Drill, Baby, Drill

Drill, Baby, Drill, 

The GOP energy policy is now owned by Obama.  It will take 5 to 10 to develop the off shore sites.  They may supply this country of our oil needs for a little over a year and that is if the international corporations that get the leases decide to sell to the US.

A billion barrels if found, will be only a two week's supply of the world's needs curently.

Many think that the US reached peak oil in 1979 and the world will between 2000 and 2020.

The idea that is rarely tied to oil is population.  The world's population went from about 1.6 billion in 1900 to 2.5 in 1950, to about 6.1 billion in 2000.  It is now 2010 approaching 7 billion.  It is not a coincident that the population and the production of oil are on the same scale.  It is the abundance of oil that the large population is possible.  Think about the improvements in agriculture, the improved medicine, the expansion of humanity in the Americas in the last century.

It is the story of the potato and Ireland's population growth of the 19th century, only on a grand level.

Without fertilizer and mechanized irrigation many pockets of land will be abandoned.  Unfortunately only 13% of the world 's land is suitable for crops, no matter what techniques are used and most of that land is already being farmed. Soil science would bore most people but the facts simple and firm.  A practical idea is to test one's soil, stock up on a life time of high-grade of fertilizer while the prices are still low and the it is available. Oh, but that sounds so far out.

In the future years, human population will collapse from famine and it is tied to consequences of oil production.  The equation has been developed and if the figures are to be believed there will be 50 million deaths every year from famine directly due to oil depletion, with a total of 4 billion deaths by the end of this century. 

The freeze out of the tomato crop in Florida is a small foreshadowing of the future.  There is a need to focus locally and have skills that all people had when they lived by sunlight alone, a century back.  Oh, but that sounds so far out.

What I find scary is the number of low information people there are in this country and how controlled they are by the foundations funded by self interest of international corporations.  Tea baggers are the most obvious.

 Grow, veges, grow