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1988 College Text Book - In 20 years we will shall be using the last 10% of our oil.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:25 am
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:25 am
I still have some of my old college books and pulled one off the shelf. The same book states that if coal consumption remained constant, there are 2500 years of coal resources left, but it points out since natural gas resources are depleting so quickly, the government is pushing more power plants to convert to coal and encouraging coal gasification to replace natural gas and petroleum. The book predicts this could reduce the availability of coal resources to 66 years assuming increased consumption rates.
I wonder how all this worked out?
I wonder how all this worked out?
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Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:30 am to Ramblin Wreck
peak oil, man peak oil 
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:34 am to Ramblin Wreck
Downhole technologies like fracking changed the energy industry. I remember the late ‘70s the government predicting we would run out of natural gas and promoting all-electric homes.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:34 am to CAD703X
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peak oil, man peak oil
People are still hanging on to the Hubbert Curve as if it's cast in stone.
Recently someone brought up peak oil in 1971. How hard is it to simply look up the numbers?
This post was edited on 5/18/26 at 11:35 am
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:36 am to Ramblin Wreck
I thought I heard one of my wheel bearings making a scratching sound. Maybe O'Reilly's still has a pint of grease left.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:39 am to Ramblin Wreck
Stealing oil from the Middle East under the table has certainly helped
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:40 am to Ramblin Wreck
The world will be ruined by overpopulation before 2000.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:43 am to Bestbank Tiger
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The world will be ruined by overpopulation before 2000.
It kinda is currently overpopulated with the wrong kinds of people.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:43 am to Ramblin Wreck
Don’t question the science.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:46 am to Ramblin Wreck
I'm supposed to have beachfront property on the Gulf coast by now, but that timeline keeps getting pushed back.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:55 am to Ramblin Wreck
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the government
Found the problem. They are wrong about nearly everything.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 11:59 am to Spankum
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I remember the late ‘70s the government predicting we would run out of natural gas and promoting all-electric homes.
Biden Admin was promoting the same thing, no gas water heaters, no gas stoves etc. The left wants everyone to use the most expensive forms of energy so people will use less, be miserable and turn to them for help.
Cheap energy = freedom and the left can't have people free to do what they like.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:09 pm to Ramblin Wreck
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I wonder how all this worked out?
It didn't, we all died from a second ice age and acid rain
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:18 pm to HeadSlash
quote:Dont forget the hole in the ozone layer that these geniuses said would kill us all.
It didn't, we all died from a second ice age and acid rain
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:24 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Did BILLIONAIRE Al Gore write the book, or was it Nancy Pelosi?
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:34 pm to SludgeFactory
Probably robert maxwell
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:42 pm to Ramblin Wreck
I had a case of Castrol and finished the last of it in 2008.
Spooky
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:48 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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The world will be ruined by overpopulation before 2000.
to be fair look around... we are ruined.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 12:50 pm to Bacon84
When I was in college in the late 90's, an LSU professor was telling us that we would be out of clean water in 20 years. I didn't believe him back then.
Posted on 5/18/26 at 1:13 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Oh… There were people talking about peak oil into the mid 2000s, well after the start of the shale revolution.
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