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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (3685)	10/30/2006 5:35:36 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 10087

Re. peak oil - my problem with this is the guy who originated the concept assumed a free market w/ no unreasonalbe barriers to resources. We don't have that. Most of the world's energy reserves are controlled by national oil companies, who don't act like private profit maximizing companies. (Usually anyway - Petrobras & Malaysia's NOC are exceptions). As a result world production is determined by capricious, inefficient govt's and is nowhere near as high as it could be if all the worlds reserves were open to the oil industry. Anyway ... ---------------------------------- How would it exacerbate it? We still burn oil, which still adds CO2 to the atmosphere. We may add less/ year, but it is still adding to the total load. Sure but if we've peaked in world oil production, half the CO2 from oil has already entered the atmosphere and all we could do is double that - at least from oil. The other way, as I said, is that coal is one of the replacements. Every ton of coal you burn adds 2 tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. True unless the CO2 is captured and it'd be a lot easier to capture CO2 from generating plants than from car/aircraft/etc engines. ------------------------------------ You global warming guys s/b pushing nuclear. No CO2 and its something that could make a big difference in fossil fuel consumption.

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