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[WSJ.com: Environmental Capital] Peak Oil? Why is Saudi Aramco building supercomputers in the ...: We're not sure who is right or wrong in the peak oil debate. But the oil industry's interest in speed computing is intriguing.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Open Thread for "Peak Oil is 'A Waste of Energy ...: Lynch obviously agrees with Prince Turki al-Faisal’s recent Foreign Affairs article where the Prince declares: "U.S. politicians must muster the courage to scrap the fable of energy independence once and for all." Lynch claims that he is an energy expert, so why is he making such assertions? Is it because he and his oil company clients are concerned about the economic impact of decreasing the U.S.’s dependence on fossil fuels, particularly imported oil.

[Research Penn State News Feed] Research|Penn State: Is Peak Oil a Myth?: Lifting the U.S. ban on offshore drilling, producing oil from shale in the Green River Basin of Wyoming, allowing oil production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and coal-to-liquids production, he notes, could dramatically increase U.S. liquid fuel production, boosting it beyond the peak reached in 1971. But such a change is unlikely, he adds, because a political consensus for aggressive energy production does not exist

[Gas 2.0] IEA Chief Economist Says Peak Oil Will Come in 11 Years : Gas 2.0: time the production of conventional oil will come to a plateau, and start to decline. In terms of the global picture, assuming that OPEC will invest in a timely manner, global conventional oil can still continue, but we still expect that it will come around 2020 to a plateau as well, which is, of course, not good news from a global-oil-supply point of view.”

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: September 30, 2009: "It has been argued that full disclosure of details of funding facilities like TALF and PDCF that enabled massive bailouts of Wall Street would damage the financial position of those firms and destabilize the economy. In other words, if the American people knew how rotten the books were at those banks and how terribly they messed up, they would never willingly invest in them, and they would fail.

[EnergyBulletin.net Peak Oil] A tank of gas, a world of trouble | Energy Bulletin: A fantastic on-line, multi-media Special Report on oil by the Chicago Tribune, including an interview with Matthew Simmons, a discussion of peak oil and the potential peak in Saudi Arabian oil production.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum: Campfire | What "Lower Consumption" Means: How we respond, of course, will make a great deal of difference as to whether our predicament becomes disastrous or just very difficult.  Moral guidance will be greatly needed throughout.  The varied fields of Ecology, Biophysical Economics, Permaculture, and Natural Systems Agriculture (among others) have much to teach us about adapting to our changing resource situation, and we certainly should listen to them.  (Note to Obama: Please contact the Post Carbon Institute.  Invite Wendell Berry over for a beer.  Heck, Derrick Jensen too.)

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Hubbert Theory says Peak is Slow Squeeze.:  For many years, total world production wasn't contstrained by the physical ability to get oil out of the ground - it was artificially constrained by the Saudis throttling production in order to provide a stable price, and also by the fact that the if all of the oil wells produced at full tilt, the world couldn't have used it all.  In 2005, neither of these conditions is true any more, so you might argue calculations now might be valid.

[The Energy Blog] The Energy Blog: Peak Oil: A Shattered Myth?: Sean Nixon, a Vancouver-based lawyer for the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, said The Supreme Court of Canada needs to put teeth into Canada's environmental assessment legislation. They need to interpret Canada's environmental assessment act that ensures there will be meaningful assessments of large projects."

[GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site] GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site » Blog Archive » Should Gas ...: With cigarettes the taxes are justified (or not) on the basis of health externalities. Fossil fuels create the same negative health externalities (more people die from air pollution sitting in traffic jams than in traffic accidents) as well as the negative externalities related to the economy, national defense, and climate change.

[Al Manakh] Al Manakh » Blog Archive » Construction Week Saudi Arabia ...: The program’s four main topics (Market Trend Forecast, Legal Overview, Adopting to the Saudi Requirements & Business Climate [sic], and Facilities Management) hinted at a particular audience: prospective foreign investors and expat architects, engineers and business managers in the construction field.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: October 15, 2009: I am not a lawyer, but I can't help thinking that there are all sorts of credible bases for a legal challenge to this sort of thing: perhaps under the purview of labor law, restraint of trade, unfair business practices, and last but not least, the article of the US Constitution addressing involuntary servitude. (And the argument that the prisoners 'volunteer' to work is highly dubious, because there are imposed incentives for them to volunteer as well as disincentives for not volunteering, so it is hardly the same thing as agreeing to or not to work at a particular job as a free man.)

[Letters] It makes the CPRS seem entirely cost-free - Letters Blog | The ...: The belief that we are facing catastrophic climate change is based not on ‘..agenda-driven scaremongering’, but on the science, the almost universal consensus of the relevant scientists, the overwhelming evidence from the field of rapid climate change and the principle of ‘balance of probabilities’. The demand for ‘irrefutable evidence’is a red herring, because all the denialist industry need do, and does with cynical aplomb, is simply to refute all the science, with lies, distortions and misrepresentations, and, hey presto, even the strongest science is no longer ‘irrefutable’.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Peak Oil - Whom to Believe? Part One - "There's ...: When Peak Oil production has been proved to have passed, CERA will probably blame “above ground” factors. Unfortunately, until that time comes, CERA will continue to make statements and forecasts which serve their own profit motives, and support the interests of their clients.

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