[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 16 Feb 2006

Thu Feb 16 13:25:17 EST 2006

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> From: Antony Barry <tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au>
> Date: 16 February 2006 5:07:35 AM
> To: tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au
> Subject: DEVONagent: 19 results (news)
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> The Syriana Syndrome
>
> *** Did you hear? The oil crisis is over! Now if we could only take  
> care of world hunger that easily...
> *** As we all know, Bush admonished the United States in his State  
> of the Union Address, telling us that we were "addicted" to oil and  
> we need to stop relying so heavily on the Middle East.
> It turns out, next in line for the world's-biggest-producing oil  
> field, after Saudi Arabia's Ghawar, is Mexico's Canatrell. Our  
> neighbor to the south's biggest oil field produces 2 million  
> barrels of oil per day, or six out of...
>
> <http://news.goldseek.com/DailyReckoning/1139951366.php>
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>
> Weirder and Weirder With Each Passing Day
>
> Again he pauses with that expectant look on his face as he is  
> waiting for me to say something, but I am completely lost. I am  
> thinking "Gold will be up, and oil will be up, and soybeans will be  
> up. So $78.80 silver may be ho-hum." I stare at him. He stares back  
> at me. Finally he snaps, and yells at me, as I remember it, "In  
> other words, it would outperform gold 400 times over!" Suddenly, I  
> am galvanized! I leap to my feet! Gold is going to zoom one of  
> these days soon, and silver is...
>
> <http://news.goldseek.com/RichardDaughty/1140019320.php>
>
>
> RedOrbit - Science - Govt Touts NZ to Oil Prospectors Seismic  
> Surveys Offer
>
> New Zealanders should prepare for a black gold rush that will see  
> international oil prospectors flocking to explore our offshore basins.
> At least that is the Government's ambition, one it is promoting  
> with a petroleum conference expected to attract oil experts from  
> around the world to Auckland early next month.
> MED petroleum and minerals investment manager Mark Aliprantis said  
> oil companies were generally required to pay for their own seismic  
> surveying.
> "All of a sudden places like New Zealand become very interesting to  
> them because people want to find oil and gas and get rich. And it  
> just so...
>
> <http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/390941/ 
> govt_touts_nz_to_oil_prospectors_seismic_surveys_offer/index.html? 
> source=r_science>
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>
> RedOrbit - Science - Energy: Cuba's Oil Reserves Becoming As Valued  
> As Its Cigars
>
> HAVANA, Feb. 14, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- The need to find new oilfields  
> to satisfy world demand, which could soon outstrip production, has  
> prompted foreign oil companies to take an interest in offshore  
> prospecting and drilling around Cuba.
> Repsol YPF is now gearing up to resume operations, in partnership  
> with Indian and Norwegian oil companies.
> The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India confirmed that it will  
> participate -- through its international exploration arm ONGC  
> Videsh -- together with Repsol YPF and the Norwegian firm Norsk  
> Hydro, in prospecting and drilling in Cuban waters.
> India, which imports 70 percent of the oil it...
>
> <http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/391281/ 
> energy_cubas_oil_reserves_becoming_as_valued_as_its_cigars/ 
> index.html?source=r_science>
>
>
> CMI * Chiapas * IMC - noticias, 1 página(s)
>
> The evidence strongly suggests that the cartoon provocation was  
> presented to Atlanticist oligarchs at the meeting of the  
> Bilderberger group held from May 5 to May 8, 2005 at the Dorint  
> Sofitel Seehotel Überfahrt in Rottach-Egern, on the shores of the  
> Tegernsee lake in the south German federal state of Bavaria. (See  
> http://www.bilderberg.org/2006.htm#Fountainhead for a partial  
> attendance list) The first publication of the cartoons in Denmark  
> followed in September 2005. This meeting was attended by the  
> certified neocon fascist madmen Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, and  
> William Luti – all desperadoes haunted by the prospect...
>
> <http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org/display.php3? 
> article_id=118708>
>
>
> Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
>
> Bloomberg writer Matthew Lynn just published an article entitled  
> "Cancel That Apocalypse - The Oil Crisis Is Over." Oil prices have  
> recently pulled back, and the auto industry is re-tooling to  
> manufacture smaller cars that get better gas mileage. Hence, presto- 
> chango, "The Oil Crisis Is Over." For a minute, I thought he was  
> kidding. But no, this Bloomberg-man is serious.
> This is exactly why amateurs should not fool around with issues of  
> Peak
> Oil. They confuse their readers with rah-rah bromides, and will  
> cause people to hurt themselves. These type of party-hardy  
> cheerleaders idealize the workings...
>
> <http://dailyreckoning.com/Featured/King021406.html>
>
>
> So 2003 | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist Magazine
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> Environmental Action Blog Environmental and Urban Economics  
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> greenState Green Trust Howling at a Waning Moon Ideal Bite Jon  
> Stahl's Journal Judith Lewis: Beat Notes on the Environment Life  
> Begins at 30 Mongabay Nature Noted NRDC Action Fund Oceana Network  
> Oikos The...
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> <http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/2/13/161157/676>
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>
> Peak Oil Hoax - The Energy Non-Crisis - Assata Speaks - Hands Off  
> Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - Black On  
> Purpose - Liberation - Forum
>
> CHAPTER 1 - The Great Oil Deception ... There is no true energy  
> crisis. There never has been an energy crisis . . . except as it  
> has been produced by the Federal government for the purpose of  
> controlling the American people. ...
