Zoot Katz wrote:
> The end of the Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels may be upon us too since
> the abiotic theory of oil production is starting to gain ground. Large
> amounts of methane have been detected on Jupiter's moon, Titan. There
> weren't any dinosaurs there, nor flatulent cattle.
> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47675
>
> Oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico that were capped, since they were no
> longer productive, have refilled. The geological age of today's oil is
> different from that recovered 10 years ago.
> http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf124/sf124p10.htm
>
> The Russian have been deep-drilling for oil and finding it.
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/gold_pr.html
>
> "Peak Oil" is possibly a scam to keep prices high.
However even if the supply of oil is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
times as large as even the best estimate, then that still doesn't answer
the questions of pollution, and congestion, and what are the long term
effects to the planet, as we remove it.
It is estimated that the cost of congestion in The Province of Ontario,
Canada is $2,000,000,000 per year. The cost of adding one lane to a
freeway is around $8 Million per mile, not including land costs, in a
large city, land acquisition can be many times the cost of construction.
Now of course, you can build under ground, but the cost there, well
just ask Boston, MA about that one, $87 Million per lane mile..... (161
lane miles for $14.1 Billion). How long will a given lane of highway
actually increase capacity, if it doubles the width, about 10 years,
divide that in half for each pre-existing lane above one. On a highway
like the 401, which is 6 lanes wide in each direction, adding a lane
would be worth about 3-4 months.
Health effects, this past summer, we in Ontario, had a smog alert issued
in the middle of June, it continued with about 4 days off, until the
middle of September, half of that is due to coal plants in OH and PA,
the rest is due to motor vehicle traffic, anyone want to guess the cost,
in hospital visits, sick days, etc.
As for planetary effects, well God only knows at this point, do we
really want to find out?
W