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RE: The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak... - 8/25/2009 4:55:08 PM   
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... What you should panic about is the loss of plastics. Everything these days is plastic. There is almost nothing in your home that doesn't have some plastic in it and there are an endless list of items that cannot be made effectively without the ability to injection mold. The loss of plastics would ruin most people's lives in ways they can't even imagine.


Medications too. How many of today's modern drugs would simply vanish because there are no natural replacements for them?

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RE: The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak... - 8/25/2009 5:16:16 PM   
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You're not serious, are you? Because that's utterly meaningless. We pump around 30 billion barrels of oil per year, but only discover about 10 billion barrels of new oil each year. Do you really not understand that if we're using more oil each year than we are finding, that means we are running out? The math could not be more simple; please just take a few minutes to work it out for yourself.



What I've noticed is that for a number of individuals, if we're not at the point where oil is beyond feasible access in -their- lifetime, it isn't happening. As long as they have gas for -their- Hummers and F3000 pickups, it's aaaaaaaalllll good.

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RE: The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak... - 8/25/2009 8:34:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		We're not going to run out of oil in my lifetime, so I don't care.  And, I have faith enough in humanity that we can adapt and if we don't, our species will die...but, that'll be after any of us cease to exist so not our problems. 
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RE: The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak... - 8/25/2009 11:47:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		Plastics can be made from a variety of non petroluem sources. If this guy can make plastic from a potatoe in his garage http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Potato-Plastic!/

The process can be improved and used.

Yes, oil is richer in Polymers ( the long chains that give plastic itsusefull qualities) than potatoes, but that just means more people will be employed in the gathering of the material to make the pastic society needs.

I asked previously and got no answer, because there is absolutly nothing that Petroluem oil is required to make.

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