It's Oil over for the Oil addicts
@ 2005-08-10 - 15:55:40Petrol about to hit £1.00 a litre, rising electricity and gas costs, followed by massive inflation, spiralling interest rates and repossessions of houses, coupled with companies going under. And all because our society is almost completely dependent on a black liquid - will we be able to endure or even survive the oil dependency withdrawal symptoms?
It's hard enough treating an individual addict and getting them off the drugs they are hooked on, let alone a whole global economy. How do you rehabilitate a whole way of life when those responsible for it are only intrested in continuing to profit from our addiction to alfestyle fuelled by the black stuff?
Think this is crazy? Look at the huge profits made by those who provide and supply the drugs. Examine the extraordinary lengths those dependent will go to to ensure a constant supply. Look how the individual addicts cannot change their ways, even when they are aware of the damage it is doing.
Do we even have the will to try to change, or will we try and desperately hang onto our addiction whatever it costs anyone else? Some of the biggest addicts are already taking huge risks to try and secure their supply, while those who are wise enough and able enough seek alternatives that will free them from dependency. Their reward will be to take power in the new world that will follow.
I personnaly have no faith in our leaders to tackle this problem (after all never gets really bad until after the election when they leave office so no chance of any long term solution to this problem) so I'm going to try to look out for number one and insulate my life as much as possible from the oil addiction. Good luck to the rest of you. Kick the habit now before it destroys you and your whole way of life.
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The World's excessive use of oil is a consequence of it's abundance, proliferation of more powerful machines and a need for non-oil producing nations to snuggle with our Arab devils.
The largest free sources of energy are 1: The Sun 2: Sea Water 3: Air (Nitrogen/Oxygen) 4: Wind.
How we can make these elements work for us in the bigger picture is yet to be discovered. It is one thing to power the space-station with solar energy yet another to make our car zip along the road and down to the beer store at more than 12 mph.
Oil is still in it's abundance under the Earth's floor, in the 1960's when I was a primary school they forecasted it would all be gone in 20 years... that was 40 years ago and our thirst for the black gunge has gone 50 fold since the 60's... yet it's still coming up out of the ground.
When the wells run dry or start sucking lava from our Planet's bowels... only then will it stir the creative minds of those great inventors. Only then will the Governments actually do something about it... it's going to be a very interesting day when that happens.
Good post, stirred the imagination... made me stop and write!
Scotradomus.
 | tregeddow [Member] 19/10/05 @ 09:40 |
12 mph will seem pretty good when the alternative is spending an absolute fortune on petrol. Besides, with congestion on roads gettings worse it won't be possible to go any faster
I think there won't be a large scale move until the economics are pushing it. At present oil based fuels are cheaper. At present savings from switching to alternatives doesn't justify the investment - the payback periods are just too long.
Why am I going to fit solar panels to heat water / generate power when it will be 40 years before I have saved the cost of installation?
Part of this is the cost of the technology - there is a tendency to produce high tech, highly efficient, high cost devices and not look at less efficient alternatives that may actually work out more cost effective as they can be mass manufactured at less cost per unit output.
It's what happens in the run up to the oil running out that scares me - when it's gone it's gone and we all have to live with that.
While it's going there is going to be a lot of fighting over who gets to use a dwindling vital resource. It will be messy. We should go cold turkey now in a controlled way - it is less messier in the long run.
| tregeddow [Member] 01/02/06 @ 18:28 |
Yee Haaa, Even George Dubya Bush has seen the light! In his state of the Union address last night he admitted America was addicted to Oil.
Mind you it's in their economic interest to reduce dependency so something will happen.
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