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The Oil Drum | A Community Discussion about Peak Oil: Twenty years ago, a detailed study by geologists from four large American oil companies then in partnership with Aramco found little in the way of undiscovered oil resources, he said.The article goes on to point out that while the United Arab Emirates have also promised to increase oil production, so far they have come up empty. (via Cosmos)
[Peakoil.blogspot.com] Peak Oil News: 08/01/2005 - 08/31/2005: As Kunstler notes, Deffeyes—perhaps not entirely in jest—has predicted on National Public Radio that the global oil peak will occur on Thanksgiving Day, 2005, with "'an uncertainty factor of only three or four weeks on either side.'" But the closest thing to a hint of Kunstler's position on the subject is found in his remark in the last chapter that "The denizens of Bergen County, New Jersey, or Fairfield County, Connecticut, today may never believe how desperate their localities may become in 2025." He is probably wise to be vague. As the great biochemist Erwin Chargaff remarked in his 1978 autobiography, Heraclitean Fire, "On the whole, professional pessimists prove right at the end if one does not hold them too tightly to a time scale."
[Greencarcongress.com] Green Car Congress: Oil: Abdulla bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy, Industry, Electricity and Water of Qatar, estimated that the “fear factor”, created by the fighting in Iraq, recent attacks on Western workers in Saudi Arabia and general fears of instability in the Middle East, has added at least US$ 8 to the price of oil, which this week rose above US$ 40 per barrel in hectic trading.
[Pastpeak.com] Past Peak: Peak Oil Archives: They're watching what it's doing to the United States," says former CIA agent Robert Baer, who has written extensively on Saudi Arabia's vulnerabilities. A few ruptured pipes could be repaired quickly, says Baer, but a concerted attack at several points could bring on the kind of nightmare scenario that U.S. officials have been dreading since the Reagan years, pushing oil prices up from their current prices in the range of $60 to $70 a barrel to well over $100 for weeks or even months.
[Massengale.typepad.com] Veritas et Venustas: Urbanism Archives: , --amazing how somebody really out of the "star academy" and architectural world's talent shop can accumulate so many of the world's craziest and high budget monumental designs and buildings..would be interesting to know about the commissioning procedures?--Interesting airport in Kuala Lumpur (built in 1992-1998) by famous star architect from the 60/70ties Kurokawa, now building very busily in many places of the world, --his structures are much better than the best of Koolhaas and Libeskind,--they remain pleasant and agreable at least!--Not to forget the fascinating structures by Calatrava which most of the times remain exciting and surprising, and despite their extraordinary structural "exhibitionism" they cannot be reduced to dumb object architecture and cannot be disqualified as other symptoms of a derelict modernist culture, as they follow and reflect thouroughly the rich traditions of structural ingeneering and scenographies of constructive narratives invented by the most original and thoughtful ingeneers like Eiffel, Pier Luigi Nervi, and the great builders of the fantastic American steel bridges in Portland, Pittsburgh and many other cities .
[Theoildrum.blogspot.com] The Oil Drum: June 2005: With income inequality not seen since the first Gilded Age (and this is The Economist editors speaking, not me) - with "an education system increasingly stratified with fewer resources than those of their richer contemporaries" and great universities "increasingly reinforcing rather than reducing these educational inequalities" - with corporate employees finding it "harder”¦to start at the bottom and rise up the company hierarchy by dint of hard work and self-improvement" - "with the yawning gap between incomes at the top and bottom" - the editors of The Economist - all friends of business and advocates of capitalism and free markets””concluded that "The United States risks calcifying into a European-style class-based society."
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