We might never use up all the oil in the planet, but we will use up all the cheaply accessible oil, and possibly all the accessible oil. So as a cost-effective and viable energy source, it will run out.

I remember seeing arthur c clarke, saying moving to free energy devices, could be as bad as using oil, for the planet. He seemed all for us to use oil, in that statement i saw.

Oil is not a fossil fuel, it is made by the planet, and they know it will not run out.

You've all missed it,, we are more likely to kill ourselves and everyone else fighting over it before we ev3r get around to exhausting its supply.

Originally posted by jbmitch
You've all missed it,, we are more likely to kill ourselves and everyone else fighting over it before we ev3r get around to exhausting its supply.

I agree 100% WE may not exhaust it but WE wil die trying.

I think the problem lies in the refining of the oil, more than the amounts of underground oil. The refining process has taken on the increased demand without upgrading it's production capabilities. Every year here in the US, we lose another refinery to fire and mechanical problems and it seems they just shut that section down and raise the prices. We haven't built a new refinery in America for 20+ years and the existing ones are in horrible, horrible condition.
Sure, we have unlimited stores of oil to use forever, but, the refinery process is what makes it available to us in usable form. Without the refineries, the oil prices only go up.

My $.02
Cuhail

Yet another angle,,, and worth well over 2 cents!

Awesome thread, and important topic.

Thanks for posting that video WorldShadow, Granada conference videos are always excellent.

I don't doubt that oil is finite... we can deplete any resource if we put our minds to it and populate enough. But the point is, we are not in control of the resource to begin with. It will always be in short supply even if there is an infinite availibility.

Free energy is the biggest secret in the oil business. Makes the whole issue of oil supply meaningless.

wot a silly statement


of course it wont we will replace it soon enuff with other sourses of energie, and for the benafit of the world, the money we are pumping into warpped extreamist religions/states for this dirty poluting oil is unreal, lets hope the powers that be realease this free energie technology soon

With cheaper mining technics(by cheap I mean in the billions of dollars), and better technology to mine father into the earth we will eventually be able to tap those "unexcessible" reserves. I believe I was watching something on discovery science that talked about a new high power drill that can go down twice as far as the old drills; anyone have a link to that it would be appreciated. The fact of the matter is that we will be able to tap into thosre reserves as well, so thats not a problem either.

I was under the impression that this is a Finite Universe, not to mention, finite Planet. We'll run out, of course. Who knows when. Free Energy is still the way to go. Let's use oil for Sexy Parties.

Today I learned.

The reason I'm commenting on your gramatical errors is because I can't understand a word your saying. Your post above this one is so bad I read only first paragraph and laughed. Do they have schools in Britain? I'm not even going to humor a post of such subtle intellect, you've stated no facts only opinions and broken english to go with it.

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Lokey is Just being a Troll. I can understand you perfectly because intelligence is trandcendent. You're not speaking in another language so you're fine. Shame on you Lokey, either you're out of ideas or just tired of the subject, I suppose.

Kokasion you didn't post a credible piece either, what exactly are the two of you doing posting at all? He doesn't post a single fact and I've run out of things to talk about? I've linked to many different articles; actually linked up to another article this morning. If you can understand him and like his "slang" then maybe the two of you love birds should get a private chat going cause neither of you are contributing to this thread.

I proposed that we live in a Finite Universe, a counter-arguement to your notion that we will NEVER run out of oil. Finite Universe, Finite Planet, Finite Resources. I actually just watched an Old Free Energy and Anti-Gravity Propulsion Convention Documentation with Tom Valone, I felt confident.

But, you certainly proved to me in your last post that the Earth is full of infinite resources and Carbon Based Oil is far more efficient than Perpetual Pendulum Propultion(Oh no! I spelled it wrong, now he wont understand my Insubstantial reference to working Free Energy.), or Hutchinson's unorthodox Anti-Gravity experiements. Never again should we attempt to create a cheap energy source that works a 100% efficiency that doesn't polute. [/sarcasm]

Edit: Really really bad Typo.

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