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Liberty Clip: February 23, 2013

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Written by Sinclair Davidson

February 23rd, 2013 at 12:00 am

Posted in Liberty Clip

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  1. No.

    WhaleHunt Fun

    23 Feb 13 at 12:10 am

  2. Of course we aren’t. Julian Simon covered this years ago. The best quote I’ve read on this subject goes something like this:

    “The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stones and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil. ” – Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani

    tbh

    23 Feb 13 at 12:12 am

  3. If as suspected, the universe is finite, and should it end in a big crunch then the resource we are running out of is time.

    If it ends in a heat death, then the resource we are losing is order or un-entropy.

    But we have more than all of us alive will need so “we” are ok, just later creatures.

    WhaleHunt Fun

    23 Feb 13 at 12:13 am

  4. Simple. Innit.

    Amfortas

    23 Feb 13 at 12:13 am

  5. With energy, time, carbon and hydrogen, I can make you oil. So there will always be some available.

    WhaleHunt Fun

    23 Feb 13 at 12:15 am

  6. But, but, Peak Oil*, I tells ya!

    Blah. Unfortunately, we’ll never reach “Peak Stupid”, either, it seems…

    *Cue spooky music…

    Rabz

    23 Feb 13 at 12:41 am

  7. Why do all these doomsayers look alike? Myopic, balding, op shop dressed with a stingy beard.

    Popular Front

    23 Feb 13 at 6:12 am

  8. Oil – a renewable resource?
    http://www.google.com.au/search?q=renewable+oil&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&q=renewable+oil+theory&revid=2037371110&sa=X&ei=s-EnUYP3MYSWiQe314GwCw&ved=0CHkQ1QIoAQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42768644,d.aGc&fp=8243998a7e8c4379&biw=935&bih=551

    John A

    23 Feb 13 at 8:23 am

  9. Popular front

    Did you even watch that clip?

    Procrustes

    23 Feb 13 at 8:31 am

  10. Nope

    Popular Front

    23 Feb 13 at 8:51 am


  11. If it ends in a heat death, then the resource we are losing is order or un-entropy.


    Entropy always wins in the end, my friends.

    Entropy

    23 Feb 13 at 9:48 am

  12. Renewables vs non-renewables here

    grumpy

    23 Feb 13 at 11:59 am

  13. Trying again to put the link in. Here

    grumpy

    23 Feb 13 at 12:01 pm

  14. Time is the worrying one. It’s so intangible. :)

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

    23 Feb 13 at 2:35 pm

  15. A good clip, the issue of oil and gas is interesting. I was talking recently to a consultant geologist in Houston who was doing some work for Exxon in Argentina, he advused that the the Dead Cow shale deposit in Argentina had Quads of gas (thousands of trillions of cubic feet) that was recovarable from the field. However, as the Argentine government are a bunch of thieving lefty gangsters, Exxon was going nowhere near it. Another interesting deposit is the bagadov basin in Western Siberia, whichis estimated to hold at least two and a half trillion barrels of recoverable tight oil.

    We will be using oil and gas for centuries to come….

    Antipodean

    23 Feb 13 at 11:01 pm

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