[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 26 Feb 2006

[Antony Barry]

Hi

I leave the subject line to show how many items were there originally  
so you have some idea of how many less interesting ones I've filtered  
out.

Tony


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> Date: 26 February 2006 5:13:05 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 48 results (news)
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> ContraCostaTimes.com | 02/24/2006 | Cutting America's reliance on oil
>
> 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...
>
> <http://www.dfw.com/mld/cctimes/business/13951768.htm? 
> source=rss&channel=cctimes_business>
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>
> Beyond Peak Announces Peak Oil Scenario Competition
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> BeyondPeak.com, a guide to living sustainably with Peak Oil and  
> economic collapse, calls for submissions for a Peak Oil Future  
> Scenario contest.
> Napa Valley, CA (PRWEB) February 25, 2006 -– BeyondPeak.com, a  
> guide to living sustainably with Peak Oil and economic collapse,  
> announces its First Annual “Who Knows? Things Might Get Better”  
> Peak Oil Scenario Competition.
> Is there light at the end of the Peak Oil tunnel? Most Peak Oil  
> activists see nothing but negative results from Peak Oil—the  
> decrease in worldwide production of oil. Most apparently feel that  
> Peak Oil will lead, in one way or other...
>
> <http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/2/prweb349715.htm>
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>
> Scaring People About Energy - Alan Caruba
>
> There’s a new book, “A Thousand Barrels A Second” by Peter  
> Tertazkian, that paints a very scary scenario about the oil  
> industry and energy options in the future. When I read such books  
> or the daily headlines in newspapers or in news magazines, I keep  
> reminding myself that bad news sells.
> 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...
>
> <http://americandaily.com/article/12029>
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>
>
> It's capitalism or a habitable planet - you can't have both |  
> EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
>
> We are caught between the Scylla and Charybdis of climate change  
> and peak oil. Once we pass the planetary oil production spike (when  
> oil begins rapidly to deplete and demand outstrips supply), there  
> will be less and less net energy available to humankind. Petroleum  
> geologists reckon we will pass the world oil spike sometime between  
> 2006 and 2010. It will take, argues peak-oil expert Richard  
> Heinberg, a second world war effort if many of us are to come  
> through this epoch. Not least because modern agribusiness puts  
> hundreds of calories of fossil-fuel energy into the fields for each...
>
> <http://energybulletin.net/12563.html>
>
>
> Energy and the Common Purpose - a Book Review | EnergyBulletin.net  
> | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
>
> The Countdown for the Peak of Oil Production has Begun – but what  
> are the Views of the Most Important International Energy Agencies...
> Designing Energy Descent Pathways: One community's attempt at  
> designing a prosperous way down from the peak....
> On the surface, the issues of climate change and peak oil call for  
> very similar responses. It is, after all, about reducing the use of  
> fossil fuels. However, there are differences, highlighted in the  
> Government’s recent announcement that it will begin a new programme  
> of nuclear power plant building. On the face of it a good solution  
> to climate change...
>
> <http://energybulletin.net/11777.html>
>
>
>
> Peak Oil & Gas - Global Public Media
>
> Jeremy Leggett is chief executive of SolarCentury , the UK’s  
> largest independent solar electric solutions company. In this  
> interview he talks to GPM's David Room about his latest book, Empty  
> Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Coming Global Energy Crisis.
> Pat Murphy of Community Solution talks on camera with GPM's David  
> Room about Agraria, the community solution to peak oil. Also  
> discussed is how Cuba survived peak oil and how their experience  
> will compare with that of the United States.
> "Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western  
> economy by trying to wean...
>
> <http://globalpublicmedia.com>
>
>
> Big Ideas :: View topic - Peak Oil
>
> Another topic would be timeline. From what I hear, peak production  
> may have already occurred this year, but is at any rate projected  
> to peak out in, say, the next 5 years or so. Obviously, there are  
> other projected timelines.
> That's where the lifeboat concept comes into play. All of us are  
> dependant (at least in the US, and the rest of the industrialized  
> world to a lesser extant) on the global industrial economy to  
> produce for us the things we don't make for ourselves, and we are  
> 100% dependant on petroleum to deliver it to us. When...
>
> <http://www.adbusters.org/big_ideas/viewtopic.php? 
> p=544&sid=b2b5a0e70d819c80a8ac1b6280f5e201>
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>
>
> Give Me Energy Security And I Will Give You A Foreign Policy
>
