It's fun to watch as people start learning details about a thing that's absolutely crucial to their lives, that they always took for granted before. And I'm not being sarcastic or snarky.
Xma: The Oil Drum does have some good analysts but the site has become a magnet for a few dozen lunatic-fringe types--the ones who just can't wait for the U.S. to be brought down by reliance on oil, or who are looking forward to the extinction of mankind. Doesn't take many folks like that to swamp the good stuff.
Thule's right about the 20 million barrels per day being *total* U.S. consumption, not imports.
Biogenic versus abiogenic theory of the origin of oil (and gas): Google "Thomas Gold"--he's summarized the competing arguments quite well. Abiogenic is the clear winner, and this is great news, because it boosts the area of the earth's surface that's likely to produce commercial amounts of oil by a factor of 3 or 4. That's good.
Seomul: While shopping over the internet is definitely convenient, I'm not clear on how you're getting a physical product shipped to your door without using oil or its derivative, gasoline. Maybe your ISP is using one of those *reeeally* broadband connections I keep hearing about.
Lenore: Got a source for your claim that China's pollution is 1/5 that of the U.S.? Generally the emerging economies are unburdened by all those pesky EPA regs on emissions of *real* pollution. Or are you in the camp that regards CO2 as a "pollutant". If so, I guess you could always do your part by holding your breath.
Cheers and good wishes to all. There's a great deal of information out there that's not hidden, but most of you have almost certainly never heard it. When you find it, you might ask why no one told you in school.
Xma: The Oil Drum does have some good analysts but the site has become a magnet for a few dozen lunatic-fringe types--the ones who just can't wait for the U.S. to be brought down by reliance on oil, or who are looking forward to the extinction of mankind. Doesn't take many folks like that to swamp the good stuff.
Thule's right about the 20 million barrels per day being *total* U.S. consumption, not imports.
Biogenic versus abiogenic theory of the origin of oil (and gas): Google "Thomas Gold"--he's summarized the competing arguments quite well. Abiogenic is the clear winner, and this is great news, because it boosts the area of the earth's surface that's likely to produce commercial amounts of oil by a factor of 3 or 4. That's good.
Seomul: While shopping over the internet is definitely convenient, I'm not clear on how you're getting a physical product shipped to your door without using oil or its derivative, gasoline. Maybe your ISP is using one of those *reeeally* broadband connections I keep hearing about.
Lenore: Got a source for your claim that China's pollution is 1/5 that of the U.S.? Generally the emerging economies are unburdened by all those pesky EPA regs on emissions of *real* pollution. Or are you in the camp that regards CO2 as a "pollutant". If so, I guess you could always do your part by holding your breath.
Cheers and good wishes to all. There's a great deal of information out there that's not hidden, but most of you have almost certainly never heard it. When you find it, you might ask why no one told you in school.