[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 18 Jan 2006
Antony Barry
tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au
Sat Feb 18 12:36:28 EST 2006
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> Date: 18 February 2006 5:12:17 AM
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> aspo-australia.org.au - Home
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> What they don't want you to know about the coming oil crisis
> The details of the Senate inquiry into Australia's future oil
> supply have now been released. Submissions are put on the website
> once the committee has seen them.
> ASPO Australia and its associated working groups will be making a
> number of submissions to the inquiry. We strongly encourage all
> individuals and groups with an interest in peak oil and mitigation
> of its impacts to make their own submissions. The closing date is
> Feb 24th 2006.
> Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, says it has discovered
> a...
>
> <http://www.aspo-australia.org.au>
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> Peak oil - Feb 18 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
>
> "Exactly," says Gaghan, rather gleefully. "I think you can feel it
> coming, can't you? We've reached peak oil production, and the
> carbon economy's going to change. You have this incredible fact
> that China has 10 million cars now and in 20 years they're going to
> have 100 million cars. India's on the same trajectory. What does
> that mean for oil prices? They're not going to be within reach of
> the average person. There'll be giant structural shifts. I think
> it's exciting - and terrifying."
> There are a lot of bad things out there...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12906.html>
>
>
> Solutions & sustainability - Feb 17 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil
> News Clearinghouse
>
> When I started trying to reduce my own fossil fuel dependency, I
> thought I could produce energy by renewable means without changing
> my practices – the way we are going as a nation. Being in a rural
> situation I was able to install a small hydro plant, a small wind
> turbine, photovoltaics and a self-made solar panel for hot water.
> But all these technologies depend upon oil - the photovoltaic and
> thermal solar panels and the components of the wind turbine all
> require oil for their manufacture - so this is the wrong way.
> Realising this, I began to do what I...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12892.html>
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> Peak oil - Feb 17 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> My articles on Kuwaiti oil reserves, oil reserve estimation, and
> the president's State of the Union speech generated a lot of
> thoughtful commentary from the readers. We appreciate that you take
> the time to think about what we are writing, and even more that you
> care enough to comment. Here is a sampling, starting with an e-mail
> to Greg Grillot from Bob in Upland, Calif.:Byron does understand
> oil. Would it be an imposition for him to tell us when he feels we
> will see $100 oil so I can look for some profits in my oil
> investments...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12895.html>
>
>
> To The Wilderness - NYC Peak Oil Meet-Up Group Ventures Beyond City
> Life
>
> [Nobody knows which sections of our infrastructure will break down
> first, which products will become unavailable first, which skills
> will be the first to become essential. And no matter what the
> answers, plenty of luck will be required to land oneself in a
> situation where those skills can really help. But fortune favors
> the prudent, and prudence requires a broad range of preparatory
> activities. Here, our own Mike Kane joins NYC Peak Oil Meetup for a
> brief crash course in wilderness survival, taught by an expert
> practitioner named Barb Stone. Kane is always trying new things,
> always thinking ahead, and...
>
> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/
> ww3/021606_to_wilderness_summary.shtml>
>
>
> Falls Church News-Press
>
> There are a lot of bad things out there waiting to bite as the
> world moves towards peak oil— Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Venezuela,
> China, globalization, and hurricanes to name a few. Last week a new
> bogeyman arose — super fast oil depletion.
> Our new hole promptly filled up with rubble (breccia, to
> geologists) pushed in by the rushing waters of the returning sea
> and landslides along the sides of the crater. Somewhere, between 65
> million years ago and 1976, parts of this underwater rubble filled
> hole, filled up with about 35 billion barrels of oil. Making it one
> of the world...
>
> <http://www.fcnp.com/550/peakoil.htm>
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>
>
> EV World Blogs: Personal Perspectives on the Future In Motion
>
> someone emailed me a few questions which led me to want to
> elaborate and expand upon my thoughts and explain some of my
> conclusions in that blog. So here below are the questions (in CAPS)
> and my answers and further elaboration and explanations, which I
> will call: ‘The Iran crisis & global peak oil, Part 2’
> Ras Tanura is not very far, only about 20-30 miles, from the big US
> Naval base in Bahrain. It's not hard to imagine that both will be
> targeted in the same Iranian missile attack, in addition to all of
> the other US military...
>
> <http://www.evworld.com/blogs/index.cfm?
> page=blogentry&authorid=75&blogid=194&archive=0>
>
>
> Why We Should Pray that the Peak Be Soon | EnergyBulletin.net |
> Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
>
> Peak oil is a term for the point in time when world oil production
> will stop increasing and begin to decline. New reports are coming
> in from many quarters telling us that this moment is arriving much
> sooner than expected. The news is alarming; but if it is true, we
> should be thankful.
> Contemplating the end of oil is frightening, even terrifying. Every
> bit of our economy depends on cheap oil to function properly. No
> viable substitute lies waiting the wings. The end of oil means a
> radical change in our way of life. But the truth is that oil...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/11924.html>
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>
> Letters to the Editor: Peak Oil
>
> Greg's Note: We've asked for your comments, and you've sent them to
> us. In this edition of Whiskey & Gunpowder, our intrepid
> correspondent Byron King reprints and replies to some of your e-
> mails about his articles on (what else?) Peak Oil. If you have more
> to say, just lay it on your re-patrioted editor:
> greg at whiskeyandgunpowder.com
> My articles on Kuwaiti oil reserves, oil reserve estimation, and
> the president's State of the Union speech generated a lot of
> thoughtful commentary from the readers. We appreciate that you take
> the time to think about what we...
>
> <http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/20060214.html>
>
>
> Voices - BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
>
> There is no superstition needed for the coming month, as too many
> converging forces are spiraling out of hand to tip the world into a
> precipice burning in peak oil.