> Not only is the West becoming more reliant on the Middle East for  
> crude oil, but also on finished products. According to an article  
> published in the Financial Times (Mideast to dominate petroleum  
> products export market — 2/14/06) Europe and the U.S. will become  
> more dependent on the Middle East as an exporter of refined  
> petroleum products over the next 10 years, according to data  
> published on February 13, 2006. Aggressive investment in expanding  
> and building new refineries is forecast to boost capacity in the  
> Middle East by 60 per cent, according to the study published by  
> Wood...
>
> <http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/jonsson022306.htm>
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>
> Whale juicer | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
>
> Published on 17 Feb 2006 by Peak Energy . Archived on 18 Feb 2006.
> Oregon Coast (Reuteres) – It is an unseasonably warm day, in a  
> small town just south of Portland. A grove of beachfront orange  
> trees planted in 2010 fill the air with their fragrant bouquet. But  
> today a new scent is on the wind: blubber. The first whale juicing  
> plant on the West Coast has opened, capable of producing up to 100  
> barrels of oil a day.
> Green, environmentally friendly oil isn’t the only benefit of the  
> whale juicing plant. Over the past few years, the seabird  
> populations...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12919.html>
>
>
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> There's been a lot of ink spilled this week about the risk  
> ChevronTexaco's chief exec, David O'Reilly, has taken in paying  
> about $16.4 billion for rival Unocal and its oil resources.
> Because Unocal's stock has soared 75 percent over the past year,  
> the thinking goes, ChevronTexaco could find itself with a white  
> elephant on its hands if currently sky-high oil prices end up  
> coming back to earth.
> Well, I'm prepared to say this much: O'Reilly isn't stupid. He  
> knows more than most people about world oil markets. So if the head  
> of...
>
> <http://www.post1.net/page/lowem/20050408>
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>
> DRY DIPSTICK LAUNCHES "BEYOND PEAK" - New Website is Guide to Self- 
> Sufficiency – Living Sustainably with Peak Oil and Economic Collapse
>
> DryDipstick.com, a web guide to Peak Oil, launches BeyondPeak.com,  
> a guide to self-sufficiency and preparing for, and dealing with,  
> Peak Oil and economic collapse. [PRWEB Nov 5, 2005]
>
> <http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/11/prweb306443.php>
>
>
> The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil - Global Public  
> Media
>
> In Brief: "Try to image an airplane suddenly losing its engines. It  
> was really a crash"... A crash that put Cuba into a state of shock.  
> There were frequent blackouts in its oil-fed electric power grid,  
> up to 16 hours per day. The average daily caloric intake in Cuba  
> dropped by a third... So Cubans started to grow local organic  
> produce out of necessity, developed bio-pesticides and bio- 
> fertilizers as petrochemical substitutes, and incorporated more  
> fruits and vegetables into their diets. Since they couldn't fuel  
> their aging cars, they walked, biked, rode buses, and carpooled.
> Havana, Cuba...
>
> <http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/articles/657>
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>
>
> EV World: The World of Electric, Plug-in Hybrid, Fuel Cell and  
> Alternative Fuel Vehicles
>
> Commentary by peak oil pioneer and senior expert with the National  
> Iranian Oil Company
> Table 2. Remaining proved oil reserves for "ME Five," according to  
> the major assessors
> Given Dr. Bakhtiari's role in NIOC this says that the Middle East  
> is in peak oil if not the rest of the world. I have to assume that  
> he carries clout in the ME and the rest of the oil industry. Is he  
> generally regarded as too pessimistic in the oil industry? From  
> this executive summary he is telling me that peak oil is a done  
> deal and that only individual...
>
> <http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=article&storyid=980>
>
>
> Scenarios for Peak Oil and Economic Collapse
>
> Peak Oil could lead to many things. From what most Peakers say,  
> those things are all negative. Almost all agree that it will lead,  
> in one way or other, to The End Of The World As We Know It, or as  
> commonly known during Y2K days, TEOTWAWKI.
> We'd like to think there are other, more positive, possibilities— 
> without getting all Pollyanna-ish about it. We do not want to fall  
> victim to what Peak Oil observer James Kunstler calls "The Jiminy  
> Cricket Syndrome", where we believe that all we have to do is wish  
> for something and it will...
>
> <http://www.beyondpeak.com/scenarios-beyondpeak.html>
>
>
>
> Peak Oil - summary
>
> Essential Reading: Prepare NOW for when the future global oil  
> supplies go into irreversible decline, triggering widespread chaos  
> and tragedy.
> Global Oil Production is Peaking and Civilization as we know it  
> today is in big trouble.
> Peak Oil is imminent & guaranteed by the natural laws that govern  
> our physical world, and nothing in science, technology, or  
