[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 12 Jan 2007

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 12 January 2006 6:14:20 AM
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> CHALLENGES 2005-2006: Oil Market Analysts Issue Dire Warnings
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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.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31614>
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> EV World: The World of Electric, Plug-in Hybrid, Fuel Cell and  
> Alternative Fuel Vehicles
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> Q&A with Tom Petrie and Chris Skrebowski at ASPO USA World Oil  
> Conference
> That's why follow-up Q&A (question and answer) sessions are  
> invaluable windows into the minds of the speakers. Granted, you  
> won't always elicit complete candor or fully gain insight into the  
> thinking behind the professional facade, but they can be quite  
> revealing, as the Q&A sessions that were part of the Association  
> for the Study of Peak Oil - USA conference in Denver in November  
> 2005 reveal. Q&A's are also an excellent way to judge the mood of  
> the audience, what...
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> <http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=article&storyid=951>
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> AlterNet: Over the Peak
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> No one knows when oil production will start declining, but we must  
> focus on alternatives to petroleum now. Tools
> As oil prices soared from $24 per barrel in early 2003 to a peak of  
> $70 per barrel in September 2005, the question being asked by  
> experts and policy makers alike was whether we've "entered a new  
> era," as Chevron Corporation CEO David O'Reilly has said, or just  
> encountered a temporary glitch that will be corrected by market  
> forces, as ExxonMobil President Rex Tillerson argued in a speech to  
> the World Petroleum Congress last September. The most intriguing  
> thing...
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> <http://www.alternet.org/story/30653>
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> AlterNet: 2006: The Year of Oil Collapse?
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> Editor's note: This is one of three perspectives AlterNet has  
> assembled on the prospect of peak oil and its implications for  
> modern society and the global economy. The other two are from World  
> Watch: Christopher Flavin writes that while we can't know exactly  
> when oil production will start declining, we must focus on  
> alternatives to petroleum now; and Robert K. Kaufman describes the  
> role the market and government should play in helping to make the  
> transition from a petroleum-dependent society.
> The suburban housing bubble and its related activities were  
> predicated on the idea that we could continue...
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> <http://www.alternet.org/story/30640>
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> Peak Oil News and Message Boards >> Production; Extraction;  
> Exploration >> U.S. Sees Iraqi Oil Production Choked for Years
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> Iraq has vast hydrocarbon potential that could rival major  
> producers such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, but U.S. government  
> analysts are predicting that Iraqi oil production development will  
> remain thwarted for years to come. Its enormous reserves of an  
> estimated 115 billion barrels of proven crude are the world's third  
> largest after those of the Saudi Kingdom and Canada.
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> <http://peakoil.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10672>
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