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  **Recommendation: the Commonwealth should help initiate international negotiations toward an oil depletion protocol.**
  
  === International competition for Australia's energy reserves ===
  
+ Post-peak Australia may develop a new conception of itself as a relative safe-haven from a world of troubles. The tyranny of distance may end up being our saving. However Australian energy reserves are much sought-after, particularly due to our political stability. We should bear Peak Oil (and gas) in mind when we sign decade-long energy agreements to supply other nations.
  
- === Antarctica ===
+ In a world of oil scarcity, with melting icesheets, it is even conceivable that many nations may attempt to conduct oil exploration in Antarctica. As a claimant to a large portion of Antarctica, the Commonwealth needs to be vigilant.
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+ **Recommendation: the inquiry examine whther current gas export agreements are viable given our own energy demands after the peak of world oil production; the Commonwealth ensures that all oil reserves under its control are exploited as sustainably as possible and are not squandered.**
  
  
  =====   d. options for reducing Australia’s transport fuel demands =====
   



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