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For all those holdouts still insisting that peak oil is just a silly theory, I ask you: if the easy-to-reach reserves weren't already in production, why would w
by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
For all those holdouts still insisting that peak oil is just a silly theory, I ask you: if the easy-to-reach reserves weren't already in production, why would we be trying to pump oil out of risky, technically-difficult places like this?
- tumult 16y agoWhat if 99% of the world's oil was in more difficult places like this, but we had already extracted the 1% that was easy to get? I'm not sure what the point of your question was.
- jbooth 16y agoThen we wouldn't have gotten so addicted to begin with. The point is that current oil consumption rate and projected growth are completely unsustainable, as we're just going to have to keep doing crazier and crazier stuff like an addict on the street who needs the next fix.