Take note of how clear the water is in this spearfishing video. It’s not very well known that oil rigs make great support systems for fish and other sea life. A man made artificial reef. Video from Divers.
Duration : 0:3:22
Offshore oil platforms are artificial reefs – Fish love it
Carnevale Films – PetroApocalypse Now? Film Trailer
Is the oil beginning to run out? Shot over 4 years in 13 countries this film uncovers the myths surrounding the future of world oil supplies. Filmmaker, Andrew Evans lifts the lid on the so called Peak Oil theory, whether oil production is about to fall. He travels to the Middle East to find out how much oil they really have, exposing evidence that they may be exaggerating by up to 50%.
Buy the DVD at www.petroapocalypsenow.com
Duration : 0:4:17
Biodiesel Production – NJN News Sciece & Technology Report
A new fuel producer located near downtown Newark is getting established due to higher crude oil prices and the pressure to develop alternative energy sources.
For more news and events in and around New Jersey, visit NJN’s website at http://www.njn.net
Duration : 0:2:17
The Cost of Oil: Voices from the Arctic (Trailer)
This film is an outline of the effects of offshore oil production in the Arctic Ocean just off the coast of northern Alaska. The native people have lived off the land for over 2000 years using the resources provided by the ocean. The plan for offshore oil development in this region has posed a huge threat to these people’s way of life. Not only will oil drilling have an impact on their subsistence lifestyle, but their cultural heritage may also be at risk.
The film is a compilation of interviews with the native peoples living on the North Slope of Alaska and expert geophysicists, biologists, oil production specialists, environmentalists, linguists and ethnologists. These interviews have been added to footage taken from the arctic tundra of Alaska resulting in a powerful piece that shows some of the imminent danger that the world may face in drilling for oil in the dangerous Arctic Ocean.
Stone Soup Productions © 2008
Duration : 0:6:47
Commodities Forecasting for 2010…. Gold, Oil and ……. Lumber????
In this video I am comparing Gold Oil and Lumber against each other, thereby eliminating the USD for the “Value Assignment” of these Commodities. We still have to buy and sell these in USD, but it is important to have a forecast of how they might move relative to each other. By charting some “Expectations”, one has a map to navigate through the “trading and investing” landscape.
I beginning with a “Big Picture” view loosely illustrating how these commodities are inter-connected. Finally, we should understand these interconnections to “Blue Resource Marble in Space”.
It’s resilent, but fragile for human habitation….as we grow to 7, 8 and even 12 BILLION people yearning to reach higher levels of wealth, we could easily find ourselves “outstripping resources” that are either FINITE in Total Quantity or limited from a daily production rate perspective.
Duration : 0:9:26
Limit oil production and consumption
Akhtar Chaudhry, Norwegian MP, about climate and the need for rich nations and people to limit their consumption
Duration : 0:1:24
How Peak Oil Could Affect You
ANCHOR:
A number of respected petroleum geologists believe the peak of world oil supplies may be closer than you think, with in the next ten years. For each barrel of oil discover the world is consuming four. But on a brighter note, as our reporter Charlotte Cuthbertson discovers, there are initiatives set up that can help you and your family to make a smoother transition.
STORY:
Rising demand for oil has always been met by increased supply. But when global oil production reaches its peak in the not to distant future there will be shortages, much higher prices and increased international tension. So what does the peak oil crisis mean for you?
Now, you don’t have to trade your brand new Range Rover for a horse and cart just yet, but you can at least start warming up to the idea, as obvious things like transport, health care services and most importantly food production which rely heavily on oil, will all be affected.
There are also initiatives set up like Transition Towns which aim to guide communities into creating more low energy lifestyles.
[Juanita McKenzie, Transition Towns Volunteer]:
“I love the idea of building the resilience of community, we need some answers and peoples movements are the most powerful.”
About 300 towns around the world are actively working with the Transition town’s model.
But will there be enough time to build a sustainable infrastructure to carry us through this looming oil crisis?
[Samuel National Support for Transition Towns Movement New Zealand]:
“We have set a target of planting 20,000 fruit tree’s with in the next 10 years. We have identified a piece of public land. There will be 35 species of trees planted in that one area. That will help us to build resilience, rather than panic when the big trucks don’t arrive to fill us the Woolworths supermarket.”
There are some individuals out there who will not wait until the oil runs out and are instead taking steps to ensure their families will be well fed.
[Grange Gordon, Semi Self Sufficient Land Owner]:
“Great education for the kids, it’s a good footing for them to see what they can do. It’s good for them to see us their parents getting in there and digging in. It’s a family thing, it’s a collective thing. It’s about recycling it’s about not going to the supermarket, the plastic world. And fresh is best. Fresh is the ultimate. And anyone who eats home grown knows that the flavor is the way it’s supposed to be.”
So start growing your veggies, insulate your homes, get on your bikes, and we’ll race you to a more sustainable future. This is Charlotte Cuthbertson, NTD, Wellington, New Zealand.
Duration : 0:1:52
Offshore drilling is not the answer to high gas prices
There have been a lot of discussions about the high gas prices in USA the past months and what exactly should be done to curb this trend. Some politicians, like McCain, Bush, and Gingrich, are taking advantage of the situation and tries to push for the ending of a 27-year moratorium on offshore drilling along the coastlines of USA.
But offshore drilling is not a “quick fix” and it won’t help to lower the gas prices. The only ones that will profit from this are Bush and McCain’s friends in the oil industry. While people are suffering from the high gas prices the oil companies are reporting record profits after record profits.
“The United States burns 24 percent of the world’s oil, yet we only have 3 percent of the world’s oil reserves. Even if we drilled every drop of oil the U.S. has on shore or off its coasts, we will never be able to drill our way to lower oil prices or energy security. We simply burn more than we could ever drill.”
“Offshore oil drilling is not a short-term fix. It would take at least a decade to bring new leases into production. And, it will be years before exploration could begin and years after that before production would start. If any effect were to be felt on gas prices (most likely only a few pennies per gallon), that effect is decades away.”
“Offering up more of our coastline for drilling won’t lower gas prices. Since President Bush took office in 2000, the number of wells in federally leased areas has increased exponentially, yet gas prices have doubled during that same time. Yet, this type of evidence is never mentioned in the media or by proponents for offshore drilling.”
“Another reason that drilling for more oil in the U.S. won’t result in lower gas prices is because oil prices are set on the global oil market. What this means is that all oil produced around the world is sold all at the same price. There is no guarantee that we would even be using the oil that was drilled here in the U.S. And, we certainly wouldn’t get a discount just because we drilled for it on U.S. soil. We would pay the same rate as the rest of the world.”
[Source: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/offshore-drilling-it-s-not-t ]
The only things that will lower the fuel prices, create more jobs, solve the climate crisis and fix this fragile economy is to invest in clean renewable energy sources, setting strict mpg standards for all automobiles and transform our current society to a sustainable one.
Going green will fix many problems, one of them are high gas prices.
Duration : 0:2:24
Peak Oil
Have you noticed, more cars, more trucks, more road building? Peak Oil deals with the recent world-wide speculation that global oil production has reached its peak and may now be in serious decline. ‘Peak Oil’ is a short atmospheric documentary film by Larry Larstead and shot in the Northern-Rivers region of NSW, Australia, and tackles the big question: What happens when the oil starts running out?
Duration : 0:3:56
World Oil Consumption
Video of World Oil Consumption by Country represented as foot height per barrel per day according to CIA Factbook. Rendered in Google Earth
Duration : 0:2:3