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To: American Spirit who wrote (27048)4/25/2002 8:32:47 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Or 50 or 60, whatever the number is.

We always have 7 years worth of oil on hand. That is because it is not worth finding more until it drops below that figure.

hydrogen cars being the wave of the future.

Yeah, they may be, if oil gets too expensive. When it happens, it will be brought to us by the same "Big Oil" companies you hate so much now.

polluting the earth and skies

Yeah, that is part of the "Litany"



To: American Spirit who wrote (27048)4/25/2002 8:56:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Thirty years ago they said we would be out of oil by now. After thirty years of ever-increasing pumping, we have greater reserves now than we did then. The latest news is that some fields in the Gulf of Mexico seem to be refilling themselves naturally! So much for the estimates.

As Sheikh Yamani says, "The Stone Age did not end for want of stones, and the Oil Age will not end for want of oil."


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