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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End?

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From: CF Rebel	4/6/2005 11:32:22 PM
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Shale oil appears to be feasible for extending the Oil Age perhaps long enough to develop longer-term alternatives (but it doesn't address the tendency of societies to continue expanding). It is natural in free markets to use the most efficient resources first, which we've done with crude oil. So, it makes me wonder if the government has purposely not encouraged the development of shale oil (notwithstanding evolution of technologies to make mining it more efficient and benign to the environment) so as to use foreign resources first. Using up foreign energy resources first has a great strategic advantage for the U.S. By exhausting foreign energy first, then using it's own shale oil, the U.S. could guarantee itself for a few decades, perhaps, the ability to develop fusion and/or other technologies before that supply ran out. Absent a sustainable replacement for domestic energy by then, certain unthinkable scenarios arise - allowing the rest of the world to die off, etc., since it is all about survival. I do wonder if there are such ideas on paper deep inside the government. Here's a 6-page overview of shale oil feasibility: fe.doe.gov CF Rebel

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