Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming

Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by prepend on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:11AM (#21442920)

I remember listening to a Michael Moore book in 00s where he talked about peak oil and had a funny story about a grandparent telling kids what it was like to have petroleum products like plastic and whatnot. He listed all the things made with oil that would disappear. I thought that was a bit crazy so did some research on the topic and realized that he was either full of horse apples, or stupid, or being deceitful, or some mix.

Since then, I’ve been curious about peak oil claims and they all seemed really wrong headed.

The best I can think is that they were trying to trick people into using renewables. But I think tricking people is short sighted because when the trick wears off, I don’t trust the person again.

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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by pm90 on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:35PM (#21446198)

I don't think that's fair. Our methods of determining oil reserves and our technology to extract oil from previously un-economic raw materials (shale oil, tar sands, heavy crude) have improved dramatically, which is the main reason for the glut of oil that we see today.

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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by prepend on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:17AM (#21452059)

Good point. I think the challenge is trying to figure out what is BS put out by the oil companies (that never showed peak oil) vs BS put out by other people (that I guess inaccurately failed to include technology improvements in their forecasts).

I think the part that is fair is the belief that we would run out of oil to the point that we wouldn’t be able to make plastics. That’s just me not taking into account of the supply demand curve where plastics would be able to use oil even if we were not able to affordable fuel cars.

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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by nickik on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:41PM (#21448008)

That what brought the price down. But there are huge known fields in the Golf and other places that have major potential, but those are rationed by a cartel.

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