I’m pleased to see Richard Gwyn in today’s Toronto Star getting it so publicly. As much as one might try to deny it, it is a fact that, since the Earth is finite, the amount of any given non-renewable resource available on the Earth is also finite. So the idea that we’re running out of easily-obtainable oil… maybe as soon as this year… well, it bears at least a modicum of consideration.
I’d like to see some actual projections comparing the costs of building and maintaining renewable energy plants with those of developping more sources for fossil fuels. It seems to me that there will come a point where — no matter how expensive is it to set up a working windfarm — it will be a better use of our remaining oil reserves than any attempt to try and replenish those reserves.
Or hey, I suppose we could just start developping a working time machine. Six or seven million years into the future, you figure that supplies of fossil fuels will have built themselves up again?