[Peakoil] News items from Canberra Times Tue, 12 Sep 2006

[Antony Barry]

It's been a spare few days with just one item on Tuesday and nothing  
since then. There is a lot on global warming sparked by Al Gore's  
visit but nobody seems to have made the point that peak oil will  
shift energy demand to coal which will add to global warming. This is  
because of the themodynamic inefficiencies in the coal-to-oil  
conversion.

"Oil chief debunks scarcity theory" AAP p.6

ExxonMobil Australia Chairman says oil is abundant based on USGS  
figures.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1738143.htm
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20395823-2702,00.html

Comment: USGS gets it's figures from IEA. They gets their from OPEC.  
OPEC's figures are shonky, set for political purposes with no  
independent verification.
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