World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown. —
This is the headline [1] from The Guardian this morning.
The German-based Energy Watch Group will release its study in London today saying that global oil production peaked in 2006 – much earlier than most experts had expected. The report, which predicts that production will now fall by 7% a year, comes after oil prices set new records almost every day last week, on Friday hitting more than $90 (£44) a barrel.
[2]I call meadow muffins.
You know, this business might actually be scary if we hadn’t been hearing exactly the same thing since the 1950’s. But the bottom line is that it’s no more true now, than it was then. Ya see… the one factor that they keep forgetting to add to the mix is that we keep finding new ways to discover the stuff.
Oh… and even the normally leftist and normally pessimistic about economic growth Guardian says:
The results are in contrast to projections from the International Energy Agency, which says there is little reason to worry about oil supplies at the moment.
Of course, you do have to dig down in the article about ten to twelve paragraphs before the point this out.
Think; If… and I say again, if… the scare were real, wouldn’t we start more domestic drilling and refining? But no, the supply and price of oil is being kept artificially high by enviro-whacko laws which prevent us from being energy independent to the degree we can be. Interestingly, these laws are backed by the very same folks who’ve been trying to scare us about oil crashes for 50 years and more, now.
And to what end? Why would they do that? Well, the same end as Al Gore and his global warming nonsense…. political power, which can only be obtained when our energy supplies are artificially limited. Think I’m kidding? Look at the patterns involved. As an example, look at Billy, this morning: [3]
“Bob Eye, a former state legislator, said of yesterday’s decision: ‘Is it without precedent? Yes, as far as I know, in this state or any other.’ But he argued that ‘CO{-2} . . . is a pollutant, not just because the Sierra Club says it, but because the Supreme Court said it.'”
The Washington Post [4], reporting on the unprecedented decision of Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s decision to deny permission to build a coal-fired electricity generation plant because of carbon dioxide emissions.
There you have it: now you know what constitutes science, in the gathering Endarkenment.
Doesn’t it kinda make you wonder if the numbers behind what we’re being told about oil shortages aren’t equally questionable, particularly given their track record and what’s at stake?
I’m telling you, gang… this is more scaremongering.
Nothing more.
BBCT: Memeorandum [5]