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...Arno Carl Fieldner of the U. S. Bureau of Mines raised the old bugaboo about the imminent exhaustion of oil & gas. There was enough coal, he said, to last 2,100 years. But the known reserves of natural gas were 30 to 40 trillion cu. ft., of oil 13 billion barrels. At the present rate of consumption the petroleum would be gone in 13 years-but Dr. Fieldner predicted that discoveries of new pools and more efficient production techniques would stretch out the supply for a century. Unless "greater social control" was forthcoming, known supplies of gas would vanish...
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