Fossil Fuels are Here to Stay, Says Expert

Vancouver Sun:
by Gordon Jaremko, CanWest News Service -- 10-17-05
"It has been assumed for decades societies will gradually switch to renewable energy forms and wean themselves off oil, gas, coal and atomic power, Jaccard said.
But he concluded the assumptions he was taught were wrong. His forthcoming book forecasts that oil, gas and coal will still satisfy 58 per cent of world energy needs in the year 2100.
That market share will be down from today's 85 per cent but still require high production because total global consumption of all energy forms will grow as developing countries strive for North American-level living standards."