[Newsbot]

Title: Oil sands threaten our survival, Al Gore warns
Category: Political
Posted By: gigs
Date: 2009-11-24 07:09:11
Canadian

[Canadian_Mind]

I' be more willing to listen if it weren't for such stupid headlines.

[bootlegga]

I'd argue that running out of oil threatens our survival even more, given our near total dependence on it. I may not like the emissions that the oil sands generate, but I understand it is vital to keeping our economy afloat.

Hopefully, the necessity of such projects will spur alternative energy sources to the point that we may not be as dependent on the oil sands in a decade or two. Until then, we need every drop we can squeeze out of there. Even with it, we'll be seeing triple digit oil prices soon enough, which will just lead to another recession a few yeears down the road.

[Akhenaten]

Canadian_Mind wrote:

I' be more willing to listen if it weren't for such stupid headlines.

No doubt. Everytime he says something like this...

Quote:

Extracting oil from Alberta's tar sands jeopardizes the survival of our species, says Al Gore.

He destroys himself.

Quote:

"Gas from the tar sands gives a Prius the same carbon footprint as a Hummer," the former U.S. vice-president told the Star in an interview prior to a Toronto speaking engagement scheduled for Tuesday evening.

"I know that doesn't make me popular in Alberta," said the jet-hopping environmental activist, best known for the movie and book An Inconvenient Truth.

Uh-huh. Welp I guess we outta shut down the GTA as well since that pumps out more CO2 than the oil sands does.

[BartSimpson]

We're not running out of oil anytime soon.

http://climateresearchnews.com/2009/09/ ... s-forever/

[Alta_redneck]

Canadian_Mind wrote:

I' be more willing to listen if it weren't for such stupid headlines.

I might have read the story if the headline didn't say "Al Gore warns"

[stemmer]

Al Gore is a chump and a lackey of the UN....

This line here tells us how much of an idiot and hypocrite he is...

Quote:

"I know that doesn't make me popular in Alberta," said the jet-hopping environmental activist, best known for the movie and book An Inconvenient Truth.

Punk off Al...!!!!

[Proculation]

WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE !!!! I FARTED GHG !!!

[bootlegga]

BartSimpson wrote:

We're not running out of oil anytime soon.

http://climateresearchnews.com/2009/09/ ... s-forever/

It ain't a matter of running out, it's a matter of supply and demand. If the world supply is 50 million barrels a day, and we can only produce 45 million, where do you think the price goes? UP...

Yes, there is still plenty of oil, but unfortunately, countries that once exported oil (like China) have now become big importers themselves. Other major deposits (like the North Sea) are prodcuing less and less. Companies now tout 'big' oil finds like 10 billion barrels off the ocast of Brazil, when in the heyday of discoveries, that wouldn't rate a mention on the last page of the newspaper.

I highly recommend "Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller" by Jeff Rubin. It'll change the way you look at carbon taxes, oil prices and the cost of globalization.

[gigs]

[EyeBrock]

Yep, I think the pendulum has begun to swing back.

These false prophets of GW are being seen for what they really are. Promoters of junk science.

[GreenTiger]

Al Gore is forgetting that it is better to produce/purchase oil from politicaly stable countries.

[commanderkai]

Why does anybody care what that man thinks?

[BartSimpson]

bootlegga wrote:

BartSimpson wrote:

We're not running out of oil anytime soon.

http://climateresearchnews.com/2009/09/ ... s-forever/

It ain't a matter of running out, it's a matter of supply and demand. If the world DEMAND is 50 million barrels a day, and we can only produce 45 million, where do you think the price goes? UP...

Yes, there is still plenty of oil, but unfortunately, countries that once exported oil (like China) have now become big importers themselves. Other major deposits (like the North Sea) are prodcuing less and less. Companies now tout 'big' oil finds like 10 billion barrels off the ocast of Brazil, when in the heyday of discoveries, that wouldn't rate a mention on the last page of the newspaper.

I highly recommend "Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller" by Jeff Rubin. It'll change the way you look at carbon taxes, oil prices and the cost of globalization.

Note the correction.

Read the article. With huge supplies of oil deep in the earth all that matters is the technology to extract it. When shallow supplies dry up, as they did in Pennsylvania, the technology to extract oil from deeper sources (as in Texas and offshore) will be developed. Right now there's no compelling reason to drill 10km down when there's plenty of oil 1km down.

[SprCForr]

It's impossible to go deeper than 2 km.

Al Gore says so.