[hinckley buzzard]

I recently had cause to peruse my yellowing copy of The Environmental Handbook 1970, published for "the first national environmental teach-in, April 22 1970."

Same ol' wide-eyed BS, 40 years later. And no closer to "peak oil" than ever.

[Recon Dad]

You’ll like the following.

In 1914, the Bureau of Mines said U.S. oil reserves would be exhausted by 1924. In 1939, the Interior Department said the world had 13 years worth of petroleum reserves. Then a global war was fought and the postwar boom was fueled, and in 1951 Interior reported that the world had ... 13 years of reserves. In 1970, the world’s proven oil reserves were an estimated 612 billion barrels. By 2006, more than 767 billion barrels had been pumped and proven reserves were 1.2 trillion barrels. In 1977, Scold in Chief Jimmy Carter predicted that mankind “could use up all the proven reserves of oil in the entire world by the end of the next decade.” Since then the world has consumed three times more oil than was then in the world’s proven reserves.