[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 14 March 2006

Thu Mar 23 15:45:57 EST 2006

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> Date: 14 March 2006 5:16:38 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 27 results (news)
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> Guardian Unlimited Business | | World gears up for tension as  
> emerging nations threaten to put G7 countries in the back seat
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> Since the dawn of the industrial revolution 250 years ago, the  
> global economy has been dominated by western Europe and north  
> America. If the 19th century was Britain's the 20th century was  
> America's. When Valéry Giscard d'Estaing first convened a meeting  
> of the great powers in 1974 to discuss the impact of a five-fold  
> increase in the price of oil, it was dominated by the old order.  
> The G7, as it eventually became, comprised Britain, Germany, France  
> and Italy - and the two nations of north America. The sole  
> representative from the rest of the world was...
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> <http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1724329,00.html>
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> ASPO USA - News
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> Dan Berard provides this weeks featured commentary in the Peak Oil  
> Review.
> Matthew Simmons challenges CERA data used during December 2005  
> congressional hearings in this weeks Peak Oil Review.
> A growing number of leaders in Washington understand peak oil, as  
> this resolution and call to action highlights. Did your  
> representative sign on? If not, why not give them a call and make  
> the suggestion.
> Notes from the National Academy of Sciences Oct 20-21 Workshop on  
> Peak Oil Potential
> This excellent 9-page oil primer was written by the lead author of  
> the 91-page DOE study on peak oil...
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> <http://www.aspousa.org/news.cfm>
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> Salon.com Technology | How the World Works
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> Exxon: We've got plenty of oil!
> Everybody go back to bed. Exxon says peak oil is bogus.
> Can we nuke our way out of peak oil?
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> <http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/index.html?blog=/tech/htww/ 
> 2006/02/23/nukes/index.html>
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> Farmington Daily Times - Business
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> Energy security, climate change, peak oil and industry profits are  
> hot topics and the subject of popular myths.
> The first myth is a popular belief that oil prices are the result  
> of a conscious choice by the industry. This myth suggests that  
> companies do not invest sufficiently to meet the growing demands of  
> the world, but instead extract huge windfall profits and exploit a  
> vulnerable consumer.
> In addition to investors, such shareholder returns support people  
> who rely on pensions and those saving for pensions. So the myth  
> that oil companies simply pocket the extra income doesn't stand up  
> to...
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> <http://www.daily-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060313/ 
> BUSINESS/603130310/1002>
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> Deep Green Crystals
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> found this one this morning: Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash .  
> Falls much more into the conspiracy side of the equation, but has  
> alot of good research and some practical use items as well. Focused  
> on what individuals can do/ will have to do, to deal with the  
> impact of peaking oil.
> -- best supporting actor went to the movie about how oil companies  
> murder people; and
> Jim Jubak has been on a tear lately about Oil and the economics  
> thereof. In this latest column: MSN Money - Oil producers reach for  
> more power - Jubak's Journal he talks about how...
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> <http://www.martinandalex.com/blog>
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> ASPO Italia - 5º International Conference on Oil and Gas Depletion  
> (ASPO-5)
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> The Fifth International Conference of the Association for the Study  
> of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO-5) will be held in San Rossore (near  
> Pisa) in Italy, on July 18-19 2006. Previous ASPO conferences were  
> held in Lisbon (2005), Berlin (2004), Paris (2003) and Uppsala (2002).
> The objective of the ASPO-5 conference is to raise the awareness of  
> the impending peak of oil extraction and the general phenomenon of  
> depletion of all mineral resources. For this purpose, international  
> experts will evaluate the consistence of the resources, assess the  
> effects of depletion on society and economy, and discuss dynamic...
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> <http://www.aspoitalia.net/index.php? 
> option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=46>
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> Falls Church News-Press
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> It has to come sooner or later. As oil becomes scarcer and scarcer  
> and price rises higher and higher, pressures will grow for a formal  
> allocation system. Rationing will come, if only to calm the havoc  
> at the gas lines and the social upheavals that are bound to occur  
> as long as rationing is only by price.
> A couple of weeks ago, the British press reported that Her  
> Majesty’s cabinet is considering a plan to ration energy  
> consumption. The immediate reason for implementing such a system is  
> to reduce the UK ’s emission of greenhouse gases as required by...
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> <http://www.fcnp.com/519/peakoil.htm>
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> The Weekly Reader - * Peak Oil
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> Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western  
> economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years  
> - without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.
> The attempt by the country of 9 million people to become the  
> world's first practically oil-free economy is being planned by a  
> committee of industrialists, academics, farmers, car makers, civil  
> servants and others, who will report to parliament in several months.
> A marked downturn in North Sea oil production means that the UK  
> will become a net importer of oil at least three years earlier...
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> <http://www.4qf.org/_CurrentAffairs/index.php?cat=68>
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> Houston Institute E-culture Newsletter
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> e-culture: The End of Oil, The End of Suburbia, Houston Events,  
> Open House
> After growing for a century, global oil production will soon peak  
> and begin to decline. The price of oil will then rise drastically,  
> changing our property values, food prices, and economy.
> "Cheap oil is now just part of history. Expect $5.00 a gallon  
> gasoline within the next few years" (TIME magazine 5/9/05).
> Houston oil investment banker Matthew Simmons forecasts that peak  
> oil will occur between 2007 and 2009. The US government thinks that  
> the peak may be decades from now. Other experts predict the...
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> <http://www.houstonculture.org/archive/e050708.html>
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> Feb. 13, 2005
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> A different kind of peak experience is looming for all humanity.  
> This is a peak that people of the world have climbed unequally to  
> different levels, yet all are bound to participate in the descent  
> in one way or the other. Ominously, the view from the peak does not  
> appear to be what most expected on the way up. This peak is  
> described by a relatively unknown concept called peak oil. What is  
> this concept and why is it so important? First, we must appreciate  
> the connections between energy and life. Through God's creation,  
> energy has powered life; sustained...
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> <http://www.peaceucc.org/sermons/sermon_cook.shtml>
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