XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.global-warming, alt.politics.scorched-earth   
   XPost: uk.politics.misc   
   From: "sjedgingNOSp@m"@mwt.net   
      
   BeamMeUpScotty wrote on 4/22/2019 4:33 PM:   
      
      
   > 11.  "By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be   
   > using up crude oil at such a rate... that there won't be any more   
   > crude oil. You'll drive up to the pump and say, 'Fill 'er up, buddy,'   
   > and he'll say, 'I am very sorry, there isn't any.'"   
      
   This is the most important Earth Day fact   
      
   This statement was factually correct in 1970.   
   In the 100 years before 1970 the US had increased   
   its consumption of oil at a steady rate of 8% per year.   
   Had that trend continued for 50 years the US alone would   
   have consumed 100% of all the known oil in the world by   
   today.   
      
   But instead of the trend continuing, 1970 was the peak   
   year of US per capita oil consumption growth. As a   
   result of the change in behavior the trend reversed and   
   instead of consuming 100% of all known oil the US   
   has consumed less than 2% in the 50 years after 1970.   
      
   Many of the other predictions in regard to air and water   
   pollution and land degradation would also have come to   
   be, if behaviors had not changed and trends had   
   continued.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)