Oil panic and the global crisis : predictions and myths / Steven M. Gorelick.
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TextPublisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444314526; 1444314521; 9781444314533; 144431453X; 1282343610; 9781282343610Subject(s): Petroleum industry and trade | Petroleum reserves -- Forecasting | Energy consumption -- Forecasting | Energy consumption -- Forecasting | Petroleum industry and trade | Petroleum reserves -- ForecastingGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Oil panic and the global crisis.DDC classification: 333.8/232 LOC classification: HD9560.5 | .G594 2010Online resources: Wiley Online Library | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oil Panic and the Global Crisis; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About Units; Getting Started: What Do You Think?; 1: End of the Oil Era; 2: The Global Oil Landscape; 3: The Historical Resource Depletion Debate; 4: Counter-Arguments to Imminent Global Oil Depletion; 5: Beyond Panic; Index.
Is the world running out of oil? This book analyzes predictions of global oil depletion in the context of science, history, and economics. There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion of earth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run out of any significant, globally traded, non-renewable resource. Is the world finally facing a non-renewable resource depletion catastrophe, or is the current concern just another one of a succession of panics? In this book, key assumptions and underlying arguments in the global oil-depletion debate are first summarized and then chal.
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