Peak Oil

[Rave]

Hello Mark, and welcome to the forums; that's possibly the greatest first post I've ever seen, with some excellent links. Cheers.

I'm left to wonder though why you're standing as a Republican candidate; you seem to be taking the issue of peak oil seriously while the Bush administration's record on environmental issues is frankly appalling. The money that has been spent on the Gulf War could have built a huge TDP plant in every single state.....

Rich :¬)

[RVF500]

Who is most likely to feel the real pinch of an oil run out? Well the oil companies for starters. So who is most likely to not have had their heads in the sand over this for some time? Next, why would they promote any new forms of fuel while they can still squeeze cash out of you and I for oil? Once the crash comes. Or probably shortly before. The miracle fuel from your friendly local Ex-Oil producer will land on the shelves. Sorry mate but that £50 grand Merc of yours is now a paperweight. Never mind eh? We'll sell you a £50 grand (fit appropriate vehicle here) to make up for it. These people are extremely rich and extremely greedy. They will have been researching alternatives since the beginnings of a scare back in the '70's. They will also want their personal gravy trains to keep on running.

The other side of the coin is that as the middle East dosn't appear to produce much else so they will go back to the stoneage and no-one will give a flying f*ck about them anymore. Which I'm sure is scaring the Arabs a lot more than this whole issue is scaring the rest of the world. Unless they figure how to make sand combustible.