[JerryLove]

I personally believe it was global and therefore, we haven't even touched base on the real tapping of fossil fuels on and in the Globe.

Do you have any familiarity with how oil is searched for and where has been searched, or are you just assuming?

There is a finite amount of anything on the Earth (the Earth has a finite size). There is no question that consuming oil will result in an exaustion of supply (as the supply is not really renewing at an appriciable rate), the only question is "when".

Once upon a time there was a guy named Moore who predicted that the transistor density you could put on a chip would double every 18 months. It was shown, despite the doom-sayers about increases in core-speed, and increases in performance not being able to maintain, that leaps in technology kept pushing back that "wall" at the end of the performance race.

Then, eventually, we started to hit it after all. The early estimates on when had been wrong, but it was there. Speeds over about 3GHz became unstable, the thermal loss made chip dies hotter than the core of nuclear reactors, and some powersupplies needed 220v lines to run.

The MHz race is over. The next gen of processors from Intel are slower (though hopefully offering better performance) than their predecessors; processors with more transistiors are being abandoned in favor of multi-core processors; but even though can only offer performance improcements where there are excess threads that can be pawned off.

I'm not saying that we are at the end of the processor road, I don't think we are. Nor am I saying that we will not find a way to access oil we currently cannot (much as we found that pumping seawater into oil reserves pulled up more oil), I think we will. But there is still a finite amount, and the rate of consumption is increasing exponentially.

The US has 5% of the worlds population and traditionally consumes 50% of the worlds oil. China and India together have 40% of the worlds population and are rapidly moving towards our consumption habits.

If they achieve it, that would, by itself, result in a 400% increase in oil consumption in the world. Worse, in fact, because they have even less in the way of conservation than we do.

[Visirale]

Bolding and Italicizing excessively are pretty annoying .

I hope petroleum remains an option in the future... even if it's only for the wealthy. Either that, or I hope these new cars have performance on par with current cars...

[Danny]

Originally Posted by Visirale

I hope petroleum remains an option in the future... even if it's only for the wealthy. Either that, or I hope these new cars have performance on par with current cars...

Says the guy who drives a Cadillac.

[Elationist]

Thanks Danny, I have posted in the science section in regards to your thread.

JerryLove said:

There is a finite amount of anything on the Earth (the Earth has a finite size). There is no question that consuming oil will result in an exaustion of supply (as the supply is not really renewing at an appriciable rate), the only question is "when".

I agree and believe it is possible to "run out" or exhaust the known resources. But because of evidence for a Global Flood, I am merely suggesting that there are possibly billions of, if not trillions gallons of unknown resources of fossil fulage available. I am pretty sure we don't agree on the premise of my argument, but that's my view JerryLove. Thanks!

Visirale said:

Bolding and Italicizing excessively are pretty annoying .

I hope petroleum remains an option in the future... even if it's only for the wealthy. Either that, or I hope these new cars have performance on par with current cars...

Concerning petroleum, yeah, me too, I am senior certified auto and would more than likely always have a job if everything else fails. BTW, this is not radio, but Internet so hopefully I don't come off as annoying you but my choice of structure. If you still think its annoying, you should hear me on the radio!

[Visirale]

Originally Posted by Elationist

Visirale said:

Concerning petroleum, yeah, me too, I am senior certified auto and would more than likely always have a job if everything else fails. BTW, this is not radio, but Internet so hopefully I don't come off as annoying you but my choice of structure. If you still think its annoying, you should hear me on the radio!

Haha, that's fine. I understand that tone is lost over the internet... and I've gotten into a lot trouble with friends if they have missed sarcasm or something... so I don't blame you.

That's cool though about you being a senior certified auto.

And Danny, what were you implying? My car gets a respectable (haha yeah right) 14 mpg.

[JerryLove]

I agree and believe it is possible to "run out" or exhaust the known resources. But because of evidence for a Global Flood, I am merely suggesting that there are possibly billions of, if not trillions gallons of unknown resources of fossil fulage available. I am pretty sure we don't agree on the premise of my argument, but that's my view JerryLove. Thanks!

No, we don't; but we have equal lack of similarity on conclusion even if the assumption is assumed. We've looked for oil in a lot of places. It's reasonably certain that there is some we have not yet found; but you belief that there are nigh-on limitless reserves we have not noticed seems to have no basis in fact.

[Elationist]

JerryLove said:

No, we don't; but we have equal lack of similarity on conclusion even if the assumption is assumed. We've looked for oil in a lot of places. It's reasonably certain that there is some we have not yet found; but you belief that there are nigh-on limitless reserves we have not noticed seems to have no basis in fact.

Its a guessing game between us then huh? Neither of us could currently provide fuel for or against this.

Anyhow, thank you all for your posts and thoughts. I have learned something new and hope you have to.