Thursday, September 09, 2004

A Truly Finite Resource

MSNBC asks, How Long Will the World's Oil Last?
One estimate, and I had heard this somewhere before (oh yeah, from the OK Sustainability people), is that world production will peak around Thanksgiving of next year. True, the US production peaked around 1970, but our oil bubble lasted until 1982, when the Penn Square Bank crashed. Then things went to hell in a hurry.

Should we be scared about a future we are woefully unprepared for?

Shouldn't we be doing something other than trying to destroy the Earth looking for a little more oil?

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