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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-03-10 06:31 AM
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Poll question: At current usage rate, how much oil is left in world reserves?
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Measured in time, how long until the world's known oil reserves run out?

Poll result (16 votes)
Within 20 years, we'll run out of the sweet sweet sticky crude (1 votes, 6%)Vote
Within 30 years, there will be no more Texas Tea (2 votes, 13%)Vote
Within 40 years, my SUV will come sputtering to a permanent stop (8 votes, 50%)Vote
Within 50 years, NASCAR will have to switch to *actual* horse power (1 votes, 6%)Vote
Within 60 years, travel by zeppelin will be cost effective (0 votes, 0%)Vote
80 years from now, Mad Max will look like Nostrdamus (0 votes, 0%)Vote
100 years from now, new reserve discoveries will lead to gasoline-powered air conditioners (4 votes, 25%)Vote

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  -At current usage rate, how much oil is left in world reserves? Bucky  Jan-03-10 06:31 AM   #0 
  - I suspect that people are answering based on how far their commute is  taterguy   Jan-03-10 06:38 AM   #1 
  - A shame since, because of Heisenberg principles, this poll determines what will really happen  Bucky   Jan-03-10 06:59 AM   #2 
  - Even if there is that much left  JoeyT   Jan-03-10 07:09 AM   #3 
  - Well, shit, why didn't you tell me that before I voted?  taterguy   Jan-03-10 12:17 PM   #12 
  - Nah, just how many year till I retire. n/t  kirby   Jan-03-10 09:18 AM   #8 
  - Reframing the choices tends to make them more relevant to the 21st Century  depakid   Jan-03-10 07:20 AM   #4 
  - Some of each?  izquierdista   Jan-03-10 09:37 AM   #10 
  - I don't think it matters.  Progressive Albertan   Jan-03-10 07:20 AM   #5 
  - Your next decade and beyond....  wuvuj   Jan-03-10 07:32 AM   #6 
  - We'll never run out.  RUMMYisFROSTED   Jan-03-10 08:25 AM   #7 
  - How can we not run out when we keep using more and more per capita  RC   Jan-03-10 10:13 AM   #11 
     - You'll neither extract, nor find, it all. nt  RUMMYisFROSTED   Jan-04-10 08:28 AM   #13 
  - Depends on if one includes tar sand, oil shale and coal.  Kaleva   Jan-03-10 09:22 AM   #9 
 

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