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Wow, that response is as absurdly distopic as the article is absurdly utopic.
I don't think that the original article was particularly utopic. The fact is, there are many more years of oil available today than there were when I first started getting involved in these discussions of chicken little theories. The chicken littles don't want us to use this oil. Hence these political machinations to stop us from drilling and building pipelines. Whatever food problems there are can easily be reduced by ending the idiotic practice of putting ethanol in gasoline thereby diverting a large part of the food supply into something that reduces the efficiency of gasoline.
In twenty years the oil monopoly will be a distant memory and oil will cost less and not more than it does today (in inflation adjusted dollars).
Overpopulation? Increase education and free subjugated women everywhere. Watch the birth rate drop.
In twenty years the oil monopoly will be a distant memory and oil will cost less and not more than it does today (in inflation adjusted dollars).
That's hard to know. They have to keep drilling and finding to even stand still on the oil output. That keeps getting more expensive. There's also the recovery rate from a field. It can be as low as 10% or as high as 50 to 80 percent depending on the expensive enhanced recovery used and other factors.
If the governments in Canada and the U.S. were funding the drilling your assertion might be right. But it's companies and they and their investors want a return.
Watch what happens the next year with natural gas in North America and the producing companies which have been finding and drilling and have a debt load to carry as a result.
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
"On March 22 the province released its report on its two-year review of the feed-in tariff (FIT), which is the program that’s been driving solar panel installations on buildings across Ottawa and the rest of Ontario.
The news is good. Enough renewable energy projects have been approved since the FIT program started to replace four major coal power plants, according to one source. Greenhouse Gas emissions from electricity generation in Ontario are now only a third of what they were in 2003.
The province claims that these clean energy initiatives have created more than 20,000 jobs in Ontario and created a green tech manufacturing sector. The changes have also stimulated more than $27 billion in private-sector investment.
This underscores the importance of what many are calling the best clean energy approach in North America."
Gary, why are posting an article from last week?
Your article about a survey that claims polar bear numbers are increasing, is being refuted by reports this week that the survey is biased in order to justify an increase in the harvest. hmmm......who's right, I don't know. But I also ran across reports that polar bears are losing fur and having fewer cubs.
Gary, why are posting an article from last week?
Your article about a survey that claims polar bear numbers are increasing, is being refuted by reports this week that the survey is biased in order to justify an increase in the harvest. hmmm......who's right, I don't know. But I also ran across reports that polar bears are losing fur and having fewer cubs.
I haven't seen the article to which you refer.
Females normally have 2 cubs. How many fewer than that do you figure they have?
Females normally have 2 cubs. How many fewer than that do you figure they have?
Gary, I have been unable to locate the article again that talks about the polar bear problems of less fur and fewer cubs, but I may have stumbled upon the explanation.....As they attempt to adapt to warmer temperatures, well you see...the clip is self explanatory.
Must be the answer. Or maybe the problem with less cubs you mention has to do with chemistry. The males not being attracted to the females.
Or maybe Bob just kind of sort of remembers articles that support his view without actually having to produce them for others to verify. Not very scientific but an excellent street debater tactic.
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