vue - Crash Course: Chapter 17a - Peak Oil by Chris Martenson
Chapter 17a - Peak Oil: Energy is the lifeblood of any economy and a steady supply of energy is necessary to maintain the status quo, while an ever-increasing supply is needed to grow an economy. In this chapter, Dr. Chris Martenson explains that Peak Oil is not a theory, rather it is a description of how oil production increases over time, reaches a peak, then declines. Evidence points to a global production peak in the near future, which is troubling since the U.S. imports two-thirds of its oil and relies on it to much of its transportation and food production needs. http://www.chrismartenson.com
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A single 10 cm cube, a liter, of thorium has the same energy as 25,000,000 liters of petrol. Why are we not funding thorium breeder reactors?
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An easier movie to watch on YouTube is "2210 The Collapse" by National Geographic.
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is it true that some of the middle east oil producing countries have break-even at 10$ a barrel ?
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Oil is about to die, the secret of super-conductivity and levitation cars driven, not by oil, is just around the corner.
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Crash course in cartels. Oil production peaked four years after OPEC was started. Why form a cartel, you ask?
Well, my student... I'll tell you.
In a natural supply/demand system, the PRICE of any commodity will approach COST of production plus the natural rate of returns on enterprises of similar risk. Throughout history, competition has brought that rate to 10% to 20% above production costs.
Without a Cartel, the Petrol in the Saudi Sands would sell for... about $10 a barrel, even today. That's out of the ground and onto a tanker.
BUT, a Cartel can artificially limit supply of any commodity by agreeing to go along with a fraud... a made up fairy tale story designed to pad the bottom line. The fraud? Peak oil.
But how do you artificially limit supply without people catching on?? Peak Oil.
How do you turn a $10 barrel of black gunk into $100? Peak Oil.
But OPEC cannot do it alone. What if some upstart were to give the middle finger to OPEC and start producing near capacity?
Well, friend... the petro-dollar arrangement means that any severe drop in the price of oil causes a similar decline in the demand for the US dollar. In order to protect the dollar and Central Banks everywhere, the cost of oil has to be maintained... or increased if possible.
Iraq pumping too much oil? Sanctions. Still too much? Weapons of mass destruction and regime change.
Here is a list of the top ten oil reserves in the world... see if you notice a pattern. Saudi Arabia is a banker puppet and will do anything we want with the price of oil... When I say, "We", of course I mean Goldmann Sachs and Royal Dutch Shell...
Here they are:
Venezuela - COMMUNISTS!!! On May 28, 2014, the United States House of Representatives passed the Venezuelan Human Rights and Democracy Protection Act
Saudi Arabia - Trusted allies. Enemy of Israel. Provocateur in the middle east... supplier of weapons to terrorists, home of Osama Bin Laden.
Canada - How's that pipeline coming?
Iran - Sanctions, Sanctions, Sanctions!!
Iraq - WMD, BOOM, Terrorists
Kuwait
UAE - Friendly Monarchs
Russia - Sactions and war provocations. Gotta get rid of that pesky Ukrainian pipeline (yeah, I know it's gas).
Libya - Um... yeah.
Nigeria - Same... loot 'er up.
Over half of these countries have had their oil supplies restricted through NATO actions. Our oil production has not decreased because of Peak Oil... it was decreased because of trumped up environmental concerns and the fact that Saudi Oil was sooo damned cheap. Once the OPEC cartel drove the little guys out of business, they jacked up the prices. Sound familiar? Now we're kept in check with Environmentalism, Environmentalism, Environmentalism...
Offshore drilling about to explode production? No problem. Just explode an offshore drill.
Alaskan oil threatening the cartel price? Destroy the Alaskan Coast with an oil spill and watch the greens protest and drive up profits.
Snarky? Yes... but look recently. Domestic oil production is starting to surge again. We haven't allowed a lot of drilling these last 40 years... but that is changing. Crude prices crept up WAY past the point of profitability a few years ago, and the domestic market responded. Iran, Russia and China are saying "Fuck you" to the west. They're saying, we don't need your stinking petro-dollar. All this will continue to depress oil prices around the world. This isn't a small trend... it is the shattering of OPEC... an international arrangement that would be criminal in this country if domestic. -
Why would you use a human to push the car home. Redo the math with the cost of an ox, or horse.
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excellent presentation
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fracking has released fantastic amount of new oil and gas. How does that square with peak oil?
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the last chart is wrong the pop growth is tied u with credit growth the elites have the most to do with pop explosion when they created cheap credit and created endless debt this created economic explosion and pop explosion and when the economy windens down millions will die one way or the other...
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this is worrisome...this vid was 5 years ago, so we are on the " bumpy plateau"....it'll be stretched out as long as possible , then BOOM! we're done...it gets REALLY ugly from there
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It's Aug of 2013 and Mexico still exports plenty of oil to the US. How is this possible? Did Mexico find more oil? I retrieved this current Info from U.S. eia website. Thanks Chris.
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Canadian oil sands have 1.5-2 trillion barrels and usa in shale oil is about 1.5 trillion but in order to pump the oil the price per barrel must be high, higher the price the more barrels you have to mine
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wow! thanks for the solar tower mention. . it just goes to show, that there doesnt need to be an energy recession. and if it happens we know the kikes are on it to exploit us .
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i sure hope you're right
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Haha indeed. It seems a lot of people believe that oil is just magically appearing in the ground, but with all the stuff people believe these days I am not surprised. With so many people on the planet not understanding we are carbon made organic beings, how on earth should they understand the simplest of chemistry and how oil came about. Why, many people should just pray to their gods to materialize some more oil in the ground like dinosaur bones were created in the earth for our amusement.
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Indeed, and its a prime example of the kind of oil that is very hard to extract, requiring a lot of energy IN for every barrel you get OUT. Martenson mentions that peak oil is not synomous of "running ouf of oil" which is exactly the point here as the oil we are not running out of is the very expensive stuff to get out. No world economy can finance this extraction at current consumption rates, although with the rate that the US is printing dollars bills it surely looks like they are trying. :)
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I think you need to look at the math again for the amount of energy you get out for the amount of energy you put in (ERoEI). There are currently no equivalent to oil in the sheer amount of energy you get out from the mass of oil (along with its tranportation convenience). While it is true that alternative energies can be made, they will under no circumstance be able to sustain the current consumption of energy. Alternative fuels will have to be made along with a drastic reduction in consumption.
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Good question. Probably because the stuff from Canada isn't sweet light crude oil.
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Yes if all of those things are done and more the "collapse" can be avoided. That stuff was supposed to be done by now. It isn't. We're witnessing the collapse in slow motion. It will speed up soon. Enjoy
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Wether Oil reproduces itself or not should be a known fact, so why is it that one side insists that once we're out, it's gone, and the other insists that wells refill all on it's own? Both sides seem pretty sure of themself, so SOMEONE is lying...
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