[Peakoil-announce] Fascinating interview with oil expert

[Alex P]

A really fascinating interview transcript. I couldn't stop reading it.

http://www.financialsense.com/transcriptions/Simmons.html

And it ends on a positive note:

"And I’ll give you just a quick shopping-list of some of the things that we 
are actually going to need to do. In the shipment of goods, we use 
worldwide about as much, or a little bit more, diesel fuel than we do motor 
gasoline, and most of the diesel fuel is used by the truck fleets moving 
goods. If you could wave a magic wand and in a 5 year period of time and 
get all of the goods off the highway system going long distances by trucks, 
and put them on either railbeds or water transportation: on the railbeds – 
railroads – as long as you have long distance transportation, and long 
trains versus short trains, and short distances, you can get an energy 
efficiency savings of somewhere between 3 and 10 times – that’s not 3 and 
10%, that’s 3 and 10 times; if you can get them on boats versus trains, it 
has an additional energy efficiency savings of another 2 to 5 times. So by 
getting trucks off our highway system we have a major impact on removing 
traffic congestion. And traffic congestion is public enemy number 1 through 
5 on passenger car fuel efficiency. So it’s a real win, win, win."

"....That sort of a plan [B] put in place over 5-7 years would take a lot 
of coordination; not a single one of those things are impossible to do. We 
could literally end up cutting oil consumption by 20-40%, by doing all of 
those."

"While we’re doing Plan B by the way, we jumpstart the largest energy R&D 
program ever envisioned, and just pray that over 5-7 years it has the same 
impact as when people got serious about developing radar, and developing 
nuclear power, so that we could actually win World War II. But if we don’t 
do these things, then this really ends up being a very dark world – no  pun 
intended."

And remember the forum on tomorrow....

Alex
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