Global Warming/Climate Change Question?

Question

I saw this site while browsing through Fortune magazine, and the writer brings up a lot of good points. Can you guys read it and tell me if there are any flaws with his general argument? (please no one line opinions, mostly facts please)

www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net---althoug... it may have an unconventional site name, please read it. it is well thought out and is the second result if you google 'oil'

Answer 1

There is no shortage of oil, just refinery capacity. In the USA the last refinery was built 20 years ago

There are huge fields in Mexico, Alaska, NW Australia and in parts of the USA. Professor Gold found that oil is geological not biological and depleted oil fields are refilling.

As for Peak Oil, it is a fairy tale touted by the oil companies.

Google “The Energy Non-Crisis” by Lindsay Williams. Read the story: http://www.reformation.org/energy-non-cr... or watch the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbakN7SLd...

and learn how we are being deceived.

Answer 2

I've heard this before and like most alarmists, the idea comes form professional researchers, but they aren't able to prove their assertions and they don't seem to be getting their information from anywhere.  

These people are like climate change alarmists in that regard.

In an ideal world, the different types of alarmists would cancel each other out with global cooling alarmists and peak oil alarmists cancelling out the global warming alarmists, but unfortunatley all the global cooling alarmists changed sides and peak oil was popular from the 1920's to the 1970's hasn't been getting much media attention since the oil glut of the1980's.

Answer 3

Peak Oil is a valid theory, however the claim that 2005 was the peak of oil production is unsubstantiated.  Many suspect that the Ghawar oil field (worlds largest in Saudi Arabia) is past peak oil, but the Saudi's do not release production information specific to Ghawar.  It is merely speculation.  Iran may have past peak oil as well, but again we do not know for sure.  Mexico's oil production has likely peaked, but this is a political issue, not a peak oil issue.  Mexico has one national oil company Pemex.  It is against Mexican law for companies outside of Mexico to be involved in its oil program.  Mexico simply does not have the technology to continue production at the rates it has in the past, and it cannot hire companies like Schlumberger or Haliburton to help out.  There are major oil fields out there.  Brazil just found a 33 billion barrel deposit.  The eastern seaboard of the US likely has vast oil reserves, the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska has over 7 billion barrels of oil if we ever decide to drill there.

There is some validity to the article, we will obviously run out of oil at some point, and there will be a time when peak oil production is reached, but the actual time is just speculation.

Answer 4

Sorry to disappointe you--but this is garbage.

We are NOT "running out of oil."  We have to stop using oil, yes.  But this myth that we are about to run out of oil is simply wrong.

If you are talking about "pool oil"--the kind we currently use--then maybe. But that is the smallest part ot the petroleum on Earth.  the resereves of oil sand and shale oil are far greater.  Those types o foil are onlynow beginning to be tapped because it's more difficult, hence expensive.  But run out--BS.

It does not matter, though. We either cut out using coal and oil--or our civilization won't last long enough to run out of pool oil, much less the rest of it. Global warming/climate change will take care of that.

Answer 5

while it is true that it is well thought out, the first flaw that I saw was it was based on d**k Cheney's  estimates in 1999, when he was running for the vice presidency, and if true, it's effect would be more on the economy that on Global Warming.

and according to the graph, we are in the decline of production now.

whether this is true or not, the price of fossil fuel has made  a dramatic rise.

of course, less oil, would mean less emissions to affect the environment.

But on the up side, could less oil available, could if mean less fuel for the wa machines?