Britain faces 'oil crunch' within five years, Richard Branson warns

lemonjelly

The_White_Horse wrote: »

if it wasn't for the lefties and their hatred of clean nuclear power, this may have all been avoided.

the stupid ignorant lefties (the ones now bleating about man made climate change) are the ones to blame for our complete reliance on fossil fuels from abroad.

Hateful short sighted ignorant lefty filth.

Please explain how it is in no way hypocritical for you to call other people hateful given your posting history?

Kohoutek

bernard_shaw wrote: »

That graph's a bit 1 or 2 dimensional. As we all know, there's a lot more to it than that - here's a bit more futurology for ya. It's not all doom and gloom.

I'd love to believe in a utopian, Star Trek like future, but I must say I have my doubts given the !!!! we're in from where I'm looking.

Have you ever seen futurology books from the late 60s? They assumed we'd have colonies on Mars and flying cars by now.

bernard_shaw

Kohoutek wrote: »

I'd love to believe in a utopian, Star Trek like future, but I must say I have my doubts given the !!!! we're in from where I'm looking.

Have you ever seen futurology books from the late 60s? They assumed we'd have colonies on Mars and flying cars by now.

Have a good look at the 'nowandnext' trendmap. It's futurology, but it is realistic (with disclaimers).


edit.

With apologies to board readers for widening the page.

HammerSmashedFace

chucky wrote: »

did the bronze age end because they ran out of copper or tin?

It's an argument often used, however the Stone, Iron, Bronze or any other 'age' you care to talk differed in the respect of timescale, all of them lasted many, many times longer than our current 'oil age', and that is the crux of issue, time.

Over time, everything changes, and adapts to different situations, it's happened since life began, but it takes time........... and lots of it. So lets put things in perspective....

I reckon we have 10-15 years before the effects of oil depletion become very real for everyone, what can possibly be done over this kind of timescale ? Think back 15 years and see how far we have come, not very far really, sure we have mobiles, ipods, quicker computers and the internet. But fundamentally not much has changed, cars, refuelling, supermarkets, aeroplanes, transport to name but a few are all exactly the same as 15 years ago..... yet somehow we have got to find the Holy Grail over the next 15 years so that all these things can be adapted to work without cheap oil.

It's just not going to happen, you only need to look at history, if we had 200-300 years then I'd agree with you, we obviously don't.

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HammerSmashedFace wrote: »

It's an argument often used, however the Stone, Iron, Bronze or any other 'age' you care to talk differed in the respect of timescale, all of them lasted many, many times longer than our current 'oil age', and that is the crux of issue, time.

Over time, everything changes, and adapts to different situations, it's happened since life began, but it takes time........... and lots of it. So lets put things in perspective....

I reckon we have 10-15 years before the effects of oil depletion become very real for everyone, what can possibly be done over this kind of timescale ? Think back 15 years and see how far we have come, not very far really, sure we have mobiles, ipods, quicker computers and the internet. But fundamentally not much has changed, cars, refuelling, supermarkets, aeroplanes, transport to name but a few are all exactly the same as 15 years ago..... yet somehow we have got to find the Holy Grail over the next 15 years so that all these things can be adapted to work with cheap oil.

It's just not going to happen, you only need to look at history, if we had 200-300 years then I'd agree with you, we obviously don't.

Out of interest, what steps have you taken to protect yourself from these events? For example, solar panels, wind turbines so that you can continue to heat your home? Or maybe shares in companies that produce these things?

There has to be an upside to being a profit of doom

SailorSam

On Bbc 2 last night did anyone see, How the Earth was made, they were talking about how long oil was going to last before the wells ran dry. I think they said at the rate we're using it, one yrs use has taken the earth 3 million
yrs to produce.

Radiantsoul

lemonjelly wrote: »

Please explain how it is in no way hypocritical for you to call other people hateful given your posting history?

He is an expert in hate and can recognise it in other people.

Radiantsoul

I think that we are probably quite far from peak oil, but more does need to be done in developing alternative energy sources.

ses6jwg

buy shares in BP, Tullow, Heritage and Shell, stick them in an ISA, simples.

JP45