Monday, October 09, 2006

In the early 1960s...

Click here: As Oil Ebbs - washingtonpost.com

In the early 1960s, a man who was then seventy, told me that "we've been running out of oil since I was a boy."

Factoid: The much-maligned Vice-President, Dick Cheney, --- when he ran Halliburton and its subsidiary Dresser Industries --- was instrumental in pushing forward the development of new oil sources in a green way: offshore, slant drilling, Arctic --- mostly where people do not live.

He deserves credit for this, but rarely gets it.

Ben

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The way I understand it, the problems with oil arise not from its collection, but rather its consumption.

October 10, 2006  

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