Reply #16: The one that makes geological & engineering & thermodynamic sense [View All]

[Coastie for Truth]

PEAK OIL

* The oil that we're drilling now is deeper.
* The oil that we're drilling now is "heavier" (requires "cat cracking")
* The oil that we're drilling now is "sour" (requires more "desulfurization")
* The Indians and Chinese are competing to buy the oil that we're drilling now.
* The oil that we're drilling now now is in further away places with stranger sounding names where the people hate us even more.

References:


* The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century by James Howard Kunstler

* Beyond Oil : The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

* Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

* Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein

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* Horror of Horrors - if you actually down load and read the full text, Adobe Acrobat PDF file of "Project for the New American Century" - not the descriptions of it in blogs or chat rooms - but the full file -- Peak Oil and Oil Imperialism and Oil Hegemony is the real issue.

PEAK OIL