[Peakoil] News items from Canberra Times Fri, 26 to Sun, 27 Aug 2006

[Antony Barry]

Peakers

I started putting out these summaries with the aim of highlighting  
items in the Canberra Times which were relevant to peak oil with the  
hope that members of the list might be prompted to write letters to  
the editor about them. In this way we could increase awareness of the  
difficulties ahead as supplies of oil start to run down.

The summaries are very brief and are just meant to highlight those  
aspects which strike me as important. Deliberately I did not want to  
create text which might be used in a letter as I suspect if letters  
are too similar it might not help any of them be published.

Letters to the editor should be addressed to

letters.editor at canberratimes.com.au and should not exceed 250 words.
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Friday 25
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"Stanhope to explore ethanol mix" p.2

ACT may join NSW investigation into mandating a 10% ethanol mix.
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Saturday 26th
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"No respite as fuel costs burn up Air NZ profits" p.22

Air NZ profits dropped 47% because of a 44% increase in fuel costs.
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"Caltex pumps up its profits" by Felicity Williams. p.24

Caltex profits lift 7%. As Caltex has no crude production it has to  
pay world prices for crude oil. The profit rise is from increased  
refinery margins.

Comment: Even so oil companies make more, airlines less, large cars  
sales are down 20%, small car sales are up 20% and bicycle sales  
growth is higher than cars.
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Sunday 27
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"Fuel for thought on LPG" letters p.16

Don Sephton preicts problems with LPG.
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