[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 19 March 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 19 March 2006 5:18:33 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 19 results (news)
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> Salon.com Technology | Ask the pilot
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> Ask the pilot Peak oil threatens the airline industry, but  
> Ryanair's CEO says tickets should be free.
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> <http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2006/03/17/askthpilot178/ 
> index_np.html>
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> Peak oil - Mar 16 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> CNN's "The Situation Room" anticipates airing a story about  
> Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and peak oil in conjunction with  
> releasing some results from a new poll about energy today at  
> approximately 4:30 pm Eastern.
> And just in from Leanan at The Oil Drum -- a transcript of the  
> report (the energy portion is about 60% of the way through the file  
> - search for "Sesno".
> Here at the peak of available energy, immersed in a culture of  
> waste, an industrial civilization when presented with a large  
> problem will try to solve it with a larger problem.
> Peak Oil NYC, Local Energy...
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> <http://energybulletin.net/13894.html>
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> Pentagon To Unveil Energy Conservation Effort | EnergyBulletin.net  
> | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> The Pentagon will shortly unveil a militarywide program aimed at  
> conserving energy that is expected to address what President George  
> W. Bush termed America’s “addiction to oil” during his State of the  
> Union address in January.
> Though the QDR did not explicitly deal with the military’s use of  
> oil, “toward the end of the QDR, these concerns became an issue for  
> all of us,” England said.
> The Pentagon’s Office of Force Transformation and the acquisition  
> office led by Krieg will hold a series of conferences on energy  
> conservation and what role the U.S. military can play...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/13904.html>
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> "We were warned: tomorrow's oil crisis" airs this weekend on CNN |  
> EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> We Were Warned: Tomorrow's oil crisis will be featured on CNN  
> Presents this weekend. Showings are set for Saturday, March 18 at 8  
> p.m. and 11 p.m. ET.
> The CNN Presents Classroom Edition: We Were Warned: Tomorrow's oil  
> crisis and its corresponding discussion questions and activities  
> challenge students to:
> Examine America's reliance on oil and the impact that disruptions  
> to oil supplies could have on our way of life;
> Consider the impact that oil prices could have on the pursuit of  
> alternative energy policies;
> According to the report, approximately how many barrels of oil does...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/13911.html>
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> Technology Won't Solve America's Oil Addiction, Experts Say
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> President's State of the Union Speech ignores deeper problem of  
> depleting oil supplies; real solution requires massive  
> conservation, group says.
> San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 2, 2006 -- America’s dependence  
> on oil took center stage Tuesday in President Bush’s State of the  
> Union address, in which he declared “America is addicted to oil,”  
> but a growing number of experts now say that technology alone won’t  
> wean the country from it's oil addiction. The root cause of our  
> dependency, they say, is a more intractable problem -- the  
> depletion of finite global oil resources -- and that any solution...
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> <http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/2/prweb341058.htm>
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> Hamilton Spectator - News
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> Leaders of a citizens' group fighting Hamilton's proposed 1,250- 
> hectare aerotropolis industrial park are warning the city against  
> going ahead without considering the possible impact of huge  
> increases in the price of oil.
> Michael Desnoyers, chair of Hamiltonians for Progressive  
> Development (HPD), and co-chair Jack Santa-Barbara say they worry  
> council will budget millions for the aerotropolis and approve an  
> aerotropolis-based GRIDS development strategy without seeing a peak  
> oil report commissioned last June.
> Council is slated to vote on the budget and GRIDS next month, but  
> there is no word when consultant Richard Gilbert will produce a...
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> <http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer? 
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