What greene energy can't do.

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Originally Posted by August

Folks have been saying that almost my entire life. We were supposed to have run out of oil already but surprise, surprise they keep finding more.

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

It's a finite resource.

I think you are both right in a way. On one hand Mookie is right by saying it's a finite resource. On the other, I have noticed the same as August with the doomsday heralds in general. I mean, for how many times have I already seen a newspaper scream: "if the solution is not found in a week, the whole EU will collapse ZOMG!!!"

Not only do they keep finding more, but also we invest in technologies that spend less. Is that a permanent solution? In the end probably not, because oil is a finite resource. On the other hand, "finite" in this case is highly relative.