| LESSON 7: Proponents of population elimination often use dire predictions of global energy shortages to justify their draconian measures. But after decades and decades of false prophecies, there is no energy crisis in sight. It’s only our willingness to tackle tough problems that is running on empty. |
The only thing greater than our growing supply of fuels…
…is the gullibility of our constant supply of fools.
Read what the ‘experts’ have predicted in the past:
- In 1885 and again in 1891, the U.S. Geological Survey said there was “little or no chance for oil” being found in California, Kansas or Texas1.
- In 1951, the Department of Interior’s Oil and Gas Division said oil reserves would last only 13 years2.
- Paul Ehrlich, 1975: “What will we do when the pumps run dry?”3.
- Despite these dire predictions, oil is in abundant supply and oil prices have generally been falling. All other forms of energy are also in abundance!
1U.S. Geological Survey (1885 and 1891), as documented in The Ultimate Resource 2, Julian L. Simon, 1996.
2Congressional hearings on the Energy Independence Act of 1975, as documented in The Ultimate Resource 2, Julian L. Simon, 1996.
3The End of Influence, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, 1975.
