Oil panic and the global crisis [electronic resource] : predictions and myths / Steven M. Gorelick.

Oil panic and the global crisis [electronic resource] : predictions and myths / Steven M. Gorelick.

9781444314533 (electronic bk.)
9781405195485

Chichester, U.K. ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

English

1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps

HD9560.5 .G594 2009eb

333.8/232

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....

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