[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 1 March 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 1 March 2006 5:14:52 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 12 results (news)
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> From The Wilderness Publications
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> [How glibly The Guardian glosses over the fact that Indonesia, a  
> founding member of OPEC, has become a net oil importer as depletion  
> ravages its economy. There are great and potentially life-saving  
> lessons to be learned as other nations slide down the far side of  
> Peak Oil. What do they do wrong? What do they do right? The key  
> lessons will come not from what governments do, but from what  
> people do. – MCR]
> “The country embarked on a major effort to wean itself off oil.  
> Japan now imports 16 percent less oil than it did in 1973, although  
> the...
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> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/022706_world_stories.shtml>
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> Scoop: "Reality check" needed on oil use
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> Finance Minister Michael Cullen's "reality check" on the economy  
> should include a "reality check" on oil use, Green Party Co-Leader  
> Jeanette Fitzsimons says.
> The high cost of oil and its contribution to New Zealand's deficit  
> is not a temporary phenomenon, Ms Fitzsimons says.
> "It makes sense, as most experts predict petrol prices to rise long  
> term, to have an urgent official reality check on our dependence on  
> oil. We need to boost public transport rather than build motorways,  
> import cars which do more kilometres to the litre and drastically  
> improve our efforts to become self sufficient in...
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> <http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0602/S00448.htm>
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> RenewableEnergyAccess.com | The Next Conservative Energy Policy
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> Current U.S. energy policy and the President's Advanced Energy  
> Initiative are too modest and overly focused on the goal of  
> increasing domestic production of oil and alternatives to support  
> increasing oil consumption. This is futile and self-defeating  
> because U.S. oil production is in permanent decline and world oil  
> production will follow - perhaps disastrously soon.
> American Shell Oil scientist M. King Hubbert identified "peak oil"  
> in the mid-1950s. He discovered oil field production follows a bell  
> curve rising to a maximum capacity, or peak, when about half of the  
> oil is extracted, after which production declines...
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> <http://renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=44187>
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> Oil and Water: How Schools Will Change with the Coming of Peak Oil  
> | L0calGh0st
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> Oil and Water: How Schools Will Change with the Coming of Peak Oil
> With oil prices bouncing in unpredictable ways, the fear of peak  
> oil comes up again and again. Much the topic among liberal critics  
> of the Bush administration, it is slowly making its way into a more  
> general public discourse, especially since the president's state of  
> union speech.
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> <http://www.localghost.org/peakoil>
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> Oil Futures - The Boston Globe
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> Some experts believe the age of oil is near its end. Others insist  
> that there are trillions of untapped barrels left -- and that the  
> future of oil depends more on what happens above ground than below.
> Instead, the fear of shortage and the resulting rise of oil prices  
> spurred the use of experimental prospecting techniques. The use of  
> seismographs, aerial photography, improved drilling technology, and  
> specialized inventions like the torsion balance and the  
> magnetometer ushered in a new era of oil exploration, and the 1920s  
> saw a rush of major American oil finds.
> Yergin, the founder and chairman of Cambridge...
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> <http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/02/26/ 
> oil_futures/?p1=MEWell_Pos3>
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