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I don't know if this will be any good, but it's on CSPAN2 today at 1pm:
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
Lisa Margonelli
Description: In researching her book "Oil on the Brain," Lisa Margonelli set out to follow the path of oil production, from the oil field to the gas station. She explains how oil is extracted, refined, and distributed, with a special focus on five oil-producing countries: Venezuela, Chad, Iran, Nigeria, and China.
Thanks for the tip. I watched some and TIVOd the rest.
Watched it. The most interesting part occured when someone asked her to comment on peak oil. For a second got fairly weird. Basically, after kind of stuttering for a few seconds, she said that estimates vary widely of when it will occur, but the general consensus was "sometime this century". Also, it was definitely referred to as a "theory". Of course, if you consider the idea that a finite resource would flow out of the ground at a maximum rate before the universe ends a "theory".
Also, another guy, may have been the moderator or something, used the classic "above ground factors" problem as an excuse for supply constraints, and said peak oil is a "secondary concern".
Hydrogen was mentioned, but it was comforting to hear it talked about as "pie in the sky".
In summary, interesting, and fairly disturbing to hear the CERA type view thrown around without question.
I checked the woman's site. Can you say "hippie"?
The thing with this archetype of person (liberal hippie) is they are as locked into BAU as somebody in a suit with an SUV, it's just a slightly more friendly, less consolidated version of BAU they'd like to see. Hence she is predisposed to buying the CERA claptrap.