NO OIL IN 80 YEARS.
EOREOAST BY' UAAIOt'S EXPERT “I doubL if. oil will ever be a very serious rival of coal,” declared Richard Redmuyne, former chief inspector of mines, before the Royal ( 'omission on Coal in England. “The annual world production of oil is abut /one-ninth ;of jlh.e wjurld production of coa'l.
“One authority,” he stated, estimates that flic oil supply iti America is strictly limited to .12 years. J think that in 2d years’ time there will be no oil in the United States The world supply of oil will not suffice for more than eighty or a hundred years.” Oil, he admitted was becoming a considerable factor in water transport, “but,” he added, “it is rarely used economically us compared with, Welsh coal.”
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 552, 29 December 1925, Page 7
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