Quotes about Peak Oil from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "This issue is growing in political significance, as many believe we have reached, or are on the verge of reaching, "peak oil," after which oil prices will skyrocket.
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 "In order to avoid the troubles that we'll face when we hit peak oil, and to reduce emissions enough to ensure a bright green future, we need a whole new auto industry, one that is not dependent on fossil fuels. Hydrogen is widely considered to be the fuel of the future, and may well power the next generation of ultraclean cars. The technology roadmaps of today point toward electrification of our vehicles as the answer; hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles would use onboard fuel cells to generate electricity from hydrogen gas, a renewable energy source."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "There is a confusing overlap between the peak oil and climate change issues. Logically, the decline of oil supplies must be a good thing for the stability of the climate, because it would force a transition away from fossil fuels - a transition which seems unlikely to be undertaken voluntarily. In addition, high energy prices make people behave more efficiently in the way they use energy, thereby reducing emissions. High oil prices also make renewable energy more competitive, spurring further investments in solar and wind.
But fossil fuels are not only oil."- Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "The liquidation of coal produces much more C02 than conventional refining - so peak oil in this case would worsen global warming. Other 'unconventional oil' sources are similarly polluting - the extraction of oil from the tar sand deposits in the Canadian province of Alberta uses vast quantities of steam and natural gas, meaning that the 'energy returned on energy invested' ratio is dangerously low and emissions dangerously high. Global gas supplies will last longer than oil, but not indefinitely - estimates of the date for 'peak gas' vary from one to eight decades away from now." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "The picture is complicated, but it seems unlikely that peak oil will save us from global warming: even if cheap oil does indeed begin to run out sooner rather than later, the world is a long way from running short of hydrocarbons. More's the pity. Knocking in wedges In many countries a fractious debate has erupted about what sources of energy are best placed to replace fossil fuels. Most people quickly pin their flags to one or other mast. Greens by and large loathe nuclear power, so tend to plump for renewable options like solar and wind." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "The climate change campaigner and ex-geologist Jeremy Leggett warns that a failure to face up to peak oil could cause a global economic crash, combined with an upsurge in military conflict in the Middle East over the remaining oil reserves - conflict of which the US war in Iraq could be a foretaste. The American energy analyst Richard Heinberg calls for a strategy he calls 'powerdown', where the world undertakes a conscious shift away from the high-energy society in order to avoid collapse on the day the oil wells begin to run dry." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) |
| "We can't assume that hydrogen-powered cars will be perfected in time to head off the potential shortages and disastrous environmental consequences of peak oil and global warming.
There may not be one right answer to the car question. Every piece of the puzzle could be important—from saving fuel now, to supporting new vehicles that run on clean energy, to backing legislation that will pave the way for the future of cars and fuel. The road ahead demands a different kind of car. mm & as
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¦¦¦ In the immediate term, no simple solution to our fuel and emissions problems presents itself." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Estill's Biodiesel Power weaves a basic education in biofuels together with a series of anecdotes from his years entrenched in the biodiesel community, which has been moving swiftly into the public purview in the light of skyrocketing gas prices and fear of peak oil. Green Car Congress http://www.greencarcongress.com Mike Millikin's Green Car Congress is the best single source for news on hybrids, hydrogen cars, alternative fuels, and related topics. It's one-stop shopping for the automotive eco-geek. as Bright Green Consumerism Opposite, left: Hydrogen refueling station." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The concept of "peak oil" is pretty simple: Oil is a limited resource. Whenever we're dealing with finite resources, there comes a point when dwindling supplies make it more expensive to extract more of that resource, and we start extracting less. The term for that point is production peak. Without a doubt, at some point cheap oil will start running out, and less and less will be available. The critical question is, when?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "Regional instability and skirmishes over the last of peak oil reserves in disputed oceanic and terrestrial regions leads Japan to develop force projection capability against China. (In 2005, China was drilling for oil in lands under dispute with Japan.) There is a flood of refugees from the Caribbean islands to the southeast United States and Mexico. European migration
?(mosdy wealthy) will accelerate to the United States, which is building up its borders against global migration.
?"- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "But, in the United States, we have wood chips, prairie switch-grass, corn stubble, and processed food waste; all of this can be turned into fuel that could compete extremely well with peak oil. Green fuels are different than petrochemical fuels. Some green fuels are created by biomass with use of fermentation and the novel enzymes that the bacteria produce, instead of with use of chlorine and other chemical catalysts. Yet, so powerful are these naturally produced enzymes that they break down the tough carbohydrates in these plants' cell walls." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Suzuki Foundation] sent me that was the most terrifying article about peak oil," he said. Once you exhaust all of the oil there is no more to discover. From that point on, you are just exhausting the reservoirs that there are. There are others who say it is going to be a drop in reserves. Paul Roberts makes this point in his book The End of OU. We are now pumping amounts higher than almost ever before, and with China and India's economies galloping, we are gulping more fossil fuel than ever before but we have more nations than ever with declining production. Right now, things seem to be okay." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "If high oil revenues lead to wicked government, why is Texas no less wicked today than it was in its peak oil exporting era 40 years ago? The United Kingdom realized huge revenues from its North Sea rigs during the Margaret Thatcher years. We do not recall any outcry that the country was in need of regime change as a result. On the other hand, an oil exporter that is being widely tagged for regime change is Venezuela . . . whose government was duly elected and is thus under the heel of the majority ... just as Friedman would want it."- William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) "Just as the planet seems ready to reach peak oil production—the point at which future production is likely to be lower than past production—so too, does it appear to be reaching a kind of peak water limit. India and China both have their well-known problems with water, but so does the United States. The great lake under the American prairie—the Ogallala Aquifer—is the world's fastest disappearing water supply. The water under the Klamath Basin in Northern California is also dropping fast—down 20 feet in the past three years." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) |
 "Among the authorities combining to predict the global oil production peak in this range are the Uppsala Hydrocarbon Study Group of the Association for the Study of peak oil (ASPO), chaired by Colin J. Campbell, retired geologist for Texaco, British Petroleum, Amoco, and Fina (also see Chapter 1 footnote 4); David L. Goodstein, professor of physics, California Institute of Technology; Matthew R."- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The best information we have is that we will have passed the point of world peak oil production sometime between the years 2000 and 2008.1 The date is inexact for several reasons. One is that the reported reserves (oil left in the ground) of private sector and nationalized oil companies tend to be routinely overestimated, variously to benefit the share price of stock or to gain export quota advantages in international markets, as in the case of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The twenty-year-long peak oil blowoff has made this experiment in arrested development possible. If nothing else, it has kept enough surplus wealth sloshing through the economy to keep the party going. The Long Emergency will force the issue. No group of Americans will be able to party through it. Even among the nominally poor today, standards of living have a long way to fall. What remains of the post-welfare reform social safety net may unravel altogether." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The so-called "intelligent highway system" (IHS), for instance, was the chief preoccupation of highway engineers oblivious to the approaching peak oil catastrophe and entranced with the computer advances. Their fatuous expectations of meeting ever-increasing traffic loads with ever more sophisticated onboard car computers keyed to computers embedded in the roadways couldn't have been more detached from reality. Even on their own terms the schemes were laughable. They assumed that every car on the road would have an onboard computer." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
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