From: tbos@social-sci.ss.emory.edu
To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:18:58 +0000
Subject: oil, coal, and the world-system
In-reply-to: <359A81DC.7B5060E5@jhu.edu>
WSN

I agree with Bruce.  Oil is far more plentiful than previously
estimated, there is enough coal to last hundreds of years, and  the
basic technology to convert coal to gas over 60 years old.  The
energy crisis of the 1970s was a political problem not a natural
shortage.  We should concentrate on more dire problems of  energy
consumption than supply,  such a global warming 

TB