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Daily energy use: the 3 bars are hosuehold use, personal vehicles, and indirect use.
The most amazing (as in: different from everybody else) one is the size of the personal vehicle related consumption in North America. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
ExxonMobil expects bascially flat energy consumption in the West, and sharply growing elsewhere. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Amongst interesting predictions:
For that matter, so does the size and duration of the slump following the 2008 Panic.
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ExxonMobil sees subsantial efforts in terms of the energy intensity of our economies, both in the OECD and elsewhere, and absolute declines in emissions from the West.
Of course, this is largely BAU, somewhat constrained by vaguely greener rules, and it's insufficient. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
"I think the trends we're seeing are all pointing in the same direction," he says. "Oil is a challenge, both price and availability. "Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher. "I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined."
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