Professor says days of ‘no oil’ are nearing

FALL RIVER, MA – What’s worse than $3-a-gallon gasoline?

No gasoline.

If New College of California Professor Richard Heinberg is right, we’ll be dealing with “no gasoline” as early as 2010 and definitely by 2030.

That’s it. No gasoline. Out. No more oil.

Speaking at Bristol Community College, Heinberg said that history offers many examples of “energy transitions,” as when humans moved from using their own muscle power to that of draught animals and, finally, the Industrial Revolution.

“The most important of the energy transitions was the Industrial Revolution,” Heinberg said, noting that, while many people think of the Industrial Revolution as being driven by new machines, in actuality, it was driven by the fossil fuels that drove the new machines.

The Herald News (New England)