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The Oklahoma Editorial
Published: July 4, 2010
THE world isn't close to running out of oil and natural gas, but some of its people are running out of patience for fossil fuels, particularly coal.
This has important implications for Oklahoma, the nation's third-largest natural gas producer. Despite the best efforts of the state's gas producers, replacing gasoline with natural gas to run vehicles has been agonizingly slow. Patience is demanded.
One of our favorite quotes about energy is from Ernest J. Moniz, a professor at MIT and a former U.S. Energy Department official:
"We are not running out of oil. There are one trillion barrels of conventional reserves in the world, many decades' worth at around 100 million barrels a day. The Stone Age didn't end for lack of stones and this is likely to be true of oil for quite some time.”
We do worry about whether the Fossil Fuel Age will end for lack of patience and tolerance for the occasional oil spill or the effects of burning coal to make electricity, rather than depletion of supply itself... FULL ARTICLE
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Sun, July 4, 2010
by Crystal Drwenski