[The Vector] Hermann Scheer – Continued
Article written in Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2006
There is both bad news and good news for world energy supply. The bad news? Oil is running out. The good news? Oil is running out. And not only oil: sooner or later, every type of fossil energy will run out – including fossil uranium ore which is needed to make atomic fuel rods. The reason why oil became the most used form of energy was simple: because it is liquid, making it easier to use, it became the 20th Century’s “Black Gold”. Yet even John Rockefeller, the first and best-known of the oil magnates, spoke prophetically of “the devil’s tears”.
It was always clear that oil would run out one day. But because people didn’t know when, they put the problem to the back of their minds. The alarmist mood among by state leaders today shows that they were living from day to day, whilst their countries’ dependence on the resources which were becoming depleted grew greater and greater.