Has the World Already Passed “Peak Oil”?

Flex-Fuels have a certain appeal but, is it not playing on people's FEAR AND RESIDENT BRAINWASHING? The permeation of evolutionary belief has stolen people's faith in a single God and resulting also in a disbelief in one single energy being "the answer" to their live's complex of problems.

I have found a number of those standalone single solutions without having to cram them all under every car hood in America.

But other than upkeeping multiple engine systems ~and keeping up with multiple fuel tanks &/or fuel systems~ all needing major efforts and PEOPLE'S TIME in and out of automobile dealership garages for the 10 YEARS they own the car... it would appear your system versus mine is a tossup.

You only have a better PR campaign. However, as I wrote to you once before long ago, every time we accept a new system -such as what yours is- it causes a delay to any better technology (just like what is now holding back adoption of your system right now because of all the automobile industry's tooling & financial commitment to "yesterday's answers").

The result being that when the ignorant masses not knowing my engine systems exist => a car engine that runs without maintenance on the order of 100 years minimum without wearing out as yours most certainly will, the billions then spent on your inferior system becomes the argument against ever transitioning to my system.

You sir are on the other man's side, here presenting yourself as an angel of Light when in fact you are a demon representing continuing enslavement of the very same kind everyone now labors under, such as $60.00 per hour mechanic costs.

My system erases all that. Your system digs the people's grave deeper.

A major part of what "the ignorant masses" do not understand -since most do not have close to a million miles driving time on the nation's highways- is the FACT of road vibration. Driving takes a toll on car engines, so your multiplex system will get multiplex-level breakdowns on an ever-increasing sliding scale.

I wouldn't buy your engine if my life depended on it. It is an insult to my intelligence. It is an insult toward the value I assign to my TIME because it will waste it.

Desperate people will buy your car, and your spiel.

Enslavement, even Jan understands that better than you no matter how much military devotion you have, name dropper. Women raise children. Women are the ones who SUFFER from men's crummy decisions. Women understand enslavement.

Women also have great insight and inside they must laugh at men as they watch us have a never ending testosterone war like stupid snail beings crawling on the dirt. Women see through us quite easily, as we run about claiming to be their saviour when we are just like every other male who walked this earth before us and certainly not any smarter.

We claim to solve problems, claim to be the greatest Problem Solvers of all Time, indeed Masters of the Universe, when we are NOTHING. The condition this planet is in right now testifies to Men being Nothing. We are slime on a damp window pane and nothing more.

Your car claims are nothing but trouble, and more standing at fuel pumps in the winter cold and in the February winds. Yeah man, women see through you just like what you are => nothing. You are not bringing an improvement to their lives or any help for them raising their children.

Phooey.

So post a video of you driving from Virginia to California in your amazing car.

Or, show us a video of your amazing engine powering a super sonic F-18 Super Hornet.

Biofuels can do either with ease.

No, I'm going to thoroughly enjoy watching you "men" piss on the electric wire striving for distance. I'll trust your results for how it feels when the wave of contempt and hate reaches your balls.

My engine with a modification will power a spacecraft forever. Yours will run out of fuel, F-18 Hornet be damned for what it is => a product of nothing men who think they are something.

If that bio-fuel shit smells so good tell me where are the flying cars butthead? Don't tell me how many women and children you napalm. I want to know where the benefit is cause I don't see it. All I see is your mouth and hungry children the world over.

You and your kind make me puke mister.

If I didn't hate your Commie tripe guts so much I would feel sorry for you. You sure as hell ain't no American but if you were born here you're a Sell-Out.

Forests consume CO2 vs Oil makes more. Ecuador is trying to save everybody's bacon => in return they hope everybody sends them some bacon back.

It borders on barter. Or environmental extortion. Help us or we will destroy the world. All they lack is a cat and Robert Wagner.

Or it could just be asking for climate justice from those countries that would otherwise go there and do to it what Chevron already did to it in the name of American corporate profit. Chevron hasn't even had to pay for any of the environmental and health damages they have brought to the Ecuadorian Amazon... do they not deserve to pay?

