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You're joking right, USAFguy? There are no oil develpments on the California coast! Would take five years or so to develop from scratch, so no chance of oil hitting markets next year.
Ditto for Siberia.
As for oil shale, none of the oil companies I know of have any oil shale projects.
Tar sands will increase their production, but not nearly by enough http://www.energybulletin.net/1443.html … /1443.html
Only a mix of conservation, substitution, recession, and more production, will keep prices from exploding. :angry:
I think that just as the iraq war dominated Free Chat in 2004, Peak Oil will dominate in 2005.
One more prediction: the price of oil will reach $70.
Anyone here interested/aware of Peak oil?
Potentially a major bummer for us all, with obvious consequences for space exploration funding.
Go to http://www.peakoil.com]peakoil
Hi everybody, this is my first post - unfortunately rather a negative one.
I always thought that human space exploration would intensify as time went by, and as technology made access to space ever cheaper. In such a scenario, space tourism would take off: first suborbital and then orbital space-planes would be develped. Nasa, too, would be reinvigorated: a return to the moon followed by a mission to Mars by 2030. Even if the timetable slipped a bit we'd go to Mars by 2040, or 2050, or ...
Recently, though, I've been having doubts about whether we will ever have a serious presence in space. This wasn't the usual worries about the public's lack of interest in space, but rather the fate of the economy in this century.
Why wouldn't the economy continue to grow as it has done, you might ask. Well here's why:
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,1 … 72,00.html]http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,1 … 72,00.html
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