Antone's Nightclub
Cheap Energy Decline Inevitable
RECEIVED Fri., March 11, 2005
Dear Editor,
Cheap energy's decline is inevitable. Does anyone disagree? There is credible evidence that we are very close to global peak oil production. Oil production follows a bell curve, so the downward slope of the curve will mean an increasingly higher amount of effort to extract the oil from the earth, increasingly poorer quality oil, and therefore increasingly higher prices. The faith that the transition to the next cheap energy source to fuel our lifestyles will be smooth is irresponsible, and as stated in End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream, www.endofsuburbia.com, “there's no combination of so-called alternative fuels that are going to allow us to run what we're running in the United States the way we're running it now on oil and natural gas. No amount of solar, or wind, or nuclear is going to allow us to continue living this way of life. Hydrogen is an interesting example of a public delusion. Hydrogen is a joke. Generally it takes more energy to make hydrogen than you get from the hydrogen. We have a great crisis coming in energy. The longer we ignore the issue, the more painful the problem will become.” I believe the U.S. government's focus on the Middle East and the war in Iraq to be overwhelmingly about an interest to control the last remaining oil reserves on the planet. We can support such a greedy and irresponsible agenda, we can pay no attention to it, or we can fight it. See: www.fromthewilderness.com, www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net, www.oilcrisis.com, www.floydanderson.com.
Cheap energy's decline is inevitable. Does anyone disagree? There is credible evidence that we are very close to global peak oil production. Oil production follows a bell curve, so the downward slope of the curve will mean an increasingly higher amount of effort to extract the oil from the earth, increasingly poorer quality oil, and therefore increasingly higher prices. The faith that the transition to the next cheap energy source to fuel our lifestyles will be smooth is irresponsible, and as stated in End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream, www.endofsuburbia.com, “there's no combination of so-called alternative fuels that are going to allow us to run what we're running in the United States the way we're running it now on oil and natural gas. No amount of solar, or wind, or nuclear is going to allow us to continue living this way of life. Hydrogen is an interesting example of a public delusion. Hydrogen is a joke. Generally it takes more energy to make hydrogen than you get from the hydrogen. We have a great crisis coming in energy. The longer we ignore the issue, the more painful the problem will become.” I believe the U.S. government's focus on the Middle East and the war in Iraq to be overwhelmingly about an interest to control the last remaining oil reserves on the planet. We can support such a greedy and irresponsible agenda, we can pay no attention to it, or we can fight it. See: www.fromthewilderness.com, www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net, www.oilcrisis.com, www.floydanderson.com.
Floyd Anderson