Jim relies on the hope that economic forces will force us to find more
resources. The calculation can be done to show how long oil would last IF
THE ENTIRE BODY OF THE EARTH WERE ONE HUGE GLOB OF OIL. Even this ridiculous
extreme does not lead to a comforting result. With exponential growth, even
that oil would run out in a couple thousand year. Surely Jim does not think
the whole planet is one big blob of oil!
Not even that would help; there would not be enough oxygen in the atmosphere to combine with it.
Carleton
