We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Fans

That aught to smooth out all them bumps on that prairie carpet of gold. Either that or Regina will suck further into a sinkhole created by the missing oil.

A pity that none of this good news seems to filter down to the consumer who is getting gauged royally at the pumps.

You are called "Small Dead Animals." Big windmills (yeah I know they are turbines, but whatev) increase the number of small dead animals. So they have that going for them.

That sound yo hear is the drip, drip, drip of Dr. Fruit Fly's tears as he slowly comes to the realization his life's work, the great scam, the long grift . . is falling apart at the seams.

Too bad Davey boy, soooooooo sad for you.

How could we be "running out" of oil? Everyone knows that it's renewing itself all the time!! Duh!

We're not running short of traditional sources of generated electricity (Ont) either, but that doesn't stop McGuinty from building 100s more giant whirlygigs on prime cropland.
The latest wrinkle to this waste is dumping water over Niagara, rather than through the turbines to make way for costly subsizied wind energy. Seems the wind power comes on a inconvenient times, so the easiest way to cope with surplus is to dump hydro power. You thought hydro power was Green? Don't confuse enviro-nuts like Dalton with inconvenient truths.

There are two schools of thought about how crude oil was formed.One is from decaying plants and animals and the other is that it was formed from a chemical process from farther down in the earth,migrated upwards and has collected in formations that stopped further migrations upward.Either way, crude oil is as GREEN as wind,solar or any other so called green energy.Making oil from algae,seaweed or forest refuse is EXACTLY how crude oil was formed in the first place.When in HELL are the oil companies and the govts of oil producing provinces going to get this message out?

This is definitely great news, but I'd be far more interested in seeing a comparison of cost to retrieve it per barrel.anyone have/know these figures?

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I dunno how it’s made I’m not a scientist, but I have abandoned oil and gas well/fields all over western Canada and on all continents of the world, save for the Antarctic. Alternately I’ve worked on wells further and further out in many of the planets oceans, deserts and mountains.

Just say’n if it renews itself, it damned slow about it, and it's definetly more expensive to find and collect.

Martin, they've also been requiring nuclear plants to "maneuver", sometimes as much as a dozen times a week. This is even more costly than spilling hydro, and it also increases wear and tear on the plant.

George Smitherman should be formally canonized into Hell.

We and the rest of the world are certainly not running out of oil. There is loads and loads of the stuff in the ground. Shale oil alone would last for centuries. Even Israel has found 250 BILLION barrels of shale oil near Jerusalem. Its just that its harder to extract this oil, and the regulatory roadblocks are horrific.

Garry - you're right, it must be. Otherwise there's no way that current worlds resources could be larger than at any time in history.

It must have been a nicer world when there was still copper. We've been mining it for over 2000 years, so we must have run out a millennium ago, right? Pity that our kids will never get to hear brass instruments because there's no copper anymore...

C_miner - I'm going to assume that was sarcasm and that you're not actually implying that copper is being spontaneously created within the Earth.

Because that would just be silly.

Oil, copper and grain. When we need more, raise the price and we find more.

Hey.its not me saying that oil is renewable,its oil men that have wondered why fields that should have been pumped out,arent.Also,who knows how long it took to fill the oil resevors in the first place.If its plants and animals,there must have been one Hell of a lot of them under Saudi Arabia and the rest of the middle east.However,my original statement still stands,CRUDE IS GREEN ENERGY.