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From: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Registered: Oct 2004

posted December 01, 2004 09:03 PM         

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Has anyone read this book, End of Oil?

Just finished it and now kinda scared of what the future will be like if we all don't stop using so much oil.

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From: Oz
Registered: Nov 2003

posted December 01, 2004 09:28 PM         

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Does it predict a date by any chance?

Dean.

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From: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Registered: Oct 2004

posted December 02, 2004 04:55 AM         

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The book lists all kinds of dates for reaching peak oil production and after that date is reached, it's all downhill from there.

The earliest the book listed was 2005. Other dates included 2010, 2020, 2030.

What was scariest is the extra carbon dioxide emissions. Temperatures are going to rise, enough to change important areas of the world into desert.

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From: Colorado, USA
Registered: Nov 2004

posted December 02, 2004 08:17 PM         

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Oh, we have tons of other energy sources - but all the real good ones are being kept secret so the oil-czars can gouge us. When the oil-fields eventually dry up, they'll miraculously "discover" a new energy source, I betcha.

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From: Colorado, USA
Registered: Nov 2004

posted December 02, 2004 08:20 PM         

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And all that talk about our puny little carbon-dioxide emissions changing the earth's atmosphere... It's certainly no warmer where I am! Brr, I could do with some global warming. 3 degrees outside today!

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From: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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posted December 03, 2004 05:05 AM         

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Take a look at this website... not a pretty picture...
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

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From: land of the midnight sun
Registered: Dec 2002

posted December 03, 2004 12:37 PM         

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Hi Johnny,
I'm in Colorado too.. shiverin my tail off up here in the mountains..

I just had to say that in some places it is ridiculously warmer. My hometown is Fairbanks Alaska and all they've been talkin about up there for years is how strange the weather keeps getting.. 20 years ago it was normal to have atleast a few week long cold snaps of -70 but these days the coldest it gets is -20 and that's not nearly as often as it used to...

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From: Oz
Registered: Nov 2003

posted December 05, 2004 06:04 PM         

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That is such a cool article, but scary...

Dean.

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