Subj : Re: Gas Crunch
To   : Finnigann
From : Deuce
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 13:34:00

  Re: Re: Gas Crunch
  By: Finnigann to Deuce on Thu Sep 01 2005 11:15:00

 >  De> For the same reason there's so much still in the ground in Saudi
 >  De> Arabia... we haven't gotten around to getting it out yet... but we're
 >  De> working on it as fast as we can.
 > 
 > ...As fast as you can. I wonder if being partly a remote region would have
 > something to do with it. It's difficult to drill in the best of climates. No
 > knowing where your oil is located leaves alot of drilling ahead.
 > 
 > But even so, if we have 100 years more oil reserves (We as in the world) som
 > time in the future we will have to deal with this problem. No amount of retr
 > life style will be suitable. Very few people will be able to do as you have
 > planned. And the global economy wont survive either.
 > 
 > It may not be your problem but it is the worlds problem.

It's not all that remote... and there's no drilling involved.  The oil sand is
scooped up with a shovel, put into a dump truck and hauled to the processing
plant.  If you walk around, you can see and smell the oil.

But yes, some day, oil will run out.  At that time, some alternate method of
getting the stuff done will need to be already developed (my money is on
natural gas... it's already here, there's already a distribution system, it's
not an order of magnitude worse, and existing equipment can be retrofitted to
run on it).

If there's already a valid alternative (ie: Natural Gas) it's not a problem. 
When gas becomes expensive enough to make it worth switching, people will
switch.  If the world still sees a problem, the world can solve it itself.  I
don't see a problem at all.

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