Re: Are we really running out of oil?

From: Rolf Martens (rolf.martens_at_mailbox.swipnet.se)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:14:37 +0100

In article <ID8Qd.1414$1S4.147919@news.xtra.co.nz>,
bruce.sinclair@NOSPAMagresearch.NOTco.NOTnz says...
>
>
>In article <421106FD.6000300@lakeweb.com>, Dan Bloomquist
<EXTRApublic21@lakeweb.com> wrote:
>>william_b_ryan@hotmail.com wrote:
>>> As to the question: Are we really running out of oil?,
>>> plenty of evidence says the answer is, No.
>>>
>>> See the materials at
>>> http://www.geocities.com/new_economics/replenishment/
>>
>>Quote:
>>"It is estimated that Kuwait could
>>supply all the worlds demand for Oil for the next 250 years."
>>
>>Not much point in reading anything else after that.
>
>Estimate should be called educated guesses. :)
>Even if right, simply ignoring what might happen after the medium term (250
>years) is downright criminal ... or should be.

The answer to the question really is: NO.

This above all, since the origin of oil is not "biological"
but abiotic, cosmic. There are vast amounts of it recoverable
by drilling (in many places on earth) to depths of some
thousands of meters - at costs in the $10-15/bl region.

This already is being done in several countries.

On the origin of oil, see above all:

Gas Resources Corporation, Houston, Texas, USA (J.F. Kenney):
http://www.gasresources.net

and

Homepage of professor Thomas Gold, USA (still available):
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/

There's some more at:

Center for an Informed America (David McGowan):
http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/

(in particular his newsletter #71).

Rolf M.

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