[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 3 March 2006

Fri Mar 17 16:35:35 EST 2006

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> Date: 3 March 2006 5:16:26 AM
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> Kansas City Star | 03/02/2006 | FREE FILMS
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> Falls Church News-Press
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> Whether peak oil arrives with a bang or just sort of sneaks up on  
> us, it is highly unlikely that ten years from now there is going to  
> be enough liquid fuel to power all the world's cars, trucks, buses,  
> planes, trains, and boats. The responses of governments to this  
> situation will vary by political temperament and circumstance. Some  
> will mandate draconian conservation measures, some will impose  
> rationing, and some will let rationing-by-price direct dwindling  
> fuel supplies to those who can afford them.
> If world oil depletion comes as soon, and supplies of liquid fuels  
> disappear as...
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> <http://www.fcnp.com/552/peakoil.htm>
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> The power of community: How Cuba survived peak oil |  
> EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> Havana, Cuba -- At the Organipónico de Alamar, a neighborhood  
> agriculture project, a workers' collective runs a large urban farm,  
> a produce market and a restaurant. Hand tools and human labor  
> replace oil-driven machinery. Worm cultivation and composting  
> create productive soil. Drip irrigation conserves water, and the  
> diverse, multi-hued produce provides the community with a rainbow  
> of healthy foods.
> This need to bring agriculture into the city began with the fall of  
> the Soviet Union and the loss of more than 50 percent of Cuba's oil  
> imports, much of its food and 85 percent of its trade economy...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/newswire.php?id=13171>
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> Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » Scaring People  
> About Energy
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> We are not addicted to oil, but we are dependent. So is the rest of  
> the world.
> 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 of “peak oil,” that  
> indeterminate day when the world’s known reserves of oil begin to  
> decrease and the view that there will be few others to replace them.
> The “peak oil” concept is a...
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> <http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/scaring-people-about- 
> energy-2>
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> NY Times says peak oil "almost certainly correct" |  
> EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> Published on 1 Mar 2006 by The Oil Drum . Archived on 1 Mar 2006.
> The tom-toms are beating tonight -- peak oil endorsed by the NY  
> Times! The article mentioned Peak Oil resources, including Energy  
> Bulletin. See the comments at the original Oil Drum article for  
> more information.
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/13294.html>
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> Oil reserves and peak oil | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News  
> Clearinghouse
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> [Editor: An article about the report appears at: "Kuwait oil  
> reserves only half official estimate-PIW" ]
> Kuwait's previously reported 99 billion barrels of reserves would,  
> if they were really there in the ground, make up about 10% of the  
> world's reported oil reserves. Reducing the estimate of reserves by  
> 51 billion barrels, as the PIW report served to do, is the  
> functional equivalent of lowering the amount of estimated world oil  
> reserves by 5%.
> I never said, and I never meant to imply, that there would be any  
> less oil available to the world markets next week or...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12617.html>
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> York County Coast Star Local News: Miller challenges Baldacci for  
> governor’s job
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> “My campaign is about getting the state to prepare for oil running  
> out,” said Miller in a recent interview at the Coast Star office.  
> “The longer we wait to prepare for that — if we haven’t built those  
> windmills, we’re not going to have any way to build them. What’s  
> the price of fossil energy? How do you price something that’s  
> running out?”
> The state has to be thinking about oil depletion now and working on  
> it now, he stressed.
> We’re at the point now where we’re over the hump of peak oil now,  
> but...
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> <http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/yorkstar/03022006/news/90452.htm>
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> Maintaining And Creating Egalitarian Social, Economic and Political  
> Structures After the Collapse » The Anthropik Network
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> How will we know the collapse is upon us? The warning signs may be  
> here already. We have already written of hurricanes Katrina and  
> Rita as possibly the “opening shots” in the collapse of the oil  
> infrastructure. We will probably learn this winter whether we are  
> correct.
> That is: we will continue to fight everywhere in the globe for oil,  
> until we have less oil to fuel our armies than we are bringing in  
> from the Middle East, the Caspian, South America, etc. We will  
> continue to undergo increased political repression in the form of  
> surveillance, law enforcement, and curtailing...
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> <http://anthropik.com/2005/09/maintaining-and-creating-egalitarian- 
> social-economic-and-political-structures-after-the-collapse>
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> Hirsch Report back on DOE website | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil  
> News Clearinghouse
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> An earlier DOE published report which describes Peak Oil,  
> 'Strategic Significance of America's Oil Shale Resource - Volume I'  
> prepared by the Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves,  
> has also disappeared from the DOE website, although we have not yet  
> made enquiries about this one. (Previously at www.fe.doe.gov/ 
> programs/reserves/publications/Pubs-NPR/ 
> npr_strategic_significancev1.pdf )
> This report is archived at the EV World website: www.evworld.com/ 
> library/Oil_Shale_Stategic_Significant.pdf
> UPDATE (Feb 12). Reader MP says:Did you know that two Hirsch  
> articles appeared in World Oil magazine, (one of...
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> <http://energybulletin.net/12772.html>
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> EV World: The World of Electric, Plug-in Hybrid, Fuel Cell and  
> Alternative Fuel Vehicles
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> SYNOPSIS: Ottawa, Canada's Mayor Bob Chiarelli sees need for city  
> and nation to develop legislative framework to address impact of  
> peak oil.
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> <http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=communique&newsid=11172>
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> HoweStreet.com
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> Greg's Note: After coming up for air from his recent and well- 
> received book review of Red Star Rogue, our intrepid correspondent  
> Byron King goes back to the oil patch. Or maybe we should say the  
> Big Oil patch. This time around, and far removed from the stripper  
> wells of Titusville, Byron comments on a recent, disturbing report  
> concerning the oil reserves of Kuwait. The title of Byron's article  
> says it all.
> According to a restricted report issued by the authoritative  
> industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW), internal  
> Kuwaiti records reveal that the nation's oil reserves are...
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> <http://www.howestreet.com/story.php?ArticleId=1959>
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> Peak Oil News and Message Boards >> Geology; Reservers; Oil Fields  
> >> Michael Lynch - Disputing Peak Oil
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> "I do not claim there will be no peak or that oil is infinite. The  
> shape of the curve is not driven by geology in most areas  
> (influenced, yes, driven no), but by a combination of factors,  
> including politics.
> I am saying that the "midpoint" of production is not necessarily a  
> peak, nor does a peak necessarily represent a midpoint. Examine  
> Venezuelan production. "
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> <http://peakoil.com/article8533.html>
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> Peak Oil News and Message Boards >> Business News; Market Research  
> >> Peak Oil Economics & Money - What Underwrites our Dollar?
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> MarkL writes: A topic that is surprisingly never linked and  
> analysed these days is that of the monetary & economic impact of  
> peak oil. Most gold bugs would be well aware of the classic  
> arguments of inflationists and deflationists as they relate to the  
> fate of our fiat monetary systems, but none I have read have really  
> mused on the impact of oil shortage on our monetary system's  
> fundamentals and operation. This is due mainly to group denial of  
> coming oil scarcity, or as James Kunsler puts it "consensus trance"  
> of the belief in the longevity of our current living...
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