Jeffrey Turner wrote:
>
> Bill Bonde { ''Soylent Diesel is People'') wrote:
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> >
> > Scott Erb wrote:
> >
> >>On Jul 4, 4:18 pm, MACK DADDY <pepsivani...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Jul 4, 12:20 pm, Starkiller <NoSpam.SKS_SK...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>
> >>>He didn't say that the United States is sending oil all over the
> >>>world. What he said is that any oil drilled in the United States
> >>>becomes part of the general world supply of oil because the oil
> >>>companies are multinational, ie. there is no oil company strictly
> >>>operating as an American company. Try to at least pretend you have a
> >>>brain you wankitty conservative warmongering Republitard!
> >>
> >>The first post in this thread was fantasy. First, they are assuming
> >>that one can tap all oil anywhere and suddenly increase production to
> >>near peak levels for the US. Even if that could be done (it probably
> >>can't, and it would be very expensive to try), that would not even
> >>keep up with increases in world demand.
> >
> > Really? Because if it can't keep up, then the price is going to
> > continue to go up until it can. This is the market at work. Stand
> > back.
>
> There are physical limits. The market cannot do everything.
>
I don't claim that the market can do everything. I claim that the
market can allocate resources. Right now there is a huge incentive
for anyone who can to make energy, and for anyone who can to reduce
his use of energy. It isn't a coincidence that that's exactly what
is needed.
> >>At best it could buy us time
> >>to transition to a post-fossil fuel economy.
> >
> > If people were smart, they'd be as gung-ho for nuclear power as
> > people in North Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia are. But Americans
> > still don't get it.
>
> We'd have to build hundreds of nuclear reactors, and there isn't enough
> fuel for them. Nor all the coolant necessary. And no place to put the
> waste.
>
This has been explained to you over and over and over again. You
are wrong. There is plenty of fuel. Water is the coolant. And the
waste gets buried in a mountain. End of problem.
> >>Yet while people can
> >>hurl guesses about how much oil is offshore or on shore, they
> >>conveniently ignore that the cost of retrieving much of it is
> >>immense. Is it really better to throw that much money into sucking
> >>the last bits of oil out of our ground to keep prices from rising
> >>quite so fast (thus keeping demand from dropping quite so fast), only
> >>to find ourselves a few years later with no oil left, and no
> >>alternatives because we spent our money trying to get the last oil
> >>hits?
> >
> > Hello, what would you suggest?
>
> Major investments in insulation, energy efficiency and renewable
> energy sources.
>
Kook Alert.
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"It happens sometimes, people just explode, natural causes."
-+Alex Cox, "Repo Man"
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