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Oil supplies are running out faster than expected

AUG 04, 2009
Physics Today
The Independent : In its first-ever assessment of the world’s major oil fields, the International Energy Agency has concluded that the global energy system is at a crossroads and that consumption of oil is “patently unsustainable,” with expected demand far outstripping supply.Oil production has already peaked in non-Opec countries and the era of cheap oil has come to an end, it warned.
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