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   From: "sjedgingNOSp@m"@mwt.net   
      
   Bud Frawley wrote on 4/23/2019 9:41 AM:   
   > On 4/23/2019 5:20 AM, jim wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
      
   If the growth trend that existed in 1970 and earlier had continued,   
   there would be none left   
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