That this planets oil is almost gone?????in order to know that its almost gone, we would have to know how much we have. correct. And how in the hell do we know how much we have?

4/25/2006 8:49:15 PM

the dinosaurs left a note with jesus

4/25/2006 8:50:35 PM

ahahahhahahaa

seriously dude.

4/25/2006 8:52:22 PM

I would imagine because it's getting harder to find and in more inhospitable locations. That shit doesn't exactly squirt out of the grass in Texas anymore.

4/25/2006 9:05:31 PM

can we really know anything.

4/25/2006 9:05:43 PM

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"can we really know anything"

Yeah for instance, we think we know that 2+2=4 but really 2+2 is greater then 4 for sufficiently larger values of 2 thus can we really know anything?

padowack- to sum up an answer to your question =

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"a simple explanation is that the more oil is pumped out of a field, the harder it is to pump out what remains. This is compounded by the fact that aging oil fields are drying up four times faster than new ones are being discovered and developed... New discoveries are more remote, deeper, and contained in less inviting geologic formations. "

http://www.abetterearth.org/subcategory.php/298.html goes into more detail



[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 9:46 PM. Reason : .]

4/25/2006 9:43:05 PM

but we're talking about THE WORLD here. There are still some places undiscovered/undisturbed/unexplored by humans. Those are just a couple of used oil fields!! how can we make such a huge generalization based on that alone. THE WORLD.

4/25/2006 9:47:18 PM

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"There are still some places undiscovered/undisturbed/unexplored by humans."

In those places, the cost of getting the oil is more than it is worth.

4/25/2006 10:03:55 PM

Tis true, but that still avoids answering the question. See, the problem is that you filthy, wretched humans think you know everything.

4/25/2006 10:11:20 PM

Well, the oil on the planet isn't almost gone... Just the cheap stuff is. As soon as oil prices hit $120/barrel, we'll get more supply from that shit that costs too much to extract in the first place.

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 10:15 PM. Reason : I guess I meant gas prices hitting $5, but let's update it...]

4/25/2006 10:15:08 PM

the reason i started this thread is because i wanted a fuckin answer cotdamnit!!!!

4/25/2006 11:26:48 PM

maybe you should have made it on a different message board then?

4/25/2006 11:31:28 PM

oh noooooooo. this is the Soap Box, where all the answers to lifes questions lie!!!

4/25/2006 11:38:06 PM

What a coincidence, I just posted something related to this in another thread:

There is recent evidence that oil is naturally occuring deep within the Earth. It seems CO2 and H2O under intense pressure and temperature form simple hydrocarbons which, over time, cook into the complex hydrocarbons we use today (I'm not sure of the process, I'm trying to paraphrase something I read long ago). It is only a theory, but they have mounting evidence to back it up. As this process would take place far deeper within the planet, at much higher heat and pressure, it could happen much faster than the textbook guestimate of millions of years. So, if this theory is correct then there is a chance you are not burning dead dinosaurs. No one is suggesting this is the source for all hydrocarbons as the past evidence of fossil remains being prevalent in coal seams is predominantly irrefutable.

google search: "And the evidence so far suggests that methane, at least, can be produced independent of biological materials. When such common materials as iron oxide, calcite and water are squeezed under pressures more than 100,000 times those found at sea level and heated up to 2700 degrees Fahrenheit, methane does form"
"That's very close to conditions found 100 miles under the ground."
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=421532&page=1

4/26/2006 1:37:49 AM

so at 900 degrees, and 70,000 bars pressure, there might be some oil forming....

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"There's a problem here. No one is going to drill a well 100 miles into the Earth. Even five or six miles is a really deep well"

At any rate, the production and accumulation of greenhouse gases and the resulting steady increase of the global average temperature is a far greater threat than the depletion of biologically-derived hydrocarbons.

4/26/2006 2:00:18 AM

^ Not to disagree, you are absolutely right we cannot drill down that deep. However, oil and natural gas are lighter than the surrounding rock so will tend towards the surface through weak-spots or cracks that form. Some might suggest this is why the Pacific Rim and other plate boundaries are so rich in hydrocarbon reserves.

4/26/2006 9:19:54 AM