This is a serious matter, isn't it? Don't you want people to take peak oil seriously?
You people on this site should buck up and get more professional. Like, maybe you should get somebody to write a 16,000-word article about a big oilfield, like perhaps that big Saudi field. Or a 3,700 word article about the dangers of ecological collapse. Or maybe someone can issue a report on what it would take to mitigate a "peak" in oil extraction rate.
Hey! How about if someone compiled a daily list of articles that pertain to the subject? Anyone up to that?
Yeah, that would do it. That would get the public's attention and cause a Great Transformation of Consciousness.
There just haven't been enough daily articles beamed into the public's consciousness. Someone needs to invent an electronic device that would enable folks to find this information with just the click of a button. That would be so neat.
Really, Mr/Mrs Substrate. This obsession with sarcasm is unseemly in a professional.
OK, b3NDZ3La...deep breaths...look, it's all going to be just fine...Prez Bush is on it like stink on a skunk...we got hydrogen coming...we got ethanol coming...he's told us we're addicted to oil...that will make us all stop using...right?
We got all that deep, offshore oil coming...we got mounds and mounds of oil in those tar sands up north. There's all kinds of new discoveries being announced around the world...heck even the Saudis just told us they found a new one RIGHT next to that old beast Ghawar.
Iraq is so unexplored out west, you could stick a straight pipe down 10 feet and the black gold would smack you back in the face.
So quit your frettin and go gas up the the RV...Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner
Happy Motoring!!
I long ago came up with the solution to peak oil/peak energy. It's simple really. We put windmills everywhere, and then use electric fans to create the wind that powers them. That way we'll have reliable wind power 24 hours a day, everywhere. Using this ingenious method, everybody could generate all the power they need at home. You could even run these windmills in your basement.
The problem is that Big Oil doesn't want Americans to know about this great, heretofore untapped source of energy.
I really need to get in touch with President Bush and urge him to come up with several billion dollars in subsidies to get this plan under development quickly, while there's still time.
Why ozonehole, that is so great!
I have this friend? He rents out equipment to people. He has LOTS of generators that he can't rent out except during blackouts. He would LOVE to rent out these generators to power your fans!
See what happens when Good Minds come together?
Why doesn't your friend just knock out power substations? lol.
Jeez, didn't you all know that there's free power just waiting to be plugged into upon any beach!
Since we are in need of humor today:
Please imagine the poor subject of this panel as being one that has read TOD for several years and then watched the world's response:
I'd rather be in a county lockup than someplace like that. Wouldn't matter how much you paid me. That's just inhuman. What are we doing??
Matt
Like oh my gosh havent you heard??? Just recently a dude from Shell got that sidewayz drilling idea from his pimply-faced kid who was using his straw to suck the last droplets of his strawberry milkshake from the side of his glass!!!11!!one!! ROFLcopter!!
We're saved!! =D