Life Without Crude Oil – Life As We Don’t Know It
June 22, 2011
Despite the recent drop in oil prices, the outlook for the remainder of the year is not good. If the IEA numbers are correct the world is probably burning more oil each day than is coming out of the ground, with the difference being made up from the 2.6 billion barrel stockpiles held by the OECD countries. (Feb 2011). Every day brings new stories of coal, electric power and oil product shortages in some corner of the world. The climate is not cooperating with significant crop failures imminent in many parts of the world and the water levels at numerous hydro dams, particularly in Asia, falling rapidly.
As our whole world is about to go hurtling, sickeningly, down the other side of peak oil, we cling to the vain hope that better fuel efficiency, more conservation and alternative energy will step in to save the day. Can you believe our ignorance? Our cheap food is brought to us courtesy of cheap energy. What happens when container ships – one of the hungriest fuel consumers – cannot ecominically provide that?
“It’s fossil fuels — petroleum, coal, natural gas — that have been converted into food,” Savinar says. Even if we eat it off a wooden table – it was probably built god-knows-where and likely shipped here inexpensively courtesy of fossil fuels. Then, there’s the financial system underpinning the bank loan that the owner of this restaurant likely got to open the joint, which is predicated on the idea that the economy will grow in the future, not shrink precipitously when oil prices spike. Then there’s the asphalt on the four-lane of traffic outside, and the cars, trucks and, oh yes, SUVs zipping along on top of its smooth surface, as well as the concrete of the sidewalk bordering the mall across the street . . . .
http://savinarholistic.com/?s=crude+oil
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_products_do_you_get_out_of_a_barrel_of_crude_oil
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_products_are_derived_from_crude_oil
http://www.postcarbon.org/article/338963-the-peak-oil-crisis-the-summer
http://www.postcarbon.org/article/169995-bicycle-transportation-a-win-win-strategy-in
Amazing pictures of Chilean Volcano
June 22, 2011
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