NationStates Jolt Archive

Maybe not. I found this article on National Geographic's web site and thought some people might be interested after the last U.N. Resolution. It's about a company that thinks it has a new source for oil...leftover turkey. Enjoy.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1125_031125_turkeyoil.html

You can always make new oil. People are oily. Maybe we can de-oil people.

I read that we have enough oil around the Earth for the next 100 years or so, it didn't really influence my decision.

50 years ago i was led to believe we were consuming it faster then nature could produce it THEN!
it may seem a false scare that we haven't run out of it yet. but we are still consuming it ever faster and there keeps being more of us.
alternative and renewable sources of cumbustable fuels are only interesting up to a point.
gasahaul, turkey schmultz and burnt deep fryer grease can certainly be produced, collected and burnt, but in the quantities involved i don't see this as signifigantly effecting the eventuality of fossle fuels ceasing to be an economicly viable resource.
meaning as with gold, however valuable it may be, there comes a point when what remains costs more to extract then is value, however great that value may be.
i've tried to predict when the run out would occur and must admit failure. in highschool in the 60s, given the expotential growth taking place in human population, and i have seen no hard evidence of this not continuing to occur, i would have expected this point to have been reached sometime well before now.
but i wouldn't place too much stock in that it hasn't
whether we reach that point of extractable petrolium depletion in my lifetime or not,
sooner or later it will be reached.
it may be difficult for some to believe but it would have been a great bennifit to the quality of everyones life had this already occured.

some would rather dance in an avalanche and some would rather seek more sustainable pleasures.

nature does nothing to prevent anyone from choosing to be thoughtless. it only sooner or later collects its toll from those who do.

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it may be difficult for some to believe but it would have been a great bennifit to the quality of everyones life had this already occured.

Would you care to elaborate on this? Seems to me that global economic collapse (which is what would happen if we ran out of oil with no ready replacement) is a bad thing, right?

some would rather dance in an avalanche and some would rather seek more sustainable pleasures.


If the avalanche is coming, run fer freakin cover! But from your statement above, do you believe that we would be better off sitting in a ruined cabin, with snow in our shorts?