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Peak Oil's Bell Is Ringing

The oil sands in Canada are viable at $15 a barrel and while others like oil shale need to be over $50 this is still economical and no other transportation fuel comes close to cost and efficiency with oil even at these prices.

There is no vast majority of scientists supporting Peak Oil or Global Warming. There are merely a handful making declarations while thousands speak out against it:

NO 'Consensus' on "Man-Made" Global Warming
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I Would Be More Worried About Global Cooling

First of all there is no Consensus on Global Warming. You cannot find a scientific poll of actual scientists anywhere enforcing the mythical consensus:

NO 'Consensus' on "Man-Made" Global Warming
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Sea Ice is not melting drastically, it is actually increasing in Antartica:

Satellites Show Overall Increases In Antarctic Sea Ice Cover (NASA)
www.gsfc.nasa.gov/tops...

And there are active volcanoes under the Arctic:

Arctic Volcanoes Found Active at Unprecedented Depths (National Geographic)
news.nationalgeographi...

Scientists Find Northernmost Arctic Hydrothermal Field Venting Water at 570 Degrees F (Science Daily)
www.sciencedaily.com/r...

Man is causing global warming but not how you think:

Odd USHCN Weather Stations
www.surfacestations.or...

Finally there is no proof of man-made global warming without using irrelevant computer models:

FACT: Only Computer Illiterates believe in "Man-Made" Global Warming
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I Would Be More Worried About Global Cooling

First of all there is no Consensus on Global Warming. You cannot find a scientific poll of actual scientists anywhere enforcing the mythical consensus:

NO 'Consensus' on "Man-Made" Global Warming
www.populartechnology....

Sea Ice is not melting drastically, it is actually increasing in Antartica:

Satellites Show Overall Increases In Antarctic Sea Ice Cover (NASA)
www.gsfc.nasa.gov/tops...

And there are active volcanoes under the Arctic:

Arctic Volcanoes Found Active at Unprecedented Depths (National Geographic)
news.nationalgeographi...

Scientists Find Northernmost Arctic Hydrothermal Field Venting Water at 570 Degrees F (Science Daily)
www.sciencedaily.com/r...

Man is causing global warming but not how you think:

Odd USHCN Weather Stations
www.surfacestations.or...

Finally there is no proof of man-made global warming without using irrelevant computer models:

FACT: Only Computer Illiterates believe in "Man-Made" Global Warming
www.populartechnology....

Peak Oil, Cars, and Depressions

First of all Peak Oil is a Myth...

www.populartechnology....

Second Obama's delusion of light rail only proves how further ignorant he is of transportation:

Light Rail Doesn't Work
www.cato.org/pub_displ...

5 Myths About Suburbia and Our Car-Happy Culture
www.reason.org/comment...

Peak Oil, Cars, and Depressions

First of all Peak Oil is a Myth...

www.populartechnology....

Second Obama's delusion of light rail only proves how further ignorant he is of transportation:

Light Rail Doesn't Work
www.cato.org/pub_displ...

5 Myths About Suburbia and Our Car-Happy Culture
www.reason.org/comment...

Peak Oil's Bell Is Ringing

While I am happy you separate liquid fuels from fuels used for electrical generation, you still have some errors in your article:

1. Modern Nuclear Reactors can be built in 3-years (not 10) and last 60-years (Westinghouse)

www.westinghousenuclea...

2. EROEI (Energy Return On Energy Invested) is irrelevant:

Thermodynamics and Money (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
www.forbes.com/free_fo...

"The economic value of energy just doesn't depend very strongly on raw energy content as conventionally measured in British thermal units. Instead it's determined mainly by the distance between the BTUs and where you need them, and how densely the BTUs are packed into pounds of stuff you've got to move, and by the quality of the technology at hand to move, concentrate, refine and burn those BTUs, and by how your neighbors feel about carbon, uranium and windmills. In this entropic universe we occupy, the production of one unit of high-grade energy always requires more than one unit of low-grade energy at the outset. There are no exceptions. Put another way, Eroei--a sophomoric form of thermodynamic accounting--is always negative and always irrelevant. "Matter-energy" constraints count for nothing. The "monetary culture" still rules."

Peak Oil's Bell Is Ringing

While I am happy you separate liquid fuels from fuels used for electrical generation, you still have some errors in your article:

1. Modern Nuclear Reactors can be built in 3-years (not 10) and last 60-years (Westinghouse)

www.westinghousenuclea...

2. EROEI (Energy Return On Energy Invested) is irrelevant:

Thermodynamics and Money (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
www.forbes.com/free_fo...

"The economic value of energy just doesn't depend very strongly on raw energy content as conventionally measured in British thermal units. Instead it's determined mainly by the distance between the BTUs and where you need them, and how densely the BTUs are packed into pounds of stuff you've got to move, and by the quality of the technology at hand to move, concentrate, refine and burn those BTUs, and by how your neighbors feel about carbon, uranium and windmills. In this entropic universe we occupy, the production of one unit of high-grade energy always requires more than one unit of low-grade energy at the outset. There are no exceptions. Put another way, Eroei--a sophomoric form of thermodynamic accounting--is always negative and always irrelevant. "Matter-energy" constraints count for nothing. The "monetary culture" still rules."

Peak Oil's Bell Is Ringing

Peak Oil is a Myth, unconventional reserves will last well over 100 years...

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Where Have All the Peak Oil Believers Gone?

'Peak Oil' is a myth...

Myth: The World is Running Out of Oil

www.youtube.com/watch?...

Was 'Peak Oil' a Multi-Billion Dollar Hoax?

'Peak Oil' is a Myth...

Myth: The World is Running Out of Oil

www.youtube.com/watch?...