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Email us at ovpeopleslibrary@gmail.com
Check out our new branch library at The Dharma Lab, Second Floor, 1814 Pandora Street!
Return or Donate using our bins at these locations:
-Spartacus Books
-People's Co-op
-Little Sister's Bookstore
And if you'd like to get involved, we meet every Sunday at 11:30am, at the Central Library food court in Downtown Vancouver.
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A great post.
When we think of oil, we picture the gas tank analogy. When the needle reaches E for empty is when we are in trouble. The world does in fact have a trillion barrels of oil left to produce. The real analogy is like a Pearl Harbor reconnaissance plane flying its mission over the ocean. The plane flies as far as it can for as high as it can. The pilot fulfils the mission of aerial photography of enemy positions. At a certain point though the pilot knows he must turn around at the HALF WAY point of the gas gauge to make it back home. When the needle reaches at half the tank the pilot MUST RETREAT and DESCEND to make it back to base. When the world has produced as much oil as it ever can in one day (peaked), when it has flown as far as it can for as high as it can the world economy MUST RETREAT and DESCEND.
Thanks.