Wednesday, October 08, 2008

How Much Oil is Actually Left On This Planet? Should We Care? : Gas 2.0

How Much Oil is Actually Left On This Planet? Should We Care? : Gas 2.0: "The way he sees it, the world has plenty of remaining and untapped fossil fuel resources to keep up with demand for at least the next 30 years. From squeezing oil out of unconventional sources such as oil shales, to using new technologies to re-exploit old oil fields that had since been left as dead, to undiscovered conventional oil sources, Dr. McCabe’s opinion is that there is no impending peak oil crisis - and the same thing goes for natural gas and coal."
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Check it out, complete with charts. 30 years doesn't seem like a long time, though. I think somebody had better come up with an alternative to burning all these dead dinosaurs.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Most of the fuel comes from the vegetation that fell to the ground during the days of the dinosaurs, not the dinosaurs themselves...