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Originally Posted by stoopid

It's a finite resource. Unless BP has some dark magic or another Earth in their back pocket...

Regarding the '70s projections, those are 'best guesses' used to anticipate and make decisions beforehand, as such they tend to be on the conservative side. The only thing buying us time are the new oil fields discovered since then and overall fuel efficiency outrunning (for a brief time) increased demand. We're most certainly still on course for running out of oil sooner than later. Moral of the story - Enjoy it while you can.

I'm not a fan of running out of oil, I'm just unable to detach myself from the reality of the situation to see it as anything else. An inevitable dead end.

Are you sure it's a finite resource? Last time I looked, scientists had no idea where oil even comes from. Not many people believe in the dead dinosaur theory any longer. So if they don't even know where it comes from, how can they know that we are bound to run out?

All I know is, they've been predicting the end of oil since about 1965. Hasn't even begun to happen yet. At the risk of getting political, I'll leave it at that.