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2008-01-02 Home Front Economy

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Posted by lotp 2008-01-02 15:44|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 AlGor the savior!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-01-02 16:04|| 2008-01-02 16:04|| Front Page Top

#2 I once read a Science Fiction story about a time in the future when most of the oil had been pumped out, changed the balance of the earth, and sent it wobbling into a different orbit thereby destroying all life on the planet..

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-01-02 16:20|| 2008-01-02 16:20|| Front Page Top

#3 it could happen, DB. That's why there's laws stopping everyone from rushing to the left side of the planet at one time. You could look it up...I think it's on Ron Paul's website

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-01-02 16:47|| 2008-01-02 16:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Hell, thisn piss poor. We can't have a good talk about peek oilz without 4 or 6 quality graphs. And since it's Rantburg the graphs should include wymens and turbin axis. Shipterian analysis reveals much, here and there, now and then. Please send money.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2008-01-02 17:31|| SendDoughToBR549]">[SendDoughToBR549] 2008-01-02 17:31|| Front Page Top

#5 I once read a Science Fiction story about a time in the future when most of the oil had been pumped out, changed the balance of the earth, and sent it wobbling into a different orbit thereby destroying all life on the planet..

Was it in Weekly Reader?

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-01-02 17:32|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2008-01-02 17:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Back in the 1950s, Marion King Hubbert, a US geoscientist, correctly forecast to within a few years when output in the USs lower 48 states would peak (it was 1970).

The real question is whether that peak was helped along by bans on oil exploration due to environmental concerns.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-01-02 17:44|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-01-02 17:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Oil output is not just a function of geology. Surface factors such as Opec have a huge impact. Indeed, geopolitics and environmental concerns provide enough reasons to curb dependence on oil for transportation. If the noise generated by the peak oil debate adds to the sense of urgency in addressing this, it will serve some useful purpose.

Of course, we're not supposed to talk about surface factors, we're just supposed to run around saying we're NOT supposed to do anything because it's all futile and not bother drilling more here, or doing anything else. In fact not do anything _but_ enrich OPEC some more.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-01-02 17:54|| 2008-01-02 17:54|| Front Page Top

#8 AS A COUNTRY, we've spent a lot of time, lead by the dhimmocrats, talking about how it's "the vicious oil companies" but not talking about the production restrictions ZF just mentioned above.

Canadian companies paying the zakat to the Chinese Communist and Cuban Communist aristocracies can drill off of Florida, why can't Americans?

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-01-02 17:59|| 2008-01-02 17:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Abiogenic Oil - The Deep, Hot Biosphere

Posted by KBK 2008-01-02 18:14|| 2008-01-02 18:14|| Front Page Top

#10 I once read a Science Fiction story about a time in the future when most of the oil had been pumped out, changed the balance of the earth, and sent it wobbling into a different orbit thereby destroying all life on the planet..

I heard the same thing about the moon rocks that the Apollo astronauts brought back to earth...that the the resulting change in the moon's weight and the earth's weight would throw our orbit out of whack. Hey, maybe that's howcome we got global warming and it isn't Bush's fault at all.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-01-02 18:35|| 2008-01-02 18:35|| Front Page Top