Oil Storm

[nrthface234]

Anyone see the special this evening on FX called Oil Storm? I found it to be a very interesting program with realistic information about our nation ( as with the rest of the worlds) dependency on Oil and what would happen if some disaster were to take away that luxury.

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Chaos...

[Blizzard7763]

Obviously, this link is online liberal propaganda. However, I think it is a good read just for the sake of evoking some thinking on the subject.

www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

[Will]

Here's a link to a discussion of the movie by some peak-oil pessimists (they think peal oil is coming, and soon). Though they didn't like the movie much, mostly because they thought it was a bad movie, it still is interesting to see what they have to say.

http://theoildrum.blogspot.com/2005/...-bad-news.html

[splat]

Obviously, this link is online liberal propaganda. However, I think it is a good read just for the sake of evoking some thinking on the subject.

www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

In practical and considerably oversimplified terms, this means that if 2000 was the year of global Peak Oil, worldwide oil production in the year 2020 will be the same as it was in 1980. However, the world’s population in 2020 will be both much larger (approximately twice) and much more industrialized (oil-dependent) than it was in 1980. Consequently, worldwide demand for oil will outpace worldwide production of oil by a significant margin. As a result, the price will skyrocket, oil-dependant economies will crumble, and resource wars will explode.

If The Iraq war isn't a resource war, wtf kind of a war is it?????????
Removing an evil dictator?
If that's the case, would someone please come and get Bush?

Also, don't write that off as leftist propaganda. When I was in the energy business, I heard a Pentagon energy specialist say the same thing. Only difference is that he was under Clinton. Bush undoubtedly put a muzzle on that kind of discussion. It wouldn't be democratic to talk truth.

Edit: One thing in that piece which would be affected by a potential oil crisis that I don't think too many people consider:

In the US, the average piece of food is transported almost 1,500 miles before it gets to your plate. In Canada, the average piece of food is transported 5,000 miles from where it is produced to where it is consumed.

Transoceanic shipments of food and WalMart clothing would virtually cease and communities would be forced to grow their own food with dramatically lessened oil supplies. We'd be like junkies in withdrawal. Petrol pirates would flourish.
Archer Daniels Midland could be the Halliburton of the future.