World oil supplies are set to run out faster than expected, warn scientists

[babsbunny]

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2656034.ece

Scientists challenge major review of global reserves and warn that supplies will start to run out in four years' time
By Daniel Howden
Published: 14 June 2007
Scientists have criticised a major review of the world's remaining oil reserves, warning that the end of oil is coming sooner than governments and oil companies are prepared to admit.

BP's Statistical Review of World Energy, published yesterday, appears to show that the world still has enough "proven" reserves to provide 40 years of consumption at current rates. The assessment, based on officially reported figures, has once again pushed back the estimate of when the world will run dry.

However, scientists led by the London-based Oil Depletion Analysis Centre, say that global production of oil is set to peak in the next four years before entering a steepening decline which will have massive consequences for the world economy and the way that we live our lives.

[obxhead]

1. Anybody want a Honda Element???

LOVE the truck/car/thing, but 22 mpg is killing me and we have some of the cheapest gas in the country!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. "...reserves to provide 40 years of consumption at current rates."

First, consumption is rapidly increasing.

Second, the oil companies are full of shit.

Third, the oil companies are full of shit.

[Double T]

3. Better hurry and dump your SUV and your mcmansion............

soon YOU won't be able to give THEM away.

[KansDem]

4. Will they run out before the American Embassy in Baghdad is finished?

Now that would be poetic justice!