Overview: Peak Oil Fears Drive Search for Alternatives at the Pump

M&C News – Scientists scrambling for better ways to fuel the world’s automotive fleet are racing against an uncertain deadline – the date when the Earth runs out of easily obtained crude oil.

Experts, including some in the US government and in the oil industry, agree that as early as 2010 and as late as 2047, world oil production will have ‘peaked’ – or levelled off – due to physical limitations on extraction.
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