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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Peak Oil -
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:33:54 -0400


I suggested some time ago that the Peak Oil issue is just a distraction so get back to work, grow your own food, get off the grid, start recycling and conserving everything you can, build community and your own home and farm, network with like-minded friends and more. I read a machinist's forum on the Web. Someone in the oil industry posted this today and I thought you all might be interested in reading this kind of opinion that is not often heard. - LL
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Topic: Oil "crunch" coming

You guys are on the wrong side of the oil doom and gloom game.

There is plenty of oil left in Mother earths belly. As oil prices go up, so does the R&D into technologies to recover more from less. Dollars are spent to go ever deeper.

The deepest wells today are around 35,000 feet.
The journey to the center of the Earth is about
20,925,379.2 feet. Do the math we are scratching the surface so to speak. Terms like Ultra-deep, and "price per barrel" are all relative are'nt they.

A comparison on relativity....

You pay for bottled water?
If oil was water, you'd be paying $162 to fill up your 15 gallon water tank.


You know what a gallon (liter) of gas costs the average European?

I just came back from Shanghai. You have know idea how good us Americans have
it with oil.


Last year I made a carrier change due to high oil prices.

I am now in R&D in a oil service company. Higher oil prices means new technology and money is being applied into extracting more oil from existing wells.

The artificial lift business is growing by leaps and bounds. We are going into retired wells and applying new technology to extract oil from wells that were declared dried up when oil was at $25 per barrel.
Now that oil is where it is price wise, all of a sudden these old dried up holes are flowing gang busters again. That's because it is now financially fesable to apply hi tech (expensive relative term again) technology.

The paranoia about no more oil comes on like the bird flu or something.
The news casters mention it, and all of a sudden it's an epedimic.

Why not research some news from say 1877.
That was the year Mr. Rockerfeller controlled 90% of the worlds refining capacity. You should read the doom and gloomers back then.

Remeber a guy named Jimmy Carter?

We have been running out of oil ever since
450BC. That was when Herodotus discovered oil pits near Babylon.

40BC it was on the surface, today it is 40,000 feet below. So what....

Sure alternate energy is a great thing. We should defienetly kick our
"addiction" to oil.

Higher oil prices will be what drives all the Alternate energy research, not the bleeding hearts that want to "save" the Earth.

In large part, the economic expansion the U.S., and many parts of the world are experiencing is due in large part by these higher oil prices. In my world, life is good.

Let's stop drinking the cool-aid about us running out of oil.

Fill er' up

| From: Houston |

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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
Venaura Farm
lflj@bellsouth.net.net
http://venaurafarm.blogspot.com/
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