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I had previous learned that we will run out of oil soon. It seems this is not the scientific consensus - it's just that known reserves will run out in about 50 years. In other words, this meme can repeat itself ad nauseam. We should look at every US geopolitical strategy or even statement through this lens. Greenland? Canada? Oil!
Thanks to the improvements in efficiency and price fluctuations that allowed shale oil extraction and the like, as well as new exploration, for all intents and purposes, we still have a basically unlimited amount of oil.
When oil gets expensive, it justifies infrastructure that was previously economically unfeasible and not part of our reserves. And once that infrastructure is in place, the price can still go down and it can sustain itself. Is it really unlimited? Absolutely not. But innovation and economics have stretched what's available to a level of surprising longevity.
At this rate of price fluctuation and investment, in 300 years we will be extracting the oil from your facial pores and still have a "50 year reserve".
It's kinda a neat thing if it wasn't for all the shitty side effects, tbh.
And since BASF already invented methods to revert plastic to oil, if the price is right, we wouldn't even need oil anymore, just trash.
BASF, the ones making my video tapes?
Yes, actually.
Are they? I mean the large petrochemical company from Germany
I know, I'm just joking about many people remembering them from C- and VHS cassettes.
According to patent whistle blower Tom Valone, by the year 2000 there had already been over 3000 free energy device patents secreted.
Throughout the past century, we could have been producing abundant hempseed and hemp biomass to make hemp based plastics, oil fuels, alcohol fuels, graphene based photovoltaics and capacitor bank batteries and more, (all while cleaning the soil, feeding ourselves and farm animals, clothing ourselves without pesticides etc, and cleaning the air,) if not for what Bernays, Anslinger, and Hearst did to us.
We never needed be hog-tied to crude oil. Probably could have found something better to do with it than burn it. Probably wise to not fall for scarcity-rumour scams to drive up prices either.
We have so much headroom without these [ecocidal, mass-murdering, slaver] crooks.
Pity. Apart from that you have some good arguments.
You have some refutation to what Tom Valone said?
Or just presuming the prevailing dogma's true that such is impossible?
I have no idea who that is but I, for one, will presume the prevailing science that such is impossible.
as mentioned a couple comments back in this thread:
Heh, oops, just noticed that should have read "patent office whistle blower". ~ Not like that was the problem preventing knowing who that is.
lol. following science are you? XD
I'll do similarly, and presume that's impossible. Just like sticking a feather up your butt doesn't make you a chicken.
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