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Peak Oil History 101

Posted by JD Thomas on June 1, 2005 in Techfun

Peak Oil History 101: Causes of the situation By DAN MCMENAMIN / Aggie Science Writer -Excerpt- The horrible irony of the 2001 attacks, though, since...

Peak Oil History 101: Causes of the situation
By DAN MCMENAMIN / Aggie Science Writer

-Excerpt-
The horrible irony of the 2001 attacks, though, since oil had done so much to build up the U.S. way of life, was how the towers collapsed.

The airliners that toppled New York’s tallest buildings had just departed from airports in Newark, N.J. and Boston and still had full tanks. The large amounts of jet fuel fed the fires and eventually caused the internal structure of the buildings to melt. Less than two hours after the first impact, both towers collapsed and left almost 3,000 people dead.