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On Jul 13, 7:43 pm, h...@nospam.org wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:49:01 -0700, "P. Maffia"
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> <pmaf...@centurytel.net> wrote:
> >"Bob Brock" <bbr...@i-americia.net> wrote in message
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> >> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:37:10 -0700, "P. Maffia"
> >> <pmaf...@centurytel.net> wrote:
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> >>>Well Gunner, the problem is that facts have no relevance to true
> >>>believers.
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> >> Yeah, I'm wearing my hard hat so that I don't get hit by those falling
> >> prices produced by oversupply.
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> >Over or under supply and peak oil are different concepts which have no
> >necessary relationship to each other.
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> >In Colorado's Oil shale alomne there is saufficientoil to take care of our
> >needs for over 100 years. That alone makes the peak oil argument worthless.
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> the component you are missing is that the cost of extracting that oil
> is enormous.  Wouldn't expect you rightards to actually be able to
> grasp reality.  Oh, sure, the stuff is there.  Wouldn't expect you to
> be able to actually grasp the concept of getting the shit out of the
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> Hal
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> "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are
> conservatives."       John Stuart Mill
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> >However, the existance of that oil does not affect either supply or price
> >since 1) Our laws prohibit its exploitation. There is enough oil off our
> >coasts to also render the peak oil argument the nonsense it is.
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> >Unfortunately, our laws also prohibit its expoitation so that vast
> >storehouse of oil isn't affecting our or the world's supply or price
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> >Of course, our laws are not stopping from Mexico drilling and finding oil in
> >the Gulf, nor China from finding and expoiting oil close enough to Florida
> >to illustrate the stupidity of our restrictive laws.
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> >In short "peak oil" is as as the Club of Rome's predicting the world
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Peak oil ... phooey.

We'll get to alternative fuels eventually, and sooner than the
doomsayers would predict.  Indeed ... http://world.honda.com/FuelCell/