Jon Birger

The Truth About Oil

MYTH NO. 3: We’re running out of oil.
REALITY: This one is true. Sort of. Unlike wind or water, oil is not a renewable resource. So by definition we’re using it up, in the same way that we are all dying all the time. …
The real problem with the peak-oil argument has less to do with engineering than with philosophy. It lacks imagination.

September 19, 2005

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