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Photo Story by
Andrey Ustuzhanin
and Ron Swenson
What happens when oil production can no longer satisfy demand?

Which choices will we make?

Please email us your photo thoughts.

Ron Swenson, publisher and editor of The Coming Global Oil Crisis website.

Andrey Ustuzhanin is Featured Photo Artist at FeaturePics.com

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Oil Crisis
"We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children." Saint Exupery

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Todays facts:

It is estimated that there were 2 trillion barrels of oil on the Earth.

We have used approximately half of this resource
in the past 140 years since initial oil production started in 1860.

It is now thought by some of the world's leading petroleum geologists that more than 95 percent of all recoverable oil has now been found.
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By their math, we have only 37 years of fuel left. 
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Chevron, one of the world's largest oil refiners, runs a two-page advertisement at the beginning of the September 2005 issue of Scientific American:

It took us 125 years to use
the first trillion barrels of oil.
We'll use the next trillion in 30.


Don't rub your eyes. You read what your read.
Source:http://www.chevron.com/about/advertising/docs/real_issues_print_02.pdf
petroleum and gas photo collection Anticipating that demand for energy will continue to increase as supplies decline, humanity will adjust by some combination of the following:
  • Conservation -- the same life-style accomplished with more energy-efficient artifacts ... more fuel-efficient cars ...

  • Life-Style Change -- a form of conservation: telecommuting instead of commuting ... back to the land ... living closer to work ...

  • Substitution -- using other energy sources to accomplish the same objectives ... solar power... walking not driving ...

  • Deprivation -- just plain doing without ... no more plane trips to visit the family across the country ... or, more seriously, pestilence ... mass starvation ... war ...
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