> Undoubtedly, Iran's continued uranium enrichment program is a
> destabilizing factor in the Middle East. It is not just Israel -
> the only nuclear armed nation in the region- which may feel
> threatened. The entry of a nuclear Iran would shift colossal power
> back to the Persians, and in the long-run, enable it to control oil
> supplies in the region.
> Unfortunately, the message is still not sinking in that Iran...
>
> <http://liberty.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/02/08/
> beware_the_ides_of_march>
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>
> The great tsunami, the giant wave that will change our lifestyles
> forever
>
> A long-predicted tsunami is heading toward the shores of America, a
> wave of incredible proportions, gathering momentum with each
> passing day. America has had many, many warnings of how this giant
> wave would develop, but these warnings have been totally ignored.
> Very soon our American society will experience an extremely painful
> awakening to the dark specter of "Peak Oil" as it looms on our
> horizon and then comes crashing down upon our nation. Peak Oil will
> result in drastic and dramatic changes to our society and our
> lifestyles, the likes of which we will find extremely difficult to
> comprehend...
>
> <http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_508.shtml>
>
>
> Politics and Current Affairs :: View topic - America’s trade
> deficit hits all-time high
>
> WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit soared to an all-time high of
> $725.8 billion in 2005, pushed upward by record imports of oil,
> food, cars and other consumer goods. The deficit with China hit an
> all-time high as did America’s deficits with Japan, Europe, OPEC,
> Canada, Mexico and South and Central America.
> A huge 39.4 percent jump in petroleum imports, which rose to $251.6
> billion, was a major factor contributing to last year’s deficit
> increase. The price of those imports rose to an all-time high,
> reflecting tight global supplies. The United States was forced to...
>
> <http://www.politicsandcurrentaffairs.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?
> p=38858>
>
>
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> Ali Naimi, Saudi Arabia's oil minister, also said the kingdom had
> tossed aside its production cap set by the Organization of
> Petroleum Exporting Countries and is willing to sell its customers
> every barrel of oil they want, up to its current capacity of 11
> million barrels a day.
> ... Deffeyes said he knew that Hubbert had been right and that the
> peak for domestic production had been reached when he saw this
> sentence in 1971 in the San Francisco Chronicle: "The Texas
> Railroad Commission announced a 100% allowable for next month."
> To demystify that sentence, the Texas Railroad Commission was...
>
> <http://www.post1.net/page/lowem/20050423>
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> The Blog | Raymond J. Learsy: Tom Friedman Spells Out 'OPEC' | The
> Huffington Post
>
> The New York Times coverage of the forced march of oil prices
> upwards from the $20’s/bbl in 2001 to the $60’s/bbl today has
> bordered on the irresponsible. Every rationale has been trotted out
> from strained production capacity, to increased consumption in
> China and India all the while applauding Saudi and OPEC efforts to
> keep the oil markets “stable” to the point of their Middle East
> energy specialist advising us that “Saudi Arabia has proved time
> and again that it is indispensable to the stability of oil markets”
> last summer while prices were whizzing past $60/bbl...
>
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-j-learsy/tom-friedman-spells-
> out-_b_15364.html>
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> ShareCast - News you can use
>
> Royal Dutch Shell shrugged off suggestions from US president George
> W Bush that the US should lose its addiction to oil, adding that
> the world was nowhere near to running out.
> "There is the theory of 'peak oil' - that the big discoveries have
> all gone. But we don't know where the peak will come with oil
> sands. With oil shale, we have not yet started. There will be many
> peaks in many time frames," chief executive Jeroen van der Veer
> said, writes the Telegraph.
>
> <http://www.sharecast.com/cgi-bin/sharecast/story.cgi?story_id=615722>
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> Dan Miner Article
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> It does not seem likely that we can prepare for future crises by
> stepping up drilling for oil and gas and boosting fuel supplies,
> the next logical consideration. Oil, gas and coal were all formed
> millions of years ago, and only finite quantities exist. At some
> point in time, half of all the earth's oil will be used up,
> production will decline, and the remaining oil will be increasingly
> expensive to extract. Predictions regarding the time of world oil
> production peak vary. The US Geological Service...
>
> <http://www.peakoilnyc.org/PONYCArticles/Miner1.htm>
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> All experts, including those at the U.S. Department of Energy,
> agree that the world's production of oil will peak. Once that takes
> place, the age of cheap oil will be over – it will steadily become
> scarcer and more expensive. The only question is when the peak will
> arrive. Some say it won't take place for thirty years, but the
> Association for the Study of Peak Oil, and a growing number of
> petroleum geologists and energy analysts, expect oil production to
> peak between 2005 and...
>
> <http://www.peakoilnyc.org/GovContact.htm>
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> Energy Solutions Conference
>
> The American economy and the lifestyle it supports are predicated
> on a cheap, abundant source of energy. Until the early 1970s, the
> U.S. produced enough oil to meet domestic needs and was a major
> exporter as well. After production of U.S. oil peaked, we became
> increasingly dependent on imported oil and gas to meet our growing
> demand for energy.
>
> <http://www.energysolutionsconference.org>
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>
> Beep's Blog
>
> Slashdot discovers peak oil [Feb. 17th, 2006|12:14 am]
>
> <http://beepbeep.livejournal.com>
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> Excellent Chevron Interview on BBC
>
> The BBC's Mike Williams interviews Chevron vice-chairman Peter
> Robertson on peak oil and the future of the oil industry. The vice
> chairman gets put on the spot in a major way by the British
> interviewer who mercilessly drills him on climate change,
> greenwashing, the inevitability of the end of oil as well as what
> the public "really wants".
>
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