The End of Oil
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Forget what you think you know. Let go for a moment of the comf half-truths picked up in the pub -'the US has trillions of barrels it I touched yet' and 'there's 250 years' worth of oil still undiscovered' Roberts. long-term analyst of the energy economy, lays out cogent easily how we have come to depend on oil for everything we do, h( much of it is still available to us and what might happen when it isn This isn't a scaremongering book, although it offers moments ot clarity that are truly terrifying. Roberts is considered and conscien in his arguments and avoids any Doomsday scenarios. But he does make it clear that myopia and crossed fmgers won't help us.We ne. know: we need to understand and we need to act.
I'll leave you with one fact from this little treasure: current oil consumption (81m barrels a day) is growing so fast that oil compai must find a new billion-barrel oilfield every two weeks to keep up. do the maths.
From Bloomsbury Publishing By Paul Roberts, ISBN 0747570817, price £8.99