Oil running out as prime energy source: world poll

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By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most people believe oil is running out and governments need to find another fuel, but Americans are alone in thinking their leaders are out of touch with reality on this issue, an international poll said on Sunday.

On average, 70 percent of respondents in 15 countries and the Palestinian territories said they thought oil supplies had peaked. Only 22 percent of the nearly 15,000 respondents in nations ranging from China to Mexico believed enough new oil would be found to keep it a primary fuel source.

"What's most striking is there's such a widespread consensus around the world that oil is running out and governments need to make a real effort to find new sources of energy," said Steven Kull, director of WorldPublicOpinion.org, a global research organization that conducted the poll.

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1. What exactly

does some "poll" on what people think have to do with the facts of world oil reserves?

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2. Nothing...

but prove how ig.....relax.....breath in.....breath out....no need to attack the unarmed....start again

but prove how poor our education system is performing :mad:

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3. It shows how ready people are to start looking at alternatives

and how much they will push their government to move to renewables or nuclear or geothermal or coal or whatever else there is.

Also, it shows how prepared they will be to make sacrifices to make the necessary changes.

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4. It proves the public buys into an easy excuse for the five oil monopolies

and the hedge fund speculators to raise and fix the price of oil. Reminds me of OPEC and the embargo in the 70s. Welcome to fascism.

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5. It proves 70% are smarter than you, fastsense

Peak Oil is real and it is happening now. And of course speculators speculate to make prices go faster high up and then some, that is their job. But with no political embargo and everybody pumping as much as they can, supply just does not satisfy all the demand anymore. If it did, speculators could not speculate on prices going up up up.