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To: longnshort who wrote (274065)	2/13/2006 3:46:49 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

The idea still isn't taken seriously. But, ok, say it actually is the case. Our current reserves have been accumulating over millions of years, or longer. We didn't really start exploiting them until after Spindletop, which blew in on Jan. 10, 1901. So we have significantly depleted those reserves in a bit over a century. So it doesn't really make a whole lot of difference whether they come from fossilized plants and animals or deep reserves. They will be gone on a human scale, and, again on a human scale, essentially forever. The fact that the reserves may be replenished some millions of years from now is absolutely no help at all.