Two more interesting articles:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38645 (Sustainable Oil? An
Intriguing new theory; contains links to more info)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897232/posts/ (Anything Into Oil:
Solution to Dependence on Foreign Oil?) (or link directly to the company
http://www.changingworldtech.com/)

At 04:35 PM 10/4/2004 -0400, Henry Spratt wrote:
>Colleagues:
>
>I thought I'd pass this along to you-all.  You may or may not ever
>have heard the term "peak oil", however as a carbon biogeochemist (my
>line of research) this term represents a very important event in
>global and human history.  The peak represents a peak on a graph of
>all the oil that has ever been, or ever could be pumped from the
>earth.  As a finite resource petroleum will follow such a depletion
>curve.  Of course the implications of this peak to humanity are
>significant.  After we're sure the peak has been reached (a little
>bit of a daunting task due to the widespread nature of the resource),
>every drop of oil we pump from the earth will cost more. Why bring
>this peak up now?  Well, a number of geophysicists and geochemists
>estimate that this peak has occurred this year, or will occur next
>year (one fellow goes as far as to say that the date of the peak will
>be Thanksgiving Day, 2005).  Why haven't you heard much about "peak
>oil" in the past?  Well, basically due to economists who have not
>considered this aspect of oil in the past.  However, news out of
>Washington this past Friday that Group of Seven (G7) ministers have
>finally begun discussing the possibility that global  scarcity of oil
>may be not be as temporary a problem as previously thought.  Check
>out the following web sites for more information on this issue.
>
>http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100404_we_did_it.shtml
>
>http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=6396037
>
>http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=92871&Sn=BUSI&IssueID=27194
>
>Take care,
>
>Henry Spratt
>--
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>
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>Professor
>Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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