He can flap his lips as hard as he wants, dirt cheap fossil fuels are not stranded assets anywhere on the planet.
The Globe and Mail reports:
He can flap his lips as hard as he wants, dirt cheap fossil fuels are not stranded assets anywhere on the planet.
The Globe and Mail reports:
And the green doom, also the main factor of crisis.
(Sorry for the Spam there, i don’t detail everything in one comment.)
Just a minor update toward my comment above, the second link need a “=” at the end otherwise it may not work.
Also, I know that 80 years after 1938 forward is not 2008, but 2018, 2008 is sarcasm given the present crisis. Despite the crisis starting in 2008, it’s not because of oil, The problem is with the current mathematical theories, is that they do not respond to the real world of markets and human behavior. We see the end result of all this in the housing collapse of 2008 also because of that. When i say theories i mean talking about the Federal Reserve, Monetarism, Keynesianism, and possibly other ideologues i don’t remember right now. No amount of Reality will disabuse them.
Dirt, or any dirt, is a natural composition everywhere and loathed by those who lack formal education, like Al Gore who despise good energy.
Also, speaking about oil reserves, this scaremonger about oil shortage/reserve is on the radar around the corner since the 19th century.
• 1857 — Romania produces 2,000 barrels of oil, marking the beginning of the modern oil industry.
• 1859, Aug. 25 — Edwin L. Drake strikes oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania
• 1862 — First commercial oil production in Canada, also 1863 in Russia.
• 1862 — Most widely used lamp fuel (camphene) taxed in US at aprox. $1 a gallon; kerosene taxed at 10 cent per gallon.(Kovarik, 1997)
• 1863 — John D. Rockefeller starts the Excelsior Refinery in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1879 — US Geological Survey formed in part because of fear of oil shortages.
• 1882 — Institute of Mining Engineers estimates 95 million barrels of oil remain.With 25 million barrels per year output, “Some day the cheque will come back indorsed no funds, and we are approaching that day very fast,” Samuel Wrigley says. (Pratt, p. 124).
• 1901 — Spindletop gusher in Texas floods US oil market.
• 1906 — Fears of an oil shortage are confirmed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Representatives of the Detroit Board of Commerce attended hearings in Washington and told a Senate hearing that car manufacturers worried “not so much [about] cost as … supply.”
• 1919, Scientific American notes that the auto industry could no longer ignore the fact that only 20 years worth of U.S. oil was left. “The burden falls upon the engine. It must adapt itself to less volatile fuel, and it must be made to burn the fuel with less waste…. Automotive engineers must turn their thoughts away from questions of speed and weight… and comfort and endurance, to avert what … will turn out to be a calamity, seriously disorganizing an indispensable system of transportation.”
• 1920 — David White, chief geologist of USGS, estimates total oil remaining in the US at 6.7 billion barrels. “In making this estimate, which included both proved reserves and resources still remaining to be discovered, White conceded that it might well be in error by as much as 25 percent.” (Pratt, p. 125. Emphasis added).
• 1925 — US Commerce Dept. says that while U.S. oil production doubled between 1914 and 1921, it did not kept pace with fuel demand as the number of cars increased.
• 1928 — US analyst Ludwell Denny in his book “We Fight for Oil” noted the domestic oil shortage and says international diplomacy had failed to secure any reliable foreign sources of oil for the United States. Fear of oil shortages would become the most important factor in international relations, even so great as to force the U.S. into war with Great Britain to secure access to oil in the Persian Gulf region, Denny said.
• 1926 — Federal Oil Conservation Board estimates 4.5 billion barrels remain.
• 1930 — Some 25 million American cars are on the road, up from 3 million in 1918.
• 1932 — Federal Oil Conservation Board estimates 10 billion barrels of oil remain.
• 1944 — Petroleum Administrator for War estimates 20 billion barrels of oil remain.
• 1950 — American Petroleum Institute says world oil reserves are at 100 billion barrels. (See Jean Laherre, Forecast of oil and gas supply)
• 1956 — M.King Hubbert predicts peak in US oil production by 1970.
• 1966 – 1977 — 19 billion barrels added to US reserves, most of which was from fields discovered before 1966. (As M.A. Adelman notes: “These fields were no gift of nature. They were a growth of knowledge, paid for by heavy investment.”)
• 1973 — Oil price spike; supply restrictions due to Middle Eastern politics.
• 1978 — Petroleos de Venezuela announces estimated unconventional oil reserve figure for Orinoco heavy oil belt at between three and four trillion barrels. (More recent public estimates are in the one trillion range).
• 1979 — Oil price spike; supply restrictions due to Middle Eastern politics.
• 1980 — Remaining proven oil reserves put at 648 billion barrels
• 1993 — Remaining proven oil reserves put at 999 billion barrels
• 2000 — Remaining proven oil reserves put at 1016 billion barrels.
• 2005 — Oil price spike; supply restrictions and heavy new demand
• 2008 — Oil price spike; supply restrictions and heavy new demand, global economies collapse when oil reaches over $140 USD/bbl.
Oil reserves have declined from 95 million barrels in 1882, to well over a trillion barrels in 2011. No, it is not an error in numbers or statement, just a little sarcasm. You would be happy to access the page that is no longer available except in the Way Back Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120719090900/http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/oil/5oilreservehistory.html
Before 1970, the same story repeated in 28 May, 1938, saying 2008 would be the end of oil:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/94883407searchTerm=is%20the%20world%20drying%20up&searchLimits
If i am not mistaken we are in 2015.
Also Russia found giant deposit of oil:
http://environmentblog.ncpa.org/energy-giants-mull-over-a-huge-discovery-in-russia/
Still whaiting for the big Kaboom. Peak oil always deals with the known and current extraction. It cannot deal with what is not known. Now, how you percentage a constant variable? That is right, you can’t, and so is any resource we may be using and how much is left.
Just more of Gores CO2 exhalations being used for the political technique known as “jawboning”. Trying to make something a reality by talking at it.
Keep on gassin’ Mr. Gore, the only ones that are listening are the ones you are buying the kool-aid for.
Tinpot dictators and arab princes dependent on oil revenue aren’t going to put any stock in your drivel or the scams you keep promoting.