Peak Oil Research Paper

All plastic is oil. Most paints and all pesticides are made from oil. Everything from toothpaste to tooth brushes are made from oil and there are seven gallons of oil in every tire. There is absolutely nothing anywhere in any combination that will replace the assembly built by fossil fuels…..nothing at all. Peak oil is probably now very easy to explain; much easier than it was a long time ago. People have felt what $147 a barrel of oil feels like. Essentially, peak oil is like a bell curve, if you know what that is. If not, a bell curve is a line on a graph that goes up and comes down, and keeps at that same pattern. Peak oil is the point of oil production when it’s at the top of the bell curve, and basically what that means is, you’ve used …show more content…
There are no pipelines across a thousand miles of tundra that’s melting due to global warming, which means you can’t sink pipes to support a pipeline in tundra that’s turned to mud. There’s no tanker routes, the wells aren’t drilled, and yet we are spending our future as if oil is even there. We got to drop all this lying right now. We don’t need transparency about anything, other than about how much oil is really left, because we don’t know. Oil is a commodity, it’s an asset. You make loans based on what’s in the ground, so you have all these accounting terms: Possible reserves, proven reserves, ultimately recoverable reserves, verified reserves, estimated reserves, etc. But actual reserve estimates are made secrets. The Saudi’s don’t dare announce that they’ve passed their peak of oil production. Why? They have a very rested population that have been sold an expectation of an arising standard of living, and the moment Saudi Arabia acknowledges their passed peak, there will be a revolution. Now, what happens if there’s a revolution in Saudi Arabia, with 25% of the world’s known oil, where’s that oil going to get replaced from? It can’t be. It’s a very complex