So Yoshie, would you rather parboil or freeze? Leigh
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 3/11/07, paul phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Yoshie, do you really believe this? I have been reading you stuff here on pen-l and on A-list and I can' t believe you are serious. For one thing, you don't seem to understand what 'peak oil' is. Peak oil is the point at which CONVENTIONAL OIL has reached its peak -- i.e. when half the reserves of CONVENTIONAL OIL have been extracted leading to ehnanced oil recovery and a shift to NON-CONVENTIONAL oil, which is more expensive to extract and which has a much lower EROEI (energy return on energy invested). Sure, we can extract oil from tar sands, palm trees and pig skins, but it won't be economic, nor will it save the environment. When will you get serious about the problem?There are many reasons many parts of the world have had their proven oil reserves underexploited and/or their territories underexplored for new reserves, from which more conventional oil, albeit probably heavier than lighter oil that used to be more abundantly available, can be had: war (e.g., Iraq and Somalia) formal and informal economic sanctions, imposed by the US unilaterally or multilaterally (e.g., Iran and Cuba) lack of investment capital and technology on the part of state oil companies (much of the South) post-nationalization laws prohibiting or limiting foreign investment, to various degrees (much of the South) environmental regulation (much of the North, to the lesser extent also the South) The problem is not unavailability of oil but lack of any serious effort to convert our ways of life to an ecologically sustainable system of production. I'm afraid nothing will move people of the North till it's too late to put a brake on climate change. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
