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62 comments on Three Pieces of Peak Oil Media: Simmons/Kilduff and Pickens on CNBC on GAO/Peak Oil and Kunstler on Peak Oil and the Car Culture

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xeroid on March 30, 2007 - 11:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Great stuff from Kunstler & Simmons.

However I still think Kunstler has slightly missed the point as he is still hoping to keep mass transport. My grandparents hardly moved from their village during their whole lives and more or less lived off the land. The world population was only one billion then though … simpler times!

I watch the precarious US oil import situation from a currently relatively safe UK perspective.

I find it ‘interesting’ that the US government thinks it is ok to stop exporting food and convert it to ethanol for US domestic use. There may be alternatives for oil, but try living without food (around 24,000 will die of hunger in the world today!)

IMO the USA suddenly cutting off exports sets a very dangerous example to the world.

Suppose the countries exporting oil to the USA today decide to cut those exports (following the US example) and keep them for their own domestic consumption! Many of the oil exporting countries probably have good reasons to justify this course of action as their populations are growing much faster than those in the major oil importing countries. Their people may well need that oil sooner rather than later.

We had all (but especially the USA) better hope that OPEC doesn’t soon become OPNEC (Organisation of the Petroleum Non-Exporting Countries!)

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UTAH on March 30, 2007 - 12:35pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

"Suppose the countries exporting oil to the USA today decide to cut those exports (following the US example) and keep them for their own domestic consumption!"
Many countries have made the decision to control their own exports--Iran in the 50's; Saddam in the 00's are two examples that come to mind.

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Noisette on March 31, 2007 - 1:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Protectionism spreads. It is rising in the US, as it is always seemingly a simple solution to complex problems. I suppose enough has been posted about US-China currency / trade relations. This link from Morgan Stanley may have been (I haven’t had tine to follow everything.)

View points on immigration, same story, Julian Delasantellis in the Asia Times:

Exurbia: Built on paradox and hypocrisy

Now, the slaves should go home.

on edit, addition: the article makes links between energy, exurbia, labor, sociology and politics, though it is only a newspaper article, and a short read.

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Beto on March 30, 2007 - 10:27pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Uh, what's wrong with mass transport? As long as people don't insist on driving their own personal vehicles, I think that a combination of various forms of alternate energies could be enough to support efficient mass transit.

Sorry if this has already been discussed. I haven't been keeping up with the discussion here lately.

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