In other words, you'd ensure that within a couple of decades, there wouldn't be ANYTHING left to sell. And everything would have been sold at a low price in the meantime.

So, even if there was no unstoppable transition because of global warming, we couldn't do anything about the fact that we have used up over half of the total supply, even though many countries, now using a lot of oil, almost didn't use any of that half.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi