Harold Brubaker

Emerging source of oil, not from wells, but sand

An Ohio refinery is widening its use of synthetic crude oil – made from tar stripped from Canadian sand. The problem is, according to Jim Meyer, tar cannot be extracted and turned into oil fast enough to make up for the expected fall in conventional oil production.

December 1, 2004

The era of cheap oil is history, geologist warns

Kenneth S. Deffeyes, a Princeton University geologist, has a suggestion for Thanksgiving 2005: “Give thanks for a century of cheap and plentiful oil.”

August 24, 2004

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