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To: coug who wrote (6602)	2/5/2005 12:17:11 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361342

One of my mentors, an old guy I met in a used book store that had been an engineer on the Redstone rocket project in the 1960's, told me that the world wars had been fought for control of natural resources. He'd been looking for a certain book, but his eyes were too weak to read the titles in the dim light of the bookstore and I helped him out. By his beliefs, we're coming into a time where that will occur again - over the last of the oil. We want it, China wants it and the rest of the developing world will want it too. He says that you can tell when war is coming years in advance by looking at what countries spend on "defense".

To: coug who wrote (6602)	2/5/2005 1:33:07 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 361342

Hi coug, I'm also in the Peak Oil camp. I recognize your point that Australia may have been wetter in the past and there my have been more organics in deltaic deposits than we'd be led to believe by that one piece of data alone. However, don't you think that the craton of Australia just doesn't have the right conveyor-belt mechanisms that would be necessary to produce oil and gas in quantity? This is similar to why Canada has limited oil production capacity (there are the "sands" and "shales" but not many pumpable reservoirs. ) When I took sedimentology I was taught that part of the mechanism that produced gas and oil was an active depression process off shore and mountain building on shore. For the U.S. this was the tectonic deformations in SoCal and in Texas and the Gulf, it was the falling away of the floor of the Gulf relative to Wachita event (I don't know if exact the mechanism for that was ever discovered for the bottom of the Gulf to be settling, but it produces some of the deepest wells in the world if memory serves me). I also seem to remember that the mechanism in Texas was quite different because the reservoir rock was not where the oil originally formed but the location to where it migrated. It's been quite a while since I studied any of this so my memory might be faulty.