Peak Oil [was: Brin-l Digest, Vol 376, Issue 5]

[Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro]

Keith wrote:
>
>> Alberto 'oil rulez, fsck space!' Monteiro
>
> Completely correct.  But what do you do when you run out of oil?  Try
> this web site.
>
> http://www.drmillslmu.com/peakoil.htm
>
We will *never* run out of oil. It's more likely that we will run
out of oxygen in the air :-P

> The part on what it takes to replace the cubic mile of oil per year
> we are now using is instructive as well as the concept of net energy
> which you mention.
>
Cubic mile? Someone must be utterly insane to use those weird
units in any serious study.

Alberto Monteiro