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Tony Blair is comming to the rescue with climate change now, perhaps someone can divert his attention to peak oil, but thats not a trendy topic yet!. Its hard to believe with oil at 110 dollars a barrel, it barely makes any news in the UK. Last year, the oil price sometimes mentioned on the BBC News 24 "Business news".
The film "The End Of Suburbia" may have told more truths than most would like to admit. It predicted much of whats happening today in America, It was made about 2002, and things were very rosy then.
Something else that has occurred to me is the $200 billion or so the US is about to inject into its economy will be eaten up by oil price increases of the last year very soon, about 6 months I think. Its quite daunting when you look at the numbers involved!
Sorry, but is this supposed to be ironic? Blair used to go on frequently about how the UK was "leading the way" on climate change, and yet where are we? Only just starting to talk about a new nuclear programme, and languishing at the bottom of the European (and OECD) league for renewable energy, and with a poor record on home insulation. As for the UK media and Peak Oil, only the Guardian seems able to discuss the matter openly, in particular through a series of articles by David Strahan. The BBC was broaching the subject a couple of years back. Indeed the website had a revealing interview with the CEO of Cairn Oil - recognised as a world leader in locating new oil fields - in which he said that the age of cheap oil was over. This article has been removed from the website, which is very unusual for the Beeb, and suggests the subject has become taboo.
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I've read David Strahan's book "The Last Oil Shock". Its probably the most readable of all the books on the issue. Yes, the guardian published at least one article on its front page last year, it was headlined something like "a world without oil".
This very point was made on radio 4 the other day. UK Politicians (mainly our PM) constantly go on about a legally binding target of 20% by 2020. As I have said before, is the target legally binding, or is achieving the target legally binding?(cynicism). I think John Humphreys is aware of peak oil, he has raised the Issue on Radio 4's Today programme on a couple of programmes that I have listened to. Trouble is he is a minority, as are R4 listeners probably.