How can we getnew renewable fuel production out of the hands of big oil?
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solar/wind power and electric vehicles. natural, renewable, no pollution, and noone has a monopoly on sunlight and wind.
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There simply is not enough land in the US to solve the energy crisis using ethanol.\n\nEven if implemented to the maximum, renewable energy sources would replace only about half the U.S. consumption of oil, natural gas and coal, according to an analysis by ecologists at Cornell University.\n\nTheir findings are reported in the December 2002 issue of the journal BioScience (Vol. 52, No. 12) as"Renewable Energy: Current and Potential Issues.\n\nFurthermore, the analysis states alternative energy systems -- such as hydroelectric, solar and wind power and biofuels -- if fully developed would occupy up to one-sixth of America's land area. And some of the so-called renewable energy sources aren't really renewable, the ecologists say, calling for energy conservation as a proven alternative.
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The very first thing we would do is simply shift to producing oil from coal. The price of oil would increase slightly, probably by an additional 50%, but that would be all the difference that people not employed drilling or refining oil would even notice.\n\nIf we ran out of coal as well we would then shift to nuclear electric power.\n\nSolar energy is way, way way down the list. In terms of workable options as a replacement for oil and natural gas it is about 30th on the list IIRC. Solar power simply isn't very good for all sorts of reasons.\n\n>>>>>> Most say that we have enough fossil fuels until about 2050.\n\nYou really shouldn’t believe everything you read on the Web you know. Check your sources.\n\nMost don’t say that at all. None at all say that. The best figures are that we have enough LIQUID CRUDE OIL for about 100 years, and enough fossil fuels for about 200 years beyond that AT LEAST.\n\nFollow the references I provided if you are interested in real information from real research organisations and real universities.
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The problem is oil is running out. Once the oil runs out, we will probably be able to switch to renewables and get by. But the problem is there are many things other than car transport we use petrochemicals for. Plastics, fetilizer, lubricants, moving tankers across the seas and so forth. We will still need those things, and wind farms will not fertilize our crops.\n\nSo the short answer is, we need to stop using oil for things we have alternative sources of power for, because we will still need oil for other things 100 or 200 or 500 years from now. For those things for which there is no replacement for oil.
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#4.  I think we need to do something about our dependence on oil period (not Canola or oils of that nature).  It's wrecking the planet and it's not going to be around forever.
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Drive less (or stop alltogether) and lobby your politicians for renewable energy reform.  Also, turn the lights out, keep your lint filter clean, skip a shower, turn computer and monitor off when not in use, eat organic, use natural cleaning supplies, put furnace on a timer, turn water off while soaping up in shower, reuse everything, read Walden by Henry David Thereau, etc.
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Eventually, the demand for oil will continue to increase and the supply will continue the decrease.  The only practical solution is to move towards alternative fuel.
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Yes. In about 150 years there will be no oil if we continue this way.\nAnyway .. there are unlimited resources, at least for energy, ... solar/eolian/waterfall energy.\nHope this helps
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Society and the economy demand a steady supply of oil.  I know on no one who has pulled the main circuit breaker of their home or thrown away the keys to their car(s), especially gas guzzlers whether they are liberal or conservative.  It is our problem.  Whoever owns the oil should profit by its sale, but oil need not become a geopolitical football.\n\nThe real question is whether oil will be used to fuel the world or to fuel terrorism.  The fuel problem is only temporary.  We need to capture perhaps 1% of 1% of the sun's solar energy to meet all our needs.  Technology is rapidly improving.  Soon there will be available relatively cheap plastic foil photovoltaic cells to convert solar energy to electrical energy.  The technology already exists.  The roofs of most buildings will be covered with them.  Then we will still need a little oil to lubricate our bikes and hedge clippers.  The problem is to obtain and maintain world peace until then.  And that may be a decade or two.
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We are importing about half of what we use now. If you would like to choose which half of our nation cannot use oil, then we could quit importing.\n\nIt isn't a matter of how much oil is in the ground. We can't produce it fast enough, or refine it fast enough to more than marginally outpace demand.
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We'll start using the alternative fuel source that they created many years ago, but have not implemented b/c of money hungry owners of oil companies
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Not just no, but Hell No!!!   There isn't all  that much oil there to begin with and after all that digging to install pipelines and so on think what that will do to the environment.  And hopefully, within 10 years, now that we have a Democratic Congress which isn't in the pocket of Big Oil, maybe we can find some alternative fuel sources - this is one of the goals of the Democrats.....to encourage and promote alternative sources of fuel.  Allowing the drilling there was just for Bush and Cheney's buddies so they could make more money - like the oil companies don't make enough money.
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money. there are already alternate things we could use in place of oil. but corporations want to suck every penny out before we start using different pollutions.
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Renewable oil sources? It's only a dream.\n\nhttp://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/SecondPage.html\nA handful of people believe oil is actually a renewable resource continually produced by an "abiotic" process deep in the Earth. As emotionally appealing as this theory may be, it ignores most common sense and all scientific fact. While many of the people who believe in this theory consider themselves "mavericks,"respected geologists consider them crackpots.\n\nMoreover, the oil companies don't give this theory the slightest bit of credence even though they are more motivated than anybody to find an unlimited source of oil as each company's shareholder value is based largely on how much oil it holds in reserve. Any oil company who wants to make a ridiculous amount of money (which means all of them) could simply find this unlimited source of oil but refuse to bring it to the market. Their stock value would skyrocket as a result of the huge find while they could simultaneously maintain artificial scarcity by not bringing it to the market.\n\nEven if the maverick/crackpot theories of "unlimited oil" are true, they aren't doing us much good out here in the real world as production is declining in pretty much every nation outside the Middle East.
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Energy demand will keep on increasing. So there will be substitute sources of energy like solar cell and water. A lot of research is going on to make this alternate sources working and cheaper than the conventional ones like mineral fuels.
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We need an alternative government to go with our alternative fuels.  It won't happen until we get someone in the white hose with out any ties to BIG OIL.  This goes for the Dems too.
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I work for a company called Furmanite. They are a large egineering company for power plants oil refineries etc.. We may have a solution for you.