[Peakoil] Demand for oil to grow 'for decades'

[W & C Steensby]

A couple of observations.

1. Margaret Throsby interviews people on her ABC-FM Classic radio program. One of her guests some time ago was a man doing research in the field of journalism who told the radio audience that Rupert Murdoch forbids his newspapers to use the term or concept of "limits to growth," and that journalists on The Australian had told the researcher of their great frustration at not being allowed to dicuss the matter. Pity they're not frustrated enough to stop working for Rupert....

2. Heark back to my earlier posting recommending the book "Wilful Blindness, or, Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril." I'm up to a section describing how the UK and US medical establishments wilfully ignored a clearly established link between foetal X-rays and leukemia & early childhood death. It took the Brits 25 YEARS finally to admit that the science was right and that they, the medical profession, were killing children by persisting in taking X-rays of foetuses.

If the august medical profession is capable of what seemingly amounts to institutionalised mass child murder, what can we expect of any industrialist or government? These are trapped into feeding and serving the insatiable growth machine and have become wilfully blind to the consequences of doing so. It's up to organisations like ours to keep plugging away at TPTB in the hopes that somewhere, sometime a penny will drop.

Regards,
Walter


On 2012/02/27, at 17:14, Keith Thomas wrote:

> Good grief! Here we have Exxon/Mobil quoting Cambridge Energy Resource Associates to justify their predictions. Watch: in a few weeks, CERA will be quoting the Exxon/Mobil forecast to justify their predictions. Isn't there just a whiff of self-serving spin in this?
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> Of course "demand" will increase. Potential supply may also increase, but there's no mention of whether the price "demanders" are prepared to pay matches the price "suppliers" are prepared to sell at.
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> On 27/02/2012, at 1:48 PM, Jenny Goldie wrote:
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> Note at the end of the article they're claiming there's 5 trillion barrels of recoverable oil, not the two or so we've been led to believe. Jenny
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> Demand for oil to grow 'for decades'
> THE world's biggest oil company says the next 30 years are looking good for oil and gas suppliers and consumers. 
> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/demand-for-oil-and-gas-to-grow-for-decades/story-e6frg9df-1226282028134