Do you believe in the concensus of "peak oil"

[Not a Partisan Hack ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)]

Do you believe that we only have limited amount of oil on a finite planet?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Obviously, but we will have stopped using it before it runs out.

[Blue3]

No, it's INFINITE, oil matter keeps being created out of nothing from someplace deep within Earth, Earth must be where the Big Bang started! But it never stopped! Infinite Oil!

[RFayette]

The premise is just a truism (our planet is finite, therefore the amount of oil in it is finite), and whatever geological mechanisms produce new oil is rapidly outpaced by consumption. 

[MasterJedi]

Maybe if they give thoughts and prayers God will give more oil. I thought that's what fundy's believed?

[DC Al Fine]

Maybe if they give thoughts and prayers God will give more oil. I thought that's what fundy's believed?

[TJ in Oregon]

Maybe if they give thoughts and prayers God will give more oil. I thought that's what fundy's believed?

Atheist MJ?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Maybe if they give thoughts and prayers God will give more oil. I thought that's what fundy's believed?

Atheist MJ?

When Scott Walker lost the Tepublican nomination, he lost all faith in a merciful God.

[MasterJedi]

Maybe if they give thoughts and prayers God will give more oil. I thought that's what fundy's believed?

Atheist MJ?

When Scott Walker lost the Tepublican nomination, he lost all faith in a merciful God.

I didn't support Walker for the nomination, he'd be awful as President. I'm also Catholic (though being honest I haven't gone to church in about a decade). You can believe in science and God but the anti-Christian ways of most fundamentalists and hard core religious extremists is sickening and fully against what the Bible/God says.

[Tintrlvr]

In a sense, yes, but we will wean ourselves off of oil before oil starts running out.

Note that "peak oil" originally just meant that current (at the time) oil fields would eventually provide less output (not be totally depleted) before it became economically feasible to exploit other sources of oil, causing a massive spike in oil prices until the other sources became economically feasible. This really already happened in the 2010-2013 period, and the correction was that high prices spurred development of other oil sources that overcame the shortage and brought prices back down as they became more efficient and scaled up.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

more worried about peak phosphate and peak topsoil tbh

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Maybe if they give thoughts and prayers God will give more oil. I thought that's what fundy's believed?

Atheist MJ?

When Scott Walker lost the Tepublican nomination, he lost all faith in a merciful God.

I didn't support Walker for the nomination, he'd be awful as President. I'm also Catholic (though being honest I haven't gone to church in about a decade). You can believe in science and God but the anti-Christian ways of most fundamentalists and hard core religious extremists is sickening and fully against what the Bible/God says.

I simply find the fact that you sported a Scott Walker signature for years, and then wheeled around in, what, 2015/16 with a wholly different persona.

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

Obviously, but we will have stopped using it before it runs out.

[Ban my account ffs!]

more worried about peak phosphate and peak topsoil tbh

http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/01/phosphorus-essential-to-life-are-we-running-out/
Phosphates are fine.  Topsoil is an issue...but people are taking more care to minimize losses.

The major problem with nitrates and phosphates is runoff into local wetlands and waterways.  The Twin Cities is full of small lakes that by mid summer are opaque and green.. and we have sped up the evolution of these lakes towards eutrophication like a thousand times.