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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: Small musing about global oil reserves
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:49:01 +0200

On 17 Apr 2007, at 03:15, Francois wrote:

> Quoting David Stodolsky, "Proven Reserves of oil have been rising  
> thru out
> history and continue to do so."
>
> Well, maybe, maybe not, I have no expertise in this domain to  
> decide either
> way. However, I would like to point out something rather obvious.  
> Earth is
> finite in size. Therefore, Earth's oil reserves are also finite in  
> size.
> Therefore, if we keep consuming them at the ever increasing rate we  
> are,
> sooner or later we will deplete them all. Then what?

The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stone, the Bronze Age  
didn't end because we ran out of bronze, and the Oil Age will not end  
because we run out of oil. Energy production will switch to solar and  
fusion to minimize pollution and green house gasses. Plastic  
production etc. will switch to biological sources like starch.


dss


David Stodolsky    Skype: davidstodolsky

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