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To: mistermj who wrote (175846)	11/26/2005 3:40:59 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Exactly what other resource is available that even remotely approximates oil? What are you going to put into your gas tank, nuclear fuel? Are you going to fly a plane on solar energy? What are you going to make plastic out of, water? What if these calculations are even remotely true? "...Dukes also calculated that the amount of fossil fuel burned in a single year – 1997 was used in the study – totals 97 million billion pounds of carbon, which is equivalent to more than 400 times "all the plant matter that grows in the world in a year," including vast amounts of microscopic plant life in the oceans. "Every day, people are using the fossil fuel equivalent of all the plant matter that grows on land and in the oceans over the course of a whole year," he adds. In another calcultation, Dukes determined that "the amount of plants that went into the fossil fuels we burned since the Industrial Revolution began [in 1751] is equal to all the plants grown on Earth over 13,300 years."... scienceblog.com

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