Reports like this and all the other signs out there all point to severe resource limitations and eventual collapse. We’re hitting a wall on just about everything with trying to sustain a population in the billions.

You don’t have to be rocket scientist to realize how this is going to end. Badly.

Geology has very little to do with political leaning. Furthermore, after 8 years of the most opaque White House ever, I fail to see how you can realistically make a comment like that.

The ONLY real possibility is along more southern coastal regions. A problem here is getting the real estate: maybe you can kick those rich people away from the beaches, but I’m thinking not.

The ONLY real energy security that’s achievable is through conservation. The US could be independent of foreign energy (for a while anyway) if it used 1/4 of it’s current demand: that’s how Brazil is energy independent.

Here, try an experiment… Run around your neighborhood collecting everyone’s grass clippings. Report back on what you find. I’ll tell you what you’ll find: that it take a LOT of energy to collect up that grass, and it takes a LOT of space to stage it for refining; and, all the while you have to keep it from breaking down naturally (piling a lot of biomass can generate a lot of heat, which means that the stuff is breaking down- sometimes with such vigor that fires start up!

People will make up whatever tales in an effort to keep their fantasies going… Simple physics lays waste to all these lunacies.

Don’t take it personally, but its because of cunts like you that we have our collective heads stuck in the sand.

There’s not much of the Earth left to explore, actually. The oil boys are very good at their job.

Government proclamations, left or right, don’t much matter, but data from Petroleum Review matters quite a lot — they track projects bringing in new oil.

From now through 2020, they are looking at about 2 to 3 mbd new oil added each year. That doesn’t begin to counter IEA’s decline rate of 6.7% per year — the way it works out, we’ll need to add the equivalent of two new Saudia Arabias by 2015 just to stay at current levels.

The Bloomberg piece is about BP’s “giant” Tiber field. It’s a drop in the proverbial bucket. Even at a respectable 3B barrels, Tiber will only account for about 1.5 mbd when it is fully producing. Yes, it’s good news that BP found it, because they’ve got to do it again, three or four times a year, every year, to make up for depletion rates in the world’s existing fields.

Think they can do it?