[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 15 March 2006

Thu Mar 23 15:51:38 EST 2006

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> Date: 15 March 2006 5:16:19 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 26 results (news)
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> Legislator enlists Bartlett for natural resources protection
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> [It’s been obvious to many for a long time that a natural alliance  
> would form between Ecological and Peak Oil interests. That it’s  
> manifest in the House of Representatives is a great thing. – MCR]
> Mr. Gilchrest found a shooting partner in Mr. 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 Mr.  
> Bartlett, said Mr. Gilchrest has backed Mr. Bartlett's oil concerns  
> for years and participated in a number of Mr. Bartlett...
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> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/031406_world_stories.shtml>
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> The end of the G7 : Mail & Guardian Online
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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  
> the United States’s. When Valery 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...
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> <http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=266632&area=/ 
> insight/insight__economy__business>
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> Peak Oil News and Message Boards >> Public Policy; Political and  
> Legal News >> Deora advocates ten-fold hike in fuel subsidy
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> At a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister P  
> Chidambaram, and PM's Economic Advisory Council Chairman C  
> Rangarajan, he said oil companies bore a subsidy bill of Rs  
> 10,245.47 crores on LPG, Rs 14,384.38 crores on kerosene, Rs  
> 12,284.21 crores on diesel and Rs 2,680.41 crores on petrol, while  
> the budget provided only Rs 2,900 crores as subsidy for PDS  
> kerosene and domestic LPG.
> Sources said Deora pointed to the budgetary provision of Rs 24,200  
> crores for food subsidy and Rs 17,252.90 crores for fertilizer and  
> demanded that a similar dispensation should be given to oil sector...
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> <http://peakoil.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12890>
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> ASPO - The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
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> On Wednesday, December 7, Peak Oil got its first official  
> congressional forum when the House Energy and Air Quality  
> Subcommittee conducted a hearing on the subject. Strong testimonies  
> in faivor of Peak Oil was given by Aleklett, Hirsch and Bartlett.  
> The director from CERA, Esser, said don’t worry, be happy.
> Oil&Gas Journal: Lawmakers: US should prepare for global oil flow peak
> FoxNews: Rep. Offers 'Man on the Moon' Problem-Solving to Combat  
> Oil Shortage
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> <http://peakoil.net/TheHouse.html>
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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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> Complacent and addicted - Minnesota Daily
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> Despite lack of debate, there are clear signs that a permanent oil  
> shortage is around the corner.
> So when a consortium of leading geophysicists and oil industry  
> whistle-blowers forecast a dramatic downturn in oil production  
> within the next two decades, you would think the U.S. government  
> would take the threat seriously and invest resources necessary to  
> develop renewable energy while we still have a chance.
> Politicians from the dominant political parties have been in bed  
> with Big Oil since the early 1900s and have no intention of  
> jeopardizing their relationship by funding renewable energies.  
> Without a drastic change...
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> <http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006/03/03/67450>
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> Napa Valley Register Online | CommentaryOpinion
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> Petroleum geologists are not popular and their warnings of Peak Oil  
> are underreported by the "liberal media." A 2004 meeting of the  
> Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas in Berlin included  
> representatives from BP, ExxonMobil and the International Energy  
> Agency. A U.K. observer at the ASPO stated "for the record,  
> Ghawar's (the world's largest oil reservoir, located in Saudi  
> Arabia) ultimate recoverable reserves in 1975 were estimated at 60  
> billion barrels -- by ExxonMobil, Texaco, and Chevron. It had  
> produced 55 billion barrels up to the end of 2003 and is still  
> producing at 1.8...
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> <http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2006/03/14/opinion/ 
> commentary/iq_3343837.txt>
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> Superbia! (book review) | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News  
> Clearinghouse
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> Designing Energy Descent Pathways: One community's attempt at  
> designing a prosperous way down from the peak....
> The excellent Powering Down blog is "a discussion on peak oil with  
> an emphasis on relocalization as a reponse for North Carolina and  
> the greater Southeast."
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/13853.html>
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> Peak oil - Mar 14 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> Last month’s foiled attack on a Saudi Arabian oil installation  
> demonstrated yet again the world’s extreme vulnerability to any  
> check on oil supplies. But what if the Saudi oilfields are running  
> lower on untapped supplies than the kingdom, and the West, have  
> estimated?
> As concern rises in the United States and elsewhere over the future  
> availability of oil, the global community of energy experts has  
> split into two camps: the optimists believe that oil is abundant  
> and will remain so for years to come, while the pessimists think  
> supplies will become increasingly scarce. For both, Saudi Arabia,  
> the...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/13819.html>
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> A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days: Peak Oil? Not So Fast
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> But one reason I will not cite for the need to develop alternative  
> fuels is the so-called impending "peak oil" crisis. This article  
> helps explain why.
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> <http://www.chequer-board.net/story/2006/3/13/235818/565>
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