Energy Geopolitics 2006

While the specific meanings of—and connections between—these occurrences are often difficult to discern, their overall drift is becoming plainer with every passing day: The world is plunging into an energy crisis unlike any before, while geopolitical alliances are shifting qu …

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Oil shale 'could shake the world'

The turning point may be coming just as Shell Exploration & Production Co. perfects a way to bake shale oil right from the ground. It's an alternative to mining and bringing rock to the surface for cooking in a "retort" or furnace.

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Dubai lives the post-oil Arab dream

If you haven't studied the country of Dubai, it's a good idea to do so.

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Commentary: Kicking the oil habit

Today the American people are way out in front of our leaders. We're ready to face our toughest national challenges, and we deserve new and forward-looking solutions and leadership.

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This planet is running out of oil

Experts say there is plenty of fuel - but demand is skyrocketing, writes Richard Campbell.

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Peak Oil Fears and Hype, Part 2

With high oil and gas prices, companies that are developing alternative technologies are being chased as investment opportunities.

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On Oil Conspiracy Theories

For quite a while now California politicians and bureaucrats have been searching for a conspiracy of oil companies which is supposed to explain rising gasoline prices. They have come up with nothing.

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Connections between Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, 9/11 and Peak Oil “On the Table”

Mike Rupert calls this In Your Face, the most Most Important " From The Wilderness" (FTW) Story in Two Years...He lays out a time line of the White House oil plans with FOIA dcouments laying a four year long trail which ends with scene from Three Days of the Condor that's an ee …

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Squeezing Oil Out of Stones in the Rocky Mountains

The high cost of crude oil has many people looking for new sources of energy -- and taking a second look at some old ideas. Oil shale is an idea that was tested a generation ago, then abandoned when the price of crude oil plunged.

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Oil is Not Scarce -- The Oil Industry Continues to Play Us For Fools

Oil industry executives have launched an especially vigorous public-relations campaign trying to polish up the image of an industry that Sen.

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The 'peak oil' deja vu

The date was 1865; the important energy source was coal, not petroleum; and the writer was Stanley Jevons - a leading economist.

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Connect the dots

Looks like the news are coming from all around the globe - the only thing that's needed is to connect the dots, and a big flashing "Peak Oil" sign will appear.

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The King is naked

Running an empire is a quite complicated task.

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NPR : Experts Ponder Peak of Global Oil Production

(audio article) When will this limited resource begin to run dry? And what technological changes need to take place to account for this eventuality?

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China takes diplomatic move to improve Sino-Japanese ties

BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government has taken diplomatic moves to reverse the downturn of China-Japan relations.

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THE PARADIGM IS THE ENEMY: The State of the Peak Oil Movement at the Cusp of Collapse

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Quick Fixes Won't Solve Looming Oil Crisis, Scientists Say

Energy experts no longer debate about whether Hubbert’s peak will occur, but when. On this point, estimates vary wildly. Kenneth Deffeyes, a Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, believes it has already happened—in late 2005.

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THE PARADIGM IS THE ENEMY: The State of the Peak Oil Movement at the Cusp of Collapse .

A Speech by Michael C. Ruppert for the Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma Conference April 27-29, New York City, at Cooper Union

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The Peak Oil Myth

"Only recently, just west of Gull Island, the Kuparuk oil field has been drilled. . . . The chemical make up of the field and the pressure of the field is different from the others, proving it to be a totally separate pool of oil. . .

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The facts about Peak Oil

Predictions of imminent catastrophic depletion are almost as old as the oil industry.

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US accused of ‘creating bin Laden’

Anti-globalisation activists chant slogans in favour of women’s rights on the first day of the World Social Forum in Karachi

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New Zealand's PM Admits Reality of Peak Oil

SYNOPSIS: This week Helen Clark, New Zealand's Prime Minister openly admitted 'we're probably not too far short of peak production, if we're not already there.

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G7 raises pressure on suppliers as oil tops $75

How much do we have, honey: Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven leading economies raised the pressure on oil producers to increase supplies after oil hit a new record of over $75 a barrel in New York on Friday.

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Oil hits new peak over $75 as funds buy By Richard Valdmanis

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices vaulted to a new peak over $75 a barrel on Friday as investment funds snapped up crude futures and tension mounted over Iran's nuclear intentions.

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Thin air: how Bush's energy-saving drive is starting to misfire

Desperation is no excuse for panic:

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