Quote from EMRGLOBAL:
The main point is that technology and demand are changing the percentage that can be extracted."
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This is a key point. Drilling domestic sites has become far more efficent and can yield great results. The problem is that the SHEOOPLE and bleeding heart socialist are blind to the above fact. We can drill domestically with enviromentally sound practices. I am not saying that there would "NEVER" be an accident. However, with new Technology, this is a fact.
The main problem, the American people are lazy and want to be dependent on foreign oil.
There is a abundance of Oil in America, yet to be discovered.
We just started to drill domestically and more attention will be brought to such a task.
Oil is not going anywhere and our consumtion of it will not stop. However, even though I am involved in OIL I also advicate alternitive energy sources as well.
I do not believe that "alternitive"energy is a threat to OIL or the Industry. Humans do not change their habits thus, will all ways have a thurst for Oil.
As i stated, Oil will touch 400 to 500 a barrel before "PEAK" oil theory could ever be "rationalized". I think "PEAK OIL" is a false theory.
Quote from Martin Gale:
I'm convinced that people who don't 'get' peak oil probably never made it past high school algebra. This is not meant to be a put down. Calculus is all about rate of change (the derivative of a function) and area under the curve (the integral of a function). Peak oil is all about when the derivative of the production curve goes to zero. That's the mathematical definition of a peak. It is not about when the integral of the production curve goes to zero. That would be the mathematical definition of running out.
Peak oil skeptics don't seem to understand that the rate of change is the issue. They keep harping on how much we have in the ground without seeming to realize that it don't mean squat if you can't get to it fast enough. Peak just means that the rate has dropped from its all-time maximum; it doesn't mean we've run out [yet].
My analogy: Try sucking air through a straw. You are surrounded by air! But if you can't get enough air through your straw, you die. Well, all those holes we drill in the ground for oil are a bunch of straws. Those straws have limited flow. So we drill more straws to keep the flow rising with demand. But we've run low on places to poke the straws. Now, the overall flow is reaching a maximum, but demand keeps increasing.
In 1970, U.S. oil production peaked at about 10 million barrels per day. Today, it's about half that. Thus, it (the rate of production) peaked. Obviously, every other oil producing nation will someday follow. In fact, most already have. World production, which is the sum of all the separate producers, will therefore peak.
The only question is the timing of the peak.
Quote from Pekelo:
Whe 25 years from now your grandkids going to ask: grandpa, do you remember the time when that mysterious liquid called crude oil peaked? Here is an easy way to remember: 2005 May, when hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans...
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More charts at :
http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/3655#more
P.S.: It is possible that in the NEAR future we SLIGHTLY go over the May 2005 peak. It won't be for long or by a big amount though...