[Peakoil] News items from Canberra Times first week Jan 2007

[Antony Barry]

  Lots about the Summernats. Don't you all think there is something  
obscene at a time when peak oil approaches that we should be burning  
oil so profligately? At least it was only $300k the ACT Government  
gave them but for what??

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Saturday 6th
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Letters to the editor p.B4

<http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=your% 
20say&subclass=general&story_id=545220&category=Letters%20to% 
20Editor&m=1&y=2007>

Wasted meat market

M.Collins refers to the article the previous day "feeding cars or  
people" p11 and points out that diverting food to produce fuel is a  
problem as is diverting crops to animal feed as this not only  
increases food prices but adds to greenhouse gas emissions.

Addiction to 19th century fuels faint hope for future

Bryan Furnass writes in the context of global warming, attacks the  
governments ideological approach.

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Friday 5th
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Feeding Cars or people: the biofuel dilemma by Michael Richardson p.11

An article which looks at the conflict between growing food crops as  
food and diverting them into biofuels. Prices are going up and  
carryover grain stocks are the lowest they have been for 34 years. We  
need technology which finds a non-food feedstock for biofuels.

<http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=your% 
20say&subclass=general&story_id=544854&category=Opinion&m=1&y=2007>

Comment: Does not mention EROEI nor the use of fossil fuels in the  
growth and production of the crops.
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