[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 13 Feb 2006

[POLLARD,Sandy]

My feeling is that this sort of tool is very useful for indicating
interest and coverage *levels* (in the same way as, say, going to Google
News, searching on Peak Oil, and noting the number of articles
returned). In other words, it's an interesting way to quantify exposure
or (hopefully) public interest.

Personally, I find that a daily visit to a site like

http://www.energybulletin.net/

...gives a more useful overview and digest of the important articles and
developments, as the 'human edited' component helps avoid repetition.
This, of course, may also come with bias - but they do seem to try to
capture the comments from what Leggett would call the 'late (or no)
toppers', or what ASPO would call the 'flat earth economists'.

I'd be interested to know what (if any) research activities the Senate
Inquiry will undertake, apart from simply receiving submissions. Anyone
have any more insight?

Re the new search terms: IMO they return too long a list - (which is why
I snipped the reply)!

At least in the version I see, the system also doesn't handle long URLs
- which means copying and reassembling carefully in a browser's address
bar to link to an article.


Regards     

Sandy Pollard


-----Original Message-----
From: peakoil-bounces+sandy.pollard=dewr.gov.au at act-peakoil.org
[mailto:peakoil-bounces+sandy.pollard=dewr.gov.au at act-peakoil.org] On
Behalf Of Antony Barry
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:58 PM
To: ACT Peak Oil discussion
Subject: [Peakoil] News items on peak oil 13 Feb 2006

Still an rather large amount and the software is still picking up  
some old items. Before I was only searching for "peak oil" + saudi +  
reserves which kept the numbers down to usually less than a dozen.  
Now I'm just searching on "peak oil" and I'm letting the software  
follow links to sites mentioned and to search them too.

Comments anybody?

I might offer this service to the secretariat of the Senate Rural and  
Regional Affairs and Transport Committee Inquiry into Australia's  
future oil supply and alternative transport fuels

Back in 1969 I provided a newspaper clipping service to the Senate  
Select Committee on Offshore Petroleum Resources when I was working  
in the Parliamentary Library but this is a lot easier to do ;^)

Tony


Begin forwarded message:

> Date: 13 February 2006 5:08:08 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 104 results (news)
>
> RedOrbit - Science - Pumping Up the Price
>
> Petrol prices rose another 6c a litre this week, and Kiwi motorists  
> are feeling the pinch. Some are warning of the end of the Petroleum  
> Age. Lester Thorley investigates the effect of a dwindling oil supply.
> WHEN you pull in to a petrol station to fill up for the long  
> weekend, try to picture 120 million oil drums, each with 159 litres  
> of black gold in it.
> That is one estimate of what the world's daily thirst for oil will  
> be by 2030, a 50 per cent increase on today's demand. As you look  
> aghast at the $75...
>
> <http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/386732/pumping_up_the_price/ 
> index.html?source=r_science>
>
>
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