The Village Shepherd
When The Oil Runs Dry
Sermon
When we first
discovered that there was oil beneath the North Sea in 1965, it was a cause for
great rejoicing in the UK, with a rich prospect of economic growth. The first
oil was brought ashore ten years later, although of course, we all knew the oil
would run dry one day. By the early 80s we were a net exporter of oil, but by
2001 production had peaked. The North Sea oil fields are now in slow decline,
although they are expected to last for perhaps another fifty
years.
