It is the third largest supplier to the US and number 6 producer in the world. What's going to happen to our economy and way of life? How do we replace our number 3 in a matter of years. We can't. Demand just keeps getting higher and higher.

The point of this thread is that people have a hard time grasping their minds around the concept of peak oil. It's not a left or right political issue, it is a logical, factual observation. There is nothing to argue. The next concept people don't understand is to just what extent the complexity of our society depends on it.

As such, I've narrowed the topic down from this one thread and narrowed it down to the single most immediate change we will see.

Look at what has happened these past weeks in the southern states when the gas stations ran out of gas. Imagine an oil crisis like in the 70's, only instead of faggot arabs cutting us off, mother nature does. Instead of lasting a few months, the result is permanent. What then?

So how is our government prepare for mexico running dry? As energy gets more and more expensive, the issue will dominate both political parties. Eventually energy is set to get more expensive than your taxes. That will simply wreck the economy that relies on cheap products, transportation, and vast disposable income. All of wall street relies on companies growing and expanding. expensive energy means growth slows, or worse, declines, or worst, stops, shrinks even.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/...berg/bxatm.php
http://seekingalpha.com/article/9420...il-and-options
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...,6724124.story

We can hope in the short term that the 'economic crisis' slows growth worldwide, or even provokes a more or less worldwide recession. But that isn't going to do jack in the long term.

I'm not even so concerned with maintaining the living standards in regard to personal transport, but the effect on industry and agriculture is well worth worrying about.

At least we're not running out of natural gas yet.
If that ever happens, billions of people will starve. The world won't be able to sustainably produce enough food without cheap ammonia based fertilizers.
(I say if because there might be alternatives by them)

The United States has only used <10% of it's oil.

Hopefully the next president will allow drilling or whatever so we don't have to worry about it.

Source - A living breathing Petrologist.

I live in Mississippi, and we never ran out of gas. I didn't even see gas over $4.

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http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/natur...serves/cr.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/quickoil.html

We have about 21 gigabarrels and we consume about 21 megabarrels, so we have enough total reserves to last 3 years.

We don't have anywhere close to not worry about it.

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While this is some scary shit, a part of me is a little excited to see a paradigm shift in the way our society operates in the coming years.

http://www.enn.com/press_releases/2663

Using the above new technology will lessen the use of crude for jet fuel. That will lessen the demand for crude supplies.

Mexico's present presidente is already calling for North America to Integrate.

Look at this

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...=latin_america

http://consumerist.com/5057161/two-m...s-in-the-south

When are people going to realize that there are simply too many people on the planet and not enough resources for all of them? We absolutely MUST get a handle on this overpopulation problem!

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