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Mahasattva · #67 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008

CO2 is not a pollutant. It is requirement for all plant life. Higher levels of CO2 have been shown to have great benefits for plant life. Those are facts that have been long established. The move to attempt to establish CO2 as a pollutant has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with science.

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Originally Posted by Pogo

You seem to have no understanding of it at all. It isn't about "running out" of oil, it's about passing the point of peak production, from which point production begins to decline.

I know what the peak oil theory claims. I also know that they have to change the numbers every few years when production continues to rise or when new reserves are found.

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Please cite the discovery of any oil fields in the last 20 years that are appr. the size of Ghawar. Oh shoot, I'll answer for you. None. So when Ghawar goes offline, and it will in the near future as it's an old field and they've been pumping it full of water to maintain maximum production, which shortens the lifespan considerably, we won't be able to replace that production and the shortfall will be catastrophic.

You named the largest oil field in the world. New reserves have been found off the cost of Brazil, Cuba, in Russia.

Brazil: Carioca discovery potentially one of the largest oilfields in the world Exploration and production Petroleum Economist - May 2008 - Latin America - Exploration, Deep water
Oil Fields Are Refilling...Naturally - Sometimes Rapidly There Are More Oil Seeps Than All The Tankers On Earth

Several have claimed that Ghawar is about done. Then production keeps going and they have to revise their prediction. They pump water into oil fields because they lack the pressure that would push the oil out. They have found the fields they have gone out of production still have a lot of oil locked into the rocks. By pumping CO2 into those fields they have found that they are able to get more oil out of them. The CO2 binds with the oil and causes it to rise up under pressure.

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So even though we continue to find some oil here and there, we are nowhere near to making up for the declining production of existing fields. That you think Peak Oil has to be reworked every time some oil is found shows that you don't get it.

And yet there has been no decline in world production due to a lack in available oil -- that is what you don't get. The only declines that I know of have been caused by human mismanagement or human maliciousness.

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