Political Memes

Thanks to the improvements in efficiency and price fluctuations that allowed shale oil extraction and the like, as well as new exploration, for all intents and purposes, we still have a basically unlimited amount of oil.

When oil gets expensive, it justifies infrastructure that was previously economically unfeasible and not part of our reserves. And once that infrastructure is in place, the price can still go down and it can sustain itself. Is it really unlimited? Absolutely not. But innovation and economics have stretched what's available to a level of surprising longevity.

At this rate of price fluctuation and investment, in 300 years we will be extracting the oil from your facial pores and still have a "50 year reserve".

It's kinda a neat thing if it wasn't for all the shitty side effects, tbh.

Within weeks we constructed a pipeline
Within years we'll have run the place dry
It'll just about last us our lifetime
So it's hip hip hoorays and high fives

https://genius.com/Kaiser-chiefs-cannons-lyrics
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9wg4V38p2g

According to patent whistle blower Tom Valone, by the year 2000 there had already been over 3000 free energy device patents secreted.

Throughout the past century, we could have been producing abundant hempseed and hemp biomass to make hemp based plastics, oil fuels, alcohol fuels, graphene based photovoltaics and capacitor bank batteries and more, (all while cleaning the soil, feeding ourselves and farm animals, clothing ourselves without pesticides etc, and cleaning the air,) if not for what Bernays, Anslinger, and Hearst did to us.

We never needed be hog-tied to crude oil. Probably could have found something better to do with it than burn it. Probably wise to not fall for scarcity-rumour scams to drive up prices either.

We have so much headroom without these [ecocidal, mass-murdering, slaver] crooks.