[quote]The Mage wrote:
Lady_J wrote:
Ok, i posted 4 links, research findings from cambridge, and supporting population statistics before you posted this. Lack of intellect? My SAT score was a 1430, my IQ is 140, you judgemental prick.
Where is your proof? chop, chop!
Since my IQ is 152, would that mean I should automatically win this discussion?
You should spend some time in the political forum. I have spent something like the last month trying to dispel these myths you are pushing. CERA did mention 24 years, but that was a minimum.
Here is a quick summery from what I have posted before.
The price of oil is not currently a result of supply and demand. There are a whole host of issues, some of which are political.
Part of the problem was a decade of low oil prices. Not only have we been spoiled by those prices, but the companies and governments were not looking for the stuff because there was no profit in it.
People who like to say we are running out of oil only used proved reserves which are not really designed to tell us what is actually available. It also only includes the best, cheapest oil, no heavy oil, tar sands, or oil shale.
Also technological improvements have a big impact. The Bakken reserve that rainjack alluded to has jumped by 25 times to 4 billion barrels in about a decade just because of technological improvements. And if technology improves more, that could jump to 100 billion barrels. This isn’t oil that is suddenly existing, but part of the vast amounts that are not counted for one reason or another.
Brazil just found 33 billion barrels, and this is just some of the recent finds that seem to have jumped since the price of oil has jumped.
And this does not take into account the shale thats available here. Recent advancements have resulted in a much cheaper method of producing oil from it, and in a much more environmental way then they originally had. Now how much oil? 800 billion barrels recoverable with current technology.
And none of this even takes into account the fact that we can now make the stuff out of methane. (Syncrude.)
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with an iq of 152 i would easily defer… after a peek at ur test results. lol
note, i did not post that to prove i was right, i merely was proving i did not suffer from a lack of intellect purely because i disagreed with rj
i went back through the posts regarding this topic and you bring many valid points to the table. I don’t think we are spiraling into extinction as rj put it, I just think we take many of our resources for granted. There may be an infinite number of fuel sources, but oil we will eventually use up.
I just think that some of the pictures being painted are a little too “rose-colored glasses,” while some are a little too “kiss ur ass goodbye.” Most people use facts to their opinions’ advantage, so the end result will probably be somewhere in between.
thanks for not calling me out of my name even though we have differing points of view. You are an intersection as opposed to a dead end. Have you read anything about the Barnett Shale here in TX?