23 comments on The Bullroarer - Friday 6th June 2008
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Yes - pie in the sky. I totally agree. As I said - "joined up thinking". For a month or two I was really hopeful. Now Rudd just says and does the same as Howard. Maybe "Yes Minister" was a documentary. At least that awful smug Costello is out of the picture - for good I hope.
Also a big GTL plant will take a long time to build, probably too much time. I am aware of a small net increase in CO2 from GTL (including product use vs diesel). I imagine if the CO2 from the GTL plant could be captured it would be relatively straight forward to inject back into the gas field from whence it came. I am dead against CTL though.
As for the fish - I am reminded of a movie with Ford Prefect.............
I've just been listening to Kevin Rudd on the Sunday BBC Radio News (he was being interviewed on "Meet the Press") saying that the time has come to "apply the blowtorch" to OPEC!
Ignoring any amusing mental images of what would happen if Kevin did indeed apply a 1300C flame to a barrel of gasoline (!), this is another example of Rudd's apparent belief that there is a big tap somewhere in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and that we simply need to give it a few turns for our petrol prices to come crashing down again. He's certainly not talking as if he secretly "knows" about resource depletion and is just spinning the politics...
How on Earth can we get our politicians to recognise the reality of oil stock depletion?
(Saildog, how's this for joined up thinking:
Blowtorch - Resource War - Hormuz Closure - Olduvai Gorge???)
Rudd should pay attention to the famous quote from the stranded passengers in the Andes air-crash: "Let's take some of the meat off the pilots, after all, they got us into this mess!"
Well - even if Rudd has heard of peak oil its not unsurprising that he might dismiss it, given that his advisory bureaucracy all disagree with the concept (at least over his term in office).
In any case, OPEC is the most convenient scapegoat going - big oil and speculators might bite back if blamed, and geological factors are too impersonal to fill the role effectively (though he did have a window to blame this on the lack of foresight of the previous government which is rapidly closing).
"You're not asking me to make a brave decision, are you?"