In thirty years, our obsessive application of this concept narrowly to fossil fuels and CO2 production will seem as misguided as a nineteenth century fixation on conserving whale oil and cleaning up horse manure in the city streets.

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Browne was no doubt referring to last year's temporary closure of some operations at the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, delays to the opening of BP's Thunder Horse platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and problems stemming from the 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery that killed 15 BP employees.

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