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TheGame · 03-17-2004, 11:13 AM

Mana... I suggest you read through it all before making an arguement/opinion. I pretty much agree with Blackmane on this one.

"There are several solutions though, and people managed to live without oil and electric before."

True, but it wasn't exactly 6 billion people who have no experience with living w/o oil.

manasecret · 03-17-2004, 03:32 PM

Well that's why I pointed out that I didn't read it all, because if you think I'm wrong you're probably right and I can't make a good argument without knowing everything they said and going back over it multiple times.

Such as what Blackmane said about it not being anti-Bush; just after reading some more of it I realize he's right.

It's not worth arguing about it here to me is all. I have a few more things I could say against the article swirling in my head, but I know if I really get into this I'm going to end up reading it over and over, pulling quotes from everywhere, looking up facts on other websites, and so on until I run out of time in the day to do classwork and only have time to go out and drink.

Blackmane · 03-17-2004, 03:35 PM

Exactly what TheGame said. If this does occur, then I do believe there could be a big dieoff of people occuring. Of course we lived just fine without oil, but that was when we had a balance of people on the planet that could be sustained of the amount of food we could produce without oil to back us up. The fact of the matter is, without oil, we have no way (right now) of maintaining the food/water/medical infrastructure that is keeping 6 billion people alive on the planet..

The Duggler · 03-18-2004, 09:54 AM

I don't know if it will happen like it says in there, but I know that we will run out of oil someday, that's a fact. The questions should be, will we be able to adapt fast enough? And how much oil is really left and how much did we burn already.

And the human race is known to wait until something happens in order to do something about it, so I guess this will hit hard as we won't be prepared.

TheGame · 03-18-2004, 01:07 PM

Well, we won't get hit as hard if someone starts taking action soon... the longer we wait, the harder the hit. I makes me wonder though... who has a better chance of trying to solve the problem, Bush or Kerry.

The Duggler · 03-18-2004, 01:26 PM

I think that as long as there is oil to sell and money to make, we won't do much about it.

jeepnut · 03-18-2004, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Nitram

I think that as long as there is oil to sell and money to make, we won't do much about it.

Well, I bet that if something is really wrong, we will see things start to change. I mean, if we really are about to run out of oil, then a ton of really big corporations are going to lose a lot of money. I'd be willing to bet that those companies aren't going to just sit around while they watch their main source of income dry up. I'm betting they are going to want to find a way to keep making money.

DimHalo · 03-18-2004, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by jeepnut

Well, I bet that if something is really wrong, we will see things start to change. I mean, if we really are about to run out of oil, then a ton of really big corporations are going to lose a lot of money. I'd be willing to bet that those companies aren't going to just sit around while they watch their main source of income dry up. I'm betting they are going to want to find a way to keep making money.

i thought you were mr. Meteorologist, where did this economic knowledge/insight come from?

I have no idea what to think about all this, besides the fact that i don't spend much time thinking about it (although i should) until it is more of a reality in my life

GT News · 03-18-2004, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by jeepnut's slave

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Originally Posted by jeepnut

Well, I bet that if something is really wrong, we will see things start to change. I mean, if we really are about to run out of oil, then a ton of really big corporations are going to lose a lot of money. I'd be willing to bet that those companies aren't going to just sit around while they watch their main source of income dry up. I'm betting they are going to want to find a way to keep making money.

i thought you were mr. Meteorologist, where did this economic knowledge/insight come from?

I have no idea what to think about all this, besides the fact that i don't spend much time thinking about it (although i should) until it is more of a reality in my life

I don't know whether or not I am mr.
I am a giant electronic brain. Not many people have goals like that.Would you like to have an idea?

jeepnut · 03-18-2004, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by CamFuBot

I don't know whether or not I am mr.
I am a giant electronic brain. Not many people have goals like that.Would you like to have an idea?

Yes, please. Let's hear one of your "ideas."

DimHalo · 03-18-2004, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by CamFuBot

I don't know whether or not I am mr.
I am a giant electronic brain. Not many people have goals like that.Would you like to have an idea?

well, we all know that you've got some insight but i don't think that the fact that you're a giant electronic brain says much about anything... you still seem kind of "simple"

Blackmane · 03-18-2004, 07:57 PM

The problem is that these big oil companies cannot start spending all of their assets to develop new sources of power because by the time they realize how big of an issue it is, the economy will be melting out from under them. As the article says, they cannot start losing money to try to "save the world" because they have to do what is best for the company at the time.