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Kicking the Oil Habit
By REP Policy Director Jim DiPeso
published in Business Week on November 19, 2001
Many
geologists think the world is approaching "Hubbert's Peak," the point
at which global oil output begins to fall, bringing even greater risk
of economic and political dislocation ("What to do about oil," News:
Analysis & Commentary, Oct. 29). Greater energy efficiency will buy
time to diversity the U.S. energy portfolio with hydrogen and other
petroleum alternatives.
