Sounds logical to me:[quote]Journalist Michael Klare says the age of "easy oil" is over. "Easy oil would be the stuff that would be easy to get out of t..."/>

REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS

Age of "easy oil" over

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Saturday, July 31, 2010 08:16
SHORT URL:
VIEWED: 292
PAGE 1 of 1

Saturday, July 31, 2010 8:16 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Sounds logical to me:
Quote:

Journalist Michael Klare says the age of "easy oil" is over.

"Easy oil would be the stuff that would be easy to get out of the Earth, in large reservoirs, close to the surface or in shallow, coastal areas, or in friendly countries that are law-abiding and nearby," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "All of that oil is now gone. We'll never see it again."

Klare has written several books about the oil industry. Blood and Oil examined America's dependence on foreign sources, and his latest, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, focuses on the geopolitical problems countries face if they don't find alternative energy resources.

He sees America entering a new era: one of "tough oil."

"Tough oil is deep underground, far offshore, in complex geological formations like shale rock or in the Arctic. Or in unfriendly, dangerous countries," he explains. "That's what I mean by tough oil. That's all that's left on the planet, so that, to the degree to which we remain dependent on oil, that's what we're going to have to go after."

But going after the "tough oil," Klare says, is tough in part because of the complexities of weather, geology and politics. And he warns that deep-water drilling in "tough oil" areas may well lead to more disasters like that of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.

"I think that when you engage in drilling in environmentally hazardous areas — which is the trajectory we're on — more such disasters are inevitable because we're operating in places increasingly where the geological formations are unfamiliar, unknown — and where the Earth will behave in unexpected, unforeseen ways, and we can't protect against all of these unforeseen events. So all kinds of disasters are likely to occur."

Gues we'd better get used to oil spills, leaks, gushers and other disasters. Ready?


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off



NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

YOUR OPTIONS

NEW POSTS TODAY

USERPOST DATE

OTHER TOPICS

DISCUSSIONS
human actions, global climate change, global human solutions
Sat, July 26, 2025 18:05 - 1031 posts
In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
Sat, July 26, 2025 17:19 - 5699 posts
Illegal Alien Invaders Crimes Thread
Sat, July 26, 2025 16:55 - 1 posts
Ghislaine Maxwell, in prison for sex trafficking, calls meeting Jeffrey Epstein the "greatest mistake of my life"
Sat, July 26, 2025 13:15 - 10 posts
French elections, and France in general
Sat, July 26, 2025 13:15 - 194 posts
Ghosts
Sat, July 26, 2025 13:14 - 79 posts
What our Russians are up to...
Sat, July 26, 2025 12:17 - 32 posts
A.I Artificial Intelligence AI
Sat, July 26, 2025 12:14 - 326 posts
Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
Sat, July 26, 2025 12:05 - 2648 posts
How many years before China is No. 1?
Sat, July 26, 2025 12:02 - 130 posts
Cutting the heck out of NASA and Space Exploration
Sat, July 26, 2025 11:40 - 23 posts
Science given the boot at White House
Sat, July 26, 2025 11:37 - 212 posts

FFF.NET SOCIAL