Everyone these days aren't getting justice, and asking for justice from an oppressor corporation that knows the WORLD desperately needs what they're selling just is not realistic. The only authority large enough to force them to do anything would be the United Nations, and that's a stretch for ever happening.

We're crude oil addicts and they sell the dope, to us dopes. Where in there do you read Justice? I don't see it and they'll never give it.

We are powerless before their great power; even Mr. Gore.

Well then, you don't ask, you take.

Well, taking is big words but not necessarily wrong, but there's a problem because they pay big taxes and the Gov is addicted to their money. So what you have there is a conflict of interest where the Gov is trying to ride the fence not tear it down like needs to happen.

I haven't read Al's last book. I know that writing a book is exhaustive work so at our age he's making a gargantuan effort.

Personally Jan I'm almost at to the point thinking our civilizations are about burnt out. Here we are becoming more & more computer-dependent and after getting the WHOLE WORLD addicted to having them we find out just how toxic they are and the plastic.

We're melting faster than the bad witch in Wizard of Oz.

We're melting faster than the polar ice caps.

It isn't going to be overly long before somebody is going to realize all that GOLD in the Vatican is needed to make new computers and then the hayride will really begin. The drug addicts are going to want their drugs and it isn't what the Pope is selling. It's what he's sitting on. Gold is used in cpu's and on the best PCI contacts and the best RAM and here we are launching a world wide Space Race with all the spaceships needing gold in their circuitries.

I wouldn't bet 2 cents on the Vatican lasting til 2012.

It isn't so bad. Just a bit like having a couple angry monkeys riding your back and clawing flesh off with sharpened nails as you run to work.

You can't really negotiate with money-crazed monkeys.

Obama is putting on an act worthy of P.T.Barnum himself, appearing to be incompetent, under-educated, under energy savvy, and the IQ of a stockyard pig. Unbeknownst to most of us here, in the background he has a few haymakers taking shape.

It's simply a question of timing, and the way that goes everybody here already understands very well.

He will withhold the new technologies and release them when they are most needed => when the timing is right to insure he gets re-elected.

Now pass me another bowl of czar soup please.

All of which goes toward explaining why oil per barrel has jumped to $90 when nobody has any money. It's the $4.00 a gallon squeeze play being repeated to line their pockets with every penny in your piggy bank. You're being squeezed on to wring from your cold half-dead hands the monies they need to transition over to new technologies.

Which of course when they come through you'll be squeezed again to purchase it but, in a great flood of thankfulness to Obama he will be re-instated, and praised.

Probably world wide. He'll earn his title.

This is a history lesson , not in the books , for a reason .......

From Bill McKibbens book: Deep Economy, between 1890 ansd 1920,
there was an extensive railway system of electric trams existing from
Boston, Mass. to Madison, Wisconsin. Except for one 40 mile stretch
somewhere in New York, citizens could board a tram and travel to
any destination in that intricate systems of interconnectivity by using
a paper transfer pass. Busses were not needed for transit. But Big Oil
couldn't make any money in a system built for human economy and
convenience where travel was super cheap. Guess whom they bought
to have all those tracks ripped up to change all that ?

There's a way to magnify solar by 6000%.

Yes but as more people turn to alternative sources the price of oil will also drop. Remember the OPEC oil embargo of the 1970's? There were designs for cars that ran off alternative fuels and most cars at the time got fantastic gas mileage. However, once the price of oil dropped again car designers started making gas guzzlers that got 15 miles to the gallon and the designs for alternate fuels were forgotten...

I have that engine now, but the wheel barrels overflowing with dolares seems to be mysteriously delayed.

4 stroke? Mine, every stroke is a power stroke. All cylinders fire at the same time, and the engine doesn't do double duty compressing the fuel so it is essentially free-wheeling.

1300% more horses than any combustion engine, from combining compressed air with steam. No combustion, no pollution, no nuthin but rubber laying down the street behind ya.

