Some Smart Person had this to say about 2015 (emphasis mine, reformatted):
The United States may be totally independent of Arab oil by the year 2015. Unfortunately, so will everyone else because statistically that will be the year the last barrel of oil is pumped from the last well on earth. Of course, there will be no “last barrel” as such in 2015 because the world’s oil fields cannot continue to produce at current levels much longer.
The 1975 International Petroleum Encyclopedia, updated and published annually by the Petroleum Publishing Co., sets proven world reserves — the oil known for a fact to be present and recoverable by current technology — at about 103 billion metric tons. The current world annual consumption rate is approximately 2.8 billion.
Here we are, in 2015, awash with oil. Never bet against the ingenuity of men, and certainly not against American technology when the profit motive is the reward for serving others with the product others desire in having a better standard of living. It is unfortunately (Heinlein’s “bad luck”) that Democrats and enviro-wackos believe it is their mission to force their values upon everyone else and bring that standard of living down by de-energizing and de-industrializing the US.
But it also shows that we should take many predictions with a whole lot of salt…
…oh, wait! They believe salt is bad for us as well, right?
