Crash Course: Chapter 17a - Peak Oil by Chris Martenson

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Crash Course: Chapter 17a - Peak Oil by Chris Martenson

Chapter 17a - Peak Oil: Energy is the lifeblood of any economy and a steady supply of energy is necessary to maintain the status quo, while an ever-increasing supply is needed to grow an economy. In this chapter, Dr. Chris Martenson explains that Peak Oil is not a theory, rather it is a description of how oil production increases over time, reaches a peak, then declines. Evidence points to a global production peak in the near future, which is troubling since the U.S. imports two-thirds of its oil and relies on it to much of its transportation and food production needs. http://www.chrismartenson.com

Author: ChrisMartensondotcom
Length: 17:53
Uploaded: 26.2.2009
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Video Category: News
Tags: finance, financial, crisis, economy, economic, crash, course, collapse, depression, 1929, peak, oil, renewable, energy, stock, market, exponential, money, fiat, currency, gold, silver, inflation, iraq, war, bailout, bernanke, chris, martenson, ron, paul
Were running out of ...   (DaveDoggOwns)14.11.2009
Were running out of cheap oil. We're not running out of the more expensive oil.
Under Cap and trade ...   (jblcva)13.11.2009
Under Cap and trade gasoline prices will increase 58% and Household utilities will skyrocket. The DNCGOP club is sinking America..
accursed character ...   (Robodude288)11.11.2009
accursed character counter if I were to TRY to read the graph my guess would be that the part that is a line rather than a shaded range applies to one of the y-axises, while the shaded areas represent the other y-axis either way the usage isn't represented by the amount of the shaded area showing. if you want to keep this argument I'd advise you replace this mess of pixels with a pie chart that properly represents the percentage as you didn't address the change over time in the argument anyway.
No accident the US ...   (mapmanic)11.11.2009
No accident the US invaded one of the largest oil producers in the world when it did.
I'm also going to ...   (Robodude288)11.11.2009
I'm also going to dispute you're interpretatio​n/representati​on of the graph at 13:00 1.) the graph has 2 things on one axis this is a no no it allows it to be deceiving. 2.​)you represented the graph as the total amount of one sector being the difference between the two data points this is not how this type of graph is read. but rather as the difference between the data point and 0 if you want to represent percentages you use a pie graph not a line graph.
interesting but i ...   (Robodude288)11.11.2009
interesting but i have criticisms "p​roblems we have with the nuclear plants in operation today" oh you must mean the public perception of them? "I think it's safe to say nuclear is not a feasible alternative" I don't but you are entitled to your opinion. hmm why do you do nuclear and renewable but skip over natural gas? I find this odd considering it is, according to you: our second largest provider... p​rojections in your graphs this is bad I do how ever applaud you that they are marked as such
and this ...   (CountDollarz)11.11.2009
and this presentation was brought to you by Penzoil
Not for dollars but ...   (llothar68)10.11.2009
Not for dollars but there are these nice Pershing 2 missiles targeting there ass.
If you read the ...   (llothar68)10.11.2009
If you read the statistiscs precisely then you will find that in the last half year they found oil fields that supply the _CURRENT_ oil demand for 178 days (85 mio barrel/day). Do you understand this numbers? Also a lot of the new findings are extremely expensive - way to much for agriculture - so you will starve long before all oil is gone. Cause without fertilizers and modern petrol based machines you will just have enough food for about 2 billion people.
i feel very ...   (SexxyyAmber88)10.11.2009
i feel very adventurous today any guys want to join me ^^
HEJ ;D;D;D   (Womack1337)9.11.2009
HEJ ;D;D;D
"The government is ...   (newb2yutube)8.11.2009
"The government is like the conductor. " And he's sure as hell not qualified to be one.
Extraordinarily ...   (bobdefalco)3.11.2009
Extraordinari​ly well done. The most troubling point is that this will happen regardless of discussion. When I teach this, it's most simply understood as the point where there is too many people (demand of energy) and not enough stuff (supply of energy). While it's impossible to provide increased supply of a scarce commodity, it is all too possible to decrease the demand. If I can't have more stuff, I must have fewer people. Either through an act of nature or an act of man, we'll get there.