> engineering can prevent it.
> The world is not running out of oil. What the world is shortly  
> running out of is its ability to produce high-quality cheap and  
> economically extractable oil on demand. After more than fifty years  
> of research and analysis on...
>
> <http://www.oildecline.com>
>
>
> Peak Oil Newsletters
>
> A monthly exploration of cultural renewal - Newsletter from author  
> Richard Heinberg. Some issues concern Peak Oil, all are  
> interesting. Hardcopy or email versions by subscription. Most back  
> issues are posted online
>
> <http://www.drydipstick.com/peakoil-newsletters.html>
>
>
>
> Peak Oil Books
>
> The view from Hubbert's Peak, by Kenneth S. Deffeyes, Professor  
> Emeritus at Princeton University and author of Hubbert's Peak
> The decline of the American empire at the end of the age of oil, by  
> Michael Ruppert
> War, big oil and the fight for the planet, by Linda McQuaig
> How oil controls the economy and your financial future, by Donna  
> and Stephen Leeb
> Oil, war and the fate of industrial societies, by Richard Heinberg  
> ( synopsis )
> Step-by-step guide to Peak Oil survival available as inexpensive e- 
> book.
> The coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy, by Matthew...
>
> <http://www.drydipstick.com/peakoil-books.html>
>
>
>
> Peak Oil Abiotic Oil
>
> A contrary view of the dead-dinosaur theory of oil creation from a  
> conservative columnist
> Drilling & Development of the Oil & Gas Fields in the Dnieper- 
> Donetsk Basin
> World-class contrarian Thomas Gold has a theory about life on the  
> planet: It's pumping out of the Earth's crust - and it's swimming  
> in oil
>
> <http://www.drydipstick.com/peakoil-abiotic-oil.html>
>
>
> Peak Oil Articles
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> As Prices Soar, Doomsayers Provoke Debate on Oil's Future - From  
> the Wall Street Journal
> Speeches, including some on Peak Oil, by the president of energy  
> investment banking group Simmons & Company International
> World's seven largest economies (G7) admit they have no idea how  
> much oil is left
>
> <http://www.drydipstick.com/peakoil-articles.html>
>
>
> Free Market News Network
>
> 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...
>
> <http://www.freemarketnews.com/Feedback.asp?nid=4843>
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>
> Work Peak Oil and Economic Collapse
>
> We can guess what type of jobs might disappear first as a result of  
> Peak Oil and economic collapse—such as housing construction,  
> highway construction, just about any kind of construction for that  
> matter, credit cards, banking, stocks and bonds, overnight tourism  
> (daytrip may do okay), airlines (but bus and maybe even railroads  
> may do well), the automobile industry and all its related  
> businesses, hotels and motels, drive-through fast-food, car washes,  
> chain stores dependent on cheap goods from China, and so on—but  
> it's probably more useful to try and predict what type of jobs and  
> skills...
>
> <http://www.beyondpeak.com/work-beyondpeak.html>
>
>
> Random Comments
>
> President Bush's latest spending plan is unlikely to substantially  
> reduce US oil consumption in the short term because it slashes $100  
> million from federal programs promoting conservation and falls  
> short of the commitment in last year's energy bill to make vast new  
> investments in renewable and emerging technologies, like hydrogen  
> fuel and solar power.
> Energy Bulletin.net transcription of Rep. Roscoe Bartlett's  
> presentation to the House of Representatives on Wed. - THE PEAKING  
> OF WORLD OIL -- (House of Representatives - February 08, 2006)
> Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, sometime ago, our Department  
> of Energy commissioned a study with...
>
> <http://tnrkitect.livejournal.com/tag/link>
>
>
> Oilcrash.com: The Russian Peak Oil Scenario, Part 1
>
> Recently, I was honoured to meet another giant of the Peak Oil  
> truth movement right here in Moscow.
> Since the publication of Dave’s book 30+ years ago, he has watched  
> with concern as generations of presidents and peoples in the US and  
> the world have chosen lifestyles and policies, totally ignoring the  
> message within his book which is prominently displayed on the front  
> cover with that ominous title: “Energy for Survival: The  
> Alternative to Extinction”. The message can’t get any more succinct  
> and it can’t be any more right. Paradoxically, it can’t get any  
> more ignored...
>
> <http://www.oilcrash.com/articles/ulsak_01.htm>
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> www.tomudall.house.gov/display2.cfm
>
> January 2006: Udall Editorial "What Peak Oil Means to Every  
> American" is published nationwide
> December 12, 2005: Udall & Bartlett Send Letter to Swedish  
> Government on Peak Oil
> December 7, 2005: 'Peak Oil' is front and center before House  
> Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality
> October 12, 2005: U.S. Reps Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Roscoe Bartlett,  
> R-MD, create the Congressional Peak Oil Caucus
>
> <http://www.tomudall.house.gov/display2.cfm?id=11447&type=Issues>
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