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It’s a race to failure between rogue states and global oil output : Comments

By Matthew Wild, published 30/7/2010

Oil reserves are now low enough that domestic turmoil at any of the major oil producers will have unfortunate results.

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How do we get people off this public transport myth?

Every public transport system, in the world, transporting bulk people uses more fuel per passenger mile than private cars, & much more than modern turbo diesel passenger cars.

Yes, we have the ideal country to produce bio-diesel from algae, grown in ponds, on a massive scale. However it would have to be at a massive scale to compete with shale oil.

No one has mentioned the obvious medium term option of changing over to gas. We have massive reserves, which we could use. This gas must not be wasted in power houses, just to pacify a few greenies, it's too valuable for that.

What we must do is stop this rubbish of trying to stop using coal. Steaming coal is very clean these days, & does produce all that nice fertilizer called CO2. The ash, which can be a problem is a great building material, & we must get our act together to use it. If we could just stop the AGW rubbish, we might get somewhere.

You can keep those rotten bikes, but personally, I'd love to go back to horses, but I expect to be long dead before the traffic situation would make horses safe again.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 30 July 2010 9:49:33 PM
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Getting a whiff of Has Been’s preference for horses for courses:
Replacing the horsepower generated by present Australian oil-burners would take quite a bit of hay – somewhat more than could be grown annually. We would need to stock up in advance of any shift to the nags. In other words, similar to oil.

In the case of oil, the readily available stocks - those we have used up over the past century - were accumulated over some hundreds of millions of years.

As Bjorn Lomborg says, when one resource diminishes others will become more economically viable - and eventually replace them. Quite so – we need a bit of lead time to stock up, so get started: invest in horse-feed now, and reap the rewards a few thousand millennia down the track.

As more rational thinkers say – ease off the growth pedal and learn to live within the environmental limits which constrain human persistence on the planet. That demands a much more modest, less arrogant, attitude from our currently excessive numbers.
Posted by colinsett, Saturday, 31 July 2010 11:04:48 AM
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Arjay wrote:

"...Russia has the technology to reach really deep oil.Abiotic oil ..that are enormous in reserve potential.This is what the Gulf disaster was all about.

"Peak oil could well be a lie,to keep prices high at the bowser and line the pockets of a few."

The official line is that there is not much abiotic oil about. See for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin

You and I, of course, know better Arjay. The Zionists in cahoots with the cyclists have bought up all the most promising abiotic oil fields. We're going to horde the abiotic oil until the other stuff runs out and then make a killing.

Oh, and we're being financed by Goldman Sachs. Lehman Brothers wouldn't play ball which is why they had to go.

Soon the Zionist / Cyclist Alliance will control the world.

BTW Don't believe all the stuff you read about Obama and Israel. That's just for show. He's in on the deal really.
Posted by stevenlmeyer, Saturday, 31 July 2010 11:37:32 AM
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BTW for those of you who like a really man sized CONSPIRACY THEORY here's one.

WHO DONE KEVIN IN?

--Was it the mining industry?

--Was it the coal lobby?

--Was it disgruntled greens?

--Was it the CIA?

--Or was it the Zionists?

Gideon Polya vacillates between these possibilities but ultimately, and predictably, plumps for the Zionists.

See:

Pro-Zionist-led Coup ousts Australian PM Rudd

http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/3488-pro-zionist-led-coup.html
Posted by stevenlmeyer, Saturday, 31 July 2010 11:42:08 AM
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stevenlmeyer,I must be getting up your darmuses nostril.I don't pretend to know or predict all, but Jennifer Marohasy and others have mentioned the existence of supper deep oil created by the earth's chemistry called abiotic oil.Not much is known about it but Russia seems to be doing well.Wikipedia is not the font of all knowledege nor are you.The technology is new and as shown by the Gulf disaster,
has not been fully developed.

What have the Zionists got to do with this topic? We know that they are trying to use the USA to take Iran's oil.
Posted by Arjay, Saturday, 31 July 2010 2:39:02 PM
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I admit not having any respect or confidence in the earlier decisions of George Bush and consquently, John Howard and Tony Blair and the reasons come from an interview on 60 minutes about 5 or 6 years ago :- According to documents provided by former US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, George W. Bush, ten days after taking office in January 2001, instructed his aides to look for a way to overthrow the Iraqi regime. A secret memo entitled "Plan for post-Saddam Iraq" was discussed in January and February 2001, and a Pentagon document dated March 5, 2001, and entitled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield contracts", included a map of potential areas for petroleum exploration.[84]The US congress supplied weapons to Afghan forces to take over the Middle East oilfields, and this was the precedence to the attack on the Twin Trade Towers and the White house.
Posted by merv09, Sunday, 1 August 2010 7:12:21 PM
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