[beckett]

Alarmist hogwash. Here's a good rule of thumb: Whenever somebody tries to tell you what the world will be like 22 years hence, RUN.

[stevem]

Here's a good rule of thumb: Whenever somebody tries to tell you what the world will be like 22 years hence, RUN.

This is surely the case. I think you would be equally justified in predicting panic among OPEC countries because of improving technology in the arena of fuel cells. Many of the boys in OPEC don't have much to offer the world except buckets of oil.

[snooker]

Good old Jimmuh Carter -- the peanut -- He predicted the world would be out of oil, all gone, kaput, by the year 2,000.