Such an abundance of articles would imply that much research has been devoted to this issue. The assumption is that all the reserves provided by this planet have been found and any rate of production will ultimately deplete all of the earth's available oil supply. Therefore the solution, according to some, is to conserve these fossil fuels until an affordable alternative is found and implemented.
Conservation is expensive and always paid by the consumer.
This extrapolation is very ambitious and unrealistic. Figure 1 also shows that production has remained somewhat constant even though oil reserves are declining. Figure 2 shows that production has remained somewhat constant even though oil reserves are rising. This contradicts the accepted extrapolation that world oil reserves are declining because the oil reserves in the United States are declining. Politicians, planners, futurists, and researchers have long since accepted this logical, yet incorrect, explanation.