End Of Oil

22 Replies to “End Of Oil”

1. It was supposed to be the end of coal too, but I see the mines in the Elk Valley going great guns with construction. Not something I would expect to see from a supposedly dying industry.

   1. Metallurgical coal for steel-making.

      1. Met coal is also used as thermal coal

2. Only the “Just stop oil” lunatics should be surprised by this, because oil is used for a whole lot more than just burning.

3. The globe uses over 100 million barrels per day… this is an impressive number for Texas… but not optimistically a sign regarding global supply trends and proven reserves

   1. You should be happy to know that hydrocarbons are a renewable resource. They are made continuously by an abiotic process in the upper mantle of the earth where no fossils dared to go. So relax and enjoy the fruits of Mother Nature’s endeavours. Mention this to the eco-freaks if you want to see heads explode.

      1. What is wrong with you abiotic nitwits. How many barrels of oil have you ever drilled for / produced??
         None right? But you are an expert because you read some nucking futs paper on line and have 7 years of high school!

         1. They want it to be true, so they believe it to be so.

            It’s similar to “safe and effective” but at least Stewartpid’s belief is not killing anyone.

         2. Reuters “FactCheck”

            https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-fossil-fuel-rockefeller-idUSL1N2QQ1UK

            So it must be true.
            Whenever any woke connected organization “factchecks” anything, I know that what they are saying as not true, is true.
            Disinformation is real and the biggest purveyors of it are governments and mainstream media.

4. A few days ago the Toronto Star opined stupidly, IMO, that parents don’t have a right, but rather a privilege , to know their child’s gender. Only someone who has all the creature comforts covered could write something so idiotic. But it’s ironic that as many know a lot of those comforts come as a result of the very oil that the graph illustrates. Those men and women have no time for puerile op-eds written by adults who should, but choose not to, know better.

   1. The Toronto Brown Star can pound sand.

5. Electricity doesn’t manufacture anything, no matter how many solar panels & child slavery batteries you throw into it.

6. Just read where graphite is as important to batteries as lithium where do we get graphite? COAL

   1. It appears that more LibMutts have appeared here.. Orders from the SlurpRamp?

   2. Not so fast……..

      https://uwaterloo.ca/earth-sciences-museum/resources/detailed-rocks-and-minerals-articles/graphite

      Also, the “abiogenesis” theory of oil formatoiom goes back at least 40 years, to a band of Soviet rock-doctors and petroleum “engineers”

      Coal is a totally different material. That both oil and coal are extracted in places like Pebbsylvania is clained to prove a common origin of oil and coal.

      However, they are found in radically different geological formations that are located in reasonable proximity due to continental-scale movements within the planet’s crust..

      1. I also read of a competition to find a microbe that would digest coal and produce an extractable gas for usage. There is so much coal that is in seams too small to economically mine.

         1. Izzit me or izzit gramma thats maid dead or dying hip?

      2. The bull sheet has been going on for a long time …. look at a petroleum geology course for source rock info …. it ain’t rocket science. I laugh at Kudryavtsev thinking that the oil sands were proof of his theory … the oil sands merely proved that he didn’t understand oil migration in the WCSB / western canadian sedimentary basin. Look at Gussow’s papers https://onepetro.org/JPT/article/20/04/353/163741/Migration-of-Reservoir-Fluids on differential entrapment for info on that.
         FYI from WIKI …. History
         An abiogenic hypothesis was first proposed by Georgius Agricola in the 16th century and various additional abiogenic hypotheses were proposed in the 19th century, most notably by Prussian geographer Alexander von Humboldt,[when?] the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (1877)[8] and the French chemist Marcellin Berthelot.[when?] Abiogenic hypotheses were revived in the last half of the 20th century by Soviet scientists who had little influence outside the Soviet Union because most of their research was published in Russian. The hypothesis was re-defined and made popular in the West by Thomas Gold, who developed his theories from 1979 to 1998 and published his research in English.

         Abraham Gottlob Werner and the proponents of neptunism in the 18th century regarded basaltic sills as solidified oils or bitumen. While these notions proved unfounded, the basic idea of an association between petroleum and magmatism persisted. Alexander von Humboldt proposed an inorganic abiogenic hypothesis for petroleum formation after he observed petroleum springs in the Bay of Cumaux (Cumaná) on the northeast coast of Venezuela.[9] He is quoted as saying in 1804, “the petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie”.[citation needed] Other early prominent proponents of what would become the generalized abiogenic hypothesis included Dmitri Mendeleev[10] and Berthelot.

         In 1951, the Soviet geologist Nikolai Alexandrovitch Kudryavtsev proposed the modern abiotic hypothesis of petroleum.[11][12] On the basis of his analysis of the Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada, he concluded that no “source rocks” could form the enormous volume of hydrocarbons, and therefore offered abiotic deep petroleum as the most plausible explanation. (Humic coals have since been proposed for the source rocks.[13]) Others who continued Kudryavtsev’s work included Petr N. Kropotkin, Vladimir B. Porfir’ev, Emmanuil B. Chekaliuk, Vladilen A. Krayushkin, Georgi E. Boyko, Georgi I. Voitov, Grygori N. Dolenko, Iona V. Greenberg, Nikolai S. Beskrovny, and Victor F. Linetsky.

         Astronomer Thomas Gold was a prominent proponent of the abiogenic hypothesis in the West until his death in 2004. More recently, Jack Kenney of Gas Resources Corporation has come to prominence,[14][15][16] supported by studies by researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.[6]

7. Jenn
   So many old people in China, Japan, American baby boomers, India, even Russia etc etc. have all quit driving, or only drive if needed. Veggie Biden Administratio be so smart can’t figure out how come We deployables still have gasoline. So go out and buy you a 12 mile to the gallon Super Sport. 700 horsepower Enjoy the trip.

8. The chart says “Texas.”

   1. Oil is far from dying, it will be driving the economy and EV cars for generations to come.
      The climate hoax will be exposed for the fraud it is.

9. Turns out physics doesn’t care about politics.

   The laws of thermodynamics remain iron-clad even when an Greta Thunberg crinkles up her nose and intones “how dare you!” at them.