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Originally Posted by mick pinner
in my opinion we are past the point of no return, we have larger issues to concern us anyway, peak oil has been reached already,
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No, not really.
I don't know quite where this concept of "peak oil" comes from, but it has the same flavour as most of the doomsday scenarios so beloved of the chattering classes.
The world has never run out of anything.
In the 1860's the world was running out of whale oil - it was a crisis moment of peak whale oil - how would people illuminate their homes with no whale oil? Crunch time.
But it never came.
Neither will peak hydrocarbon oil. Human ingenuity, and the operation of the market, will ensure that we will have enough power to run our civilisation for a long time to come.
An interesting article on this is here:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...40520_oil.html
enjoy and relax