You know, Scotty, I’ve heard that argument since the early 1960’s and it still doesn’t make sense. Just think about it - if we were burning up all the oil like you say how would we still be able to produce more every year for all these years?
There is plenty of oil and more is discovered all the time.
You should have stopped believing those Al Gore bedtime stories when we weren’t all frozen by 2000.
Sorry for disturbing your opinion with arithmetic, but more people using more
will eventually make rapid changes. How could they not? More people using more doesn't plot as a straight line, you know.
You mystify me. What in the world do you think is happening? Do you think that oil somehow renews itself? Or that moving it from underground to the atmosphere doesn't change anything?
Maybe not in our lifetime - I'll give you that. Although I no longer look at my own lifetime as the most important measuring stick. That happens, too.
Like most changes, oil depletion it is likely to be a slower start than fiinish. And just like a repair on tractors or people, better to fix the problem at the beginning than later when it gets worse.
Agree that Al Gore got his timing way wrong - like most youngsters he thought everything important was going to happen immediately and in a direction only he could see. That's youthful hubris. It afflicts young politicians too.
But other than the timing, he appears to have gotten the rest of his projections roughly right - hotter in some places, cooler in others, weather & climate...the changes are chugging right along.
Just not yet accelerating.
rScotty
