Brian Pursley

Why "Drill, Baby, Drill!" Does Not Translate Into Effective National Energy Policy

Like the peak oil cultists Simmons and Pickens I'm actually invested in oil and I profit from the myth of scarcity based upon ignorance of modern Russian petroleum science. Domestic drilling should be illegal forever. And you should pay me $1000 per barrel for my oil.

Oil: The Inconvenient Truth

Fitz: Since you have no problem with CO2, I hope we all enjoy the emissions. It's plant food. Greenhouses are good for the environment.

Oil: The Inconvenient Truth

Fitz: Carbon IS the environment. If you hate carbon you hate the environment. It is not, as one writer recently opined, "civilizations greatest threat." Without carbon there would be no life and no civilization on earth. Cyanobacteria feed on hydrocarbons. No hydrocarbons no photosynthesis. Similarly CO2: no CO2 = no photosynthesis.

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"Twice an Exxon Valdez spill worth of oil seeps into the Gulf of Mexico every year, according to a new study that will be presented January 27 at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

But the oil isn't destroying habitats or wiping out ocean life. The ooze is a natural phenomena that's been going on for many thousands of years"

LIfe was born in crude oil, thus the depleted C13 isotope that some wishful thinkers erroneously interpret as so-called "biomarkers".

Oil: The Inconvenient Truth

Fitz: Oil does not go from $147 to $109 on tight supply.

As far as the ice caps are concerned I will refer you to Freeman Dyson, "Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least. So it's certainly long before human activities could have caused it.

What we also know, going back 4,000 years, is that the glaciers were actually a lot smaller. They actually grew in the meantime. So it seems to be some sort of cyclical process. They grow and shrink and there's no particular reason for being worried just because they're shrinking at the moment. I'm not saying there's no climate change. Of course there's climate change. Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came."

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Oil: The Inconvenient Truth

swimjames: I can guarantee you everyone who isn't ignorant of the facts has the information: www.kusi.com/weather/c...

Oil: The Inconvenient Truth

Oil does not go from $147 to $105 on tight supply. The reality is the market is oversupplied so OPEC is going to cut back production. Also, man made global warming is a myth. The global temperature has decreased 8 years in row.

Why I'm Not Buying Oil's Recent 'Correction'

You might also look at the many failed predictions of the peak oil cult.

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Why I'm Not Buying Oil's Recent 'Correction'

Longoil, your claim that "biogenic oil and peak oil theories have been peer reviewed and accepted by the vast majority of the world's scientists" is laughable.

"Peak Oil theory is garbage as far as we're concerned" -- Robert W. Esser, geologist, CERA

Why I'm Not Buying Oil's Recent 'Correction'

Deep abiotic hydrocarbon origin is reality. Complex hydrocarbons can only be formed at pressures above 30 kilobar which corresponds to a depth of 100 kilometers deep in the mantle: www.pnas.org/content/9...

Deal with it.

"The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time." -- Fred Hoyle, 1982

Why I'm Not Buying Oil's Recent 'Correction'

To bearfund in response to "the oil companies clearly are wrong; they are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day on drill ships to find just a little more of the stuff."

Why are the oil companies wrong? The $650,000 per day rate is paid for ultra-deep water drillships that drill past the mythological biogenic "oil window" at 15,000 feet true vertical depth.

Why I'm Not Buying Oil's Recent 'Correction'

SCovert, what is the "good evidence oil came from biomass"?

"Natural petroleum has no connection with biological matter." -- Jack F. Kenney, 2001

Why I'm Not Buying Oil's Recent 'Correction'

2008traveler: there is no such thing as fossil fuel. Fossils have nothing to do with fuel whatsoever.

Why I'm Not Buying Oil's Recent 'Correction'

Supply and demand.

Supply is infinite: oilismastery.blogspot..../

Hydrogen is the most common chemical element in the universe and carbon is the fourth most common chemical element in the universe.

Does Big Oil's Apathy Justify Proposals to Tax Windfall Profits?

Oil can never go obsolete. We use it for everything.
Every calorie of food that we eat requires 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy to produce.

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Does Big Oil's Apathy Justify Proposals to Tax Windfall Profits?

smartbt: the reason why noone will believe there is a shortage of oil is because hydrocarbons are infinite and renewable.

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I'd hardly call 300 trillion barrels of proven reserves a "shortage."

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