> CHAPTER 4 - An Important Visit by Senator Hugh Chance ... What  
> followed included some of the most astonishing answers I have ever  
> heard in my life. This is not opinion, but is actually what I heard  
> from a man who was one of the original developers of the Prudhoe  
> Bay oil field. He said, "Senator Chance, there is no energy crisis!  
> There is an...
>
> <http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/showthread.php?p=74225>
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>
> CERA: Press Release : Oil & Liquids Capacity to Outstrip Demand  
> Until At Least 2010: New CERA Report (June 21, 2005)
>
> Oil & Liquids Capacity to Outstrip Demand Until At Least 2010: New  
> CERA Report
> CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 21, 2005 – Despite current fears that oil  
> will soon “run out,” global oil production capacity is actually set  
> to increase dramatically over the rest of this decade, according to  
> a new report by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). As a  
> result, supply could exceed demand by as much as 6 to 7.5 million  
> barrels per day (mbd) later in the decade, a marked contrast to the  
> razor-sharp balance between strong demand growth and tight supply  
> that is currently reflected in high oil prices...
>
> <http://www.cera.com/news/details/1,2318,7453,00.html>
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>
> The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil  
> News Clearinghouse
>
> From that point on, to sustain the American Empire and to continue  
> to tax the rest of the world, the United States had to force the  
> world to continue to accept ever-depreciating dollars in exchange  
> for economic goods and to have the world hold more and more of  
> those depreciating dollars. It had to give the world an economic  
> reason to hold them, and that reason was oil.
> In 1971, as it became clearer and clearer that the U.S Government  
> would not be able to buy back its dollars in gold, it made in  
> 1972-73 an iron...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12125.html>
>
>
> NETZEITUNG GLOBAL VILLAGE: US-Ölkonzerne reklamieren höhere Reserven
>
> Doch auch über diesen, auch Peak Oil genannten Zeitpunkt gibt es  
> Streit unter Experten, der an den Streit um die «bewiesenen»  
> Reserven erinnert. Gerade einmal 40 Jahre könnten die globalen  
> Reserven halten, fürchten einige Wissenschaftler – legen dabei aber  
> die aktuellen Marktdaten, also Preis und Fördertechnologie zugrunde.
>
> <http://www.netzeitung.de/spezial/globalvillage/381262.html>
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> seattleoil.com :: View topic - Social Event. Peak oil boardgame night
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> Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject: Social Event. Peak  
> oil boardgame night
> Mark your calander for the worlds first after oil board game evening.
> We could and probably will debate endlessly about the relevence of  
> the rules to real peak oil which will be fun but to get things  
> going we will just start playing whether we know where they are  
> going or not.
> None of the basic Risk functional game rules were changed. The  
> changes were all parameter based and were quite simple changes to  
> growth of units. Major oil producing territories provided  
> additional unit...
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> <http://www.seattleoil.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php? 
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> Treehugger: Japanese Solar Photovoltaic Market Grows 40+%/Year
>
> First Sweden declares an "oil free" goal for the entire nation ,  
> then Japan declares victory over world world SPV markets. Feeling  
> surrounded? Welcome to "Island USA", a delightful new novel in  
> which the entire US governing elite and pundit class, following a  
> Peak Oil/Gas-induced ending of the "Ostrich Maneuver ", has too  
> much sand in their collective eyes to see what is happening.
>
> <http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/02/japan_solar_pho.php>
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>
> Peak oil - Feb 15 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
>
> ...The authors of the DOE report do not offer a prediction of their  
> own about when the peak will be reached. Instead, they argue that  
> the dire forecasts rest on a sufficiently "robust geological  
> foundation" that policymakers must now take into account. "Prudent  
> management calls for early action," they conclude. And the  
> department is clearly worried. Bodman, a former professor of  
> chemical engineering at MIT--and, unlike some of his colleagues,  
> eminently qualified for his cabinet post--recently ordered another  
> report on peak oil.
> The article just went behind a subscriber-only wall. Except for the  
> mention of another DOE...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12862.html>
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> Peak oil - Feb 8 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
>
> President George W. Bush was half right and half wrong about oil in  
> his State of the Union speech. "America is addicted to oil, which  
> is often imported from unstable parts of the world," he said.  
> However, we can't "break this addiction through technology" alone.  
> Two words conservatives should champion were missing from his  
> speech: conservation and efficiency.
> 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...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12703.html>
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> President's State of the Union energy initiatives are "a start" |  
> EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> "Two words missing from the State of the Union were conservation  
> and efficiency," noted Congressman Bartlett. "U.S. oil production  
> peaked in 1970. Despite price increases, government incentives for  
> drilling, and advances in technology for exploration and drilling,  
> U.S. oil production has continued to decline. ANWR and more off- 
> shore drilling could only slow, not reverse this decline. We can  
> reduce oil imports by reducing our use of oil and developing  
> renewable and other alternative sources of energy. Unless we do  
> both, it probably won't be possible to break America's addiction to  
> oil and reduce the trend...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12586.html>
>
>
> Tribute to Rep. Roscoe Bartlett | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil  
> News Clearinghouse
>
> Published on 12 Nov 2005 by The Oil Drum . Archived on 13 Nov 2005.
> The gist of his presentation was that we cannot continue growing  
> exponentially in a finite system, and we should not try and "fill  
> the gap" between post-conventional-oil-peak supply and demand,  
> because the higher we manage to get supply by the time we do peak  
> in all liquid fuels, the worse we as a civilization are going to  
> crash afterwards. We need to figure out how to have a high standard  
> of living while using less and less energy. We must be focussed on...
>
> <http://energybulletin.net/10746.html>
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