[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 10 March 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 10 March 2006 5:18:02 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 37 results (news)
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> Falls Church News-Press
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> On the American side of the globe, however, all was well. An  
> unusually warm winter led to bulging oil and gas stockpiles and  
> somewhat lower prices. In the Mid-East, the Saudis stopped Al Qaeda  
> from blowing up an important oil facility and, despite significant  
> increases in the violence in Iraq and the rhetoric in Iran , for  
> now, oil continues to flow from both countries.
> We are all getting used to the pattern of oil cycling around $60-65  
> per barrel as it has since just after the hurricanes last fall.  
> Many analysts are attributing what we think of as...
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> <http://www.fcnp.com/601/peakoil.htm>
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> Scoop: Transport Spokesperson Sue Kedgley Re Gully Report
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> "The hearing subcommittee has come up with a plan for the wrong  
> century. They obviously haven't caught up with peak oil and climate  
> change.
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> <http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0603/S00154.htm>
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> The Daily Times - www.delmarvanow.com - Salisbury, Md.
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> Gilchrest found a shooting partner in Bartlett, who often speaks  
> about "peak oil," or the belief that petroleum production has  
> peaked and a drastic new energy plan of "man on the moon"  
> proportions is needed. Lisa Wright, press secretary for Bartlett,  
> said Gilchrest has backed Bartlett's oil concerns for years and  
> participated in a number of Bartlett's House floor speeches on the  
> topic.
> The two congressmen recently met with the Natural Resources Defense  
> Council to discuss global warming, a topic that couples Gilchrest's  
> ocean and energy bills with Bartlett's peak oil legislation,  
> Gilchrest said.
> The congressmen...
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> <http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060309/ 
> NEWS01/603090303/1002>
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> Transcript: Third Peak Oil Presentation by Congressman Bartlett |  
> EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> The Countdown for the Peak of Oil Production has Begun – but what  
> are the Views of the Most Important International Energy Agencies...
> The following is the full transcript of Congressman Roscoe  
> Bartlett's third Special Order speech to the US Congress regarding  
> Peak Oil
> As a matter of fact, the next chart shows some figures which  
> alarmed 30 of the leading figures in our country: Jim Woolsey and  
> McFarland and Frank Gaffney and 27 others who wrote a letter to the  
> President just a few weeks ago, and they noted to the President  
> that we have only two percent of...
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> <http://energybulletin.net/5948.html>
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> Review Syriana in the Post Carbon Context - Post Carbon Institute
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> ~ said Kenneth Deffeyes, author of the book Beyond Oil regarding  
> his view that on On Dec. 16, 2005, world oil production peaked.
> Jim Kunstler has posted a review of Syriana that hints at the  
> shortcomings of the film with respect to educating "the masses" on  
> Peak Oil and the American addiction to cheap oil.
> I went to see Syriana, as did a few of my "peak oil" buddies. We  
> were all disappointed that the film did not use a single scene from  
> its trailer that would infer problems for the general public.The  
> film is a typical action/adventure flick...
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> <http://www.postcarbon.org/forums/syriana/reviews>
>

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> <http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=communique&newsid=11207>
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> The Reality Of India-US Nuclear Deal
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> The deal has come through at a time of soaring petroleum prices and  
> also when the threat of peak oil has come to be accepted as a  
> reality by trade pundits. The last decade saw the growing economies  
> of India and China putting pressure on the global supply of fossil  
> fuels consuming ever larger quantities. As the threat of peak oil  
> lurk in the not so distant future it was imperative for the world’s  
> lone super power to shut the rivals out of the competition. It has  
> been the corner stone of American foreign policy of the recent past...
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