[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 11 Jan 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 11 January 2006 6:33:58 AM
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> Oil Market Analysts Issue Dire Warnings By Humberto Márquez
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> CARACAS, Dec 29 (IPS) - While this year's record high oil prices  
> are unlikely to come down in the near future, analysts are warning  
> the world's traditional and emerging economic powers to curb  
> consumption, saying that at the current rate, proven reserves will  
> only meet demand up to 2030.
> "The current model (of consumption) is suicidal," Venezuelan Energy  
> Minister Rafael Ramírez recently told journalists. "The United  
> States, for example, will use up its oil reserves in 10 years, and  
> after that it will go after its rivers, lakes and forests."
> This month, Democratic Party lawmakers in the U.S...
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> <http://www.countercurrents.org/po-marquez030106.htm>
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> OpinionEditorials.com – Many Think That Gas Prices Gouged - Roeten
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> If you believe that oil & gas companies conspired to receive record  
> high profits, that oil supplies are diminishing, and that gasoline  
> companies purposely ‘gouged’---buckle up, because this will be a  
> very rough ride.
> Many believe in Hubbert’s theory of “peak oil”. It says that  
> production will peak, and then decline while demand increases.  
> Proponents theorize that oil is a fossil fuel from decaying forests  
> and dinosaurs, and we are running out. But another theory argues  
> that the science of oil is an ‘abiotic’(lifeless) natural product  
> that the earth generates on a constant basis, and may well be...
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> <http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/ 
> kroeten_20060110.html>
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