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To: Brumar89 who wrote (886455)	9/9/2015 7:42:26 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577978

In 1976, Jimmy Carter said the world would run out of oil by 2010, so we need to switch to coal. TimesMachine: September 24, 1976 – NYTimes.com This is quite true. I worked in the coal industry at the time and I recall Carter's plan ... he wanted us to pay Big Oil companies to liquefy coal into gasoline and diesel fuel.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (886455)	9/9/2015 7:53:05 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1577978

"Arrhenius linked his predictions to a doubling of CO2 and that's not going to take 3000 years" You know that, and I know that, but he failed to foresee 200M cars on the roads of the US.. He prolly also figured the few cars in the world would all be electric. On September 7, 1896, an electric car built by the Riker Electric Motor Company wins the first auto race in the United States, at the Narragansett Trotting Park–a mile-long dirt oval at the state fairgrounds that was normally used for horse racing–in Cranston, Rhode Island. Automobile companies sponsored the race to show off their newfangled electric-, steam-, and gas-powered vehicles to an awestruck audience. The carmakers’ gimmick worked: About 60,000 fairgoers attended the event, and many more people read about it in newspapers and magazines. history.com