Are we running out of fossil fuels? - peak oil theory

[BB_TX]

Go to google, type in "how is oil formed", and prepare for a lot of reading material.

 

[MossRoad]

I once stood in the heart of a middle eastern desert, I look down an see a "clam shell". I alert my buddy that we aren't alone. He thinks I have heatstroke.

Low and behold, we were standing at the edge of a coral reef.

Unreal, vivid, and makes me think to this day.

-Mike Z.

Out on our property, if you dig down 4-5 feet in the muck, you hit a layer of seashells.... I live in Indiana!

When I was a kid we travelled to Cincinatti each year and would stop along the new highway road cuts and pick out sea fossils while eating lunch.

Ever been to Falls of the Ohio SP in Indiana across the river from Louisville, KY? (sp?) There are huge slabs of rock loaded with sea fossils.

 

[SkyPup]

Yeah, and those all those gazollions of tonnes of sea shells originated in the ocean where Africa now sits too, which is where North America was at that time....

 

[riptides]

I heard somewhere about 3-4 months ago that oil companies are going back and looking at old, abandoned oil fields that went dry 30-40 years ago and lo and behold... there's oil in them again. They are trying to determine where it is coming from, but some are looking into the possibility that volcanic action deep under these oil fields is somehow producing new oil. It was a complete contradiction of the theory that oil only comes from dead dinos, plants, etc... that we have embraced for all these years. Interesting theory. I wish I could find that on-line somewhere.

I seem to recall books in my youth with dinos being "trapped" in tar pits.
Now, tar, to me is an oil based product?

So.... they went swimming with their ancestors?

Hmmmmm......

-Mike Z.

 

[MossRoad]

Maybe when they say "dino" they mean prehistoric debris and not necessarily actual dinosaurs.

 

[mudcat]

I am in the "we will never run out" boat.

 

[N80]

I feel sure we'll run out and it will force us to do what we've needed to do for a long time. I'm not saying there won't be any oil left in the earth, it will just be too hard and too expensive to get to be worth burning it in cars.

As was said before, we'll adapt. Times might get tough for a while. As a nation of obese, weak willed, weak principled, and physically weak people, a few years of hard times might be good for us.

 

[BobRip]

The history of energy is a history of change. People used to heat with wood. That ran out and they switched to coal. Then oil, natural gas, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, antimatter, vacuum energy (oh, better not talk about that yet). We adapt because we run out or we find something better. We will continue to adapt unless we give up.

 

[Podunkadunk]

The history of energy is a history of change. People used to heat with wood. That ran out and they switched to coal. Then oil, natural gas, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, antimatter, vacuum energy (oh, better not talk about that yet). We adapt because we run out or we find something better. We will continue to adapt unless we give up.

Well said BobRip, well said.

 

[thingy]

We don't know,,we will never know,this life/world is just to complicated for us.These scentists,think they know,,they don't,,,missing link stuff,,we came from monkeys,bull.Global warming,,yeah,,but don't forget about global cooling,,plants like what we exhale,right?,,,,,no man,is much smarter than you,think about it!! For some reason,we think some of us are just so much smarter than us average people,and they will figure this stuff out,,another bull!
Will tell you this,if you believe in a higher being,,[god],,it takes alot of the worry out for you,,,,,we are just pissants crawling around here,,,if somebody don't believe that,,make the sun not come up tommorow,,make it not get dark tommorow night,,make spring come faster,,make the moon quit shining on us,,,tell us when the next big earthquake will hit,,,tell us how many hurricans we will have hit the us this year,,tell us where aids came from and how to stop it,,what causes cancer,,,and lastly,,can we safely eat eggs,,,,thingy