Oil Production Increase

Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)
Gasoline (Petrol)

An ICE was first patented in 1861 (Otto cycle) and it appears that a mixture of air and an inflammable gas to obtain a motor force or a useful force was being mooted around 1857:

• Improved apparatus for obtaining motive power from gases December 30 1857 Piedmont patent entitled: New method of using the explosion of a mixture of air and an inflammable gas to obtain a motor force or a useful force, Vol. VI, No. 759.

It is reasonable to place the discovery of a volatile petroleum fraction before the invention of the ICE. It is an interesting exercise to speculate what may have happened if oil/petrol had never existed:

• What sort of population numbers would be around?
• What sort of population would exist?

• Healthy or not healthy?
• Rich (or richer) and poor (or poorer)?

• What kind of energy may have been discovered?

Two interesting movements in the climate change debate and the link with oil (fossil fuel) have caused a slight improvement in clarity to provide a possible explanation of the connection and the implied hypocrisy. The justification for minimising fossil fuel consumption has predictably led to the decrease in the numbers of large ‘gas guzzlers’ in the USA. This is the required result assuming the real connection between fossil fuels and carbon dioxide and climate change and global warming. The effect is apparently hurting Americans in America where gasoline at $3.65 (20% up on January 2008) is expensive.

• UK exchange rate: $3.65 = £1.87 (18.06.08). UK petrol prices are around £5.00/gallon, but it should, however, be recognised that volumes differ between the two countries. A US gallon = 3.78 litres, whereas the UK gallon is 4.54 litres. Adjusting for volume, the price equivalent of a US gallon would still be only around £2.24 in UK values (£1.87 -> £2.24).

• The UK government duty of 70% (and the additional 17.5% Value Added Tax) results in an increase of an extra £3.50 purely through tax. An example of the tax on a tax = tax on a duty (VAT) which comes last in order to capture and increase the largest 'value'. This is a cause of inflation. So, without duty, a UK gallon would cost £1.50. and would take into account all the exploration costs, drilling, pumping, transportation of crude, cracking and purification of the volatile petrol (waste fraction).

• If the petrol engine did not exist, petrol would be completely useless and tax could not be raised from a waste product suitable only for destruction by burning. But then the potential for revenue gain from a heating fuel would exist. Even though the dangers should be obvious. No doubt a retardant would have been discovered as there would be an urgent need for one (vaccine). Oil would have no other obvious application than as a heavy fuel or lubricant, but creates an innovation challenge: how could money be made? There would be a way: the cost of cleaning the air of the pollutants generated from burning the fossil fuel.
  

• The fortunes that have been made over the last one hundred years and government profiteering from a genuine waste product would never have happened. If the argument about climate change is accepted (highly contentious and hotly debated), then global warming would not have happened and all the devils of global warming would not exist.
  

Oil prices have ‘soared’ to reach almost $140 a barrel, but Saudi Arabia is allegedly planning to ramp up production by around 200,000 barrels a day. This will ‘flood’ the market with the expectation of reducing petrol prices. Apart from making the oil run out even faster and accelerate the end of all oil, this move will change behaviours to consume even more.

Human Armageddon, as without oil or petrol all life will cease. It is so entrenched in the use of oil. Instantly. Ironically, mankind has become so reliant on the decomposed bodies of prehistoric life and trees/vegetation (? - the abiogenic origin is quite plausible [to be extended]. There is so much rock/pressure - DA) that it cannot move forward in any evolutionary sense. Still very backward, however sophisticated man assumes himself to be. Egotistical. One fact is very clear:

As reliance increases and the resource is (allegedly)

depleted, the cost of petrol will continue to rise

The truth of the situation suggests that the problem of the oil running out (?) will be faced by a future generation. This demonstrates how backward and selfish attitudes have become and are constantly getting worse. This selfishness allows profiteering to happen and actually even encourages it. Paradoxically, the host feeds the parasite.

The upshot will be a happy consumer (host) as prices appear to drop. But they have been raised considerably from several months ago. Consumption may go down, but petrol prices have risen substantially to offset reduced this reduced consumption. Oil companies (the parasites) will continue to make healthy profits as car manufacturers sell more new (smaller- engined) cars. This is highly suggestive of deliberate engineering.

In the UK, it is possible that car usage will be TAXED.

And to imagine that these oil companies

or governments have any interest

other than money