On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:37:55 -0500, Bert Robbins wrote:


In some number of years (some estimates are as low as 20) The oil will
be GONE! Then what???

Is that with or without opening up ANWR? Is that with or without opening
up the Gulf of Mexico? Is that with or without opening up the coast of
California?

You must have been asleep the past 20 years. US oil production peaked in
the 1970s. Jim is talking world production, which, by most estimates, is
peaking now.

http://www.oilcrash.com/running.htm

Should start building more nuke plants so that they won't have to burn
coal or oil?

We should be so lucky. If oil was only energy, but it is not.

http://www.oilcrash.com/petroleum.htm


We've talked a good game about alternate energy since 1972. Might be
time to actually DO something!

What do you propose we do?

There was a time:

http://www.faultline.org/news/2001/1...ependence.html

Interesting reading:

http://dieoff.com/

The good news is, we don't have to worry about global warming:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994216