mpkirby

Peak Oil and Climate Change: Re-Tooling Transportation

For those that don't believe peak oil is upon us, and for those that do. State the conditions under which you would change your position. For example, would the increase in oil production over 90 mbpd be enough to convince you? For those skeptics, would it be price? Or overall production numbers?

And is there a difference between political peak oil and geological peak oil? What does it matter if I can't get it out of the ground?

So instead of declaring that the world is over (peak oilers), and that it's a gigantic hoax (plenti-oilers?)

Let's at least contemplate that (1) conditions could exist that would limit further production of oil (geological, political, whatever).

and (2) Should the conditions work out that further increases in oil production come, and we aren't at peak oil, does this mean that the principles of peak oil aren't good principles anyway?

Consider steps taken to prevent peak oil an insurance policy. We should spend a small percentage of our income to purchase insurance in the event that peak oil turn out to be true.

So what would that insurance look like?

Mike