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Looking Through Peak Oil Lenses

tfugate — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:40:13 -0700

The Peak Oil Crisis

Looking Through Peak Oil Lenses
By Tom Whipple

Once a person assimilates the idea that peak oil and its consequences are imminent, it radically changes one's world outlook. Nearly every issue one confronts will be affected by peak oil. In the last 100 years, oil has become so pervasive in our civilization that few issues or individuals will be immune to the reduced availability and much higher prices that will soon be upon us.

At the top of the list of problems coming with the peaking of world oil production are all manner of economic troubles. Optimistic students of peak oil say, at best, we are going to have a great depression lasting a couple of decades. Pessimists write of much worse. The bottom line is the good times much of the world has enjoyed for the last sixty years will not last long.

Mad River Valley Post Carbon (Vermont)

Peak Oil Passnotes: >From Iran to Chad, It's Really Bad

tfugate — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:47:20 -0700

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=18834

Peak Oil Passnotes: >From Iran to Chad, It's Really Bad

By Edward Tapamor
14 Apr 2006 at 09:56 AM EDT

PARIS (ResourceInvestor.com) -- If the markets could behave like a rational entity we would already be at $80 oil, no problem. Of course we know markets do not behave rationally, instead they have a kind of menopausal myopia. Fixated on one topic one minute, hysterical about another the next.

Thus they have ignored a welter of events that theoretically should have pushed price way over $69. First, it appears very likely that one insane African leader, Obusanjo of Nigeria, is going after a third term in office. His front companies have not quite looted enough of the country's oil wealth for his manic greed, so another four years should set his family up nicely for the next 150 years or so. That is if he is able to pull it off.

Mad River Valley Post Carbon (Vermont)

New book on 100-Mile Diet hits the shelves

xtraspatial — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:14:46 -0700

North Country Peak Oil Study/Action Group

Opportunity to Influence US Farm Bill

xtraspatial — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:20:39 -0700

North Country Peak Oil Study/Action Group

Will Work for Food: Couple Fills Plates Locally

xtraspatial — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:46:58 -0700

North Country Peak Oil Study/Action Group