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3 Trillion Barrels of Oil

This is an interesting article about oil reserves and fossil fuel dependency. The gist of it is that if we can get out of our own way, we have plenty of oil to carry us through to a post-petrol economy. But we can’t back away from nuclear power plants if we plan to do that.

I’m no expert on fuel and world affairs, but I do remember being told by my high school science teacher in about 1967 that we were going to run out of fuel by 1975. And yet today there are 3 trillion barrels of oil in known reserves.

We just need to get out of our own way, to solve this problem.

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