I wrote to Chevron corporate headquarters a series of mails to their online website 2+ years ago offering them the transition energies that would eliminate the blow to their companies. I never got a response back but they were all over my website for the ever longest of time.

They gleaned what they could but striking any deal involving me being paid was of course out of the question, which is why I lack the monies to do any of my other ideas. I tried to help soften the blow. They're a greedy hateful bunch imho. They need to disappear.

Michael Rupport says that that the average luxury car contains 100 gallons of oil. That's just production. That is not calculating the engine oil( 5 qts. every 3 months per vehicle on the road) or fuel consumption. Now granted electric or hydrogen will cut down on fuel consumption but we still use oil for the plastics and the rubber in every vehicle made(7 gallons of oil per tire). And we are not talking about 4-runners,motorcycles etc. We need to change the way we live.

Difference engines. There are many of those, and you missed them all because of a HEADACHE. There's a fellow who made one difference engine for skyscrapers that was several stories high so it took advantage of the differences of height. But really they are too numerous to go into. Any time you see where something changes you can make a system.

I know of one that would power everything on earth, and make lots of new jobs, came across it just yesterday actually. But I'm holding it back because if I told about it they would patent it and lock it up with all the others. You would not get its benefit til they figured out how they would fleece the money off your sheepskin rug on a many-tiered multi-level new pyramid they would own.

I keep saying it => we don't need crude oil for energy and we can grow oil to make plastics and for lubrication, making many jobs yet again. If all oil drilling stopped say next year we would be just fine. My system could be quickly designed, deployed and implemented in a year. Power cars, trucks, spin generators, the whole enchilada.

Piece a cake. So now either your headache is worse or it's gone.

Its better, now we just need a plan and get moving now.

Yes solutions we've got, now we need will and for humans to not judge everything based on a monetary barometer. That slow boiling pot is getting hotter by the day.

oh we got solutions , but money talks right now and the old establishment have there billions sunk into oil and gas , and no practical solution for earth , our enviroment and the overall good of mankind is gonna solve where they are gonna shore up all the trillions in lost profits they are gonna have to deal with , if it were up to them they wouldnt stop until the last drop of oil is sold , the real issue in the energy business in a capitalist system is the bottomline. If there was a solution where the oil and gas industry could continue to profit similarily from cleaner , greener resources oil and gas would be 50 percent phased out by now.

I know we have solutions but gov. are too retarded to do anything.

That's a tall order. What you need to do is step in with your right foot and deliver the best blow you have on the first punch. Hmm. I suggest the printing press and information. It worked once before. Perhaps a new website.

Tell people to slap a Timer on their water heater, that will save them 25-30% off their water heating bill immediately. Turn the water heater thermostat UP around 140-150 degrees then it only runs a few times a day hard and rests the rest of the day. Saves energy, and bucks.

A good water heater timer can be purchased online for around $60 and lasts forever. You could add a guitar sound pickup to it that would hear hot water gushing out through the water heater's exit pipe into the home, bypass the timer restriction and turn on the water heater too.

The website could pay for itself from timer sales....

Put a couple large metal bowls up in the refrigerator freezer filled with water, turning the fridge back into A TRUE ICEBOX. The cold off of the blocks of ice percolates down into the fridge and the compressor runs much less often. Saves big energy bucks there too.

I currently have my electric usage down to $1.65 a day. That would get some monies restored to the people's pockets next month fast.

Don't forget Soylent Green. Oh, that's if we keep reproducing and using fossil fuel. Less people = less pollution. Oakum’s razor. Extinction Level Event = the unbridled penis. Repeat after me, everybody, "The penis is not a brain."

Yes, what we need is a triumph of the will.

We are the government. You callin us retarded. Oh, we are not the government? Then what are those fuckers doing in the Capital of my United States. Kinda circular, ain't it. If we keep doing what we do, we keep getting what we got. Decline and fall.

