02615nam 2200577Ia 450 991087760960332120200520144314.01-4443-5989-41-282-34361-097866123436121-4443-1452-11-4443-1453-X(CKB)1000000000800089(EBL)470541(OCoLC)475554560(SSID)ssj0000304989(PQKBManifestationID)11245012(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000304989(PQKBWorkID)10285477(PQKB)10281336(MiAaPQ)EBC470541(EXLCZ)99100000000080008920090725d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOil panic and the global crisis predictions and myths /Steven M. GorelickChichester, West Sussex ;Hoboken, NJ Wiley-Blackwell20091 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4051-9548-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Oil Panic and the Global Crisis; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About Units; Getting Started: What Do You Think?; 1: End of the Oil Era; 2: The Global Oil Landscape; 3: The Historical Resource Depletion Debate; 4: Counter-Arguments to Imminent Global Oil Depletion; 5: Beyond Panic; IndexIs 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 and then cPetroleum industry and tradePetroleum reservesForecastingEnergy consumptionForecastingPetroleum industry and trade.Petroleum reservesForecasting.Energy consumptionForecasting.333.8/232Gorelick Steven M1753112MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910877609603321Oil panic and the global crisis4188701UNINA