[A-List] Re: The oil-consumption party is over!

[Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxx>]

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From: "Nicholas Morcinek" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> In "The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies,"
author
> Richard Heinberg argues global oil output will peak in three to 12 years,
> and if an aggressive shift to include new energy sources, like wind, solar
> or fuel cells in the mix doesn't happen by then, grim consequences will
> result.

Now, the S.O.B. I'd normally ask about this went and died on us, So I'll ask
you folks instead: Is not the above a fancy notion?

 From what I've come to understand, it will take huge amounts of fossils
fuels in excess of the currently existing fossil fuel consumption rates and
even when it is finally developed? i.e: the amount of fossil fuels we have
are not enough to use them (under exterminist imperialism) for the
development of the alternatives to fossil fuels.

Or: it would only be possible to come up with alternatives to oil as is if
we had a much larger glut of oil, and therefore didn't need the alternative.
Why did I suddenly get the desire to read Joseph Heller?

Macdonald