Worked for Thomas Paine, but people could read back then and you could find a printing press that was not owned by Rupert Murdoch. Maybe hack the text world and hold all the text junkies hostage until they come out of their trances before the next Zombie Movie is a Reality TV show. Oh, wait, I think that has already happened. LOL

Kool-Aid comes in many forms. And at 186,000 mps. Staring at monitors has been shown to change the human brain structure. It's an effect of the Refresh Rate.

We're being refreshed. hahaha

Do we sign bills and pass other documents? Oh we get to for them vote yeah right! Don't worry the gov will NEVER lie to you.

Thank you for this post. I actually cried walking down by the bay near my home and seeing the amounts of plastic bottles and garbage that had washed in with the tide. It all comes down to six main words for me to beginning the healing process: respect for the web of life. It is an overriding principle of life that we as a species have lost.

You're welcome. Your six words are true. I am working on a short documentary video with the man I mentioned above, Marc Ward, in which he and a group of volunteers sifted through 135 square meters of sand at Crescent Beach on the Oregon coast. The short video will show the plastic debris they found; let me say, it makes me want to cry, too.

If the world had run out of crude oil in 1995 that's very interesting indeed, because in 1997 Dr. Hertzberg's compressed nitrogen powered car engine prototype successfully ran. So we would have been tunning off of reserves and used cooking oil til his car was finished the improvements it needed (which I came along and added in 2003 & 2008).

It is an oil-addicted world. People fear the new. People are sick & poisoned by all the plastics that surround them. BPA enters through our skin, and especially people's palms in contact with the plastic. Poisoned people lose their backbone, partly because the thyroid is crippled up by the plastics in the bloodstream.

No thyroid, no gumption or bravery. Just fear. Thyroid fuels every gland, organ and system in the body. We have become crippled as fish out of water.

Well-said, G-Man.

Might want to figure out your math before making your documentary. 135 sq meters isn't a volume measuremnt, it is an area measurement. How deep did they go? That gives a much better sense of scale. 135 sq meters is a meaningless measurement unless you provide the depth and therefore the volume.

We lightly swept the surface to a maximum depth of 1 inch. Thanks for asking!

Don't cry for me, Argentina. Time to girl up and wipe those tears away. Time to get locked and cocked and ready to rock. The fix has been in for a long time. Problems are obvious, solutions abound, but, the powers ain't going to let you implement them. End game needs to be victory. Still, I think we can control/reduce the population one condom at a time. But, if condoms are outlawed, only outlaws will have condoms.

Harry in Armageddon (Bruce Willis) had
just two words for that: DUCT TAPE CONDOMS.
Works, EVERY TIME. It's an old oil driller's secret.

Peak Water may already be here in the Middle East. Australia also knows that feeling well after a ten year drought and Asia isn't far behind with Africa also experiencing the same. Adding the stresses of climate change to an already arid area is a recipe for disaster and war. The King of Jordan claimed water was the only thing he would go to war over. Although I always believed people would not go that far as water is a source we all need for life and that in the end true humanity would prevail and consensus reached. I'm not so sure anymore in this world we live in. Look at the Israeli-Palestinian wars as one example, all with water as the subtheme. Rivers are losing mass all over the world, our own rivers such as the Colorado do not empty out in the Gulf anymore, and climate change and pollution have brought us to the point where even where there is water it won't be potable for humans. The cholera epidemic in Haiti that has never seen cholera before is but one frightening recent example. We still in a huge way as a whole take water for granted and have gotten ourselves into quite a situation because of it.

Yes, I know. Also as examples, tensions between Iraq and Turkey over the Tigris/Euphrates rivers and proliferation of dams taking water from poorer agricultural areas there and in South America where many indigenous people suffer; conflicts in Kenya and other areas of Africa due to nomads needing to move because of depletion of fish and water sources due to climate change and pollution and also privitization; and now even in Sudan with the independence referendum coming for a vote in January that will bring a civil war in my estimation with oil and water as the central focus. This is a global crisis that does not get the attention it deserves and needs.

No, because you are going to lead the charge of the toilet bowl brigade, future hero that you are to be.

Reproduced ourselves into that one a while back.

