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Oil alarmism existed as early as 1919: http://papers.sae.org/190011/ http://papers.sae.org/190011/

• sgift 9y ago
  So, it took almost 100 years until the mainstream understood what should have been blatantly obvious to anyone who thinks about it: Oh right. Oil is limited. I mean, sure, if we search long and hard enough we will probably almost always be able to find/produce something, but I don't think asking 1 million per liter of gas would be such a great idea. Hoping that there will always be a scientific breakthrough just "right in time" to solve our resource problems is great. I love optimism. It's also extremely irresponsible to depend on it.
• coldtea 9y ago
  You mean "oil cautionism" based on the very well established fact that reserves are limited (and it took the billions of years to be created)?
  • Roboprog 9y ago
    Or perhaps “only” 200 million years or so But yah, a one time thing for us.