The Peak Oil Crisis

It is time to revisit the question of using biomass as the feedstock for our liquid fuels, as it is looking more and more like we will have few other choices.

While converting coal to liquid fuels is possible and obviously popular in coal producing states, there are limits on how far coal can go to replace oil as a source for liquid fuels. If coal consumption increases rapidly to meet the need for liquid fuels, then our estimated 250-year supply would quickly turn into a 50-year supply and we would be back where we started. Converting one fossil fuel into another may be a reasonable short-term transition strategy, but it is not going help our grandchildren.

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