"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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In article , Tom Sixkiller wrote:
are absolutely
dependent on oil.

A hundred years ago it was manual labor intensive, using animal power.
Industry was coal fired/steam powered.

There were also fewer people to feed. Labour is also a renewable
resource.

You just inverted your argument.



Oil, however, isn't.

Isn't what?

I don't know when it's going to become more scarce,
but some day it will. Hopefully, it won't in my lifetime, but I somehow
doubt it - the early signs are showing, oil companies are no longer oil
companies but energy companies,

Good, that's called diversification. Only an idiot puts all their eggs in
one basket.

Shell has not once but twice announced
that it has significantly less oil than it thought.

You know, they've had these very complaints ging back over 100 years, that
we're running out. And somehow...

Large nations like
China will have a greater demand for oil as their prosperity increases,
same goes for places like India.

And what happens when demand goes up? Think how much demand has gone up over
the past several generations.

But it also begs the question - isn't six billion enough already?

Well, 200 years ago, Malthus said 800 million was enough already.