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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

There is more oil on this planet than human beings could ever use in the next 1000 years.


86 posted on 01/16/2008 1:56:17 PM PST by montag813
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To: montag813
There is more oil on this planet than human beings could ever use in the next 1000 years.

At what rate? Right now production is on the order of 100 million barrels per day, and proven reserves are approx. 1 trillion barrels, giving about 30 years until exhaustion.

87 posted on 01/16/2008 2:02:33 PM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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