[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 24 Jan 2006

[Antony Barry]

Begin forwarded message:

> Date: 24 January 2006 5:03:50 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 3 results (news)
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> Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide
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> Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Oil traders are paying record prices to get  
> crude almost five years from now, reflecting increasing doubts the  
> oil boom will go bust.
> Crude oil today rose for a third session, to the highest in more  
> than four months as a cold front sweeping across Europe pushed  
> temperatures in Moscow to the lowest in 50 years, boosting fuel  
> consumption. Oil for March delivery on the New York Mercantile  
> Exchange traded at $69.05 a barrel at 12:25 p.m. Singapore time,  
> $1.80 short of the record on Aug. 30. The contract for delivery in  
> December 2010 hasn...
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> <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=akim.xUWeN38>
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> Oil, conflict and the future of global energy supplies
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> 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 of the geographical locations of the world’s  
> largest oil and gas deposits, that is, knowledge of “the geography  
> and politics of oil”.
> 2. An analysis of the concept of “peak oil” and how this concept  
> relates to the problem of global conflict
> 3. An awareness that the war in Iraq is part of a broader US policy  
> of aggressively...
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> <http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? 
> context=viewArticle&code=BAR20060122&articleId=1781>
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>
> The Rimini Protocol: an oil depletion protocol - ASPO Ireland (Peak  
> Oil)
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> Soaring oil prices have drawn attention to the issue of the  
> relative supply and demand for crude oil, which is the World’s  
> premier fuel, having a central place in the modern economy.
> People ask: Are we running out of oil ? The simple answer is: Yes,  
> we started doing that when we produced the first barrel. But  
> Running Out is not the main issue as the resource will not be  
> finally exhausted for very many years. The much more relevant  
> question is: When will production reach a peak and begin to decline?
> Much debate and study has focused on the...
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> <http://www.peakoil.ie/protocol>
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