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LevinK on February 1, 2006 - 3:04pm

In fact all this talk is in order not to mention the forbidden C-word. Anyway conservation is destined to take place one way or another and IMO will be able to provide many times more than what is projected to come from ethanol.

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Donal on February 1, 2006 - 3:36pm

I thought the C-word was Cardigan.

:-)

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Mad Maxout on February 1, 2006 - 10:20pm

Well, Cardigan is a "C-word" being linked to the original C-Word. We can thank that third C-Word for that. (Carter!) We could make a game out of this with C-words involving conservation:

C-Words:
conservation
cardigan
Carter
coal to synfuel (generic)
Canada
Chavez

Start adding!

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Donal on February 1, 2006 - 10:52pm

cane
corn
climate
cooling
collapse

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mw on February 1, 2006 - 6:46pm

<quote>Taken all together the goal is to replace 75% of the oil that we get from the Middle East by 2025. The date resonates with the projections of the Hirsch report that it will take 20-years to allow a seamless transition, but that relies on a timely start before the shortfall begins to occur. Given that the US currently gets around 20% of its imports from the Middle East, and it imports 12.1 mbd this equates to a target replacement of 1.8 mbd.</quote>

I just want to point something out here -- Heading Out is using TODAY's imports from the Middle East.

According to the current EIA forecast, Persian Gulf oil imports to North America (meaning virtually all goes to the US) will be 5.8 million barrels per day.

75% of that equates to 4.3 million barrels per day...

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