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Old 5th Feb 2006, 11:47
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99.99% accuracy.. OUCH..What essential item(s) could I lose along the way ?

Having been involved here and there with oil and gas exploration projects I have to tell all you Voices of DOOM that oil and its derivitives will be around a lot longer than you think and well beyond the lifetime of anyone alive today...what will be the deciding factor will be cost...Oil is not sitting under the ground in large natural buckets... we have oodles of the stuff in places you haven't dreamt of and only the cost and limited technology prevents us from extracting it...research is ongoing to reduce the costs of getting it into your tank and as each dollar is added to the price of a barrel then so many more sources are worth exploiting...As for the answer to the originaal Q...sorry...I haven't a clue.
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