Every year, BP publishes its statistics which are an authority and which recount, country by country, the evolution for the last ten years of the production and the consumption of each category of energy. This year report brings the confirmation of a phenomenon which totally invalidates pessimistic forecasts of the last thirty years. We could even go back to the “club de Rome” studies according to which the resources of the planet being limited, we should be prepared to manage their scarcity, especially regarding oil and natural gas. Coal, temporarily, was not concerned by these analysis but the same reasoning ...