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I just saw a movie about "Peak Oil". Briefly, it examines what and when oil production will be at it's maximum - a point that will never be reached again.
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It was not pretty.
The worst part, and it leaves the idea open but clear, is that we are already (probably) at peak oil. The evidence, politics aside, comes from the mouths and actions of oil men themselves - people that are extremely conservative in the first place.
It also points to the oil rich middle eastern countries who have been busy for a decade rebuilding their economies around financial services, and away from oil.
I'd always been "well there are scientists and inventors so they'll figure something out" . There apparently aren't solutions that are yet capable of filling in the transport gaps that are coming. The US is going to have it bad because of a miserable (because it wasn't necessary) transportation and decentralized system of distribution. Europe looks to be better off because of a relatively strong public transport system, rail logistics and centralized populations. (I'm not casting any stones.)
Computers and their manufacture are almost worse than a car for energy consumption...
I'm not political, I mean in a party system of government, and I quite honestly despise political talk - almost as much as "market" talk. But this topic has me thinking and, frankly, has me a bit on edge. This is coming and it is going to happen in our life times - as if the continual, record price of a barrel of oil hasn't already shown the future.
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It was not pretty.
The worst part, and it leaves the idea open but clear, is that we are already (probably) at peak oil. The evidence, politics aside, comes from the mouths and actions of oil men themselves - people that are extremely conservative in the first place.
It also points to the oil rich middle eastern countries who have been busy for a decade rebuilding their economies around financial services, and away from oil.
I'd always been "well there are scientists and inventors so they'll figure something out" . There apparently aren't solutions that are yet capable of filling in the transport gaps that are coming. The US is going to have it bad because of a miserable (because it wasn't necessary) transportation and decentralized system of distribution. Europe looks to be better off because of a relatively strong public transport system, rail logistics and centralized populations. (I'm not casting any stones.)
Computers and their manufacture are almost worse than a car for energy consumption...
I'm not political, I mean in a party system of government, and I quite honestly despise political talk - almost as much as "market" talk. But this topic has me thinking and, frankly, has me a bit on edge. This is coming and it is going to happen in our life times - as if the continual, record price of a barrel of oil hasn't already shown the future.
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