[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 25 Feb 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 25 February 2006 5:15:50 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 33 results (news)
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> ContraCostaTimes.com | 02/24/2006 | Cutting America's reliance on oil
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> WALNUT CREEK - After a century of rapid, petroleum-fueled growth of  
> industry and motor vehicle travel, the world drinks from an oil cup  
> that will soon be half-empty. Some say it already it is.
> Since petroleum replaced oil from whales as a leading fuel source,  
> producers have worried less about shortages than about flooding the  
> market with petroleum products and driving down prices, Richard  
> Heinberg told the audience.
> But U.S. oil production peaked at 9.6 million barrels a day in  
> 1970, and fell to 5.4 million barrels a day by 2004. That has left  
> the United States dependent...
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> <http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/business/13951768.htm? 
> source=rss&channel=cctimes_business>
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> Conservative Party - News Story
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> - Capture and storage of carbon from fossil fuels - where I suggest  
> that the expertise of the oil industry has a particular vital role  
> to play.
> I am not remotely qualified to take a view on the scale of current  
> and future oil reserves. Many of you will, I am sure, have seen  
> Jeremy Leggett's analysis of this issue, and will have your own  
> views on when "peak oil" will occur. I don't know whether to  
> believe the "early toppers" or the "late toppers".
> But what is clearly obvious is that oil is a finite resource and  
> that our...
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> <http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do? 
> def=news.story.page&obj_id=128127&speeches=1>
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> Global Climate Change & Peak Oil, Part II
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> The final installment of this series will look at the possibility  
> of runaway global warming, and the implications of Peak Oil and the  
> North American Natural Gas Cliff.
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> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ 
> ww3/050504_climate_change_pt2.html>
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> Michael Schiavo pleads case on CNN
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> In other words, Peak oil is a scam to create artificial scarcity  
> and drive prices up. Meanwhile, alternative fuel technologies which  
> have been around for decades are intentionally suppressed.
> Flying in the face of the so called peak oil crisis are the facts.  
> If we are running out of oil so quickly then why are reserves being  
> continually increased and production skyrocketing?
> Is this the normal course of behaviour if we are currently at the  
> peak for oil production? The answer is no, it's the normal course  
> of action for increasing production.
> There is a clear contradiction between the...
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> <http://www.infowars.com/articles/economy/peak_oil_globalist_scam.htm>
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> peak oil, global warming crock
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> As for Pelosi’s lament over “energy independence”, someone better  
> explain to her that we are currently importing slightly more than  
> half of the oil necessary to meet our needs and that it comes from  
> sixty different nations. Given the uncertainty of events in the  
> Middle East, any shock to the system will drive up the price, but  
> blame the Islamofascists for that. Meanwhile, the Democrats in  
> Congress have spent the past twenty-five years preventing access to  
> the development of ANWR’s oil reserves.
> The buzz in the energy industry is something called “peak oil”; the  
> view that the...
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> <http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=7401>
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> TomPaine.com - Insults And Apologies: Your Letters
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> Without it we freeze. Google "little ice age" for a small peek at  
> what lies in store. And with peak oil upon us or close, how will we  
> heat our homes? We've already clear cut most of our forests to  
> profit the corporate whores.
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> <http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/02/24/ 
> insults_and_apologies_your_letters.php>
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> EV World Blogs: Personal Perspectives on the Future In Motion
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> The Deffeyes article on Peak Oil saying we had crossed the peak on  
> December 16, 2005 set off a train of ideas which I thought deserved  
> a blog. Deffeyes quotes a little over 2 trillion barrels as the  
> total amount of oil available to mankind, and said we had consumed  
> just a little over one trillion barrels of oil by the end of 2005.
> Crossing the threshold of Peak Oil is a little analogous to  
> crossing the event horizon of a Black Hole in space, in that there  
> is nothing to tell you that you have done it. Once you...
>
> <http://www.evworld.com/blogs/index.cfm? 
> page=blogentry&authorid=18&blogid=201&archive=0>
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> Osama's Secret Weapon By Neal Brandvik
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> I’m betting Osama has visited this site and read it thoroughly.  
> He’s smug and confident about the demise of America because he  
> knows you will dismiss Mr. Savinar as a “chicken little” or  
> “environmentalist wacko.” If you decide to defy Osama and read Mr.  
> Savinar’s website carefully, you’ll find out many of the folks  
> warning us about Peak Oil are very rational and conservative. One  
> is Republican Congressman Roscoe Bartlett who has quoted the  
> ominous warnings from www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net and read them  
> into the congressional record during several Peak Oil speeches in  
> Congress. Another is...
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> <http://www.countercurrents.org/po-brandvik260106.htm>
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> OIL, CONFLICT AND THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL ENERGY : SF Bay Area Indymedia
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> THIS ARTICLE CONCERNS US ALL, IF WE HAVE EVER DRIVEN IN A CAR OR  
> USED ELECTRICITY OR RELIED ON ANY FORM OF FOSSIL FUEL – THE TITLE  
> “OIL, CONFLICT ” MERELY SUGGESTS THAT ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND GLOBAL  
> CONFLICT ARE RELATED – BUT HOW SO?
