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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Feb 24 07:14:09 2012, in response to Me to Barry - Get a Fucking Job You Are Qualified For., posted by Train Dude on Thu Feb 23 13:55:15 2012. Hmmm. You mean Iran's saber-rattling has nothing to do with thge price of oil?At any rate, we are in for some VERY big changes over the next several decades, as the oil starts to run out. We've already extracted abd consumed half of all the oil there is (or ever will be)--the easy half. The remaining half is either in hard-to-0reach or hostile territory, and much of that is in the form of shale and other material that has to undergo conversion to liquids, adding further steps of labor and cost to the extraction process. On top of this, we may never be able to get all of the remaining oil out of the ground, and even if we could somehow extract all 1 trillion or so barrels of the remaining oil, it would only be enough for another 30 years of consumption, at today's rates. Our entire human civilization is totally dependent for its daily life on just one finite, irreplaceable natural resource, oil. As it runs out, the Industrial Era will end. There ARE serious upheavals coming, and our way of life (and that of societies all over the globe) are about to undergo big changes. An Arab saying puts it very starkly: "My father rode a camel, I drive a Rolls-Royce, my son flies a jet airplane, and his son will ride a camel." Gas prices will begin a climb to the stratosphere in just a few years, as production struggles to keep up with ever-0increasing demand, and no President, now or in the future, will be able to stop or change that. Every developed country in the world will be competing for the dwindling supply of oil. The era of cheap oil is ending, and with it, our car-dependent way of life. This has been known since at LEAST 1973, and the problem is, the end of cheap oil--indeed, the end of oil itself--was seen as being so far in the future as to be an abstraction, of no concern to people living in the here and now "because we'll be dead then". The trouble with that is, the end of cheap oil is underway NOW... |
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