On Jul 4, 1:54 pm, Dave wrote:
Frank Dresser wrote:
"What would a viable long-distance communications network in the age of peak
oil look like? To begin with, it would use the airwaves rather than land
lines, to minimize infrastructure, and its energy needs would be modest
enough to be met by local renewable sources."

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Frank Dresser

There is no shortage of crude oil.

It's irrelevant whether there is a shortage of crude oil.

First, it's an issue of supply and demand, with demand growing far
faster than supply, and older wells do not produce nearly as quickly
as they did when new.

Second, even if major new finds were discovered, oil is no longer a
feasible source of energy going much past 20 years or so into the
future. It's well established, and the science is solid and
universally accepted by mainstream science, that humans are
destabilizing the climate beyond limits explained by natural
processes, with unknown but almost certainly dire consequences in the
long run, especially if natural processes start to run in the same
warming direction as man-made ones currently are.

There's no controversy about this. Really, there's not. Ask an
expert.