DPA: You Do the Math

Bartlett likes to point out that throughout most of history, population growth was flat — but by 1960 it grew to about a 2 percent increase each year.

Now it’s growing at 1.3 percent, a growth that “continues to put pressure on oil, natural gas, coal and other fuels,” he said.

Bartlett believes that world oil will peak this year, and once “at the peak you’re halfway through.”

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