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World Service,01 Jun 2004,26 mins

Oil - Are We About to Run On Empty?

Global Business

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The search of oil and the discovery that oil supplies could soon begin to run out. Oil is the cheap energy which has., literally, fuelled industry since the industrial revolution. But Royal Dutch Shell, one of the biggest producers of oil, has admitted its reserves are far lower than it had previously thought. What does this mean for the future of oil and our reliance on it.

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