Towards Thunderdome
Estimates in 1980 said that we had enough oil in the world to last us for another 30 years or so... hmmm.... that is soon.
Luckily for us it was just recently shown that we have enough for another 40 years from now.
The first question I had is how were we off by so much.
The main reason for this was that they are now considering almost uneconomical methods of production as part of our grand total, mainly tar sands and oil shales.
Now, tar sands are nowhere near as difficult as oil shales to extract oil but they both have huge environmental problems and cost way more than the bubbling crude of old. The first oil that was extracted on Canadian soil was actually from an oil shale deposit. Funny that they went bankrupt and moved on to easier sources, also funny is that we are now looking back at these exact same spots as future development, and consider them part of our grand total of oil.
Now Canada has some of the largest deposits of tar sands, and has just announced that they are planning to increase production by at least fifty percent... great. You have to think that if every country out there is increasing production, it may not last us as long as we think. So... 40 years eh?
Hopefully the development of hybrid and fully electric cars can stretch this number a little further. I am happy to see some of these weird little cars roaming around the streets of London and the fact that they are actually becoming cheap enough to consider buying may just be the answer.
In the future I propose that we all start thinking about what we are using, or maybe we should just start a stockpile of gas in our backyard so when the prices go up or gas doesn't exist we will be able to drive ourselves to the corner store.
I have always loved the movie Mad Max, and am preparing for the day that i will have to put on my leather coat and race around the desert causing trouble. Now I just need for everyone to keep sucking up crude, find myself a dog (hmmm), buy a shotgun, and get an old 80's sportscar.
"Two men enter, one man leaves!"
Slater
Luckily for us it was just recently shown that we have enough for another 40 years from now.
The first question I had is how were we off by so much.
The main reason for this was that they are now considering almost uneconomical methods of production as part of our grand total, mainly tar sands and oil shales.
Now, tar sands are nowhere near as difficult as oil shales to extract oil but they both have huge environmental problems and cost way more than the bubbling crude of old. The first oil that was extracted on Canadian soil was actually from an oil shale deposit. Funny that they went bankrupt and moved on to easier sources, also funny is that we are now looking back at these exact same spots as future development, and consider them part of our grand total of oil.
Now Canada has some of the largest deposits of tar sands, and has just announced that they are planning to increase production by at least fifty percent... great. You have to think that if every country out there is increasing production, it may not last us as long as we think. So... 40 years eh?
Hopefully the development of hybrid and fully electric cars can stretch this number a little further. I am happy to see some of these weird little cars roaming around the streets of London and the fact that they are actually becoming cheap enough to consider buying may just be the answer.
In the future I propose that we all start thinking about what we are using, or maybe we should just start a stockpile of gas in our backyard so when the prices go up or gas doesn't exist we will be able to drive ourselves to the corner store.
I have always loved the movie Mad Max, and am preparing for the day that i will have to put on my leather coat and race around the desert causing trouble. Now I just need for everyone to keep sucking up crude, find myself a dog (hmmm), buy a shotgun, and get an old 80's sportscar.
"Two men enter, one man leaves!"
Slater
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