Comments for Oil Production http://www.e-peakoil.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:01:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Will Peak Oil reduce the population and save the planet from Global warming? by evans_michael_ya http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming/comment-page-1#comment-4679 evans_michael_ya Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:01:59 +0000 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming#comment-4679 Funny...we're finding more and more oil in the ground every day. We have the resources to tap them. We have the capacity to expand our refining facilities. Means we can produce more. Government restrictions have capped production, not supply. That's not "peak oil", it's government intrusion. Since oil is the lifeblood of the industrial age, a failure in the government restricted supply lines would bring our entire economy to a standstill. The resultant starvation and bloodshed would certainly reduce the world population. If man were wiped completely from the planet, the Earth's climate would continue its trend unaffected. The Sun determines Earth's temperature. Take the five minutes needed to review solar activity history versus known historic climate change. Might as well toss the US Constitution to close the nearest black hole...we'd have just as much effect.<br><b>References : </b><br> Funny…we’re finding more and more oil in the ground every day. We have the resources to tap them. We have the capacity to expand our refining facilities. Means we can produce more. Government restrictions have capped production, not supply. That’s not "peak oil", it’s government intrusion.

Since oil is the lifeblood of the industrial age, a failure in the government restricted supply lines would bring our entire economy to a standstill. The resultant starvation and bloodshed would certainly reduce the world population.

If man were wiped completely from the planet, the Earth’s climate would continue its trend unaffected. The Sun determines Earth’s temperature. Take the five minutes needed to review solar activity history versus known historic climate change. Might as well toss the US Constitution to close the nearest black hole…we’d have just as much effect.
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]]> Comment on Will Peak Oil reduce the population and save the planet from Global warming? by Bear http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming/comment-page-1#comment-4678 Bear Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:59 +0000 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming#comment-4678 No one can say exactly what will happen, but there are a few things that are for sure. One of those things is that for sure is that this planet cannot sustain the number of people currently living here. There will probably be a lot of starvation as well as a lot of suicide. Also, I don't know if it will save the planet from global warming. That sort of depends on how far we push the planet. Even if we stopped putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere right now and stopped cutting down trees, the planet would still continue to warm a significant amount for some time. Whether or not catastrophe could be avoided when oil runs out is uncertain.<br><b>References : </b><br> No one can say exactly what will happen, but there are a few things that are for sure. One of those things is that for sure is that this planet cannot sustain the number of people currently living here. There will probably be a lot of starvation as well as a lot of suicide. Also, I don’t know if it will save the planet from global warming. That sort of depends on how far we push the planet. Even if we stopped putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere right now and stopped cutting down trees, the planet would still continue to warm a significant amount for some time. Whether or not catastrophe could be avoided when oil runs out is uncertain.
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]]> Comment on Will Peak Oil reduce the population and save the planet from Global warming? by donfletcheryh http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming/comment-page-1#comment-4677 donfletcheryh Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:17:59 +0000 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming#comment-4677 Without oil, without coal, we may mostly need hands to do the work of producing food. Mankind is actually capable of going out into the fields and doing everything needed to feed ourselves. We may not be able to keep mighty cities running, and it may be necessary to redistribute population so that we can look after our crops without traveling long distances to do the work. But there still might be some starvation.<br><b>References : </b><br> Without oil, without coal, we may mostly need hands to do the work of producing food. Mankind is actually capable of going out into the fields and doing everything needed to feed ourselves. We may not be able to keep mighty cities running, and it may be necessary to redistribute population so that we can look after our crops without traveling long distances to do the work.

But there still might be some starvation.
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]]> Comment on Will Peak Oil reduce the population and save the planet from Global warming? by joe_republican http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming/comment-page-1#comment-4676 joe_republican Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:31:59 +0000 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming#comment-4676 We have survived without oil before. It will come down to the lazy will die and those who will work will live...simple as that<br><b>References : </b><br> We have survived without oil before. It will come down to the lazy will die and those who will work will live…simple as that
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]]> Comment on Will Peak Oil reduce the population and save the planet from Global warming? by crabby_blindguy3 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming/comment-page-1#comment-4675 crabby_blindguy3 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:05:59 +0000 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming#comment-4675 No. The whole "Peak Oil" business is a myth--we have plenty of oil (unfortunately). What will save us is something the various crackpots-from conspiracy theorists to "peak oil" chicken littles to the kooky "skeptics" do not understand--science and technology. Its really very simple--to any educated person. We simply phase out existing fossil fuel technology over a period of time and phase in alternative technology. Most of the necessary technology already exists and what we need in addition is achievable and welll into the developmental process. The problem with these people is they have absolutely no imagination. They simply can't seem to grasp the idea that something other than the cars and coal plants they grew up with is possible--much less that the alternatives can do the same work and provide the same benefits, only better. Pathetic, really. You have to wonder what went wrong as they grew up to so stunt their imagination.<br><b>References : </b><br> No. The whole "Peak Oil" business is a myth–we have plenty of oil (unfortunately).

