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Fossil Fuels – Facts and Figures
- At present, fossil fuels make up about 90% of the world’s commercial
energy supply.
- About a third of all the oil used on the planet is used to run
cars, trucks, buses, and other motor vehicles.
- Scientists have predicted that the Earth’s supplies of fossil fuels
will not last much longer, if we keep using them at the rate we are
now. Some believe that our current oil reserves will only last a matter
of decades.
These are good reasons to think about using other forms of energy
to produce electricity and to power vehicles, and to start reducing
our energy consumption now.
BP Statistical Review of World Energy,
1995.
MacKenzie & Walsh, 1990
WRI, 2002
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