Peak Oil

Those Conspiracy Guys

Gordon Rochford

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.4 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2016

⏱️ 402 minutes

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DEEP DIVE - On this episode we talk about the looming danger facing our planet and the depletion of fossil fuels to an unmanagable amount culd lead to either our destruction or our release from its greasy grasp and how its deliberate construction could have been the touch paper needed to kick start our modern civilisation: Peak Oil. The term Peak Oil created by Marion Hubert, a geologist who worked for Shell, stated simply that we would hit a global peak of oil discovery and then production and head into a steady decline after this. The turn of the century oil tycoons had no fear of this however and bilt a pan global empire based on this powerful black stuff. JD Rockerfeller and other industrial oligarchs tool oil and made it the superpower resource it is today, even influencing global economies on its value, but how did they do this? Through a series of nefarious business dealings which by todays standards seem impossible, but it is in fact because of these very deeds that these laws needed to be put in place. Rockerfeller and his Standard Oil company destroyed the electric car and the electric tram system installed in almost 50 cities across the states. They even got the government to enact Prohibition so alcohol fuelled cars couldnt compete with his oil prices. We discuss different types of substitute for oil and why it was decided upon to be the global fuel of choice. How will the future look if we dont stop using oil with such abandon? What will we do if indeed it does run out? Is there a sustainable oil supply if we adopt electric transport? Is oil even a finite resource or can it be recreated by alchemical means? Johnny Daly from The Disaster Artists joins us on this episode and you can listen to his podcast here: http://disasterartistspodcast.podbean.com/ ________________________This podcast is supported by the generous donations of the wonderful folks over at Patreon. If you want to support the show and get exclusive content, ad-free episodes, access to live chats and private social media like Instagram and Discord and a whole load of other stuff click here http://bit.ly/TCG-PatreonIf you want to follow TCG on social platforms including the Discord, watch video versions of the livestream podcast and documentaries; or even join in on live chats about current events; buy TCG merch; get notifications of and buy tickets to upcoming live stage shows or to just support the show on Patreon; all the links, info and instructions you can find by clicking this link http://www.linktr.ee/thoseconspiracyguys Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I haven't seen you since Starbucks after that festival. Oh, yeah, we need to hang out with the weather's good
0:06.2	This weekend shopping Saturday Sunday meals then lunch with Oscar next weekend
0:12.3	Thursday night we've topped in a month next Friday in a most about thing. Oh another one
0:17.5	How about right now perfect Starbucks the new chocolate you want full cone for Appetito
0:24.4	Red my mind summer hits different with Starbucks subject to availability while stocks last
0:30.0	Hold up. What's that noise?
0:33.2	Sounds like you're paying interest on your credit card sounds like money down the drain. I don't like it
0:39.1	Well, I'll put a plug in it with experience
0:42.2	We'll show you credit card options where there's no interest to pay 0% interest
0:47.0	So before you do credit cards do experience first you know the score
0:53.1	Experience limited is a credit broken otterlander based on transferring a balance from an interest bearing card to 1%
0:57.9	To zero percent interest fee payments the season sees a price
1:07.1	This time on those conspiracy guys
1:09.3	We set out on the search to strike for some black gold with the theory that the exhaustion of fossil fuels
1:13.8	We'll see the catastrophic end to modern civilization as we know it
1:17.2	It's the science and speculation of peak oil and rest assured there will be blood
1:21.5	Since it's discovery and many refinements oil has become the dominant natural resource behind the industrial revolution of the 1800s and continues its drive today
1:33.8	From power and heat and light to drive and transport and mechanization its touch is felt across almost every industry
1:44.1	But with fossil fuels a finite resource and an essential economic commodity their point of peak production
1:49.5	Followed by the inevitable decline will result in a dependency and withdrawal that will radically change the factors of how future societies
1:56.9	Operate industrially agriculturally and economically
2:06.1	Oil has been a key factor in the shaping of civilization for over 4000 years and for the last 200 its grip modern society
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