“We are running out of oil, and there are no real alternatives, according to the best scientific and independent government studies,”
This is called the “Big Lie’ technique.
We are nowhere close to running out of OIL. We ARE running out of cheap, easy to get at liquid OIL, but that is a different issue. “Experts” (yes, those are snear quotes) intentionally confuse the two because there is a profit to be made doing so. Over 2 TRILLION barrels are locked up in the Shale OIL fields of Utah and Colorado. Enough for about 1200 years at the current rate of consumption and growth;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_reserves
Here is a second source. The USA has approximately 5x the Petroleum reserves that Saudi Arabia does. That is a FACT. One that the scare mongers driving the market up don’t want you to know.
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/rpt/OilShale.html
The alternatives are legion, so this is a half/lie. Half because there is no ‘Silver Bullet’ one size fits all alternative. There are however, many separate techniques that combined will be an alternative to liquid OIL. Too many to list here. As a highlight; Nuclear, hydro, geothermal, kinetic, Solar, conservation. All will play a role, depending on local conditions.
Those are NOT scientists, they are bureaucrats with scientific degrees. Two different critters. Your mistake is one the left makes all the time. Having a PhD doesn’t make you a scientist. Doing science makes you a scientist.
A professor with a PhD in Plasmaphysics is NOT a scientist, but an Academic. Once in a blue moon, you will find some one who is talented enough to do both, but normally they don’t do either one very well.
IIRC, the Government is the number one employer of PhD’s. That doesn’t make those people scientists.
Doing research makes you a scientist. This is where the anthropogenic global warming advocates show their true colors. Go thru one of their list of “scientists” (more sneer quotes) and google some of those names. Not a scientist in the lot. Bureaucrats and academics with an occasional administrator thrown in. None of them has seen the inside of a research lab since their Junior year at Podunk State University.
NO SUCH THING as an independent GOVERNMENT study. That is another Big Lie.
Four strikes, you are out.
BTW, those ‘scientists’ you are so happy to cite are still stuck on the Dead Dino theory for OIL. OIL has been found in one of the Saturn’s moons;
http://www.physorg.com/news102870255.html
A slight exaggeration, since OIL is made out of hydrocarbon, but not as much of one as the OIL price manipulators are using.
Anyway, those “scientists” are having as much trouble explaining how the dinosaurs got to Saturn’s moons as the anthropogenic global warming advocates explaining global warming on Mars;
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
What sort of SUV’s do Martians drive?
