"Paul Sengupta" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I also remember the many reputable "researchers" claiming that all the
"oil
will be gone by the year 2000." (Actually, some were claiming 1990.)

When I was in school in the 1970s/80s, it was given as being about 300
years
so I'm not sure where the "by the year 1990" came from.

Paul Erlich.