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[Peak Oil News] UK's third-largest tour operator collapses: LONDON, England (AP) -- Thousands of British travelers were stranded Friday when the country's third-largest tour operator collapsed under pressure from high fuel prices and a sagging economy.
[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] DrumBeat: September 12, 2008: a recession in Europe and UK, possible recession in Japan, a bubble economy starting to unravel in China (and a currency that does not trade, so it is TRULY fiat). Brazil is a 'force in being' but is not large enough to carry the economic future of the world and Russia is acting like they are run by Mafia dons .
[Permaculture Research Institute of Australia] Water Worries: Today we need to broach the topic of Peak Water. Despite our inherent natural tendency to think otherwise, fresh water is not an exhaustless commodity, and we are fast running out.
[The British National Party News] A Peak Oil Primer: Indonesia , USA and the UK ’s and Norway ’s North Sea reserves have already peaked. Globally there is considerable debate about when peak oil will occur.
[${log.root}/lowem.log] Peak oil to hinder world development - UK lawmakers: The looming peak in world oil production will set back international development and threatens to hinder efforts to make poverty history, a report by a group of UK lawmakers said. "The deepening energy crisis has the potential to make poverty a permanent state for a growing number of people, undoing the development efforts of a generation," the report released on Monday [21 Jul 2008] said.
[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] DrumBeat: September 4, 2008: And then there are the OPEC nations, who, together with US and UK big oil interests, have conspired to create a "peak oil" crisis, despite the fact that we have two centuries worth of untapped domestic oil and gas resources, while not a single domestic petroleum refinery has been built in over thirty years despite mega-profits that could have easily been invested in such refineries to ensure future supply. Yeah, let's blame the environmentalists, whose organizations and lobby groups were all created and funded by big oil and other Illuminist interests, while our nuclear plants were sabotaged and our inventors of efficient and clean methods of producing energy were bought out, threatened or murdered!
[Alternative News & Media: Daily Breaking News] SchNEWS DRILLS FOR THE TRUTH IN PEAK OIL THEORY: This could lead to a seriously deadly irony: The warnings of Peak Oil by environmentalists could lead to the erosion of the public’s psychological barriers protecting the few remaining areas of wilderness left. There’s oil in unknown (but quite possibly huge) quantities in Greenland, as well as plenty in Alaska, where the Bush junta has already green-lighted the destructive process of exploring and exploiting.
[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] DrumBeat: August 27, 2008: The memory or at least knowledge of pulling together in WWII is a bit of an assumed model of what Americans will always do. We have, like any people, pulled together when needed, but I think it a dangerous game to play to think we always will or that that alone can fix every problem.
[Revolution of the Mind] Peak Oil and Energy Imperialism: Although the Deutch and Schlesinger report discussed some demand-side measures to reduce U.S. consumption and oil dependency, it stressed expanding the role of the U.S. military in securing oil supplies. Thus the report declared that “the United States should expect and support a strong military posture [in the Persian Gulf in particular] that permits suitably rapid deployment to the region, if required”¦Any nation (or subnational group) that contemplates violence on any scale must take into account the possibility of U.S. preemption, intervention, or retaliation.”33
[Emancipation & Liberation] Peak Oil, Oil Depletion, & Alternative Energies: A debate is currently raging among oil professionals, and it splits into two camps. This debate focuses on a day called Peak Oil, the day in the future when oil production reaches an all-time high, but can never again reach that figure.
[A to Z Energy ETF] DrumBeat: September 1, 2008: The Internet writings of John Michael Greer””beyond any doubt the greatest peak oil historian in the English language””have finally made their way into print. Greer’s searingly perceptive blog entries on peak oil, which for the past several years have enjoyed a robust online following, have now been incorporated into a single bound volume from New Society Publishers titled The Long Descent.
[Editors' Blog] Apocalypse Now: If peak oil theory has any merit at all, then at some stage the stuff will start to run out. And life as we know it is unthinkable without cheap fuel and power and the chemical feedstock that oil provides.
[Pakistan Ledger: Unbiased World news & views] Delhi Darbar: About Peak Oil and Oil prices: Pressured primarily by the USA and European states and with a view to trying to calm the volatile market, Saudi Arabia , the world's biggest oil producer, hosted an emergency oil meeting of oil producing and consuming nations, known as the OPEC, in Jeddah on June 22 to discuss soaring oil prices. Amid concerns that recent record oil prices are helping tip the US and other major economies towards recession, energy ministers from more than 30 countries, as well as senior executives from the world's largest oil companies, attended the conference in the city of Jeddah.
[Stock Blog Hub] (FCX) Testing checked, please delete: 22.4% of the Index’s value has been wiped out since its record peak of July 2 - just more than two months ago. Regarding the outlook for crude oil, David Fuller (Fullermoney) said: “Today, I see no evidence that crude oil has bottomed .
[MrGreen.Biz] Peak oil primer and links: Many people are working on preparations for peak oil at various different levels, but there is probably no cluster of solutions which do not involve some major changes in lifestyles, especially for the global affluent. Peak oil presents the potential for quite catastrophic upheavals, but ultimately also some more hopeful possibilities: a chance to address many underlying societal problems, and the opportunity return to simpler, healthier and more community oriented lifestyles.
[An Inconvenient Blog] Oil: A global crisis: Dr Salameh told the all-party parliamentary group on peak oil last month that Iraq had offered the United States a deal, three years before the war, that would have opened up 10 new giant oil fields on “generous” terms in return for the .
[Jeflin's Investment Blog] Plunge In Oil Prices Claims Another Major Casualty: Ospraie’s assets shrunk by 40% this year on the back of astronomical losses from a terrible six week period, starting in July. Another round of bloodletting is expected to follow the demise of Ospraie and the financial sector will not sit pretty either.
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