>"By 2030, predicts the Paris-based International Energy Agency, global oil
>consumption will jump to 120 million barrels a day from 82 million barrels a
>day now."
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>Regardless of a supply peak, isn't this impending 50 percent jump in
>combustion a recipe for eco-disaster through global warming/ice cap melt?
>If that isn't already coming, won't this geometric boost bring it on?
That's my argument - the greater danger is burning what we have (41 years at current rates of consumption), not running out of it decades from now.
Doug