Strick: I too find his predictions a bit 'fast' or soon. However, we often mention the dream of using solar power, hydrogen, wind, other forms of fuel. However, the resaerch is lagging. Its application to industrial use just isn't there. We require the recognition that we have 25 years on the outside to not only 'solve' the problems, but also get the solutions in place.

The good estimates I've read by various 'experts' have the oil-crash year anywhere from 2012 to 2050. The really scary thing is that no one refutes that the crash will indeed come. I will likely be dead before that happens, but the kids I have or the kids I teach won't.

When I was a youth (I'm 56, so let's say 40 years ago) the figure that was tossed around and generally accepted--even by people who were down on the use of fossil fuels--was that the world would run out of oil within THREE hundred years. Holy sh!t. Time flies when you're havin' fun.

We have an associate problem that is little understood with regard to coal as a fuel. All coal ain't the same. If anyone thinks we have polution now, let's start burning coal. Or wood. I agree with what you posted. But the problem ain't goin' away, and we need answers faster than we're finding them. BM