[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 8 Feb 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 8 February 2006 5:04:57 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 5 results (news)
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> EnergyPulse - Insight Analysis and Commentary on the Global Power  
> Industry
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> Just for the fun of it, I did my own projection of GDP,  
> unemployment, inflation, the price of oil, and a number of other  
> economic statistics for 2005. The results were published in January  
> of 2005. In this article we compare these forecasts with actual  
> results, and discuss how confusion in the oil and natural gas  
> markets make it difficult to predict America's economic performance  
> in 2006.
> Oil. Thomson First Call consensus estimates placed average  
> benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude prices at $37.67 a  
> barrel in 2005. Frederick P. Leuffer, senior energy analyst for  
> Bear Stearns, believed oil...
>
> <http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm? 
> a_id=1200>
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>
> The Next Conservatism #29: The Next Conservative Energy Policy -  
> Free Congress Foundation
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> Current U.S. energy policy and the President's Advanced Energy  
> Initiative are too modest and overly focused on the goal of  
> increasing domestic production of oil and alternatives to support  
> increasing oil consumption. This is futile and self-defeating  
> because U.S. oil production is in permanent decline and world oil  
> production will follow - perhaps disastrously soon.
> American Shell Oil scientist M. King Hubbert identified “peak oil”  
> in the mid-1950s. He discovered oil field production follows a bell  
> curve rising to a maximum capacity, or peak, when about half of the  
> oil is extracted, after which production declines...
>
> <http://www.americandaily.com/article/11738>
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>
> Peak oil - Jan 31 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
>
> The Countdown for the Peak of Oil Production has Begun – but what  
> are the Views of the Most Important International Energy Agencies...
> Companies used to leave plenty of oil within wells and move on. Now  
> technology is allowing adventurous outfits to get at what was once  
> inaccessible
> ...PEAK OIL. No one really knows just how much oil is left in the  
> ground. Oil companies don't worry about creating enough reserves to  
> last more than a few decades, because they can't plan their  
> businesses that far in advance. "Oil companies are in the business  
> of selling oil, not in...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12476.html>
>
>
> Revealing Statements from a Bush Insider about Peak Oil and Natural  
> Gas Depletion
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> Revealing Statements from a Bush Insider about Peak Oil and Natural  
> Gas Depletion
> [Matthew Simmons has been a key advisor to the Bush Administration,  
> Vice President Cheney's 2001 Energy Task Force and the Council on  
> Foreign Relations. An energy investment banker, Simmons is the CEO  
> of Simmons and Co. International, handling an investment portfolio  
> of approximately $56 billion. He has served previously on the  
> faculty of Harvard Business School. Among Peak Oil researchers he  
> is known for two seemingly contradictory things: being a staunch  
> supporter of George W. Bush and his policies and probably the only  
> outspoken insider to...
>
> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/cgi-bin/MasterPFP.cgi?doc=http:// 
> www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/061203_simmons.html>
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> Dr Doom? | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
>
> Designing Energy Descent Pathways: One community's attempt at  
> designing a prosperous way down from the peak....
> “The world is not about to run out of oil, but it does face the end  
> of the First Half of the Age of Oil,” writes retired oil geologist  
> Colin Campbell. “That [age] opened 150 years ago when wells were  
> drilled for oil on the shores of the Caspian and in Pennsylvania.  
> The cheap, convenient and abundant energy it supplied led to the  
> growth of industry, transport, trade and agriculture, which in turn  
> allowed the population to expand six-fold exactly in parallel...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/9406.html>
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>

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