Re: Are we really running out of oil?

jimp_at_specsol-spam-sux.com
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:33:58 +0000 (UTC)

In sci.physics "N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\)" <N: dlzc1 D:cox T:net@nospam.com> wrote:
> Dear jimp:

> <jimp@specsol-spam-sux.com> wrote in message
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> > In sci.physics anon <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> >> "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> wrote in message
> >> news:UYJPd.548$W%5.435@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> ...
> >> > Don't hope for fossil oil to get scarce or to run out! Not a chance.
> >> > Ain't gonna happen. Listen. Initially, "they" say the earth had an
> >> > anaerobic envelope:~0 % O2. Present was only (relevant) CO2 and
> >> ......
> >> > Alas, no EARLIER than in 150'000 years from now will all the fossil
> >> > carbon be burned.
> >> >
> >> and ... uh... the O2 level will be down to ~0% as well ...
> >
> > and ... uh ... ever heard of plants?

> That would be the stuff referred to in this link:
> URL:http://www.etaiwannews.com/Perspective/2005/02/14/1108346568.htm
> ... simply chosen as being topical and current.

> Do your own search on "deforestation". Yes plants make oxygen, some more
> than others. But so far no significant oxygen comes out of the ocean, and
> we seem intent on paving over the rest of the planet.

> Somewhere there needs to be a balance. I'd hate for Nature to be depended
> on to find it for us.

> David A. Smith

I take it you've never been in an airplane and looked out the window. 

-- 
Jim Pennino
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