Pablo_Kielbasa's Mombasa

"Current proven reserves are estimated at 1,295,000,000,000 barrels. Current world consumption is about 35,000,000 barrels a day. This means that there are around 100 years of oil left on the planet"-Pablo Kielbasa

That is assuming that current world consumption of oil remains stagnant for 100 years, when in the last 100 years it has only risen over time.

Meaning that if every year current oil consumption continues to climb, the time we have left diminishes, so most estimates have us running out of oil in 50 to 70 years.

But as the amount of oil goes down, the violence and rush to secure the last deposits could prove catastrophic.

We need to get on top of this now, with alternative renewable energy sources supplanting oil with massive funding projects.

I would never believe a Conservative such as yourself would support population control.

I'm all for it, depending on how its done! If its done with a system of rewarding people who have less children and volunteer to have themselves sterilized for tax credits, or some financial incentive to do so, along with an information and awareness campaign, that would be fine.

But as far as forcing people to not have children, I don't see how we can do that and be an ethical society.

It is true that population plays a big part in polution and air/water quality, and quality of life in general. But so to does the ability for people to raise a family together. Its not an easy problem to tackle without breaking our values.

The 'standard' in 1908, a mere one hundred years ago, was steam engines, coal boilers, even sail ships to some extent, horse and buggy, and very few cars.

50 years from now, the gasoline engine will have gone the way of the steam train and the horse and buggy. Truly amazing.

pablo....do those figures include the massive amounts of government surplus vasoline we presently have stored off the coast of san francisco?

lol...yer a dog casey

what the hell does this have to do with weather anyway....really lame pablo....you need to hook up with a hillbilly and buy a doublewide dude

Karl & Pablo,

I don't know if if you have ever heard this, but there is an area in the Middle East where Jewish people from the tribe of Asher and his descendants lived, during the time that Moses wrote the book Deuteronomy of the Bible. In Chapter 33, verse 24, Moses and his successor Joshua wrote what Moses said to Asher and his descendants: About Asher he said: "Most blessed of sons is Asher; let him be favored by his borthers, and let him bathe his feet in oil." Back in the 1980s, a Christian archaeologist discovered at the foot of historical Mount Nebo an area that is rich in oil. Not too many people know of this discovery back from around 1983. This area is not too far from historical Jericho in the plains of historical Moab. This is supposedly in Israel, or not too far from Israel.Current Technology makes it costly to drill, but things will change, once it gets into the wrong hands.

Hey Ricky,

Do you have any bloodhounds? May we common folks have to go on a hunt for O.B.L. ourselves...get the bloodhounds out, then sniff him out, get a few pitbulls after him when the bloodhounds find him. Then send him to Abu Graif, and give him the royal humiliation. And to top it off, get WWF wrestler Rikishi to have a few rounds with him and give him the smelliest stinkface of all! How about it Ricky? How about it Pablo? A little Rikishi man-gravy for O.B.L.---all over his beard? Even his camels will spit on him!

we can get this oil, but we must develop alternatives.

again just trying to help the black brothers...right truth guy...thank the lord for the alabamans