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Pelranius
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This is all assuming that we have enough oil to run any industries anywhere in the world once peak oil hits.
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Pelranius wrote:This is all assuming that we have enough oil to run any industries anywhere in the world once peak oil hits.
Dude, oil peaking does not mean that wells run dry all at once. It only means that production begins to decline. There will be plenty of oil after the peak; five years after the peak, there'll be as much oil produced as there was five years before the peak, ten years after we'll have as much as ten before, etc. The chief difference is the price: the industries will be in rich countries that can afford the oil.
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