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March 30th, 2004, 09:08 PM
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Re: OT: What is the biggest
Regarding Oil: I think the actual fear is running out of CHEAP oil. I think Atrocities had a link to a scary site about that. When it starts costing alot of money to pump out, process and protect the oil, people are gonna freak. Society will crash, and more wars will break out as countries try to protect or posess more oil to offset the costs.
I'm not worried, I'm counting on it. I hate this oil based society and being forced to change is a good motivator.
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March 31st, 2004, 03:04 AM
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Re: OT: What is the biggest
When we run out of 'oil' or the price at least runs up to stratospheric levels, the tar sands in Canada will become economically viable to extract. It's not likely to take long for US industries to make some sort of deal and start 'refining' (messy as it might be) when the price is finally high enough to support the business. The reserves in Canada's 'tar sands' (or 'oil sands') are estimated to be larger than Saudi Arabia's crude oil reserves.
http://www.energy.gov.ab.ca/com/Sands/default.htm
http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/102sprin...ects/M.Sexton/
And even if this gets used up, there have been all sorts of clever processes tried over the years to make 'syntheitc' fuel oil, including some remarkably successful processes developed in Germany during the WW II shortages. Like the tar sands, price compared to the easily available form is all that keeps these processes from being used. So it seems much more likely that we'll have to give up oil burning due to pollution before we actually run out.
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March 31st, 2004, 04:33 AM
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Re: OT: What is the biggest
Maybe we should buy stocks in Alberta oil sand companies like Syncrude or Suncor. We'll be rich when the oil prices go up.  |
March 31st, 2004, 05:46 AM
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Re: OT: What is the biggest
Buy stocks in farmland; there the only thing that'll hold.
Sorry. Well, not really. I'm laughing while i'm writing. PUNS!
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March 31st, 2004, 05:49 AM
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No more new "Good and Original" PC games.
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March 31st, 2004, 08:44 AM
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Re: OT: What is the biggest
I also read a few years ago about how the Cubans were working on turning sugar cane into a substitute for oil-based fuels. ANyone know about that?
They were also using it to make super glue and about a zillion other things they couldn't import due to sanctions, IIRC.
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April 9th, 2004, 02:51 AM
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Re: OT: What is the biggest
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