"Let's see. This looks like a pretty good place to live and have 12 children. No water, shitty soil and if I'm lucky, I'm Hindu and my dead uncle the cow is gobbling up all the vegetation. But I can still go down to the holy water of the Ganges and pray and watch the turds float by. But Monsanto will fix everything. Look at the dandy job Union Carbide did in Bhopal." Ain't we smart. No, and unfortunately, it don't look like you can fix stupid. Why isn't population control PC? Seems like it would some control would start to reduce our problems and reduce the number of hallucinations on these posts.

http://www.slideshare.net/slatefrance/agricultural-investment-and-international-... Nice article in Nat Geo a few months ago about contrarian investors that are buying up the rights to thousands of acres and cutting deals with warlords in Africa. They are betting on food shortages due to drought due to climate changes.

Why did you post a link for a teeth whitener? Getting creative with the SPAM?

Having a world of car drivers using cars that their engine splits water during a world water shortage yeah, that's the one.That's the one to use, just you watch => Editor's Pick. And the Schappert engine a few million of his on the highway spewing out extra MOISTURE by the tankload that's the worst GREENHOUSE GAS THERE IS, that's Editor's Pick #2.

Together those two men could make change we could believe in.

not gonna happen...the oil men don't want alternative fuels and won't stop until the earth is depleted of oil and flaked like a bad case of dandruff, and the coal men don't want alternative energy and won't stop until the mountains have been reduced to what leaves the landscape looking like a bad case of teenage acne.

Water cars in a world of drought are simply not viable.

How much energy at what cost to produce the results? Is it really efficient in an energy in energy out basis? Remember the huge push for ethanol which resulted in a spike in world oil use and a global food shortage?

Mine is Jan. Mine is a closed system. Once a half liter or so of water primes the engine the water never leaves. The engine never overheats. It cools itself by virtue of design, something Detroit knows little about.

Scientists say my engine can't be built. How convenient. They deny it because they wanted to be the one to invent it.

Every nation on earth has access to ocean front property and an international ownership some many miles from shore. Great Britain for instance is surrounded by water and they are wealthy beyond all avarice in sub ocean floor nuclear power plant energy. India's many millions of civilian population has access to ocean floor energy already there.

The [energy] grapes are ripe and the [energy] vine sagging to the ground from their lusciousness of plenty. Perhaps somebody out there who is smarter than me could please explain to me where I have made a mistake. I think we have all the nuclear power we could ever want.

We're walking over top of it.

Why is it we always see the obvious when it is too late to do anything about it?

Because for all of our lives we have been warned against following false prophets so now we don't discriminate => every prophet is a false prophet, even the real ones. And when the process is complete what you find is you empowered the false prophets who are the enemy of us all.

A real prophet doesn't have much money, lacks position to get anything done, so people avoid him like he has the plague...and the answers you know someone "just has to have" ~that he in fact has had for years & years~ haven't been built.

So your answer is that we are under a curse => the lack of faith.

That's also why none of my systems has moved one inch off the tarmac.

It isn't too late Jan, not from the Science side. The winners in the technology arena are being hand picked. Whichever one works and they choose to run with is the ones that keeps their pools heated for the morning swim and skinny dip with a model or actress.

You haven't forgotten that the Japanese have a system going online that captures solar in space and beams it down, have you? It's exotic, so they love it. It's expensive, so they can milk it for decades of Profit long after the system is paid for.

Like what the Cable TV company does => build the system and charge customers for the wiring til the day it corrodes down into the ground.

Go write your book Jan. The fix is in [the pipeline].

Okay... and.. what is your point?

You do realize that oil is a non-renewable resource right? Meaning, even if we found the a deposit of oil that double the total predicted, it would not matter, it will run out. Plus, whether or not you accept the facts on man made climate change, you cannot deny the fact that oil production and consumption causes enormous amounts of pollution---whether we're talking about the tons of air pollution, the millions of gallons spilled in the ocean and rivers, or the plastic that is piling up in land fills.

