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Big BpG:
ok, before I tell you why... shall you read the following, remember, it's a theory about our 'energy' crisis, but it's quite interesting indeed. This is brain food. This will make you think. Even if this crisis is a boring topic, read it, I was quite impressed.

If you want a quick summary, I'll post one below. However, go to this site and read it... I mean it, read it all.

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

Summary
Well, it all deals with Oil... whether you believe it or not... we did not go to Iraq for Weapons Of Mass Destruction. We went to protect the oil reserves there. Why? Because our society and the whole world as a whole has become to dependent on this resource. If you don't know... Oil is not renewable (however there our theories that state it is) ... it doesn't grow from a tree, or live in some magic black sea... it's a resource created from Millions of tons of pressure under the earths crusts. It takes millions of years to achieve the amount of Oil that we had discovered in the early 20th century. The first Oil Drill was used in 1859. That's not even 150 years ago. However in the 20th century we discovered how potent oil was for our energy. Power Plants use oil, Cars, Boats, Planes, Motorcycles... all use oil. Plastic, which was a great creation... is created from oil... our society is TOO DEPENDENT on Oil... and guess what...

WE ARE RUNNING OUT... In fact, many theorists believe, that we only have a few years left.

FACT:
In the 1970's a bunch of geek/intelligent scientist got together to decide when we would run out of OIL... they said in the first decade of the next century. Well, it's 2005 now. We got five years left to see if it's true... and too many people, they believe it will be sooner.

FACT:
The U.S.A. populates 5% of the world total population

FACT:
We use 57% of the Oil's resources

Why is this a crisis?
Think about it... food comes from oil...it's shipped in trucks, boats and planes...with no oil, there is no transportation. Plastic is made from oil. It's cheap, it has become a great substitue for products we used to make out of metal.  Farmers use tractors and machinery that use oil... we need these abilities to keep up with our worlds demands... you can't expect a farmer to go out everyday and pull every corn stalk... not if you expect him to feed thousands of people. Maybe a town, but not a city, and definetly not a country....

What will happen?
The theory states that more than 4 billion people will die... our countries will have oil wars, in which we fight to conserve our final resource to stay prosperous... our cities will become concrete jungles with no life. Our civilization will have to backtrack to old colonial ways... and our kids will become scavengers of the goods we have years before... they will also revolt against us for not reserving our resources more wisely... most of us will starve to death as food won't be able to travel across states, countries and seas.

In other words... our tank is on empty...

Interesting...

read it though... the theory is called "peak oil" and our government is aware of it. They've been preparing for such drastic effects since 1977, when they announced that if it becomes necessary, use military forces to protect oil reserves... 28 years later...that's exactly what we're doing

Suga Foot:
as far as using oil for energy, fusion will take care of that in the future  ;)

TraceOneInfinite:
How ironic..... the so-called, 3rd world, underdeveloped, uncivilized, nomads will be the only people not in chaos.  You know it's funny because they always critisize Islam for not being able to keep up with modernization, but it may end up that the people who are not "modern" will make the transition smoothly.

Maybe Africa, and islands like Indonesia will be the superpowers future, because they can survive without oil.  Societies that have become dependant on oil will suffer the most.   

Matrix Heart:
There are alternative fuel sources...look em up.

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: K A I N on April 08, 2005, 12:50:36 AM ---There are alternative fuel sources...look em up.

--- End quote ---

"What About all the Various Alternatives

to Oil? Can't we Find Replacements?"





Many politicians and economists insist that there are alternatives to oil and that we can "invent our way out of this."



Physicists and geologists tell us an entirely different story.



The politicians and economists are selling us 30-year old economic and political fantasies, while the physicists and geologists are telling us scientific and mathematical truth. Rather than accept the high-tech myths proposed by the politicians and economists, its time for you to start asking critical questions about the so called "alternatives to oil" and facing some hard truths about energy.



While there are many technologically viable alternatives to oil, there are none (or combination thereof) that can supply us with anywhere near the amount of net-energy required by our modern monetary system and industrial infrastructure.



People tend to think of alternatives to oil as somehow independent from oil. In reality, the alternatives to oil are more accurately described as "derivatives of oil." It takes massive amounts of oil and other scarce resources to locate and mine the raw materials (silver, copper, platinum, uranium, etc.) necessary to build solar panels, windmills, and nuclear power plants. It takes more oil to construct these alternatives and even more oil to distribute them, maintain them, and adapt current infrastructure to run on them.



Each of the alternatives is besieged by numerous fundamental physical shortcomings that have, thus far, received little attention. For a detailed analysis of the various alternatives oil, go on to page two.

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