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Beyond Peak Oil
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What is Peak Oil?
Colin Campbell Founder of ASPO |
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"Let's look at it simply. The most
important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that
economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims
on a sea of oil." *
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Shocking documentary uncovers the
subversion of Americas democracy.
"You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe."
"You take the
red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I"ll show
you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
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"Production" is a nice Orwellian "newspeak" kind of term: we aren't really producing oil, any more than miners "produce" silver. We just pump it out of the ground. It was produced from sunlight by vegetation 300 million years ago. - "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global Transformation," by Thom Hartmann (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998), p.
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Out of Gas was published February 2, 2004, Groundhog Day—an auspicious date (or not) for a book whose opening lines bluntly predict heavy weather ahead. “The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil. If we manage . . . [to shift] the burden to coal and natural gas . . . life may go on more or less as it has been—until we start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century . . . Civilization as we know it will not survive unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.” |
Running on Empty - A field guide to the coming fuel crunch
Nor does the problem stop at vehicles, which consume only about half the oil produced. America, and to a lesser extent the rest of the world, has largely abandoned plant-based products for oil-based ones; polyester instead of cotton, GoreTex instead of canvas. Plastics are so ubiquitous – keyboards, gelcaps, furniture, business suits, the lid of a coffee-to-go -- that they are largely invisible. But these, too, are oil, wealth
from another era, a tapping into our trust fund of
liquefied dinosaur biomass. More