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To: tvn
"...as certain as death and taxes, we shall one day be forced to learn to live without oil." Further, "people in middle age today can probably expect to be here" for the terminal oil shortages....

This is have never understood. I mean, if oil came from dinosaurs (plus any other pre-historic plant or animal) and these creatures lived -- and died -- for about 100+ million years, and if only a tiny % of them did convert into oil, how can mankind use up all this oil in what? 200 years? 250?

And remember, for the greater part of those past few centuries we're not even talking about all of mankind, only that small % in industralized nations.

7 posted on 11/26/2004 9:07:26 AM PST by yankeedame ("Born with the gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad.")
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To: yankeedame

Oil didn't come from dinosaurs contrary to convential wisdom. Oil came from unicellular microbes. We've always had plenty of those...


27 posted on 11/26/2004 10:14:23 AM PST by Nataku X (Lord, please guide President Bush, and please protect our soldiers in Fallujah.)
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