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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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Peak Oil, Cars, and Depressions

First of all Peak Oil is a Myth...

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

Light Rail Doesn't Work
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5 Myths About Suburbia and Our Car-Happy Culture
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Peak Oil, Cars, and Depressions

First of all Peak Oil is a Myth...

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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)

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

Thermodynamics and Money (Peter Huber, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
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"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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Was 'Peak Oil' a Multi-Billion Dollar Hoax?

'Peak Oil' is a Myth...

Myth: The World is Running Out of Oil

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