[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 9 March 2006

Sat Mar 18 14:21:21 EST 2006

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> Date: 9 March 2006 5:17:28 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 45 results (news)
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> L.A.’s “Havana Experiment” Farm Threatened by Industry and Government
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> The South Central Community Farm is a thirteen-year-old experiment.  
> While Peak Oil is making its successes into crucial object lessons  
> for urban survival, it wasn’t begun with Peak Oil in mind. In fact,  
> the reality of Peak is just now penetrating the consciousness of  
> these urban farmers, whose experiences are of inestimable value for  
> the rest of America. When the inevitable time comes for other inner  
> cities to learn how to produce food organically for local  
> consumption, these experiments and their results will be the basis  
> of our chances.
> The rare example of healthy land-use that...
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> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ 
> ww3/020806_havana_experiment.shtml>
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> 10 Stocks That Are Winners With $60 Oil
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> And investing as if this was just another temporary hike in the  
> price of a barrel of oil isn't going to cut it over the next  
> decade. In this column, I'm going to give you my take on how $60  
> oil has changed the game for investors. And 10 stock picks for  
> winning this new game.
> Investors and traders are familiar with this kind of pattern and  
> the factors -- such as seasonal fluctuations in inventory and  
> market reaction to news -- that produce these moves. In the short  
> run, although the price swings may be more extreme, $60-a...
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> <http://www.thestreet.com/_tscrss/comment/investing/10272243.html>
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> Peak Oil and the Japanese Consumer
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> February 3, 2006 0400 PST (FTW) – [With subscribers in more than 40  
> countries, FTW is in a unique position to provide our readers with  
> snapshots of the ways in which unfolding Peak Oil is impacting  
> daily life around the world. Here, with permission, FTW brings you  
> a series of nine short dispatches sent between October and January  
> from one of our subscribers in Japan. They tell an amazing story.  
> Rick has asked that we not identify him by full name.
> This morning's paper carries an article from Kyodo (one of Japan's  
> major news agencies) bearing the good news...
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> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ 
> ww3/020306_japanese_consumer.shtml>
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> WOOLSEYS IN SHEEPS CLOTHING
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> [Former CIA Director James Woolsey spurred no-oil thinking in a  
> recent Eugene, Oregon meeting, although instead of finding remedies  
> for Peak Oil issues, Woolsey's solutions may cost you your life.  
> Mike Ruppert tells you why. -- LG]
> But that's exactly what happened at the University of Oregon's  
> Public Interest Environmental Law Con- ference Saturday afternoon  
> as R. James Woolsey - the nation's chief "spook" under President  
> Bill Clinton from 1993-1995 - spoke passionately about the need to  
> reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.
> Woolsey said the solution to America's foreign oil addiction, as  
> President Bush...
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> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ 
> ww3/030706_woolseys_sheep_summary.shtml>
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> The Blog | Carl Pope: Lambs to the Slaughter | The Huffington Post
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> In its favorite spot on the op-ed page of the New York Times, it  
> proclaimed, "Peak Oil? Contrary to the theory, oil production shows  
> no sign of a peak."
> However, careful readers of the company's annual analyses of energy  
> trends, intended for its own key stakeholders, know that ExxonMobil  
> doesn't believe its own hype. Indeed, the 2005 Energy Outlook  
> Report clearly showed that the company expected non-OPEC oil  
> production to peak in about 2010 and then begin declining. The  
> company then reassuringly commented that OPEC production would  
> somehow, magically, continue to grow indefinitely, so that the...
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> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/lambs-to-the- 
> slaughter_b_16942.html>
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> End of Cheap Oil @ National Geographic Magazine
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> You wouldn't know it from the hulking SUVs and traffic-clogged  
> freeways of the United States, but we're in the twilight of  
> plentiful oil. There's no global shortage yet; far from it. The  
> world can still produce so much crude that the current price of  
> about $30 for a 42-gallon barrel would plummet if the Organization  
> of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) did not limit  
> production. This abundance of oil means, for now, that oil is  
> cheap. In the United States, where gasoline taxes average 43 cents  
> a gallon (instead of dollars, as in Europe and...
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> <http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0406/feature5>
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> Welcome to the End of the Oil Age!
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> Credible scientists, oil geologists, politicians, newspapers and  
> government departments are starting to admit it, Peak Oil is here!  
