[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 18 March 2006

Mon Mar 27 14:27:37 EST 2006

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> Date: 18 March 2006 5:21:00 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 36 results (news)
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> Oil Find in Mexico Far From Success
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> About 60 miles from shore and three miles down through seawater and  
> earth lies Mexico's best hope to replenish its slipping oil fortunes.
> Mexican President Vicente Fox announced Tuesday that state-owned  
> oil giant Pemex had hit serious pay dirt in the Gulf of Mexico: A  
> deep-water exploration known as Noxal had tapped a field off the  
> coast of the southern state of Veracruz that could contain as many  
> as 10 billion barrels of oil. If the field pans out, it would be  
> one of the largest in the nation's history and go a long way toward...
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> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/031706_world_stories.shtml>
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> Peak oil at San Francisco's Green Festival | EnergyBulletin.net |  
> Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> A massive block-long building near downtown San Francisco had to be  
> augmented with a huge tent in the parking lot. Inside standing-room- 
> only audiences listened to speakers such as journalists Amy Goodman  
> and Jim Hightower, architects William McDonough and Sim Van der Ryn  
> and Peak Oil activists Richard Heinberg and Joanna Macy--all of  
> whom donated their time. The popular event revealed the growth of a  
> green movement that includes ecological, political, social,  
> agricultural, design, energy, and cultural elements.
> Peak Oil and energy descent were among the main topics addressed by  
> speakers at GF. Among the presentations were...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/10577.html>
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> Falls Church News-Press
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> The Peak Oil Crisis: Canada, the US, and Oil -- An Increasingly  
> Bizarre Relationship
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> <http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?action=results&poll_ident=56>
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> Peak oil - Mar 17 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> I saw the World Premier of OilCrash! at the SXSW Film Festival.  
> Extremely powerful -- very sobering. Very comprehensive discussion  
> of the peak oil issue. Quite impressive.
> Includes Bartlett, Simmons, Matt Savinar, David Goodstein, former  
> OPEC Oil Minister and Iraq Oil Minister, several senior oil  
> industry folks, Colin Campbell, other experts and so on.
> The film is very good for folks who don't really understand or "buy  
> in" to the idea of Peak Oil yet, but is also an excellent resource  
> of facts, sometimes startling, for those of us who do.
> This short review appeared in the "comments" section at...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/13950.html>
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> Resource Insights: Demand Destruction: Who Gets Destroyed?
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> So an economist who accepts the possibility of an oil peak may  
> still believe that the marketplace will allow us to make a  
> relatively smooth transition to a new energy economy as the price  
> encourages the development of alternatives to oil and as demand is  
> destroyed. The latter phrase is often glossed over. But demand  
> destruction is at the core of misconceptions by economists about  
> the likely course of events leading up to and following an oil peak.
> A smooth transition away from oil mediated entirely by market  
> prices essentially assumes two things: 1) a very gradual decline in  
> oil...
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> <http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2006/01/demand-destruction- 
> who-gets-destroyed.html>
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> The Daily Reckoning UK - Peak oil redux
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> And they continue to debate $70 oil. The consequences of "peak oil"  
> have exercised them for over a week now... but these guys have  
> failed to exhaust either themselves or their supply of investment  
> insights. Now Chris Mayer, editor of the US edition of the Fleet  
> Street Letter, has joined the fray.
> "Dan," he writes to Dan Denning, "Peak Oil as you've described it  
> will be wrong. Energy will not get more expensive in the long-run,  
> say, over the next decade or less. The long history of energy  
> prices is that they go down - because of technological innovation...
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> <http://www.dailyreckoning.co.uk/printerfriendly/view.asp? 
> idarticle=37>
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> CERA: News Article : The Oil Industry Growth Challenge: Expanding  
> Production Capacity (December 07, 2005)
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> On December 7, 2005 Robert Esser Robert Esser testified before a  
> House Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee hearing on Understanding  
> the Peak Oil Theory.
> The Committee has asked us to address the question of Peak Oil. In  
> our view, this is not a very helpful concept, nor one that provides  
> much descriptive power. Rather than an imminent “peak,” we envision  
> an “undulating plateau” two to four decades away. We at Cambridge  
> Energy Research Associates have been conducting continuing research  
> on future oil supplies, working up from a field-by-field basis. Now  
> that we are part of IHS, we can...
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> <http://www.cera.com/news/details/1,,7777,00.html>
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> Polls show surging support for action on energy, global warming |  
> EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> Other key survey findings: 77 percent of Americans think that  
> "developing alternative or renewable energy sources and reducing  
> U.S. dependence on foreign oil should be President Bush's top  
> priority for the balance of his term in office"; and 83 percent of  
> Americans - including 72 percent of conservatives and 85 percent of  
> independents - would like to see more attention paid to global  
> warming during the 2006 Congressional elections and the 2008  
> Presidential elections.
> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Although Americans don't believe the country  
> faces an imminent energy crisis, most believe there are "major  
> problems" --- from potential oil shortages to possible...
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> <http://energybulletin.net/13948.html>
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