By the time that the world was
spending money in a technology that was able to extract oil from the Alberta
Oil Sands, in Canada, we could also see an increase of the Natural Resources
usage, the growth of numbers of cars in China and many other countries, the
large number of oil in transportation. But what we could not see was an investment
in a sustainable energy, only the opposite.
The global oil consumption has
grown from 60 to 87 million of barrels a day, from 1985 to 2005. There is a
human dependence in oil, and it does not justify the reason why we are so
worried about getting the oil from Alberta, because this increase in the
natural resource usage has to have an end. Humans are using their forces and
their abilities in the opposite way of the needed development. Today, our technology
is basically based on natural resources, and we are not maintaining or
protecting almost anything of that.
There was a huge growth in the numbers of cars in China, in 37 million, since 2009, and there are some researches that show that the number of oil consumption for transportation is going to increase in approximately 3% in 15 or 20 years. But the fact is either there will be no space for cars in the world soon, or the oil we are depending so badly is going to end before that. And we did not invest on any other energy while we had time.
China has invested more than $3 billion in the Alberta Oil Sands since 2009, what is just interesting, because the production among these oil sands uses almost more energy and resources to get the oil, than the product of oil itself. And those investments, not only from China, but from many other countries are probably going to result in a profit in the next few years, but in a close future, this oil will have an end.
All facts around the investments in the Alberta Oil Sands result on the same issues. And this statement can be written with a ‘general word’, like ‘all’, because there are enough evidences to support this thesis. Unfortunately, there are not enough people to put their money in a sustainable and clean energy. Probably people are going to be without money and without oil.
There was a huge growth in the numbers of cars in China, in 37 million, since 2009, and there are some researches that show that the number of oil consumption for transportation is going to increase in approximately 3% in 15 or 20 years. But the fact is either there will be no space for cars in the world soon, or the oil we are depending so badly is going to end before that. And we did not invest on any other energy while we had time.
China has invested more than $3 billion in the Alberta Oil Sands since 2009, what is just interesting, because the production among these oil sands uses almost more energy and resources to get the oil, than the product of oil itself. And those investments, not only from China, but from many other countries are probably going to result in a profit in the next few years, but in a close future, this oil will have an end.
All facts around the investments in the Alberta Oil Sands result on the same issues. And this statement can be written with a ‘general word’, like ‘all’, because there are enough evidences to support this thesis. Unfortunately, there are not enough people to put their money in a sustainable and clean energy. Probably people are going to be without money and without oil.
There is a story (for which I have no evidence but I believe it anyway) that the reason there has been no investment in alternative energies is because the fossil fuel companies have argued against it. Well that much is easy to show. And the reason, they say, is because those alternative energies are not initially viable financially. OK That is probably easy to show too. Here's the part I cannot prove: I have read where the early oil industry was not sustainable either without a lot of government support. In other words, in the 19th and early 20th century it was not viable to pump oil out of the ground and build all the infrastructure. But Government subsidised it into the industry that it is today.
ReplyDeleteSo I have several questions for you:
1) Am I right and is there evidence to show that the early fossil fuel companies were subsidised and
2) If I am right then could we make an argument that green energies (whatever that means) should be subsidised by government until they are self-sustaining.