> Indeed, the New York Times just ran a significant Op-Ed piece in  
> March 2006.
> Peak oil basically means that world oil production is about to peak  
> and then start to decline. It will be like the 1970's oil crisis,  
> only this time it is permanent. If you think this is some kind of  
> hoax please be aware that even Big Oil are starting to make  
> provocative statements. Chevron's CEO has clearly stated "The era  
> of easy oil is over...
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> <http://www.eclipsenow.org>
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> EUobserver.com
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> Increased geopolitical tensions over energy security issues: The  
> issues of global warming and renewable energy resources are  
> inextricably intertwined, but not simply because human burning of  
> fossil fuels is accelerating and aggravating global warming; but  
> also because of the double trouble poised by the voracious demand  
> for more energy and the end of peak oil production.
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> <http://euobserver.com/7/21064>
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> Adaptation: Md. Representative Roscoe Bartlett hosts public Peak  
> Oil conference
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> Peak Oil will occur when half of all the oil has been pulled from  
> the ground. After that, oil will become increasingly scarce, and  
> increasingly expensive, over time. When oil becomes expensive the  
> economy goes into recession until it becomes cheap again. Peak Oil  
> means that oil will only get more expensive, forever. Many people  
> who know what they're talking about think we are at Peak right now.
> Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, representing Maryland’s 6th district  
> in the U.S. House of Representatives, hosted an energy conference  
> Sept. 26 focused entirely on Peak Oil and its potential solutions.  
> Approximately...
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> <http://adaptationzine.com/content/bartlett-conf>
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> Money, money, money...deficit, deficit, deficit
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> As the effects of Peak Oil and Gas are making themselves felt, even  
> sooner than anticipated, the world stands on the brink of  
> unimaginable global famine. Please see http://fromthewilderness.com/ 
> free/ww3/112103_china_food.html , and
> Happiness, in human terms, is a relative condition. The Cuban  
> people may indeed be in despair because they lack TVs, "good"  
> clothing, new cars and consumer goods. There may be, by comparison,  
> conditions unthinkable to a present-day American or Brit. But I  
> submit that, as global famine caused by Peak Oil and Gas becomes a  
> reality, the possibility exists that what...
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> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/cgi-bin/MasterPFP.cgi?doc=http:// 
> www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/120103_korea_2.html>
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> China's rising grain prices could signal global food crisis
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> China's rising grain prices could signal global food crisis - It's  
> Happening Faster Than We Expected. The Agence France-Presse Is  
> reporting that a major famine may be looming for China and that  
> their purchases of US grain could multiply. The AFP Story does not  
> address the serious Peak Oil and Gas issues raised by Dale Allen  
> Pfeiffer in Eating Fossil Fuels or acknowledge that US grain  
> harvests are falling. It does add the new wrinkle of how Global  
> Warming (caused by burning oil and gas) continually reduces crop  
> yields. On top of a recent CNN report announcing that...
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> <http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/112103_china_food.html>
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> Citizens Committee on Oil Peak And Decline (COPAD) - Citizens  
> Calling on Governments to Address Peak Oil
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> We, the members of the educational and scientific communities  
> involved in the study of the worldwide peak of oil production,  
> offer the following statement on the problem and its implications  
> for our future:
> Oil was formed in the geological past, and a growing number of the  
> world's leading petroleum geologists agree that more than 95  
> percent of all recoverable oil has now been found. We therefore  
> know, within a reasonable degree of certainty, the total amount of  
> oil available to us. As of this statement, we have consumed  
> approximately half of the recoverable oil, and we continue to  
> consume...
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> <http://www.copad.org>
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> Permaculture Research Institute of Australia
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> As the world’s demand for oil has grown to match total production  
> capacity, some experts believe reserves have virtually disappeared.
> The Hirsch Report, a study on Peak Oil and its consequences was  
> commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy and published in  
> February 2005. The report warns that after Peak, liquid fuel prices  
> will increase dramatically, and without proper planning and  
> concerted effective action, “the economic, social and political  
> costs will be unprecedented.”
> Peak Oil occurs when half of all existing oil has been pulled from  
> the ground. After that, oil will become, over time, increasingly  
> scarce and...
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> <http://www.permaculture.org.au>
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