Fossil Fuels

Tensions around North Pole hydrocarbons raise the specter of new (bitter) Cold War.

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The technological problems of drafting arctic oil and gas into human service have not even been solved, the ecological fallout of this course of action hardly addressed, but already huge sums of money are committed for grabbing control and potential revenues.

What about the poor?

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Peak oil is an issue for most developing countries only insofar as they are suffering even more now than they already were. This is one of the many reasons why there’s no ASPO-Uganda. It’s becoming long past peak for the poor, so let’s hope they can reorganize their local economies to replace something most of them never had much of to begin with — oil & gas products.

Compressed gas hits the metals markets

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All societies on earth face a Catch 22. We need to use fossil fuels to extract and manufacture resources to allow a transition to a liquefied natural gas infrastructure. Then our societies will have to use the remaining natural gas reserves to exploit even more minerals and commodities to transition to electric infrastructure.