@Shakyamuni 984509 wrote:
Tar sands strip mining.
Tar Sands & Fracking are the face of new oil ‘discoveries’; total pain in the ass to recover and refine. All the sweet crude oil has been found and is mostly in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi’s have been trying very hard to diversify their economy, that in of itself is enough proof for me as far as the long term viability of oil as the primary transportation fuel source.
Sadly Lithium which is the resource alternative for oil falls prey to basically all of the same problems as gasoline: poor sustainability, most of the reserves located in countries that are unfriendly to the USA and their allies, problems with scale-ability and most importantly a finite supply. At least lithium is somewhat recyclable and has more substitutes than oil which currently has none.
O think the Saudos have done quite well with the money they have made, and continue to make. They controled the price per barrel, even bringing the price down at one point even though obviously no new reserves had been discovered and besides which their investment in properties is legendary, even if they don’t seem to be the greatest thinkers of things through (remember that island made of sand they thought the sea would just ignore cos they would threaten to behead it if it didn’t do what they told it to, or the Burj dubai, I think it is, worlds tallest hotel at the time anyway, mau be burj khalifa…, also built mostly on not what even a criminally insane conman would consider it dry enough to build sand castles on….well the solution they had for that doesn’t seem to work either) but they own massive swathes of some of the most valuable property around the world, like Park lane and mayfair and whatever you have on monopoly sets over there in the US lol, so those bbastards will be fone I reckon, if you base it on how they treat theor women or anyone who is poor, they’ll just kill everything that’s a drain on resources.
Also, and I may be quite worng here, but I thought strip-moning, even though it’s obviously done in the US, is more commen around Russia and assorted shitholes that used to br prt of the Soviet Union? O think that because of a documentary I watched called the planet we live on or somethign along thos elines, with a professor of geology and he went to a place where oil mining was obviously so abundant, they even bathed in the sutff, beluevig it was good for your skin (although smoking in a bath of oil is likely to kill you and the man in the next bath so no wonder he was worried about some fat Polish chap in the next bath having a fag….)
On top of that, America and the UK are best fucking buddies with the saudis, especially our arms industry which is hugely providing weapons that, if Little Miss Muffet had used to try get the kurds out of her way, she’d be tried for terrorism.
Anywhoo, I’ll leave that rat for now cos there’s an article I want to post about a Frenchman……
