Reply #19: Oh boy..

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You're entire schtick is pointless since it consists solely of nonsense about how "there is no solution." Are you trying to get people to kill themselves so they'll be more oil in which for you to bathe?

ACtually my schtick is that there is no viable alternative to oil on the scale needed to replace it!! And nobody here has offer such a resource or plan that would be the alternative to oil.. While there are many "substitutes" for oil, there are none that will match it for scalability..

http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

For the record this article from a scientific journal suggests that the potential for biofuels is between 150 and 450 EJ per year. Do you have in all this whining about the extremely dangerous fuel, oil, any sense about how many exajoules of oil is burned each year?

I guess you don't understand the difference between potential and actual.. Even your own article make the claim of the potential in 2050. Sorry to say but by the year 2050 there will be very little in the way of oil production compared to what we have now.. There are some that claim that worldwide production of existing well will decrease from 80 mbpd to 25 mbpd by the year 2020.. What profound effect would that have on agriculture not to mention our society as a whole..


their are many existing strategies that can act as wedges to prevent catastrophe.

Again with the 50 year from now!!

What if peak oil is occurring now??? then we don't have 50 years do we and that's where most people here are in denial.. SO here's a little quote I found that I thought would apply here...

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing what we already do. And now the astonishing and perturbing suspicion emerges that perhaps almost all that has passed for social science, political economy, politics, and ethics in the past may be brushed aside by future generations as mainly rationalizing.

- James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making