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 [Messianic News] [revival] More OIL WARNINGS: MODERATOR: Some of you will have heard of the 'PeakOil' theory, which has caused growing alarm... capacity, remained closed." Below - an insightful article on 'PeakOil...

 [Daddy War Blogs] Pending Oil Crisis: I personally have been receiving reports for more than a year of the depletion of global oil reserves. But this week I received a disturbing report that even the Saudi’s oil reserves may not be as large as they have been stating.

 [Bill Totten's Weblog] Clusterfuck Nation: State DOT officials in Texas are planning to build a new statewide super-mega highway network just as the global oil peak forecloses a future of easy motoring. Where I live, at the rural edge of New York's Capital District, suburban housing pods are springing up in every cow pasture in complete faith that supernaturally cheap mortgages and long commutes will continue to be the norm.

 [The Cultural Economist] Oil, Jihad and Destiny: A sharp peak would occur and we would subsequently feel as though the availability of oil were falling off a cliff because of a rapidly growing delta between real demand and available production. However, since neither production nor consumption have historically followed a smooth curve - up or down - and since there is an economic interaction between demand, consumption and production, we should expect the peak of consumption to be characterized by a series of alternating cycles.

 [Peakoil.blogspot.com] Peak Oil News: He noted that Canada provides, “something like 14% or so of our total gas supply and with our production having peaked some years ago and declining, that’s been very important to us. In fact over the last 12 or 14 years if Canada had not had the ability and willingness and infrastructure that allowed them to increase their gas exports to us about 500%, we'd have had a gas crisis for many years.”

[Fromthewilderness.com] 'Get Off The Fucking Freeway': The Sinking State Loots its Own ...: This and other examples suggested, as peak oil theorists warn, that we are at the end of an era of plentiful and inexpensive hydrocarbon-based energy, which will require a massive commitment to conservation and finding alternative energy sources.The threat of peaking oil output is made all the more serious by demand that continues to surge, driven not only by expanding US consumption, but by rapidly rising demand from China, India and other developing nations. Analysts note in particular that over 40 percent of recent increases in global demand for oil is from China, and that it is driven by the growth of income and almost insensitive to price.

 [Peakenergy.blogspot.com] Peak Energy: And with China's economy roaring ahead, its need for imported petroleum is expected to climb much higher in the years to come: According to the Department of Energy (DOE), Chinese oil consumption is projected to reach 12 million barrels per day in 2020, of which 9 million barrels will have to be obtained abroad. With the United States also needing more imports--as much as 16 million barrels per day in 2020””and with no credible research on alternative energy sources approaching conclusion, the stage is being set for an intense struggle over access to the world's petroleum supplies.

[Energybulletin.net] Peak oil headlines - Oct 16 | EnergyBulletin.net | Energy and Peak ...: As most readers will know, peak oil is the theory that the global supply of oil is about to peak in production and then irrevocably decline, leading to enormous challenges for our oil-dependent societies. The books the Nikkei decided to review are Paul Robert's "The End of Oil," and Linda McQuaig's "It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil, and the Fight for the Planet" (the latter misleadingly titled "Peak Oil" in Japanese).

 [Peakoiloptimist.blogspot.com] Peak Oil Optimist: December 2004: Unfortunately for these two schemes, an MIT graduate student wrote a paper entitled "Fundamental limitations on plasma fusion systems not in thermodynamic equilibrium", which unfortunately all but eliminated both the migma and fusor systems as candidates for actual production of fusion energy. The problem, as it turns out, is that the devices must exert so much energy containing the plasma that unless they are very, very efficient at this, the systems will tend to go energy negative.

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