Life After The Oil Crash

[JoeyDVDZ]

Well, I heard of this site a few years ago, and like everyone else spending $0.99 per gallon for gas, laughed it off. I'm not laughing anymore. I think EVERY AMERICAN needs to be familliar with this shit, because I firmly believe that the end is coming to our way of life, sooner rather than later. Not just within our lifetimes, but within the next decade at absolute most! Just sayin, is all....http://www.wackbag.com/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif


http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

[fothermucker]

i have to admit its a pretty interesting site. i have no idea what percentage is straight propaganda, founded in truth, or fearmongering. it occured to me a lot of it jived with what John Titor said too, meaning he really was a time traveler (lol) or he took a lot of his "predictions" from this philosophy.

well for our sake, i hope titor and that site is wrong. not wrong about running out of oil, but wrong that we're too far gone to work towards a scientific solution and the only solution is war and a complete upheaval of first world society.

[Syd]

A lot of the oil crash / peak oil crowd is formerly the nuclear holocaust crowd; they're mainly end-times enthusiasts. I mean, I guess we'll see, Katrina was a worst case scenario for America but everything seems to be going smoothly. I guess, that is, if you ignore the roaming **** gangs.

[fothermucker]

A lot of the oil crash / peak oil crowd is formerly the nuclear holocaust crowd; they're mainly end-times enthusiasts. I mean, I guess we'll see, Katrina was a worst case scenario for America but everything seems to be going smoothly. I guess, that is, if you ignore the roaming **** gangs.
i agree, mainly because under "What can we do" one of the listed items is "pray". that whole website read like someone who had a hardon for the destruction of post-industrial society.

[Screwtape]

as long as i can get battlefield 2 to run-off a generator, im happy. http://www.wackbag.com/images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif

[JoeyDVDZ]

Well, the nuclear holocaust crowd was actually pretty right.... humanity just woke up before it came to pass. This one however is entirely different, for a very simple reason. Fossil fuels are a non-renewable resource, and we're burning through it at ever-increasing rates. The population is growing at an exponential rate, and there are fewer and fewer sites being found every day for oil rigs to tap. There weren't an unlimited number of dinosaurs and vegetation available back in the day to convert into oil, after all!

I give it one generation for the population to out-grow our ability to pull enough oil to service them all.

[JoeyDVDZ]

as long as i can get battlefield 2 to run-off a generator, im happy. http://www.wackbag.com/images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif

I wonder where your genny is gonna get the fuel to run? And if you do get the fuel, what about the energy that is going to power the electrical generation systems that connect your bf2 to the rest of the world?

[invisible76]

Fossil fuels are a non-renewable resource, and we're burning through it at ever-increasing rates. The population is growing at an exponential rate, and there are fewer and fewer sites being found every day for oil rigs to tap. There weren't an unlimited number of dinosaurs and vegetation available back in the day to convert into oil, after all!


That's why we should be investing more money into R&D of renewable resources i.e. solar, wind, water, biofuels, etc.

And WOW! Seems like there's a big hole in this thread from 6:30 until now.... :idontknow :icon_mrgr

[JoeyDVDZ]

Biofuels and hydrogen, with some solar as a backup source, could help us along.... I agree completely, we all, as an entire world, need to pull together and put some serious R&D into those sources. But I think we may already be too late to forstall the worst of it. Just one mans opinion, but there it is.

And you're right, big hole in the thread! (I woke up late today. http://www.wackbag.com/images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)

[dredpiratrobert]

Why can't we just run the world on jizz? Isn't that what you mean by a biofuel?

[JoeyDVDZ]

I suppose one could synthesize biofuel from jizz, but who would want to provide all that fuel?

Ground up corpses, on the other hand....

[SOS]

If we drilled in locations that econuts don't want us to drill and build more refineries....

[fothermucker]

long term that isnt going to do anything but put off the problem. honestly, if we just ground SUVs up into scrap and got hybrid cars or cars with good gas mileage, we as Americans would drastically cut down on our exorbinant oil usage. it may not solve the problem, but its the first step towards a solution and the first step towards a foreign policy free of oil's control

[JoeyDVDZ]

Actually, spaz, a big part of the problem is that a lot of the oil that is down there is in inaccessible places, from what I've read.

[Screwtape]

I wonder where your genny is gonna get the fuel to run? And if you do get the fuel, what about the energy that is going to power the electrical generation systems that connect your bf2 to the rest of the world?

i was being facetious.

[JoeyDVDZ]

i was being facetious.

I know, and I was just being an ass.... http://www.wackbag.com/images/smilies/action-smiley-069.gif

Love ya, sweetie!

[Screwtape]

I know, and I was just being an ass.... :action-sm

Love ya, sweetie!

hey! i tussle you, you tussle me...


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[BCH]

Why can't we just run the world on jizz? Isn't that what you mean by a biofuel?

It's hard to get the sperm to run on those little wheels.

[Deathstroker]

My wife is a microbiologist working in a lab trying to make the production of corn ethenal cheaper. Renewable resources are closer than we all know. This has been a problem that has been forseen for MANY years. I have no fear that in the next 10 years we are going to see a transition from an oil based economy to some other form<s>. What thoes might be? Who knows, nuclear, solar, hydrogen, biofuel? Depends who makes their process the most economical. But rest assured, it will happen.

The article is correct. Life as we know it is comming to an end. We are on the verge of severing ourselves from the savages in the middle east. And I for one, cant freaking wait.

[tar_baby]

there is plenty of oil...as stated above if we were allowed to drill there we'd be fine

[Screwtape]

create a petition to drill in alaska. and if that doesnt work, maim all the eco-lovers you see. take out all the 'handi-capables' as well. the world will be better i one year, i guarantee.