Oil/Gas Shortages Only 5 Years Away
Well if this doesn’t make you quake in your boots nothing will. The CBC reports,
The article’s message is conserve now or pay dearly later. We need to be sinking major dollars into the development of new technologies and focusing on making them affordable to all consumers, not just the rich (e.g hydrogen/electric transportation -cars, planes, trains). Time is quickly running out for the environment and our way of life.
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July 9th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Or it could be a means of generating fear in the public and justifying ridiculous prices at the pump.
July 9th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Well it could be its true Raphael. But there is so much research out there and much of it seems to agree we have hit or are hitting peak oil. Personally I think it speaks to the need to begin making some radical changes to the way we think about transportation and systems. Charging more is not a long term solution. That is just window dressing a very serious problem.
July 10th, 2007 at 11:57 am
It seems obvious that the end of the road is coming, when even the Big Oil/Auto think tanks start saying there’s a 25 year “plateau” coming, despite technological advances in drilling. I don’t think they are even considering exponential population growth in their estimates.
Plateau is just a PC way to say “peak where the rich can afford to keep buying”.
July 10th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
If I could afford it and wasn’t still in school I would buy a hybrid Saskboy….. but they sure are costly. It’s going to increase the price of everything not just driving. Our kids our going to have to find another way cause we used it all up on them.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
[...] check buddy. Oil is running short worldwide and it is a highly limited resource. Shortages are expected within 5 years. Alberta doesn’t have to worry about selling it’s oil to Americans or anyone else for [...]