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4dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:01 AM Original message |
After oil supplies dry up, what's Plan B? |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. Based on my experience, most people seem to think "plan B" is biofuels. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:33 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Well, don't forget all that oil under the artic circle--it wasn't for nuttin' that Putin sent a sub |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
2. a 50% reduction in world population |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:06 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. In other words, |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 02:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. The point was |
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One_Life_To_Give (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 09:55 AM Response to Reply #2 |
27. More like 90% reduction in Human Population |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
3. I disagree. |
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lakeguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:11 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. ethanol won't cut it... |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 02:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
30. More like 100:1 at the beginning of the oil age |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
4. That well may be the real reason we're in Iraq. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Context of the time. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
7. Our govt is preparing us to look forward to magic beans next. |
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Double T (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
9. The out of control ever increasing world population will deal with the oil problem........ |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:45 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. That's the most likely scenario |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
10. shivering in the cold and dark.... |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
11. Coal liquefaction, and cars that run on PROPANE, like in Europe!! |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
13. all the alternative sources combined |
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Delphinus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 07:52 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. We would also accelerate the end of coal. |
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cornfedyank (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
14. clubs and spears n/t |
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skids (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
16. The price spike is one of the only things that gives me hope... |
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losthills (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
18. It'll work itself out. |
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Delphinus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 07:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. You have more faith in human-kind than I do. |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 08:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. no, I don't think so |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 03:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
32. If we already have better alternatives for everything we use |
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4dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-28-07 06:30 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. There's no alternative to oil!! |
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Trillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
19. Bussard and or Seward? |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-26-07 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
20. The plan is coal liquefaction. |
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razzleberry (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 05:01 AM Response to Original message |
24. don't ignore biodiesel |
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AdHocSolver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 05:57 AM Response to Original message |
25. The corporations got us in this mess. We need to elect a government that will get us out. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
26. Nice to see articles like this in mainstream papers |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
28. Everything is under control. Plan B is The Rapture. |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
29. .. |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-27-07 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
31. Plan B = Bring Out Yer Dead |
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