However there is a political battle in our country.

This firm ranks second in the oil trade.

Evidence is now mounting that world oil production is peaking, or is close to it.

Many of the others are expected to follow in the near future.

Alright. What else?

As oil prices go up, energy patents go up.

How are you going to feed Britain? How are you going to feed London?

You don't even have to look at those issues for nuclear to fail.

He's a fuel merchant.

Now, as far as it goes, there's a lot of oil out there in the world.

These also require tremendous amounts of energy.

The world is running out of oil.

The venturer Edward made his the jackpot in the oil business.

Of course there's still a lot of old thinking out there too.

It's just a sign of things to come.

We've stumbled on another energy bonanza in fossil fuels.

A bigger one for you to look at.

The desert was advancing by a mile or two a year.

There's no oil in it.

Oil.

In the past, Fletcher Fuel was approached by Japanese companies.

American petroleum Institute. It's fair to say that's the oil and gas lobby.

I don't believe we should.

Coal powered industrial revolution in this country oil, gas, sorry.

Intrinsically safe environments

The napalm is burning there quite nicely.

They're very important in oil spills.

Uh,oil in Burundi.

Bioenergy is oil.

And the thing about John D. is that he went into this chaotic wild east of oil industry, and he rationalized it into a vertically integrated company, a multinational.

Arabia abounds in oil.

America abounds in oil.

The lines of supply are long, placing strains on a limited oil resource.

And every single oil is different when it hits water.

We need to have more mobility choices.

And there's Dan Etete.

And then there's Dan Etete.

They buy and sell big companies.

And I then challenged the people of Interface, my company, to lead our company and the entire industrial world to sustainability, which we defined as eventually operating our petroleum intensive company in such a way as to take from the earth only what can be renewed by the earth, naturally and rapidly not another fresh drop of oil and to do no harm to the biosphere.

Suppose there was a worldwide oil shortage in ten years' time. What would happen to the industrialised countries?

That seems to make more sense.

Oil has played an important part in the progress of Japanese industry.

So I decided to track down one of the world's most respected authorities on the subject.

Oil is transported by tanker.

It's not true, of course, but that's the media impression, and that's like what you get.