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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-20-06 07:49 AM
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2. As Extraction Methods Have Improved Accessable Reserves Increased
Every time some engineer invents some widget more oil becomes accessable, and when that happens the reserves go up.

Most peak oil folks want to believe that technology development stopped the day they were born. It did not.

So the answer given above is essentially correct, 'there is lots, and it doesn't matter'.
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