Juan Cole's SELECTIVE RECOLLECTION & OIL SCAM!!!

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MEXICO AINT RUNNING OUT OF SHIT!!!

Focus on Venezuela!!!

Palast provides information showing the country may be of far greater strategic importance to the US than we likely realized. It all relates to a somewhat arcane theory called Hubbert's peak that many readers may not know about or understand well if they do. Before reading Greg's book, I knew about it but didn't understand it as well as I do now.

M. King Hubbert was a well-respected geologist of his time who on March 7, 1956 published a research paper explaining his notion of "peak oil," the amount of total reserves likely to be available, when production would peak, and when we would likely exhaust a finite supply. Ever since his report came out, it's been held up as gospel by many who follow the oil market. The essence of the Hubbert theory, whether we accept it or not, was that "peak oil" would be reached around this year. However, in fact, production rose every year since Hubbert's prediction and new discoveries of oil have so far kept pace.

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US instigated serious trouble is heading toward Venezuela and maybe harsher than we might expect. Venezuela's likely total oil reserves are potentially so great that the country has to be the grandest of grand prizes for the US. It's a virtual certainty the US will do anything it takes to try to seize and control it.

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oil should be irrelevant (none / 0)

In the 80s I had a car that got ~45 MPG. I had a pickup truck that got ~35 MPG. Vehicle fuel efficiency has gotten worse as Republicans [supported by fossil fuel--Bush--and nuclear industries--Reagan] gained more power. We built a solar house over 25 years ago. I kept careful records of energy use until around 10 years ago when the money we saved was more than the cost of building the house. Life is good--no mortgage, low energy bills! To do list: wind generator, PV panels, another 100 trees.

Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute designed a car that got up to 170 MPG in a project initiated in 1994. The first hybrid cars available  to the general public get less than 1/3 of that. Lovins lives in a huge house where his Institute is located, yet he uses less on-grid electricity and fossil fuel than the average American in their home. If you're in DC this weekend, RMI founding business partner Hunter Lovins will be speaking at the Green Festival. Can't get to DC? Next festivals are in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago.

Americans have fallen so far behind other industrial countries in the use of renewable energy and conservation that it could result in more oil wars, even though energy from petroleum is nearly obsolete, as was whale oil in the 19th century. The conservative government and media don't want you to know that, so they ridicule people like us, lying about the effectiveness of conservation and renewable energy.

Does peak oil really matter when you don't need it?

Next wars: water. 

by zenie on 10/04/2007 12:02:41 PM EST

Bu$h doesnt equate oil dependence with security (none / 0)
The U.S hasnt fallen behind because a sincere effort has never been made. American guys are dying for Oil in the middle east and that doesnt seem to be a wake up call.

--- Truth To Power

by Leeberal on 10/07/2007 05:53:59 PM EST

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