[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 21 Feb 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 21 February 2006 5:10:57 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 18 results (news)
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> - Globalt peak oil-scenario - HegnarOnline
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> The oil man - 2006-02-13
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> It's a presentation that Bartlett has given before on the floor of  
> the House of Representatives -- 14 times to be exact, sometimes  
> starting as late as 11 p.m. But that doesn't diminish the folksy 79- 
> year-old Republican's enthusiasm for the subject: a looming crisis,  
> he says, in the worldwide supply of oil.
> Bartlett, who was elected to Congress in 1992, has been known in  
> Maryland as a staunch social and fiscal conservative. But over the  
> past year, he has been attracting national attention for his  
> persistent advocacy of the theory that the world's oil...
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> <http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2006/02/13/ 
> story3.html>
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> EV World: The World of Electric, Plug-in Hybrid, Fuel Cell and  
> Alternative Fuel Vehicles
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> SYNOPSIS: Oped by Congressman Tom Udall points out that America  
> sends $25 million an hour abroad to pay for foreign oil.
> In 1970, oil production within the United States peaked -- reached  
> its maximum production rate -- at not much more than 10 million  
> barrels of oil per day. That means since 1970, oil production in  
> this country has been declining, and we now import 58 percent of  
> the oil we use. The sheer scale of the American appetite for  
> petroleum is difficult to grasp: Per capita, each of us consumes  
> about 20 pounds of petroleum products each day.
> With demand rising...
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> <http://www.evworld.com/rssnews.cfm?section=communique&rssid=11073>
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> Politics and Current Affairs :: View Forum - Peak Oil, Economics &  
> The Environment
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> Peak Oil, Economics & The Environment
> Politics and Current Affairs Forum Index -> Peak Oil, Economics &  
> The Environment Mark all topics read
> Sweden plans to be world's first oil-free economy
> A Free Fuel That Tackles Oil Price Rises
> Silly non-christians who know nothing of oil
> The Spiralling Cost of Crude Oil
> Kuwait oil reserves only half official estimate
> Oil jumps $1 on al Qaeda threat, supply concern
> Oil Is Here to Stay
> CIBC sees oil supplies still tight
> Success!-Sequester CO2 and Recover Oil!
> No Peak Seen for Decades
> Kuwait's biggest field starts to run out of oil...
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> <http://www.politicsandcurrentaffairs.co.uk/Forum/viewforum.php? 
> f=3&sid=d8552f6628993b366e99356c8cedcbfe>
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> theWatt: Energy News and Discussion
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> A nice AP article giving an overview of some new and interesting  
> ethanol production techniques. The key to kicking what President  
> Bush calls the nation's oil addiction could very well lie in  
> termite guts, canvas-eating jungle bugs and other microbes  
> genetically engineered to spew enzymes that turn waste into fuel.
> Princeton geology professor Kenneth Deffeyes says that the world  
> hit peak oil on December 16, 2005 : Since we have passed the peak  
> without initiating major corrective measures, we now have to rely  
> primarily on methods that we have already engineered. Long-term  
> research and development projects, no matter...
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> <http://www.thewatt.com>
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> ESR | February 20, 2006 | Scaring people about energy
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> Tertazkian’s book is actually quite interesting and appears to have  
> been well researched from open sources. The author is the chief  
> energy economist and director at ARC Financial Corporation,  
> identified as “one of the world’s leading energy investment firms.”  
> His book is devoted to the concept of “peak oil”, that  
> indeterminate day when the world’s known reserves of oil begin to  
> decrease and the view that there will be few others to replace them.
> That is a fallacy. On at least five occasions in the past, the  
> world has been informed that it was running out of...
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> <http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0206/0206energy.htm>
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> Culture Change - Say You Survive Die-Off: Then What?
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> They're a rum bunch, those Peak Oil folk. You watch The End of  
> Suburbia and get the feeling that inside their buttoned-up suits  
> and behind their reasonable-sounding explanations, those experts  
> are scared out of their gourds.
> Likewise when you read The Peaking of World Oil Production:  
> Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management, also known as the Hirsch  
> Report —commissioned by that nest of left-wing dissidents, the  
> United States Department of Energy.
> Finally comes the grasping at straws: "Some kind of scientific  
> breakthrough comes into commercial use, mitigating oil demand well  
> before oil production peaks..."
> The members of...
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> <http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php? 
> option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=2>
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> Transition Culture » Community Involvement
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> Posted by Rob under Peak Oil , Energy , Localisation , Community  
> Involvement , The 'Heart' of Energy Descent
> Posted by Rob under Peak Oil , Permaculture , Localisation ,  
> Community Involvement , The 'Heart' of Energy Descent
> Posted by Rob under Peak Oil , Localisation , Community  
> Involvement , The 'Heart' of Energy Descent
> On the evening of Wednesday 14th December I gave a presentation  
> called “Unleashing Abundance in Response to Peak Oil” at Bogan  
> House in Totnes. About 55 people came and it was very well  
> received. The talk was a follow up to the screening of The End of  
> Suburbia that we organised last week. […]
> One of essential...
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> <http://transitionculture.org/?cat=7>
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> Transition Culture » Peak Oil Hits Primetime Irish Evening Radio.
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> Five Seven Live is RTE’s main evening radio news programme. Until  
> now peak oil hadn’t really featured in the Irish media at all, but  
> all of a sudden here we are, a weeklong series of articles on the  
> subject , featuring Colin Campbell, Matt Simmons and other peak oil  
> luminaries. The presenter, Philip Boucher-Hayes did an excellent  
> job of condensing this complex subject into five 8 minute pieces.  
> He really got under the skin of the issue, and didn’t shy away from  
> telling it like it is. I was especially struck by the fact that  
> this programme...
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> <http://transitionculture.org/?p=231>
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> RTE Radio 1 - Five Seven Live
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> 5-7 Live has been examining Ireland's looming energy crisis. What  
> is going to happen when the production of oil peaks?
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> <http://www.rte.ie/radio1/fivesevenlive/1052492.html>
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