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Peak Oil

4dsc

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4. Conservation is the biggest oil field in the world

Reply to jwirr (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 12, 2012, 01:16 PM

Jan 2012

So called alternative are dependent upon oil in every aspect of their existence. Without oil, alternative don't exist. Not to mention every alternative has a shelf life. So for every wind tower you put up today, it will have to be replaced in 20-30 years.

And while you are correct on your finite reasoning of these resources, too many people, like many here at the DU, are in denial about their future that will include less oil, a lot less oil.

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Peak oil can fuel a change for the better [View all] Javaman Jan 2012 OP

This is what I was asking in my question below. Instead of being the bad guys in this scene the jwirr Jan 2012 #1

Alternatives cannot replace oil 4dsc Jan 2012 #2

I did not say they can replace oil. I said that the oil (and other energy companies) could help us jwirr Jan 2012 #3

Conservation is the biggest oil field in the world 4dsc Jan 2012 #4

I was born in 1941 in a very rural area. We did not have electricity, farmed with horses, and my jwirr Jan 2012 #5