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Re: Stupid to the Last Drop

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Originally Posted by Steve_P (Post 6507510)

Oops must have missed that.:o

No you didn't. The suggestion was on the other forum. You're not getting senile. :sneaky::)

Re: Stupid to the Last Drop

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 6507515)

You're not getting senile. :sneaky::)

No...I think I'm already there.:p :rofl::rofl:

Re: Stupid to the Last Drop

Back to the original topic (sort of).

Three views on why we have high oil prices.

http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/spec...oil_is_up.html

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Originally Posted by Steve_P (Post 6506723)

Here you go, you can have your say with the industry involved.

http://www.canadasoilsands.ca/en/

I missed this earlier. That site is run by CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers), a notoriously propagandist (and extremely well funded) lobby organization mostly funded by Suncor.

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 6507571)

I missed this earlier. That site is run by CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers), a notoriously propagandist (and extremely well funded) lobby organization mostly funded by Suncor.

I know.:p

I didn't think they were trying to hide that fact.

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Originally Posted by Steve_P (Post 6507581)

I know.:p

I didn't think they were trying to hide that fact.

I had a quick look and there was a post apparently from a private individual giving a table of CO2 emissions from different oil sources (Brent, Saudi, tar sands etc). Unfortunately it ignores the GHG emissions associated with production and just gives the relative emissions from combustion. Hardly the point and hardly believable that "Concerned Citizen" would be so naive.

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 6507603)

And now we have the Greenpeace perspective. ;)

http://www.travellingalberta.com/

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Originally Posted by Steve_P (Post 6510275)

And now we have the Greenpeace perspective. ;)

http://www.travellingalberta.com/

teehee

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Originally Posted by johnh009 (Post 6506555)

What's your opinion on coal in the UK? They have 300 to 400 years of proven reserves. With oil at approx. $136 a barrel and coal at $1 a barrel coal may be a good bet, given now that we have clean (or cleaner) burning coal and oil from coal technology.

Well, the Brits could get creative with personal transportation I suppose http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pa...cc/arc0373.htm

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Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 6506006)

It's all very well bemoaning the environmental destruction, but we're still building 3,000-4,000 ft2 houses with triple garages, centrally heated and air conditioned. We're still building F-350s and Yukons and Suburbans which are used for commuting.

But fewer and fewer people are buying those vehicles if the media reports are to be believed. In fact, in this part of BC there was recently a report in the paper that transit use has increased as we have seen the incredible at the pump prices ($1.495 this afternoon compared to $1.405 yesterday evening - amazing how quickly the price volatility feeds through close to a holiday). It is only a matter of time (I hope) before people connect house size with energy costs but hydro does seem to make people rather complacent. Perhaps when we see cliimate change impacting hydrology people will pay attention.

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Originally Posted by mandymoochops (Post 6506227)

Because the companies aren't going to stop until they have exhausted the supply

Or they've bought into a viable alternative. Can't see one at the moment though.

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Originally Posted by mandymoochops (Post 6506617)

Ending with

"f**k it lets go to war with someone"

That one is a bit of a worry. Let's hope they don't look too closely at their neighbours. I mean, it's not as if we've got anything they'd be casting envious glances towards (oil, water, power, hockey players...)

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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 6506649)

But nobody WANTS to wean themselves off our energy intensive economy. For gods sake, a 1.8l powered car is considered "economy" here. Fuel consumption overall has got worse in the last 5 years for economy cars!

But that is partially driven by additional safety equipment and partially by the additional bells and whistles. Can't think what we did without the in-car AV systems ;)

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Originally Posted by acer rose (Post 6514652)

I understand that the Department of National Defense have measures in place. All along the border are caches of Canadian beer (beer, that is, with appreciable amounts of alcohol in it). As the US infantry approaches the caches will be opened then the Canadian army will just sit back until all the Muricans are blind drunk.

If the US decides to parachute in we're stuffed.

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Since iain has a related poll going... bump.