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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gg cox who wrote (279)	4/10/2005 2:21:32 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1183

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To: gg cox who wrote (279)	4/10/2005 2:30:48 PM
From: Mahatmabenfoo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1183

> but it must begin in the home and workplace and on the > roadway by making them as efficient as possible. The short term result of everyone buying wind-up alarm clocks and smaller cars is an increase in oil usage - because there's a big oil cost for each of those things. Which is not to deny conservation would at least slow down the results of peak oil (though after refrigerators started to use less electricity, people tended to buy 2 of them). In Europe hallways are dark, until a sensor detects a person there, and the light temporarily comes on. Those sensors have existed for AT LEAST 25 years. How much oil do they save? - Charles