[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 16 March 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 16 March 2006 5:19:18 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 25 results (news)

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> Kitco - Commentaries
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> -- From Bloomberg we learn "The U.S. trade deficit widened to a  
> record $68.5 billion in January as the oil-import bill rose and  
> Americans bought more inexpensive Chinese goods."
> But they are doomed to failure. Dan Denning of the Strategic  
> Investments newsletter says that a higher price for gold is just  
> part of the picture. "Soaring gold and oil prices will be  
> accompanied by soaring interest rates and inflation. The convenient  
> fantasy world where consumer prices don't rise and the dollar  
> doesn't lose purchasing power will collapse. As oil rises in dollar  
> terms — whether from geopolitical tension...
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> <http://www.kitco.com/ind/Daughty/mar152006.html>
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> RedOrbit - Science - For Ecuador, Quest for Oil Brings Conflict  
> Globalization Brings Clash of Cultures, Values
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> For Ecuador, Quest for Oil Brings Conflict Globalization Brings  
> Clash of Cultures, Values
> COCA, Ecuador - Open oil pits black as moon craters pock the  
> Oriente, Ecuador's northern Amazon basin.
> Men stand on the rims of trenches left behind by spent oil wells,  
> breaking up sludge with hydraulic jets and pumping out a toxic  
> brackish stew.
> Such are the people and the environmental wounds of Ecuador's oil  
> industry, an industry whose petrodollars changed a banana republic  
> into the third-largest exporter of oil in Latin America.
> With billions of barrels of oil still under one of the world's...
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> <http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/428657/ 
> for_ecuador_quest_for_oil_brings_conflict_globalization_brings_clash/i 
> ndex.html?source=r_science>
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> Times Argus: Vermont News & Information
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> "People that are particularly concerned about peak oil or peak  
> natural gas with the prices going way up would be interested in  
> this program because they can lock in the price, the energy portion  
> of their rate, for five years," he said.
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> <http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060315/NEWS/ 
> 603150327/1003/RSS07>
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> National Business Review (NBR) - Business, News, Arts, Media, Share  
> Market & More
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> Hugh de Lacy: Presidential adviser and peak oil guru says New  
> Zealand is attractive to global explorers
> A major oil strike is on the cards if the government campaign to  
> attract explorers to New Zealand's mostly off-shore fields  
> succeeds, according to peak oil guru and adviser to US President  
> George W Bush, Matt Simmons.
> And the campaign may well attract major oil companies, as well as  
> the juniors that typically tackle the high-risk business of  
> exploring for oil, Mr Simmons told the National Business Review.
> "The nice thing about New Zealand opportunities is that most of the...
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> <http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp? 
> id=14648&cid=39&cname=NBR%20Comment>
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> Videos And DVDs
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> DVD: Denial Stops Here: From 9-11 to Peak Oil and Beyond $24.95 + s&h
> Featuring interviews with Colin Campbell, Mathew Simmons, FTW's  
> Mike Ruppert, and Chris Skrebowski. Peak Oil - Imposed by nature is  
> also one of the first films on the subject to clearly and  
> succinctly address economic and geological issues.
> "Amund Prestegard makes watching information on a scary subject a  
> treat. This is the perfect way to expose someone to Peak Oil for  
> the first time." - Mike Ruppert
> But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning  
> to emerge about the sustainability of this way...
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> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/store/videos.shtml>
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