Comments on: Interview with Charles T. Maxwell (Part 2 of 2)

By: Tech

Tech — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:06:11 +0000

Maxwell and the others sitting on the board of CHK know the score. They may be old fossils like David Rockefeller and the Trilateral, CFR boys but you have Breene M. Kerr who goes way back to his dad and tells the Brookings institute what to tell the graft sucking bums in Congress and installs front chimps like GW Bush, Cheney, and Obama. Kerr was sold out to Anandarko Petroleum a few years ago but Kerr still manages the money for MIT corporation and sits on boards that really matter. These boys know all about peak oil and the situation and while I may not agree with some of their methods I totally agree with their views on the potential nightmare we could be facing. Natural gas is a temporary solution but a real solution is a sustainable way of life and a saner one. Sure you can launch a fraud “war on terror” and occupy the “low hanging fruit” in the middle east and control the Caspian to obtain leverage over the Chindians and Russia but endless wars, a police state, playing games with Israel and the Arabs doesn’t solve things. The money flushed into the ever expanding military is a net drain and will bankrupt the USA drive down the dollar as oil goes up in price. As the dollar is backed by oil being sold for it at 300 dollars a barrel figure it out. The way I see it 2013 is the outside for global oil production seperating from the demand graph and from then on getting worse every year. For investors be long oil and the basics and own the supply chains to all the useless eaters in the northeast like NYC, New Jersey, DC etc. CHK will be right up there and SE etc. and the pipelines they need will do well. As the oil gets more expensive the dollar will lose more of it’s value so gold, silver, water and food will rise. As the “government” is just a bunch of graft sucking bums you pay off there won’t be much money to help the little people so expect only the security state to be taken care of. Already you have one out of every 100 in San Francisco homeless and Obama or whatever stooge they stick in won’t invite them to live in the White House. The main media is tightly controlled so it won’t be televised.
What we should have done is a crash program for high speed rail, electric trolleys, cars, solar houses, heat pumps and insulation retrofitting structures and community gardening. Tidal and wave generators, more wind turbines, transmission lines from the midwest(underground) and geothermal. Another overlooked? area is hydrogen HHO gas from water. You have people experimenting with add ons now and in Beloit Wisconsin they have the city fleet hooked up. Police cars, garbage trucks etc. and freshman engineering students at U of Wisconsin. Until these old oil boys die off I suppose we will continue to have wars and baloney and fight over the last drop but there’s hope! They’re old!!! Even David Rockefeller is around 95 and unless the conspiracy people are right about them being reptiles they will be gone soon with the most of the oil. If we can survive the next 100 years I see a potential brighter future for mankind, or a horrible nightmare world of total control by a few elitists. Our choice-maybe.

By: captain Rick

captain Rick — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:22:09 +0000

I like the article, very thought provoking.
Back in the 1970s, Jimmy Carter could have won a second term if his message was one of more, more and more growth. Although the carter Doctrine provided for military intervention by US , into the middle East oil fields was a national security issue, he lost to Regan.Carter proposed conservation. Smaller cars were more popular, reduced speed limits energy efficient appliances, solar panels on the White House roof and many More. Since then, We as a country sold ourselves out to greed and over consumption.If car companies never produced the SUV, American quality of life would be just fine.
The first and best strategy for the coming decade is conservation. Much like the 1970s were.The 55MPH speed limit must be reintroduced.No amount of corn will power Americas car fleet. , But we can slow down.now.I don’t think that the current administration will get itself into trouble espousing the reduced speed limit, revival of the rail road, smaller in town buses instead of these ridiculous badmouths running around cities at night with one passenger in them, and turn off those stupid sky scraper lights after midnight.

By: Bill Nowotney

Bill Nowotney — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:11:42 +0000

CNG will be just one of the REQUIRED measures to be taken to help alleviate the liquid fuels needs of transportation. People underestimate the growing needs of Asian middle classes. Indeed, new technologies will be quickly developed to handle the fueling of cars using CNG (that is the least of the problems when compared with lack of liquid fuels). Anyone that doesn’t see the “big picture” that Maxwell does a good job laying out, has rocks in their head. CNG is not the only answer as Maxwell points out. Electric cars with new innovations in battery technology will also be big. It’s going to take several different and diverse technologies to help society make it through the next decade as Peak Oil dawns on the market consensus ignoramuses. Obama is the leader of these ignoramuses as will soon be evident with his “Cap and Trade” tax and just the wrong time.

By: Tony Aluknavich

Tony Aluknavich — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:07:05 +0000

Well, around the turn of the century (1900), many oil refiners didn’t make gasoline because it was too dangerous to handle. I would guess that when CNG becomes necessary as a motor fuel then refueling stations will have safeguards and possibly someone paid to do the refueling. I appreciate the concern for personal safety, but changing times will consider it.

By: Robert Spoley

Robert Spoley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:55:17 +0000

Interesting. I live in Oklahoma, a very dusty state. There’s always some dust blowing somewhere. Just ask my wife when she cleans the house, and we have a very tight house. High pressure connections are always plagued by dust which makes them “less than perfect”. Wait till you see what happens to these connections in a couple of years. Oh yes! Drop the hose and put a dent in the bushings. Riiiiihgt. If you think CO2 ia bad as a greenhouse gas, wait till you see methane in the atmosphere. Good Grief, they’re even talking about taxing ranchers for cow flatulance! One bad gassssss connection at a couple of thousand pounds per square inch and you’ve got all of texas cows with indigestion. Don’t get me wrong. Gas is a great fuel — in a pipeline, not as a mobile fuel. If you think I’m nuts, you stand next to any pipeline compression station and take a good deep breath, and these are secure connections. When your teenager parks this high pressure gas tank in the garage and the connection is not perfect, see what happens the next A.M. when you fire the beast up, if you can find the pieces.

By: Scott Benson

Scott Benson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:30:49 +0000

Not to mention BP already tried outfitting multiple stations with the required $500,000 compressor units, and closed them all down within a few years becuase of the electrical and maintenance costs. CNG is very clean and cheap, but the high pressure in normal use isn’t for the faint of heart, nor for the underfunded gas station who can’t afford the compressor costs.

By: Scott Benson

Scott Benson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:25:21 +0000

As a person who dealt with CNG pickups in the 1990s, I think Mr. Maxwell has rocks in his head thinking the average 50 year old female driver is going to “CLAUMP” that unwieldy natural gas hose to a vehicle, and then listen to the noise of stress and strain that that dispenser and cylinder are going thru, pushing that 3,600 psi gas thru the hose, without being scared out of their wits.