[ale] Off topic - oil

[Larry Johnson]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> Interesting.
>
> I had no idea about that.  I knew they had found lots of natural gas
> out west, but not crude.
>
> Amazing how the end of the oil age keeps getting pushed out.  Glad the
> dinosaurs ran around for a few hundred million years making a couple
> centuries of oil for us!
>
> Might even be enough time for us to smoothly move to the next energy
> source.
>
> Greg
>
>
I always enjoyed the cartoons showing dinosaurs becoming oil, but most oil
actually originated from algae and plankton.  And whether the date gets
pushed out depends entirely on whose analysis, guesses, and (on both sides)
politically motivated wishful thinking you are reading.

Larry

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