This video was ...   (jsscstarkim176)25.10.2009
This video was copied from voyspace com
I find some of your ...   (PanzerDivisionBOM)25.9.2009
I find some of your questions regarding human action very insightful, which, in my regard, marks you above the garden-variety intervention advocate, even though I find some of your less-consider​ed assertions deeply flawed. The scope of this discussion is growing beyond something that can easily be conducted on a comments page on YouTube. If you'd like, we could continue on PM, and post the conclusion - if indeed we arrive at one - on the comments page afterwards.
How do we convince ...   (jobogee)25.9.2009
How do we convince the conductor to switch tracks. This means the need to slow down, which may seem like a bad idea if one doesn't fully grasp the consequences of innaction. You describe oil as "useful" form of energy. I'd challenge you to provide a contextual definition of useful. Does it mean cheap? Easily accessible? Beneficial to those already harnessing it? How do you quantify value? At what cost to future generations? All important questions which need to be addressed by our policy makers
Perhaps "ween" was ...   (jobogee)25.9.2009
Perhaps "ween" was a poor choice of words on my part. My point is, that as a democratically elected institution, it is the responsibility of the government to act in the interest of it's people. Our situation is something like this: Our society is like a large group of people riding on a train, which is accelerating in speed. Afew people (geologists and scientists) have poked their head out the window and seen we're heading towards a cliff. The government is like the conductor.
I really resent ...   (PanzerDivisionBOM)20.9.2009
I really resent your insinuation to the effect that "government and industry" has to ween the consumer off of oil. The fact is that there is a demand for energy in a useful form, and that producers are well rewarded for meeting that demand. You can't honestly tell me, that you think that the big oil and energy companies are just going to leave those rewards on the negotiation table, just because the form of power which they have traditionally​ supplied is no longer feasible?
In short, when the ...   (jobogee)20.9.2009
In short, when the shit hits the fan, we will find that we have neither the time nor the energy required to develop these new technologies.​ We have been pushing them off in exchange for temporary and immediate rewards. To have a firm grasp on this, it is key to fully wrap your head around the concept of Net Energy. That is, energy return on energy invested.
People will contine ...   (jobogee)20.9.2009
People will contine to use what is made availabel to them. Lacking any financial incentives to invest in new technology and research that will bring about alternative energy, what reason does government and industry have to ween the population off of oil? Saying that technology and the market will sort this out is putting the carriage before the horse. In order to make sufficient changes,, investments need to have been made as far back as 25 years ago in order to come into fruition now.
And why should they ...   (sakurai14)17.9.2009
And why should they export 10 million of those barrels to us in exchange for worthless dollars?
hahaha.... wow dude ...   (plopfish)16.9.2009
hahaha.... wow dude, really? Saudi​ Arabia produces well over 10 million barrels a DAY. WTF are you talking about?
Don't buy that SUV ...   (sakurai14)10.9.2009
Don't buy that SUV yet. Finding is a lot different than extracting and refining oil, it could take up to 10 years before these new oil discoveries hit the market. By then, we would have depleted our reserves.
Peak oil maybe ...   (123rstreet)9.9.2009
Peak oil maybe years off with huge oil finds off of Brazil, Mexico and in the Bakken in North Dakoda. BP recently reported that they can pump 600,000 barrels of crude oil a day from their Carribean findings alone which is what Saudi Arabia does in a year. I don't want to down play this video and its message but the timing of events maybe off by many decades due to these enormous finds.
One thing that I ...   (dak9779)8.9.2009
One thing that I think we should think about is the politics of oil. We have to take into account OPEC and their production of oil. Do they hold back production when they could really be producing more? Who knows...

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