TY - BOOK AU - Gorelick,Steven M. ED - Wiley InterScience (Online service) TI - Oil panic and the global crisis: predictions and myths SN - 9781444314526 AV - HD9560.5 .G594 2010 U1 - 333.8/232 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Hoboken, NJ PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Petroleum industry and trade KW - Petroleum reserves KW - Forecasting KW - Energy consumption KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444314526 ER -