More abiotic oil!

Only problem with $247 oil is that the economy collapses first. We spend more and more of our income on fossil fuels and electricity. Also, the price of food goes up with the price of oil. This leaves too little of our salaries for everything else, demand for things like houses and cars drops greatly, and oil prices drop.

IMO the first part of the article isn't that far off, but the author fails to explain how inaccessible oil of non-biologic origin will be cheaply obtained. There will always be LOTS of expensive oil for processes and uses that can exist with EXPENSIVE oil-peak CHEAP oil is far in the past and the decline of CHEAP oil is the real issue. The entire global economy was built up with CHEAP FF as an energy source.

Apparently the guys behind NaftoGaz Ukrainy need to be educated about the Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum.

The author of that article needs to carefully wrapped in a white jacket with strong leather straps and placed in a well padded room for his own protection.

Making petroleum by dissolving steel in strong acid?! The acid must be strong indeed but he really should stop ingesting it...

The Psychedelic Experience

PSYCHEDELICS

(Hallucinogens)

Give me a button of wild peyote
To munch in my den at night,
That I may set my id afloat
In the country of queer delight.

So ho! it's off to the land of dreams
With never a stop or stay,
Where psychiatrists meet with fairy queens
To sing a foundelay.

Give me a flagon of mescaline
To wash o'er my mundane mind,
That I may feel like a schizophrene
Of the catatonic kind.

So hey! let in the vision of light
To banish banality,
Then will I surely catch a sight
Of the Real Reality.

Give me a chalice of lysergic
To quaff when day is done,
That I may get a perceptual kick
From my diencephalon.

So ho! let all resistance down
For a transcendental glance,
Past the superego's frosty frown
At the cosmic underpants.

Give me a pinch of psilocybin
To sprinkle in my beer,
That my psychopathic next-of-kin
May not seem quite so queer.

So hey! it's off for the visions bizarre
Past the ego boundary,
For a snort at the psychedelic bar
Of the new psychiatry.

F. W. Hanley, M.D.

I'm not saying the guy is just a bit off his rocker I'm saying he is batshit insane!

First, an explanation: My login was chosen because it was my 50th birthday and a bump in the peaking process. What great timing to be born, unless you have any concern about the future. 50 years of unbridled consumption with little or nothing to show for it in terms of sustainability. Energy is concentrated capital.

I am from Canada and have some familiarity with the "journal" you linked. Canada Free Press is a highly suspect, intentionally provocative right wing e-tabloid associated with a gaggle of rather pathetic scientific heretics, most of which have some religious cross they want society to bear on their behalf. They specialize in ad hominem attacks and claims of persecution.

Meaningful terrestrial reserves of abiotic oil have not only been thoroughly refuted, but biological and geological origins have been positively traced for many, many types of crude and gas. Now, it is probably true there is some abiotic methane - it's an organic chemical after all - but it just too scarce until you get to deep space - or should we call it Heaven?

The "Free Press" response would be to recommend star wars style technology, bigger prisons and a few global wars to ensure we can all drive clean fusion cars to one of Saturn's moons to fill up. In other words, science fiction dressed up with impressive words. Note the guy's credentials. There are better spokesmen for this marginal POV, but few less polemic. They are all, however, angry and share the cornucopian's lament: How did our oil get under their sand?

At the end of the day, these folks use their own biggest weakness to malign everybody else: All knowledge is faith-based and scientific method is always biased - in their case against the Biblical and BAU POV. I think it's fair to lump this marginal pseudo-scientific diatribe in with Creationists and other religious fundamentalists.

Interesting that these guys have quite a hold on government policy here in Canada via the National Post and other mouthy mouthpieces. They are loud, quick to condemn and blind to their own failings, just a step or two away from the Brown Shirts and street bullies of the 1930's. They are closely aligned with anti-abortion crusaders.

Nothing wrong with being mouthy, but to do things like claim that RW Christians never hurt anyone (in contrast with you-know-who's) as one of their senior spokesmen once did in print is to do a great disservice to freedom and legal dissent. To call all AGW and Kyoto skeptics and critics "deniers" is another more subtle form of misinformation, designed to monkey-wrench any and all carbon controls.

The article should really be flagged as inappropriate, but it's a good example of pseudo-science being used to baffle the uninformed. We are all keen to show off a casual sort of certainty. Persecution, personal politics, and old time religious science seem to the formula for the future of the Far Right. Whaddya know? The same themes we hear in good ol' Sarah Palin's speeches. You betcha!