Banner Week for Peak Oil Coverage-Even Thomas Friedman Acknowledges

[chlamor]

It's been a banner week for Peak Oil coverage: James Kunstler appears in Rolling Stone, Kenneth S. Deffeyes has an Op/Ed in the New York Times, and now Newsweek columnist Robert J. Samuelson describes Hubbert's peak (without calling it that by name). After mentioning the 70s US peak, he says:
We could now be at a similar inflection point, where the global oil system changes dramatically.

This from www.energybulletin.net an essential website to stay up to date on the worldwide situation in the energy sector.

Along with these articles in the MSM that they note there was also an article/editorial by the freakish and generally repugnant Thomas Friedman in which he doesn't mince words about the coming energy crunch. Of course his agenda is always to be questioned. Anyway here are a few links to articles and a paragraph from each:

The Dawn of a New Oil Era?

by Robert J. Samuelson

April 4 issue - The interesting question about the advent of $50-a-barrel oil is whether it signals a new era in the economics and politics of energy. To sharpen the question: have we entered a period when, owing to consistently strong demand and chronically scarce supplies, prices have moved permanently higher? We don't know, but the answer could be "yes" for at least one reason: China.

http://www.energybulletin.net/4896.html

Published on 27 Mar 2005 by NY Times. Archived on 28 Mar 2005.

Geo-Greening by Example

by Thomas L. Friedman

How will future historians explain it? How will they possibly explain why President George W. Bush decided to ignore the energy crisis staring us in the face and chose instead to spend all his electoral capital on a futile effort to undo the New Deal, by partially privatizing Social Security? We are, quite simply, witnessing one of the greatest examples of misplaced priorities in the history of the U.S. presidency.

"Ah, Friedman, but you overstate the case." No, I understate it. Look at the opportunities our country is missing - and the risks we are assuming - by having a president and vice president who refuse to lift a finger to put together a "geo-green" strategy that would marry geopolitics, energy policy and environmentalism.

http://www.energybulletin.net/4906.html


What Happens Once The Oil Runs Out?

by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

After world oil production starts to decline, a small group of geologists could gather in my living room and all claim to have discovered the peak. "We told you so," we could say. But that isn't the point. The controversy over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a side issue. The problem we need to face is the impending world oil shortage.

http://www.energybulletin.net/4883.html


The Long Emergency

by James Howard Kunstler

A few weeks ago, the price of oil ratcheted above fifty-five dollars a barrel, which is about twenty dollars a barrel more than a year ago. The next day, the oil story was buried on page six of the New York Times business section. Apparently, the price of oil is not considered significant news, even when it goes up five bucks a barrel in the span of ten days. That same day, the stock market shot up more than a hundred points because, CNN said, government data showed no signs of inflation. Note to clueless nation: Call planet Earth.

Carl Jung, one of the fathers of psychology, famously remarked that "people cannot stand too much reality." What you're about to read may challenge your assumptions about the kind of world we live in, and especially the kind of world into which events are propelling us. We are in for a rough ride through uncharted territory.

http://www.energybulletin.net/4856.html

[understandinglife]

1. Keep pushing the "peak oil" meme; it is critical. Nominated. (nt)

Peace.


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[Catbird]

2. Energy is a critical issue

I have read a couple of these articles and plan to read the rest. The Bush administration is using oil to drive us over a cliff.