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The Oil Myth or We Will Have Oil Forever (Part 5)

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This lecture is entitled “The Scarcity Myth.”  Today, we’re going to do Part Five, which is our final piece, discussing the thesis, “How we will never run out of oil.” We’re on agenda item 9 today, which is “Proven Resources Are Undercounted.”  Proven Resources is a phrase that has a definition, which is “oil deposits [...]

The Oil Myth or We Will Have Oil Forever (Part 4)

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This is part four of our lecture series, “The Scarcity Myth.”   Last time we were together, we were speaking about abiotic oil, and the possibility that oil is not a fossil fuel.   Today,  I’ll present some of the most exciting evidence that supports this theory. We’re on agenda item 6 if you’re following along on [...]

The Oil Myth or We Will Have Oil Forever (Part 3)

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This is part three of our lecture “The Scarcity Myth,” and the thesis of this lecture is very simple, that oil is not a fossil fuel and that therefore we are very unlikely to ever run out of it.  In the last two days, we did a lot of background work building up to today’s [...]

The Oil Myth or We Will Have Oil Forever (Part 2)

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Welcome to Part Two of our lecture called “The Scarcity Myth.”   Yesterday, we talked a lot about some introductory ideas, the idea that we have a long history of predicting the end of oil and we talked a little bit about how much energy we already have here in the U.S.   If you refer to [...]