How are you preparing for 'Peak Oil' / The coming oil crisis

[faded glory]

Its coming. In our lifetime and very soon. How will you react? How do you think Civilization will react? How can we prevent it?

I feel we will enter a dark age in which automobiles are worthless and people are still paying them. Lights will go out. Only the military and the wealthy will have fuel. Countries will fight wars over remaining reserves. I will probably walk to work.


Can we prevent it? Not really. Its too late. Even alternative fuel sources costs gazillion barrels of fuel to make (Hybrid Cars, Solar Panels). And we will still run out of oil.

Oil is something I dont think we can live without.

[Zkribbler]

I'm still waiting for fusion.

[Shogun Gunner]

Predicting impending tragedy due to rising oil prices is not accurate.

Lots of oil left. Shale and "sand oil" are in abundant supply (especially in Canada) and we have lots and lots of coal in the US.

Electric cars are a reality - with some limitations in speed and distance with today's technology. They will improve.

It is true that hydrogen cars require more energy to produce the hydrogen than the net savings of energy the car would produce.

[Dis]

Is this a DL?

[Zkribbler]

BTW: A 14.5 billion dollar energy just passed the House with the Senate expected to pass it tomorrow:

This from CNN.com:

Environmental and consumer groups criticized the legislation as a giveaway to an industry enjoying record profits with crude oil prices near $60 a barrel, while spending little on ways to curb demand or encourage renewable energy.

[Zoid]

OMG, he´s back again!!

Two scenarios spring to mind. The dark one in your op and a much lighter one filled with eco-fuel cars, wind powered highway catamarans and happy children.

Of course, the latter would mean that humanity would actually make a lifestyle turn for the better; throwing away 300 years of utter neglect for the planet. I´d say humanity is doomed. Mad Max here we come!

[Az]

Farting into ballons, pressing them real hard, and calling it LPG.

[DRoseDARs]

faded glory apparently never died; there was a thread a while back of his return to 'Poly.

[mrmitchell]

bicycles, electric cars, trains

Next question

[Spiffor]

I think that mankind would readily adapt by using non-oil technologies. There would be a few years of serious economic crisis, but after that, we'd use non-oil-conduming energy sources.

1. We have the technology to make nuke plants which create massive electricity. The only reason why oil is still used in electricity is not technological, it's economical.
2. We already have the know-how for plenty of alternate fuel sources for cars. Many of these fuels come from agriculture of all things. After a while, such cars will be generic.
3. Oil is used as a construction material, especially for plastics. But if we stop using oil as an energy source, oil reserves won't be so stale that we have nothing to make our plastics anymore.

Personally, I don't drive, and I live in a country whose energy come mostly from nuke plants. There is quite some infrastructure for alternate fuel sources in place already. Overall, I think the peak oil crisis will have a very limited impact on my daily life.

[Ted Striker]

I invaded Iraq.

[Az]

Oil is very important for the chem industry.

Nuke nuke nuke nuke nuke. Goooooo NUKE!

[Kidlicious]

Peak Oil is certain to have a drastic effect on the economy and all of our lives. It's going to make the Oil Shocks of the 70's seem like Happy Days.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
faded glory apparently never died; there was a thread a while back of his return to 'Poly.

Yes, I know. I was just being silly

[Lawrence of Arabia]

i dont think we will ever get to 'peak oil,' whatever that means, just another term invented by the lunatics trying to run the asylum.