So, back to your point about their being more oil in the U.S. than in the Middle East.. so what? Should we go right ahead and stick to this unsustainable structure until we use up every last drop and pollute every river, ocean and piece of land? Can you seriously look into a child's eyes and say, "I really don't care what using oil now means for you later, this just makes things so much easier for me right now."???

I truly believe it's impossible for Democrats and Republicans in this country to "debate" at this point. It's time for people of good conscience regardless of their socalled party to fight the ones without it that have brought this planet to the abyss. Delineating this country along party lines instead of lines of principle has been what has gotten us into this in the first place.

Peak oil doesn't mean that there's suddenly no oil left.

GET THE____________OUT OF HERE.

Try a dose of your own medicine there Jan.

I'M NOT A SPAMMER. Try actually contributing something of substance yourself sometime.

Brazil has already replaced 50% of their oil consumption for transport with biofuels and natural gas.

The concern is that more land is being cleared for agricultural purposes (thus exacerbating climate change in the first place) but in reality that land is going to grow biofuel for the large conglomerates like Cargill that control the land through land grabs. It's the new colonialism. So you actually have cleared land using fossil fuel that exacerbates climate change (and for many water scarcity) by deforestation, to grow crops that are going to cars... is that really a winning ratio? In a world where food scarcity due to lack of access and climate change will severely limit access to food even more, there has to come a point when even biofuel (ethanol especially) is reconsidered. I really don't have a problem with switchgrasses being used as they are viable, and actualy hemp is the perfect source in my view. However, if we grow them using fossil fuels I am truly curious to know just how that is a win win situation for us.

---------" It's the new colonialism."-------

Colonialism---and variations thereof, empire building, subjugation, etc. etc.-----is as old as mankind. It is the use of force and coercion to gain power and wealth. It has nothing to do with climate change. It amounts to one group taking the land from the indigenous people who occupy it and displacing them and taking ownership. It is no different than European whites and Native Americans. Nothing has changed.

Deforestation to plant crops is exactly the same thing that has been happening since the white man first arrived on the shores of America. Since Rome conquered the entire known world. Since the Egyptian empire first rose up on the banks of the Nile.

In 1860, between 60 and 100 million buffalo roamed the Great Plains-----and by 1890, they were gone. Killed off because they were the single greatest resource of the indigenous tribes that depended on them for food, shelter and clothing. In 1908, in an effort to recreate what had been lost---it was necessary to import buffalo from the far northern reaches of Alberta and North West Territory to bring a small herd to Yellowstone to repopulate.

The fault is not in technology---the fault is in the failure to protect that which needs to be protected.

The fault is in not respecting the right to life and dignity of every person.

The fault is making the law and extension of power, privilege and wealth----instead of a fortress of protection for all people. This is the very distilled essence of the ideals of the rule of law over tyranny and force, greed and corruption, strong over weak, rich over poor that this country was founded on.

JAN, what you are looking for is Justice---the kind of justice that comes from the rule of law over brute force and coercion. The kind of justice that says that every person is equal before the law, and the law is here to serve and protect everyone equally.

When I went into the military 41 years ago---I swore to uphold the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I did not place a time limit on how long I would defend the constitution, the rule of law, and the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness---for all people. I still defend the constitution.

Justice does not come from technology---Justice comes from commitment to ideas. The idea to make the world a better place for every person. The idea of the rule of law, and the golden rule.

I believe that if we do our best to make the world according to the ideas given to us by people like Jesus, Jefferson, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Muir, Thoreau.

If we do that---technology does not matter.

Well those are my ideas as well and I thank you for this tremendous response.

on this trip to trinidad..did al gore walked or rode on a "fossil fuel burning" vehicle??

I just went to your profile page and looked through your posts.

It looks to me like you are a completely sour, bitter, cynical person.

Not one single positive comment anywhere, about anything.

Nothing but cynical attacks on anyone with any positive ideas or efforts.

I would guess that anyone who knows you would run the opposite direction if they possibly could when they see you coming.

What you give to life is what you get back in life.

I wouldn't want to have to live your life.