5 Second Explanation of Peak Oil

I'm going to start a series of explanations of Peak Oil and they'll be different lengths. This is good so that you can adapt or choose your explanation for the time or attention span that your audience will give you.

Here's the first, and quickest, explanation:

Five second explanation of peak oil: Oil is finite and non-renewable. We use an increasing amount of oil every year.*

Anyone who doesn't agree with those two principles or cannot come to the conclusion that eventually we will pump, more or less, all the usable oil of the ground is probably a lost cause.


*(Non-renewable in the time spans were are dealing with.) (Oil crunches and recessions excepted for the increasing amount. It's still plainly obvious we use a lot and it goes up every year.)

Matthew Simmons' Twilight in the Desert

has been an interesting read so far, I"m gonna write an indepth review in the near future.

Bush Vows To Eliminate U.S. Dependence On Oil By 4920 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Bush Vows To Eliminate U.S. Dependence On Oil By 4920 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: "Bush Vows To Eliminate U.S. Dependence On Oil By 4920

August 10, 2005 | Issue 41•32

WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush unveiled an aggressive initiative Monday that would make the U.S. free of petroleum dependence by the year 4920, less than three millennia from now."

New oil shale technology from Shell: In-situ Conversion Process

We'll see if this pans out: Rocky Mountain News: Shell's ingenious approach to oil shale is pretty slick. If it does work out to be economical at $30/barrel and has an EROEI of about 3.5 then we might be ok after all. However, this columnist doesn't mention rates or scaling all that much. She says that it takes about eight months or so to go from normal ground to when the oil starts to come up and that it dried up, and pretty quickly too, about a year later.

I really hope they can get this to scale and produce at a fast enough rate as it does look a lot more promising than other oil shale recovery methods.

Also, here's some testimony that Terry O'Connor of Shell gave before Congress a few months ago regarding In-situ Conversion Process: Committee on Resources-Index

This has also been crossposted over to Nanothoughts: NanoThoughts 1.0: New oil shale technology from Shell: In-situ Conversion Process

Naomi Klein's favorite site?

www.logotypes.ru

I just know it is. If you've read No Logo, please leave a comment. Thanks.

Don't Blame OPEC; Higher Gas Prices Are Almost Entirely Bush's Fault :: ILCA Online :: Making Labor Media a Force to Be Reckoned With

Don't Blame OPEC; Higher Gas Prices Are Almost Entirely Bush's Fault :: ILCA Online :: Making Labor Media a Force to Be Reckoned With

CNN.com - Bush pushes his energy policy - Apr 16, 2005

CNN.com - Bush pushes his energy policy - Apr 16, 2005