From: Mxsmanic on
mrtravel writes:

> When I was in high school, I think I heard we had about 30 years of oil
> left. How many years of oil do we have left 30 years later?

We have 30 years of oil left every year.

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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:52:09 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Dave Frightens Me writes:
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>> Education can replace it in terms of saving lives.
>
>Then we can discard all heating systems and replace them with
>"education."

Your logic is broken. No-one said anything about heating.
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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:52:35 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>mrtravel writes:
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>> When I was in high school, I think I heard we had about 30 years of oil
>> left. How many years of oil do we have left 30 years later?
>
>We have 30 years of oil left every year.

Hmmm... what do you mean by that?
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From: Mxsmanic on
Dave Frightens Me writes:

> Your logic is broken. No-one said anything about heating.

You say that education can compensate for excessive heat. Logically,
then, education can also compensate for excessive cold. Thus, there's
no more need for heating systems than there is for air conditioning
systems.

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From: Mxsmanic on
Dave Frightens Me writes:

> Hmmm... what do you mean by that?

People have been saying that there's only 30 years of oil left for a
very long time, and yet the exhaustion of oil reserves seems to remain
perpetually 30 years in the future.

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