Jeroen Van der Veer er CEO i Royal Dutch Shell, og i følge dette transkriptet av et radioinnslag jeg fant på nettet sier han altså at verdens produksjon av olje når over toppen innen 7 år. Altså senest 2015.
Intervjuet av radiostasjonens Europakorrespondent Stephen Beard ble foretatt av Scott Jagow, fredag 25 januar 2008 under konferansen World Economic Forum. Spennende utdrag:
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Scott Jagow: In Davos, Switzerland, they’re wrapping up the World Economic forum. Today, the head of Royal Dutch Shell met with Nigeria’s president to talk about security and oil. Shell’s CEO is Jeroen Van der Veer. He told his employees something this week that might surprise you: World demand for oil and gas will outstrip supply within seven years.
Our European correspondent, Stephen Beard, joins us now. Seven years? That’s a lot sooner than we’ve heard before, isn’t it?
Stephen Beard: Absolutely. And this is interesting because historically, oil company bosses have not been in the business of saying, "Our principal product is going to run out in a few years, so you better start thinking about alternatives." But increasingly, that’s precisely what they are saying.
Jagow: So what is he say are the repercussions of that?
Beard: Well, he says we simply have to develop other sources of energy. And he says however much investment goes into renewables, the world is going have to develop more nuclear power. And it’s also going to have to spend a lot more money getting out fossil fuels that are pretty inaccessible, such as the Canadian tar sands and the oil and gas reserves up in the arctic.
Jagow: Does he suggest that Shell is going to get into these businesses?
Beard:
No. What he says, he’s being more broad-brushed than that. He says
there are two possible scenarios. One he calls "scramble," and the
other he calls "blueprints." Under the scramble scenario, governments
go hell-for-leather, flat out try to lay their hands on whatever energy
they can get hold of, such as domestic coal — which obviously is not
such good news on the global warming front. Under the blueprints
scenario, he says, governments are far more measured, and they try to
husband our energy resources more carefully. He doesn’t say which of
these two scenarios is likely to materialize. It depends, I suppose, on
whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist — whether you think the gas
tank is half full or half empty.
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Jeg minner om at Jeroen Van der Veer er i godt selskap. Vår egen Helge Lund i Statoil sier det samme.


Jeg er målløs. Kristin Halvorsen er altså på Bali og forteller at Norge kan komme til å begrense oljeletingen av hensyn til klimaendringene. Sitat fra 
Iran har nå sluttet å ta dollar som betaling for sin olje. Dette går frem fra
Det begynner å bli på tide for oss alle å se ting litt i perspektiv. Selv har jeg gått min egen blogg
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