What will save us is something the various crackpots-from conspiracy theorists to "peak oil" chicken littles to the kooky "skeptics" do not understand–science and technology.

Its really very simple–to any educated person. We simply phase out existing fossil fuel technology over a period of time and phase in alternative technology. Most of the necessary technology already exists and what we need in addition is achievable and welll into the developmental process.

The problem with these people is they have absolutely no imagination. They simply can’t seem to grasp the idea that something other than the cars and coal plants they grew up with is possible–much less that the alternatives can do the same work and provide the same benefits, only better.

Pathetic, really. You have to wonder what went wrong as they grew up to so stunt their imagination.
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]]> Comment on Will Peak Oil reduce the population and save the planet from Global warming? by pegminer http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming/comment-page-1#comment-4674 pegminer Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:34:59 +0000 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming#comment-4674 I agree that we will soon reach peak oil, if we haven't already. It will not necessarily save us for global warming unless we also soon reach peak coal, but if you believe David Rutledge, Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech, we will reach that rather quickly too. I don't agree that we have 4 years before social-economic collapse, or that the population will immediately decrease. As the price for fossil fuels rise alternatives will become more cost-effective and replace much of the shortfall. As Randall unintentionally points out, we reached peak whale oil a long time ago but that didn't result in any collapse of civilization.<br><b>References : </b><br> I agree that we will soon reach peak oil, if we haven’t already. It will not necessarily save us for global warming unless we also soon reach peak coal, but if you believe David Rutledge, Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech, we will reach that rather quickly too. I don’t agree that we have 4 years before social-economic collapse, or that the population will immediately decrease. As the price for fossil fuels rise alternatives will become more cost-effective and replace much of the shortfall. As Randall unintentionally points out, we reached peak whale oil a long time ago but that didn’t result in any collapse of civilization.
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]]> Comment on Will Peak Oil reduce the population and save the planet from Global warming? by karazyal http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming/comment-page-1#comment-4673 karazyal Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:49:59 +0000 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming#comment-4673 Nothing will prevent our Earth from Climate Change (Global Warming!) Global Warming is a normal cycle that the Earth goes through every now and then. There have been tens of thousands of Global Warmings in our past! This one is no different! With or without any human beings being on Earth - Global Warming will take place! Global Warming is going on on Mars right now and there are no Suv's or even Republicans there to cause it! Oil is expensive because of scarcity! More oil drilling off the coasts of the US, more drilling in Alaska will bring the price of oil down again and make our food and transportation cheaper!<br><b>References : </b><br> Nothing will prevent our Earth from Climate Change (Global Warming!) Global Warming is a normal cycle that the Earth goes through every now and then. There have been tens of thousands of Global Warmings in our past! This one is no different!

With or without any human beings being on Earth – Global Warming will take place! Global Warming is going on on Mars right now and there are no Suv’s or even Republicans there to cause it!

Oil is expensive because of scarcity! More oil drilling off the coasts of the US, more drilling in Alaska will bring the price of oil down again and make our food and transportation cheaper!
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]]> Comment on Will Peak Oil reduce the population and save the planet from Global warming? by Boatman1 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming/comment-page-1#comment-4672 Boatman1 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:08:59 +0000 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming#comment-4672 Better start building those Nuclear power plants right now------ say about 30 per year for 20 years.<br><b>References : </b><br> Better start building those Nuclear power plants right now—— say about 30 per year for 20 years.
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]]> Comment on Will Peak Oil reduce the population and save the planet from Global warming? by Randall E http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming/comment-page-1#comment-4671 Randall E Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:54:59 +0000 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming#comment-4671 No. I wonder, if you had lived in the early 1800s, would you have written newspaper articles about "peak whale oil?" http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/sgaudin/classes/econ231/readings/SimonsBet.pdf http://www.juliansimon.com/<br><b>References : </b><br> No.

I wonder, if you had lived in the early 1800s, would you have written newspaper articles about "peak whale oil?"

http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/sgaudin/classes/econ231/readings/SimonsBet.pdf

http://www.juliansimon.com/
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]]> Comment on Will Peak Oil reduce the population and save the planet from Global warming? by Tonya http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming/comment-page-1#comment-4670 Tonya Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:45:59 +0000 http://www.e-peakoil.com/total-oil-production/will-peak-oil-reduce-the-population-and-save-the-planet-from-global-warming#comment-4670 NO<br><b>References : </b><br> NO
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