http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

I cannot speak.

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To myself I surrender to the one I'll never please.
But I still try to run on.
You know I still try to run on. But it's all or none.

Eddie Vedder

This has been posted before.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

This means I can finally grab a shotgun and dog, and cruise around Australia killing things?

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

No. We must leave this Earth and find another.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

We can all live on Julia Roberts Lips.

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Someone wrote this over one of the urinals: "The joke isn't on the wall; it's in your hand." - BV

Scare tactics. Cry about it.

We aren't supposed to do that yet? *puts down shotgun*

It's not that far off. By the end of our lifetimes, our kids for sure.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

you know what this means? Reclone all the dinosaurs and bury them a mile underground and wait for their sweet sweet nectare to seep out.

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---Thomas jefferson, Declaration of Independance.

Nah, you'd obviously have to bike it. I don't know where the dog would go, but who needs a dog when you have a shotgun?

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Cantina Cloud | BCF | The Massassian 1 & 2 | Gonkmeg
Corrupting the kiddies since '97

Sorry Tracer, but that site specifically says no more pets. The food that usually goes to feed them will need to go to the survivors.

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"I am downright amazed at what I can destroy with just a hammer."
-Atom and His Package

It's more of a battle companion than a pet.

Seriously though, bring on the apocalypse. I'm tired of my stupid, fat, middle-class lifestyle. I want to be Mad Max! Vroom!

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

that article is stupid american oil producer propiganda.

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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)-@%

I'm definitely with Tracer on this one. Only I want a horse, and a revolver.

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My Daily Ramblings
"This world is made of love and peace!"
"Let's live today, let's live tomorrow, and let's live the day after that, even if it means living in eternal pain."
- Vash the Stampede

I *really* hope this is written by a guy like the character from Clerks informing about the evils of tobacco...

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Don't dismiss something on the basis that it's been mentioned before. Just because it's been in the news once doesn't mean it's resolved. Some things are worth repeating and I think the cause of our species' near extinction is probably one of them.

Come on, Masq; I know you're itching to rampage across the wasteland.

Actually, I just want to blow up a kangaroo. Whatever.

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

Well OF COURSE we're gonna run out of oil.

It's not like it's a renewable resource or anything, or like there's any sort of conservation effort going.

Is it going to cause the end of the world, though? No.

We know how to get electricity without burning oil already, it's not like it's some brand new concept.

It'll just be "Oh darn, bust out the hydroelectricity," not "Ohs**ts, we're all gonna die!"

Because that would make a whole lot of sense, dude

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Yeah, well this thread isn't exactly rife with credibility to begin with.

You're right, Checksum. Now would you mind busting out the hydroplastics and hydrofertilisers or should I?

The world existed and thrived long before the discovery and use of oil, and it will exist and thrive long after mankind has ceased to rely on it. And when that day comes, I will rejoice.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Um, the ultimate end of the humans is pouring out of the plumbing too, nowadays. Do we really have to post it here too?

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"I like pie alot.
Thats why i look like a pie.
With banana cream."

-Unknown artist

There are online stores that already cater to that very desir-.......oh, gotcha.

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Cantina Cloud | BCF | The Massassian 1 & 2 | Gonkmeg
Corrupting the kiddies since '97

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

Damn you, Jaiph. You've defeated me once again. BUT I WILL GET YOU.

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

Actually Masq, GBK brings up a point that beats out yours and overshadows mine.

It's not like we don't know how to live without plastic.

Hell, make everything out of metal, wood, or glass like we used to.

Fertilizer? It's called cow s**t. Use it.

This just made me realize - when we run out of oil, the Amish are gonna take over the world. What's oil to the Amish? A little extra light at night... wait, do they even do oil lamps or is it just candles? Either way, that's my prediction.

[This message has been edited by Checksum (edited February 20, 2004).]

We already have many ways to create power besides oil, its just that at this time, they are either not perfected or oil is cheaper. case in point: Nuclear power plants. they provide far more power then oil, and a heck of alot cleaner, its just that oil is cheaper at the moment.

Anouther way, expecially for cars, is the Fuel cells that are very, very close to completion. all we really need to do now is find a good way to supply the hydrogen affectivly and a good way to store the hydrogen in the cars (they have to have very strong protection while still packing enough in the car to have enough fuel for a long trip). Both of these problems are pretty close to being solved.

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

yeah, i wouldn't like to total a car packing a huge load of hydrogen.

i remember when i was in turkey, a friend who lived out there sent his car to italy to get this large gas canister installed in the boot of the car. he went to this dark little pump behind the real petrol station and filled it with some sort of gas... he said it was about 4 times cheaper than petrol was. god knows what it was.

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

Probably natural gas.

The big problem with nuclear power isn't the cost so much as the waste. Wind and solar are viable, but the cost is still too high for it to be used widely.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

This is more likely to happen.

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"Did you just say.....Birthday Party?...."

i agree with the people on this thread who think that article is bs. i mean honestly, look at china, their population was huge and the larger portion of it was under the poverty line n they're still alive. if any part of the world is going to fall apart, it'll be north america, and europe alittle. as for like most of the third world, they be chillin. and so what if oil completely runs out, we'll use hydro. obviously hydro is harder to produce and will take longer to harvest as much energy as it woulda been, but atleast we'll have something for basics. the worlds population doesnt die when theres a power outage does it?

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[teletubbie voice] BIG HUG!!!! [/teletubbie voice]

In England they do..
Or was that natural gas running out.. either way.

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"You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don't be deluded by any other endings, they're all fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die." -Happy Endings [Margeret Atwood]
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Our souls are weighted down by the gravitation!

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"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
-Robert Jastrow

Who ever said we have to get our oil from the ground? Ever heard of thermal depolymerization?

http://changingworldtech.com/home.html

These guys build refineries that turn waste into useable oil. It's pretty cool.

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Death to all who oppose me!

i was gonan say it's not like we can't make oil for our industry still. It just means alot more OIL producing refineries and alot more Plants to produce electricity.

We still have alot of Hydro power to use too. The Missippi River could provide a lot or power, and hell if we were ambitious enough we would build a massive ring of solar panels around the earth

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---Thomas jefferson, Declaration of Independance.

Should I beat it with a stick or shall I save that glory for another? "OH NO NO MORE WATER WE ARE TEH DEAD." Yah, because Oxygen and Hydrogen are SO rare nowadays, even if we found them like omg how would we make water?!

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