Glenn:
>>First, there is what I belive to be an obvious mistatement of numbers
(whether you mis-heard or he goofed up is not clear). Current usage of oil
is .028 trillion NOT .28 trillion.>
My error -- I wrote 28B on my notepad and left out a zero when I wrote the
post.
>Secondly, I know of no one (other than this guy) who believes that there
>are 6.5 trillion barrels of reserves on earth unless one is counting
>dispersed oil (which is a wee bit of contamination in all soils and rocks
>and occurs naturally). But that isn't RECOVERABLE oil. We will never get
>that out of the ground.>
The TV cut was ambiguous -- he may well have been talking about oil PLUS
natural gas. You are right though - he never addressed the issue of
"recoverable."
>Now as to his claim that we shouldn't have a problem, I would like to know
>where the oil is coming from. >>
He did speak of Siberian fields -- seemed to agree with you that current
fields are becoming tapped out.
I think what bothered me about this, and other exhibits at the Denver Museum
was the presentation of obviously controversial issues as if they were all
settled. The Miller experiment of 1953, for example, "showed clearly" how
life began.
John
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