The profiteers do not need much of an excuse to raise oil prices. I think we
should
take all the oil executives and line them up against a wall and shoot them.
They
recently opened up a significant pipeline through Turkey to help deliver oil to
the
West, but did we see oil prices go down? It's a one way street for these oil
companies. There is plenty of oil available, but they try their hardest to
convince us
it is in short supply. It's amazing to me that we Americans put up with this
kind of
nonsense. We can't expect any government action, while we have a Texan
president
with big interests in the oil business.

Sherwin D.

NOYB wrote:

But none of this has anything to do with that awful subject...politics.

Right?


If you watch CNBC, you'll learn that oil prices are directly proportional to
the number of Israeli soldiers taken hostage by radical Islamists.

Today's headline:
"Oil Prices fall on rumors Israeli soldiers have been released" (CNBC)

sherwindu wrote:

The profiteers do not need much of an excuse to raise oil prices. I think we
should
take all the oil executives and line them up against a wall and shoot them.

What, to encourage the others?

They
recently opened up a significant pipeline through Turkey to help deliver oil to
the
West, but did we see oil prices go down? It's a one way street for these oil
companies. There is plenty of oil available, but they try their hardest to
convince us
it is in short supply.

Yeah, all that BS about the Hubbert peak is just libby-rull
psycho-babble, huh? The Earth has enough oil to last
forever, no matter how much we use!


... We can't expect any government action, while we have a Texan
president
with big interests in the oil business.


What do you expect him to do? He already started a war for
cheap oil and colluded with the Saudis (of course, that was
just in the short term for the election).

DSK

snip

Yeah, all that BS about the Hubbert peak is just libby-rull psycho-babble,
huh? The Earth has enough oil to last forever, no matter how much we use!

snip

DSK


Mentioning "peak oil" around here will likely fall on deaf ears. Anyone who
is open minded and hasn't already read about it should google "peak oil" and
see what it's all about.

Scary stuff.

"ACP" wrote in message
...
snip

Yeah, all that BS about the Hubbert peak is just libby-rull
psycho-babble, huh? The Earth has enough oil to last forever, no matter
how much we use!

snip

DSK


Mentioning "peak oil" around here will likely fall on deaf ears. Anyone
who is open minded and hasn't already read about it should google "peak
oil" and see what it's all about.

Scary stuff.


The literal peak (whether the oil's actually there or not) may end up not
being as much an issue as whether sane people are prepared to see more and
more places put at risk in order to obtain that oil.

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
...
"ACP" wrote in message
...
snip

Yeah, all that BS about the Hubbert peak is just libby-rull
psycho-babble, huh? The Earth has enough oil to last forever, no matter
how much we use!

snip

DSK


Mentioning "peak oil" around here will likely fall on deaf ears. Anyone
who is open minded and hasn't already read about it should google "peak
oil" and see what it's all about.

Scary stuff.


The literal peak (whether the oil's actually there or not) may end up not
being as much an issue as whether sane people are prepared to see more and
more places put at risk in order to obtain that oil.

"[T]here is a different and more fundamental cost that is independent of the
monetary price. That is the energy cost of exploration and production. So
long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of
recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than the energy content of the
oil, production will cease no matter what the monetary price may be."

That was Dr. M. King Hubert in response to David Nissen of Exxon.

http://www.hubbertpeak.com/hubbert/

"ACP" wrote in message
...

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
...
"ACP" wrote in message
...
snip

Yeah, all that BS about the Hubbert peak is just libby-rull
psycho-babble, huh? The Earth has enough oil to last forever, no matter
how much we use!

snip

DSK


Mentioning "peak oil" around here will likely fall on deaf ears. Anyone
who is open minded and hasn't already read about it should google "peak
oil" and see what it's all about.

Scary stuff.


The literal peak (whether the oil's actually there or not) may end up not
being as much an issue as whether sane people are prepared to see more
and more places put at risk in order to obtain that oil.

"[T]here is a different and more fundamental cost that is independent of
the monetary price. That is the energy cost of exploration and production.
So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of
recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than the energy content of the
oil, production will cease no matter what the monetary price may be."

That was Dr. M. King Hubert in response to David Nissen of Exxon.

http://www.hubbertpeak.com/hubbert/


Yeah, that's a factor, too. But, I was referring more to the idea that some
of us would like to be able to take our grandkids scuba diving, and actually
be able to see more (rather than less) of the animals the kids read about in
books published 10 years earlier.