Homestead mailing list

[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> Consider the influence of a consortium of OPEC, Russia, Argentina and  
> other producers.

Obviously that would do it, for a short while.  But it's as with the 
suggestion of super-advanced extraction methods, all that does is get the oil 
out 
faster, deplete it faster.  At some point we are going to have to address the 
problem.  Thinks I, propping up our level of consumption is only going to 
make 
matters worse.  For example, with the advanced methods of extraction in use 
today 
(soda straw wells, bottle brush wells, water injection, CO2 injection, etc.) 
the wells keep up  a level of production longer but then suddenly collapse 
rather than go into a slow decline.   </HTML>