Oil Shortage Begins

[Shirleypal]

Oil Shortage Begins
20-Apr-2007


Is it the beginning of the end? According to a Swedish physicist, global oil production will peak sometime between 2008 and 2018 and then start to decline. Physicists have been right about this in the past.
In LiveScience.com, Melinda Wenner reports that, "Since 1956, when American geophysicist M. King Hubbert correctly predicted that US oil reserves would hit a peak within 20 years, experts have debated when the same might occur globally."

Swedish physicist Fredrik Robelius made a field-by-field analysis of over 300 giant oil fields in use today, which account for more than 60% of oil production. He predicts the rate at which this production will decline by factoring in the drop-off rates for similar fields, taking into consideration the new fields that are now being developed.

US physicist David Goodstein thinks Robelius's figures are correct and says, "Oil geologists have gone to the ends of the Earth to search out big fields, and it's very unlikely that another big one will be found. Even if another huge one is found, it would only put off the peak by a year or so."

Physicist Michael Lynch disagrees and says that just because we haven’t found major new sources of oil yet, it doesn't mean they don't exist, because "You don't go looking for them until you run out of the giant fields." He thinks it's partly a "perceptual problem—'if I don’t see it, it must not be there,'" while Robelius insists that it isn't practical to rely on extracting oil in the future, based on resources and technologies that haven't yet been developed or even discovered. There's no reason to assume that we'll have plenty of oil in the future, "without having any evidence whatsoever that that’s the case."

http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=6149

[avi]

Alex Jones..........

http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/peak_oil/index.htm

[majda]

Alex Jones..........

http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/peak_oil/index.htm

I believe Jones side. I've read multiple scientific papers over the years to the effect that the earth is constantly 'creating' new oil. In light of the fact that new giant oil pools are continually being found, I would believe that this is so. jmo

[Divinorumus]

the earth is constantly 'creating' new oil

That of course doesn't make it right or okay to keep doing that to HER.