Susan's head marks about where we are today on the chart's time scale. If Susan's supporter's wrist was just a couple of inches to the right, her arm would show the shape of interest in this fall's freshly elected State Legislators from those whose planning horizons are defined by term limits.


This is from the book I was reading at the time, S. David Freeman's 1974 book, Energy - The New Era. I showed it to Sue as a way of pointing out that even if her chart's prediction about when we run out of oil is off by fifty years, it will still be a minor amount.

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