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The End of the Oil Age

Posted by michael on from the glug-glug dept.

geekstreak quotes "'The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.' Ways to break the tyranny of oil are coming into view. Governments need to promote them."

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  1. Err.. King Bush II is an Oilman by Alan+Partridge · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Didn't anyone notice?

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    That was classic intercourse!
  2. My car by didipickles · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Blah Blah Blah...
    I am going to drive my car until the pump won't pump no more. Or the goverment pay's me $$ to drive something different..
    And i think that view is very very common...

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    --Still waiting for that awsome sig to just leap out at me..--
    1. Re:My car by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Typical American dickhead...

      If only the $700B you idiots are going to drop in Iraq was spent on alternative energies. Fools, one and all.

  3. All your oil are belong to US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I vote we wipe out all the sand niggers in that Middle-Eastern armpit of theirs and take all their land, and any oil they might have.

  4. NEVER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    My family makes money off of the oil industry and we are very prosporus indeed, the reason alternative fuel does not succeed is that banks will rarley lend out money to promote funding for it. If they do that then the multi-million dollar oil companys would put their money into other banks thus devistating the lending bank. YOU PEOPLE NEEED OIL, so that people like me can drive around in nice cars and wear nice clothes.

  5. Bull S%&T by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This article is such environmental crap. How many times does it say we are "addicted" to oil. Addicted? We use oil we aren't addicted. We breath air but no one refers to that as an addiction. Are we addicted to food because we can't live without it? No. We require food to live just as our cars require oil to run.

    The whole article was based on a lie repeated near the middle.

    "The transport sector is a principal source of global emissions of greenhouse gases."

    Cows are a bigger source of greenhouse gases in this country than cars!

    And unproven global warming cannot be proven to have been caused by anything we have done.

    If the Mt ST Helens eruption years ago had been a man made disaster we would have all jumped on shuttles to go to the moon in fear of our ruined earth. Instead we all watched in amazement as the planet shrugged it off.

    1. Re:Bull S%&T by gregarican · · Score: 0, Flamebait
      This post was modded "Flamebait?" Is this because the majority of moderators are enviornmental hippies? Guess so. As for me, I'm glad to see *some* people on here don't jump on the Greenpeace bandwagon and start sinking tanker ships. The cow comment is 100% true. Also true is that the hole in the ozone layer has always been present and is predicted by NASA scientists to actually start closing over the next few hundred years. Even with all of these evil fossil fuels being consumed. The horror! The humanity!!

      About 10 years ago there was a shuttle mission intended to study the growing hole in the ozone. the mission came back with results directly contradicting what all of the tree hugging drones were crying about. If I find an URL regarding this I'll post it. What was funny is the tree hugging masses were all crowing about the mission but when the shuttle came back the story was dropped like it was hot!

  6. *GASP!* You mean you can't EAT OIL!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Mod parent up. This guy nails it.

    For everyone who dreams of electric everything, answer me this - How do you keep the Arab countries from becoming third world? THEY HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SELL!