Love your Oil Barrel

Tom Delay was enough to be kicked out.

Ask the US army why, you have no idea what they are doing search­ing for alter­na­tives and nuclear-energy is just minor issue, think about wind-energy and sun-energy for example.

You can see the biggest image here: Army’s Energy Strat­egy and Cam­paign Plan.

At the same time, the nice peo­ple of the Pen­ta­gon are telling us very politely the following:

The Oil End Game

1– Peak dis­cov­er­ies was in the 1960’s –peak pro­duc­tion fol­lows in about 40 years.
2– The end of cheap oil is right now. World total peak oil will occur in about 2008/2009.
3– Don’t bank on the Saudi’s as they look to be in trou­ble. The peaked in April 2003 and are now flat-line at 9.5 MB/d.
4– Iraq may mayn­ever reach full and reli­able pro­duc­tion again.

Read: Pen­tagons 10, slides presentation

Inter­ested? You want more?

Then I have this 80 pages pre­sen­ta­tion from the U.S. corps of engi­neers for you if you want to fol­low the story’s background.

I know…. 80 pages? Hell…. who got the time to read them?

Me, believe it or not, I read them all, and I will make your life eas­ier, this is what it says in brief:

“The days of inex­pen­sive, con­ve­nient, abun­dant energy sources are quickly draw­ing to a close. Domes­tic nat­ural gas pro­duc­tion peaked in 1973. The proved domes­tic reserve life­time for nat­ural gas at cur­rent con­sump­tion rates is about 8.4 yrs. The proved world reserve life­time for nat­ural gas is about 40 years, but will fol­low a tra­di­tional rise to a peak and then a rapid decline.

Domes­tic oil pro­duc­tion peaked in 1970 and con­tin­ues to decline. Proved domes­tic reserve life­time for oil is about 3.4 yrs. World oil pro­duc­tion is at or near its peak and cur­rent world demand exceeds the sup­ply. Saudi Ara­bia is con­sid­ered the bell­wether nation for oil pro­duc­tion and has not increased pro­duc­tion since April 2003. After peak pro­duc­tion, sup­ply no longer meets demand, prices and com­pe­ti­tion increase.

World proved reserve life­time for oil is about 41 years, most of this at a declin­ing avail­abil­ity. Our cur­rent throw-away nuclear cycle will con­sume the world reserve of low-cost ura­nium in about 20 years. Unless we dra­mat­i­cally change our con­sump­tion prac­tices, the Earth’s finite resources of petro­leum and nat­ural gas will become depleted in this cen­tury. Coal sup­plies may last into the next cen­tury depend­ing on tech­nol­ogy and con­sump­tion trends as it starts to replace oil and nat­ural gas.

Our best options for meet­ing future energy require­ments are energy effi­ciency and renew­able sources. Energy effi­ciency is the least expen­sive, most read­ily avail­able, and envi­ron­men­tally friendly way to stretch our cur­rent energy sup­plies. … For effi­ciency and renew­ables, the intan­gi­ble and hard to quan­tify ben­e­fits — such as reduced pol­lu­tion and increased secu­rity — yield indis­putable eco­nomic value.

Learn to love your Oil Barrel.