> “ OIL, CONFLICT AND THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL ENERGY SUPPLIES” (ARTICLE  
> POSTED ON THE BLOG AT http://WWW.GLOBALJUSTICEONLINE.COM )
> This article posits two main assumptions: (i) that global “peak  
> oil” is fast approaching its optimum level, and (ii) that the Bush  
> administration’s jingoism is directly correlated to US efforts at  
> dominance over strategic oil supplies.
> 1. An understanding...
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> <http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/02/1799718.php>
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> Death of the Petro-Confederacy | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News  
> Clearinghouse
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> Just as the South was addicted to slave labor, “we are addicted to  
> oil” as President Bush proclaimed in his most recent State of the  
> Union Address. Our petroleum-based economy is the foundation of the  
> American way of life. Owning a big house in the suburbs and two big  
> cars is part of the American Dream. On the surface, there is  
> nothing immoral about this arrangement. This was true especially  
> when we had all the oil we needed in the post WWII years. But since  
> American oil production peaked in 1971, we have been heading down a  
> slippery moral...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12680.html>
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> When the historians come to write the history of the 21st Century,  
> they may well record that the African nation of Zimbabwe was the  
> first to succumb to peak oil. When the price of oil started  
> climbing into the $65+ range, official oil imports simply stopped.  
> The country currently does not have the foreign exchange to  
> purchase oil and it seems nobody is willing to extend credit on  
> acceptable terms.
> In the case of Zimbabwe, all this human misery is not completely  
> attributable to peak oil and unaffordable gasoline; an abysmally  
> incompetent government is playing a major part in the...
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> <http://www.post1.net/page/lowem/20050924>
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> Beyond Peak
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> Reaching the maximum rate of global oil production will present  
> additional challenges to ecological
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> <http://www.beyondpeak.org>
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> AlterNet: Prepare for Peak Oil Now
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> Oil is a finite resource -- and the decline of world oil production  
> is predicted to occur anytime within the next 30 years. To avoid  
> the worst-case scenario, we must begin today to reduce our  
> dependence on oil. Tools
> Editor’s Note: This paper, exclusively available to AlterNet, was  
> presented at a Reception with Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of  
> Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, at the California Leaders Round  
> Table Dialogue on Peak Oil, Climate Change and Business Action;  
> November 7, 2005 in San Francisco.
> The subject I teach -- human ecology -- is a discipline that  
> largely concerns population...
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> <http://www.alternet.org/story/28212>
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> Oil & Gas Operations 2005 : The Summit
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> Everyone knows that global crude oil reserves will run out – the  
> question is, how soon? Experts who engage in this argument  
> generally fall into two camps: pessimists and optimists. European- 
> based Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO), is at the  
> forefront of this debate and clearly falls into the former camp.  
> This group of 24 scientists argues that global oil production will  
> peak as soon as 2010 and that demand will outstrip production – a  
> scenario known as “peak oil”. The United States Geological Survey  
> (USGS) disagrees. According to a 2000 study by its World Energy  
> Project, oil and...
>
> <http://www.me-uk.com/summits/speakerdetails.asp? 
> EventID=8574&SpeakerID=55956>
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> Peak oil - Feb 24 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> You can’t delve very deeply into the world of peak oil without  
> encountering a reference to the “Hirsch Report.” This report, which  
> is imposingly titled Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts,  
> Mitigation and Risk Management was published in February 2005 by  
> SAIC under a contract with the US Department of Energy. The  
> cumbersome title immediately led to the document becoming popularly  
> known as the “Hirsch Report” in honor of its principal author  
> Robert L. Hirsch.
> Google “Hirsch Report” today and you will get over 20,000 hits. A  
> quick review of the first thousand or so shows they mostly are...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/13122.html>
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> t r u t h o u t || The Future of Money
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> This is not a peak oil book, but, as the author shows, regardless  
> of the effects of energy resource depletion, the "official future  
> of more of the same" is not going to happen anyway.
> An overview is presented on the growth of today's systems and the  
> political / economic background from which they arise, and why the  
> unique convergence of several major issues (without including peak  
> oil) means traditional solutions (from either the right or left)  
> will not work this time.
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> <http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2006/2/24/52722/2396>
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> Peak oil - Feb 23 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> The meeting was the weekly gathering of a group called Portland  
> Peak Oil, a ragtag assembly of greenies, neighborhood-association  
> activists and business professionals who agree with George W. Bush  
> on one thing—that "America is addicted to oil."
> One of the best articles to show the human side of peak oil  
> activism. -BA
> From the heads of the Western industrialized countries, like George  
> Bush, to the numerous repeated statements made by presidents and  
> ministers at the G8 summit to the current daily reports and news in  
> Western media outlets, the same clear message is conveyed:  
> hydrocarbon, mainly oil will...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/13096.html>
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> The Austin Chronicle: Columns: Letters at 3AM
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> In a column titled "$4 a Gallon" (The Austin Chronicle, April 29) I  
> wrote, "Gas prices can only go up. Oil production is at or near  
> peak capacity ... that means $4 a gallon by next spring [2006], and  
> rising ... probably $10 by 2010." Three days before Hurricane  
> Katrina hit, The New York Times (Aug. 26, p.1) reported $3 a gallon  
> in some parts of the country. That article noted: "In two years,  
> the national oil bill has jumped by $210 billion, or 54%." Since  
> Katrina, $3 has become the national norm in many parts of the  
> country. If Rita...
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> <http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-09-30/ 
> cols_ventura.html>
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