Cherenkov

Peak Oil is a Cost Issue

Physics is simple, economics is pie in the sky BS.

We live on a sphere. Therefore, we have X amount of oil no matter the variety.

At some point we will reach X/2, and that will be peak oil.

It is rather mindless, stupid and counterproductive to thrash around like a spastic contortionist in order to somehow make the exogenous, and largely extraneous in the larger sense, events and details conform to an ideology rather than to physical facts.

We will run out of oil. We will be UNABLE to replace that energy at the same gargantuan level it was. Again, physics does not care about your sustainability and efficiency and alternative energy fantasies. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

Other shortages also come into play: soil, water, ocean life, copper, indium, gold, copper, silicon, aluminum, etc.

These elements will also get more and more difficult to produce with energy supplies falling. Witness South Africa and its shutting down mines due to lack of electricity. What one must recognize is that our civilization is like hovercraft. Sure we can enjoy the lovely air-conditioned interior, the running water, the great gambling facilities, the lovely food, entertainment, and working conditions -- until it all sinks into the sea because the fuel to run the massive support system shuts down.

One tiny brick pulled from the system may collapse the entire system. Without cheap energy we don't have all the other cheap support elements. Without those cheap support elements, we can't have an advanced technological society. Ergo, no solar cell utopia, no windmill fantasyland, no nuclear glowfest, no tidal energy hoedown.

People who pontificate on the possibility that someone is hoarding or speculating or whatever minor irrelevant distraction from the real issue they wish to conjure is really in fact dooming the planet to an even larger crash. They are doing you a disservice. They are in effect like a retarded fireman pointing you back into the burning building because the light is better.

Don't be dumb. Physics is simple. BSing people is evil.

Don't let the economists BS you. Remember, if you push something hard enough it will fall down.