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 [Bill Totten's Weblog] The End of Cheap Oil: Secondly, even if Shell does discover this technology, Bressand's best estimate is that it will provide only another seventeen years of supply at today's rate of oil consumption. And it is clear from looking at events in China and elsewhere that the world is not going to see another seventeen years at today's consumption rate;

 [TruthTalkzIRAQ] Middle East & the World: Interestingly, the main opposition came from Muslim women's groups, who feared that ignorant, isolated females would submit to the inescapably misogynistic Sharia, a law code that permits parents to marry off pre-pubescent girls, men to marry multiple women, husbands alone to divorce, fathers automatically to win custody of children over certain ages, and sons to inherit more than daughters.

 [Bill Totten's Weblog] The Clusterfuck Nation Chronicle: correctly perceive will be shrinking as global oil production passes peak. The biggest shock... article is that they are still not convinced that global peakoil is for real, or that we necessarily... Commentary on the Flux of Events by Jim Kunstler www.kunstler.com (September 12 2005

 [Peakoil.blogspot.com] Peak Oil News: Or you need a robust Department of Homeland Security and lots of NationalGuard troops with riot gear, the performance of which in the aftermath ofHurricane Katrina gives me pause. And then, compounding peoples'misunderstanding of the whole situation, you have talking heads (as oftenas not, they are economists) saying really dumb things like, "But indollar terms, the oil industry is only 4% of the U.S. economy." To which Isay, "Try running the other 96% of the economy without it."

[Jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com] Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler: to his criticism I would add that Maass in the article dedicated in part to the research by Matt Simmons noncritically repeats the official Saudi number for total recoverable Saudi oil reserves as 260 billion barrels (the claim never substantiated in public statements by field-by-field breakdown by Saudi Aramco or the Saudi government), while analyses abound by Simmons, Campbell, McKillop and other authoritative industry observers claiming that the official number has no basis in reality.

 [En.wikipedia.org] Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: On September 8, 2005, FOX News reported that the Red Cross was prepositioned to provide water, food and essential supplies to the Superdome and convention center as soon as the storm finished, but was prohibited from entering the city prior to Hurricane Katrina making landfall by the Louisiana State Department of Homeland Security, under the direction of Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco. The safety of Red Cross personnel was among the primary reasons given.

[Countercurrents.org] Peak oil, Business As Usual,And Katrina By Bill Henderson: hopefully, this brutal kick to the American sewage system won't lead to housing and other bubbles bursting all over America and then globally. Hopefully, rapidly increasing gas prices won't trigger a chain reaction of just in time non-deliveries, foreclosures, personal and civic strife, panic and looting.

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