General News
27 March, 2026
Peak Oil
There has been much commentary recently about peak oil and the world running out of the product.
A few years ago, there was a lot of concern about the oil wells running dry.
We are assured that this will not happen. However, it is hard to believe those sage advisers when the daily news shows us the massive fires raging across the oil producing regions.
It is hard to be convinced that we are looking after our oil supplies.
It is a product that is not renewable and once we use it, it will be gone.
It is such a crucial product for our society and industry and we are not handling it well. Unfortunately, it is being wasted at a rapid rate by spillage, unwanted burning and excessive use in motor vehicles and industrial processes.
Having a war over oil is not a policy that serves anyone. We have come to be totally reliant on oil products and this could be a clear warning that there needs to be more consideration for being conservative with our use of oil.
Wars are just simply wasteful and to watch all the polluting smoke and polluted waterways does not build any confidence.
Having the price of fuel going so high may well be the discussion point that turns around our reliance and how we utilise the oil.
In our region agriculture is a great user of oil and we will need a guaranteed supply of oil so we can continue farming in the district.
Even the search for new oil is wasteful and destructive and not always successful.
We should be giving more consideration to being extra careful with our use of oil but it is difficult with the lifestyles we like to lead.
It surprises me that we all use and rely on plastic and it is so widely developed but yet so much of it can not or is not recycled.
It is hard to think of the wastefulness of oil when we fill up our vehicles at service stations and when it runs out, we get most indignant.
When oil supplies run low, we seem to take it as a personal insult that the supply chain breaks down.
This current war is terribly wasteful by efficient machines of war and we need to find another way to settle our differences rather than blowing up oil wells.