<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Kenneth Deffeyes’ Beyond Oil forecasts a fast-approaching petroleum peak]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by katesisco http://www.grist.org/article/weeks-beyondoil/ Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:02:15 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/weeks-beyondoil/1 Just a Viscous Rumor

Interesting review as it ties in nicely with the book I just read, High Noon for Natural Gas.  I loved McPhee's Basin and Range, I love all of McPhee's books.  
The note that there is almost uncountable reserves of methane hydrate is repeated here; also that the cost of natural gas is the reason we are now importing agricultural fertilizer from outside the US.
This love affair with profiting from oil has forced us into buyers of the infamous SUV, an extenion of the road building craze, and made us into flyers instead of rail travelers.  All so the gigantic corporates can rake in more gigantic profits.  
We are tied to an infrastructure than the corporates cannot shed even if they wanted to; so the end of big oil will happen.  The natural gas will be made into whatever for will allow the existing infrasturcture to be utilized, and when the natural gas is gone, the next in line will be bent to serve the existing infrastructure.  And so it goes.  
I wonder if it will come down to a choice of fueling the jets and cars or the military's carriers and ships?  One wouldn't be much good without the other--the military exists to protect the profits--so there has to be enough for both.  Wars are fought over who gets the goodies when the pickins are slim.    



]]> Just a Viscous Rumor

Interesting review as it ties in nicely with the book I just read, High Noon for Natural Gas.  I loved McPhee's Basin and Range, I love all of McPhee's books.  
The note that there is almost uncountable reserves of methane hydrate is repeated here; also that the cost of natural gas is the reason we are now importing agricultural fertilizer from outside the US.
This love affair with profiting from oil has forced us into buyers of the infamous SUV, an extenion of the road building craze, and made us into flyers instead of rail travelers.  All so the gigantic corporates can rake in more gigantic profits.  
We are tied to an infrastructure than the corporates cannot shed even if they wanted to; so the end of big oil will happen.  The natural gas will be made into whatever for will allow the existing infrasturcture to be utilized, and when the natural gas is gone, the next in line will be bent to serve the existing infrastructure.  And so it goes.  
I wonder if it will come down to a choice of fueling the jets and cars or the military's carriers and ships?  One wouldn't be much good without the other--the military exists to protect the profits--so there has to be enough for both.  Wars are fought over who gets the goodies when the pickins are slim.    



]]> Comment #2 by johnmcc793 http://www.grist.org/article/weeks-beyondoil/ Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:22:43 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/weeks-beyondoil/2 Viscous HUMORS

Cute title, Jennifer and it misses the point of Dreyfuss'latest Peak Oil book.  Seriously Jennifer, can we really have too many books warning us of the fate we are casting our children.

Already four days since she posted her piece and only one comment thus far....  Seems like GRIST's readers are an older and slower set comforted by the fact their generation will, in fact, get all the social security checks they are due.

How about our children getting the better standard of living to which they are due.  Can they enjoy a better life than we had without oil?  Well, of course they can!  Bicycles and solar panels are what we have given them as an investment in their secure energy future.

Come on folks.  Lets have a real discussion about our children's future.  We can title it "Vicious Reality" being that GRIST likes to find the lighter side of everything.

John McC

]]> Viscous HUMORS

Cute title, Jennifer and it misses the point of Dreyfuss'latest Peak Oil book.  Seriously Jennifer, can we really have too many books warning us of the fate we are casting our children.

Already four days since she posted her piece and only one comment thus far....  Seems like GRIST's readers are an older and slower set comforted by the fact their generation will, in fact, get all the social security checks they are due.

How about our children getting the better standard of living to which they are due.  Can they enjoy a better life than we had without oil?  Well, of course they can!  Bicycles and solar panels are what we have given them as an investment in their secure energy future.

Come on folks.  Lets have a real discussion about our children's future.  We can title it "Vicious Reality" being that GRIST likes to find the lighter side of everything.

John McC

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