[extropy-chat] Debate on Peak Oil

[Matus]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Samantha Atkins
> 
> On Apr 26, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Matus wrote:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> >> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Samantha Atkins
> >>
> >> I find the case for Peak Oil and quite soon compelling.  But
whether
> > we
> >> are nearing the Peak rapidly or not is in a way irrelevant.   If
most
> >
> > Has any resource, ever, reached a peak and then declined while
demand
> > continued to be at least consistent?  Ever?  Why all of the sudden
are
> > we suggesting it will happen with Oil?
> 
> Anything that exist in a fixed amount can in principle reach a Peak
> followed by decline in rpoduction.  Do you have some strange magic
that
> makes more oil than is actually in the ground?  It is not "all of a
> sudden".

I say again, has any resource, ever, reached a peak and then declined in
supply while demand continued?  Absent, of course, government
regulation.  A lot of things *can* happen *in principle*.  I still
haven't seen one example?  Did we run out of steel?  Did we run out of
tungsten?  Did we run out of coal?  Have we run out of wood?  Uranium?
Anything?  Ever?

> 
> >
> > This discussion ignores the fact that one can manufacture gasoline
out
> > of a few dollars of electricity right from the carbon dioxide in the
> > air
> > and hydrogen in the water.
> 
> Hahahaha.  Show me how that is economical.
> 

I showed you that it is obvious that it *will* be.

It sure is a funny thing when extropians start suggesting that nothing
new will come out of 6 billion human minds.

Matus