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Originally Posted by Missouri Mule
I see you didn't bother to refute the article. You don't really know if oil is finite or not.
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I see you haven't bothered to refute anything or acknowledge your errors in the last thread, choosing instead to run from that one and start a new one.
We've been through this exercise once already, and gained absolutely nothing, what sane person would do it again? It can be refuted, and rather easily, the CERA report is the absolute "best case scenario", and is full of holes and "creative" thinking.
I know it's finite, I also know that you are beyond my ability, and way beyond my patience threshold, to educate on the subject.
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We have vast resources of hog effluent that could be converted to diesel fuel for example and that doesn't even require drilling in the Arctic.
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Hog effluent? You're losing it MM.
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The only shortage existing is a little imagination and the will to throw off negative thinking. We'll have plenty of oil for centuries to come. The proved reserves keep rising every year. In a couple of centuries will probably have about 10 trillion barrels and they'll be giving it away just to be rid of it.
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I'm going to assume this is sarcasm, because otherwise it would have to be interpreted as sheer idiocy.
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Your bolded section is what I have been suggesting all along. We just have to stop telling ourselves that the sky is falling and get busy to do what is required. We already know that the United States has the largest reserves of coal in the entire world (about 52%) and it can be converted to other sources of energy. The sun has unlimited amounts of energy as is the hydrogen in the ocean's sea water. By the time that these other energy sources are exploited, oil will be a drug on the market and selling for $10 a barrel if they can find buyers. It'll be used mainly for plastics and other more appropriate uses rather than burning as fuel in our motor vehicles. Diesel fuel can be made of most anything including hog effluent. And I KNOW there is no shortage of that stuff.
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Ohhh to be young (or old) and naive.......
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