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Me and my girl are going to full time next year, in the mean time we are getting as much info about things as possible.
One talking point that cropped up was about the peak oil situation coming upon us all in the next 5-10 years, and we were just wondering what the peepz on here thought?
Are the full timers going to find themselves a base in a specific country and then become hunter-gathers! ... or has no-one even bothered to think about this, and is just living each day as it comes??
Anyone fancing offering your thoughts on this??
Thanks
Silver
(Mike & Dena)
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This is one of the things that concerns me about the idea of full timing, and having a vehicle with high fuel consumption. It's not oil running out, but being in shorter supply and therefore more expensive. I also want to have access to land where I can grow food and be as independent of the current system as possible, but that isn't very compatible with wanting to travel. Maybe I will become part of a group or community that has land and gives me a base to return too. Too many options, not enough time, but this is what I'll be looking for on my travels.
I suppose that a fulltimer may well do less mileage that many people based in a house, who would go from home to visit somewhere and then back again, rather than moving from place to place.
It looks like the sale of my house will be completed in mid July, and all this will be a reality soon.
If you want to know more about peak oil have a look at the
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web site, or even join in their active forum. Luckily it's not as busy as MHF or I'd never get anything done .
This is my first message from a site with wi-fi, and it seems faster than the broadband in my house!
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and Charlie the dog, but he can´t read, write or use a computer!
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Ahah - another peak oil nut! I used to write about this extensively a few years ago, but got fed up with the 'laissez-faire' attitude of the general population. I got comments like "they wouldn't let it run out."
johnandcharlie wrote:
It's not oil running out, but being in shorter supply and therefore more expensive.
... and also the psychological pressure the fear of higher prices and of running out brings to governments - especially those who've been used to very cheap and plentiful oil in the past, and have therefore used it in huge quantities. It makes you wonder if they'll invade oil-rich countries, and make friends with dodgy regimes, all to ensure they have the best supply out of what's left
The best book I've read on the subject is "Half Gone" by Jeremy Leggett - a very well-researched book by someone who has worked extensively in the oil industry. It's very scary
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Me? As I my cook the last Baboon kebab over the last remaining charcoal trigs taken from the Amazon forest…………I will reflect and ask your grandchildren……It's your turn, I'm tired, pull the iPod out of your ears, get off you arse and invent something!
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The best book I've read on the subject It's very scary
If it wasn't nobody would have bought it.
Oil shale reserves are estimated at 2.6 trillion barrels, and Tar sands at over 3.6 trillion barrels. its not as easy to get as conventional oil but as prices rise it will become available. And is being mined in Canada at the moment.
To put things in perspective conventional oil reserves currently stand at 800 billion barrels, enough at present rates of consumption for about 27 years, however it is believed that with better technology up to 3 times this amount could be recovered.
Even with increasing demand with oil shale and tar sands with have enough for another 100 years at least, and maybe twice that
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... or has no-one even bothered to think about this, and is just living each day as it comes??
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