Comment 40342

By zippo (registered) | Posted May 04, 2010 at 01:00:46

Ryan: I think many of your questions have been dealt with quite well in "the Hirsh Report" produced for the US gov't in 2005 Copy is here, Uncle Sam seems to have pulled it off all gov't sites again http://www.hilltoplancers.org/stories/hi... Bottom line from that report: A crash program equivalent in intensity to the conversion of industry seen during world war 2, carried out for 20 years, would be required to attempt to significantly mitigate the liquid fuel crisis. This would include maximum possible simultaneous adoption of all of the following: Conservation, conversion to electric vehicles, enhanced oil recovery, coal to liquids, natural gas to liquids, & heavy oils (tar sands) development.

So, unless someone is prepared to refute the reports conclusions, since we can clearly see that the measures it requires have not yet begun to be implemented, and we are almost certainly at or near peak now, we can say that the crisis is unavoidable at this point.

Comment edited by zippo on 2010-05-04 00:10:40

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