[Peakoil] A feed of news items on peak oil

[Antony Barry]

Hi

I have some agent software (DEVONagent http://www.devon- 
technologies.com/products/devonagent/overview.php) which I can use to  
automatically scan various sites for new material on a specific subject.

I have it set to look for the phrase "peak oil" from a range of news  
related web sites which it searches each night. It usually turns up a  
dozen or so new items. If the same story is run by a number of  
publications there can be duplication.

Would it be useful to the list if I forwarded these items? With  
somewhat more effort I could add them to a blog and make them  
available via an RSS feed.

A sample follows.

Begin forwarded message:

>
> Date: 19 December 2005 6:11:06 AM
> To: tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au
> Subject: DEVONagent: 4 results (news)
>
> Analysis: Flow of oil assured?
>
> WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- Although technology cannot  
> create more oil, some industry experts argue new technologies can  
> maximize oil usage with the discovery of more oil fields and  
> extract more oil from current and future fields, while others  
> debate the feasibility of technology saving 'peak oil.'
> Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., is expected to testify this  
> week at a peak oil congressional hearing to address the inevitable  
> challenges of peak oil -- where the globe has consumed half of the  
> world`s oil and reserves are now beginning to dwindle.
> Bartlett said in a statement that there is an 'urgency...
>
> <http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/ 
> article_1066851.php/Analysis_Flow_of_oil_assured>
>
>
> Editorials from The Roanoke Times -One is by rail; two is by sea
>
> The United States must prepare for the inevitable day when fuel oil  
> supplies run short. If the White House won't lead, the states should.
> Running short on fuel oil should. The world, according to energy  
> experts, has either reached or is nearing peak oil supply. That  
> isn't to say that we've pumped oil reserves dry, but that much of  
> it will remain inaccessible to today's technology that would  
> consume as much energy extracting the oil as it would produce.
> Matthew Simmons, investment banker and author of "Twilight in the  
> Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and...
>
> <http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/wb/xp-44948>
>
>
> (DV) Garcia: 2005 -- The Year of Consequences
>
> Peak Oil, the crisis of finite and diminishing world oil reserves  
> at a time of growing demand, becomes a matter of open discussion in  
> major media. An indicator of this media exposure is the publication  
> of Matthew R. Simmons book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi  
> Oil Shock and the World Economy.
> Let us picture the faces of year 2005: Cindy Sheehan and Patrick  
> Fitzgerald; the faces of northern Pakistan and Kashmir, New  
> Orleans, Sri Lanka and northern Sumatra; the face of a North  
> African teenager in Paris; rock faces exposed to sunlight after  
> centuries buried in ice; the...
>
> <http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec05/Garcia1217.htm>
>
>
> North County Times - Denis Devine's Driftwords opinion column -  
> Peak oil piques energy concern
>
> The high natural gas prices on most Americans' minds this winter  
> may be the least of our worries when it comes to energy. What if  
> oil itself, the lubricant and fuel that keeps our entire  
> industrialized world running, is running out?
> "We need to drill in the outer continental shelf because that's  
> where the oil is," John Felmy, chief economist for the American  
> Petroleum Institute, told the assembled editorialists.
> Echoing Felmy's vision of inevitable offshore drilling was Energy  
> Secretary Samuel Bodman, who offered the seminar's rosiest outlook  
> for the United States' energy future. Matthew Simmons, an  
> investment...
>
> <http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/12/18/opinion/devine/ 
> 20_54_0812_17_05.txt>
>
>


Tony

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