Earth’s Oil Supply Still Plentiful
The doom and gloomers gave the Oil Age an early epitaph in the early 2000s, claiming fossil fuels had run their course and there was no more oil to be pumped on the planet. Fast forward 15 years and there’s oil everywhere. The world pumps 93 million barrels of oil a day and there’s still more than a trillion barrels waiting to be extracted in the Earth’s crust. So will we ever run out of oil? Biologist and science writer Joe Hanson explains in this edition of It’s Okay To Be Smart
