[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 10 Feb 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> From: Antony Barry <tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au>
> Date: 10 February 2006 5:03:49 AM
> To: tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au
> Subject: DEVONagent: 3 results (news)
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> Guest Column - The Next Conservatism #29: The Next Conservative  
> Energy Policy - February 8, 2006
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> Peak oil will cause a crisis in transportation because there are no  
> ready liquid fuel substitutes of comparable quality or quantity.
> 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...
>
> <http://www.aim.org/guest_column/4348_0_6_0_C>
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> Macleans.ca | Top Stories | World | When the oil runs out
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> The Four Horsemen have upgraded to SUVs. Not the hybrid ones  
> either, but those gas-guzzling, bunny-crushing behemoths that  
> Arnold Schwarzenegger favours. In oil-rich Babylon, whores are so  
> thick on the ground that it's a little hard to pick just one.  
> Although everyone can agree on what the Antichrist is up to --  
> running a multinational petroleum company. Yes, the End is nigh, if  
> you believe the consensus that has been brewing in the halls of  
> academe and the non-fiction aisle at the local bookstore. Starting  
> in 2010, no later than 2020 or 2030, according to the...
>
> <http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/world/article.jsp? 
> content=20060213_121197_121197>
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> Peak Oil & Gas - Global Public Media
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> Pat Murphy of Community Solution talks on camera with GPM's David  
> Room about Agraria, the community solution to peak oil. Also  
> discussed is how Cuba survived peak oil and how their experience  
> will compare with that of the United States.
> The notion that Iraq was invaded to prevent the development of  
> weapons of mass destruction, or to combat terrorism, has long been  
> discredited. But a growing consensus believes that Iraq’s oil was  
> surely a prime reason for US actions. However, author William Clark  
> argues convincingly in Petrodollar Warfare that the rationale for  
> intervening was not just for control...
>
> <http://www.globalpublicmedia.com>
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