Collapse Movie Depicts Troubled “Peak Oil” Messenger

[OKIsItJustMe]

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Collapse Movie Depicts Troubled “Peak Oil” Messenger

Published November 24, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/v/WAyHIOg5aHk

Mike Ruppert believes the end is near. It's too late for hybrids, too late for electric vehicles, and too late for alternative energy. We're simply going to have to learn to live without. Ruppert, a former LA cop and investigative journalist, is the focus of Collapse, a new documentary from director Chris Smith—whose previous works include American Movie and The Yes Men.

Smith's portrait is one of a deeply concerned and troubled man whose personal misfortunes parallel the downfall he sees civilization hurtling towards. But Ruppert's semi-apocalyptic vision for humanity is built on a simple premise that actually isn't all that controversial: modernity is powered by oil, and one day this non-renewable resource is going to run out.

A Matter of When

As far as conspiracy theories go, “peak oil” isn't outlandish. In fact, the US Department of Energy was concerned enough about it to commission the so-called “http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf">Hirsch Report” in 2005. The report concluded that peak of oil production is coming—perhaps within the decade—and that governments will have to act fast to adopt serious measures to mitigate a range of terrifying consequences that might come with it.

What separates the chain-smoking Mike Ruppert, and a growing movement of peak oil alarmists from others, is that they believe a catastrophic sequence of events is either inevitable or has already begun. Collapse makes no judgments about Ruppert's prophecies, but it also makes no effort to disguise his edginess. (At one point in the film, Ruppert has an emotional breakdown on camera.)

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[emad]

1. Chevron has future lease options on vast untapped US onshore

crude deposits whose existence has been the subject of draconian US national secrecy and whose future development was put on ice during the mid 1990s on security grounds.

A single US family is the owner of these reserves and already holds numerous lease arrangements with Chevron and ExMo re extraction of oil and gas assets around the world.

The existence of these vast reserves has been discussed maybe half a dozen times in UN Security Council sessions circa 1990 - 1999 where OPEC fury rampaged unchecked.

The possibility of the US becoming a net exporter of crude/oil products has rattled Middle East oil producer nations.

The power behind the Chevron throne is one of the oil and gas industry's greatest enigmas.

[hatrack]

2. Got links? Got any miracle gas pills you just drop in your tank?

Please, tell us more!!!

[emad]

5. No official links yet, But during my tenure at the UN ('73 - '99) this was

one of the most hotly debated topics and the ultimate US 'get-out-of-jail' card in the pre-Bush era.

Another hotly debated topic was the four times that the Bush family tried to take over Chevron assets.

A number of 'incidents' attributed to 'tribal infighting' in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE and Qatar were all dressed up in OPEC appeasements to erase attempts by Bush-hired thugs to take out contracts on Chevron partners, all US nationals.

My best bet is that canny Chevron may be stalking a very big US supermajor in an mergers/acquisition manuver that will assign future mananagement of the vast untapped US crude reserves.

Their CFO said last week at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Energy Conference that Chevron is decidedly not interested in the acquisition of 'minnows' and has geared its pretty awesome balance sheet strengths for something much, much bigger.

[truebrit71]

3. Huh?

Not sure I follow?

[hatrack]

4. Well, when people say we're on the verge of becoming a net exporter . . .

Except that it's a SECRET, then I tend to look for the aluminum foil sticking out from beneath the hat brim.

I also tend to ask for links leading to evidence of what they assert.

Hence the gas pill reference - it's about the same level of conspiracy theory.

[emad]

7. The only conspiracy in this scenario has been the Bush family's

conspiracy to obstruct the course of justice and Chevron lawyers' insistence on draconian confidentiality regarding, to protect the lives of their super-rich crude and gas lease owning partners.

[truebrit71]

9. No, the 'huh?' was directed at the same post you commented on..

..

[hatrack]

11. My apologies - post in haste, repent at leisure!

:toast:

[Strelnikov_]

15. Hot damn, 1.4658 KSA's, just down the road from Pigsnuckle n/t

[GliderGuider]

6. This is so absurd it's funny.

Maybe all that oil is being kept secret by the lizard aliens from Lyra Draconis. :tinfoilhat:

pfui!

[emad]

8. It is one of ther so called US state secrets.

During the Clinton/Gore administrations the whole issue of Chevron and their US partners' untapped resources was one of the most contentions UN topics.

The presence of Condoleezza Rice on the Chevron board was once described in one of the UN sessions on this subject as the necessary evil of counterintelligence.

[OKIsItJustMe]

10. Sounds like “Gull Island” to me

http://www.google.com/search?q=gull+island

Tell you what… let’s walk through this one for a moment. Let’s say that “Gull Island” is for real. It’s a huge reserve of oil. Would you guess (for example) that it’s large enough to replace Saudi Arabia’s production?


http://blog.mlive.com/readreact/2008/07/not_yet_ready_look_at_k_colleg.html

[Dead_Parrot]

12. I can't help noticing that Gull Island is in the middle of Prudhoe Bay

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Gull+Island,+North+Slope,+Alaska&ie=UTF8&hl=en&cd=8&geocode=FZ-zMQQdOCEo9w&split=0&sll=43.912005,-76.176316&sspn=0.064324,0.128059&hq=&hnear=Gull+Island,+North+Slope,+Alaska&t=h&ll=70.366111,-148.365&spn=0.142585,0.617294&z=11

I don't think it's much of a secret. We've been pumping it for years.

[Subdivisions]

17. Yes, and Prudhoe peaked 20 years ago. n/t

[Terry in Austin]

13. How many zeroes in "vast?"

Is that, like, more than a brazilian?

If it's going to be any "get-out-of-oil-jail-free" card, then "vast" has to translate to 18 billion barrels of new recoverable reserves -- one entire new Saudi Arabia -- every five years. And that's just to maintain current levels of production, given the depletion rates of existing fields worldwide.

Even Brazil's humongously vast and huge new Carioca field is estimated to be around 5 billion barrels, optimistically.

You might have been rubbing elbows in the corridors of power at the UN, but these people clearly have no clue about scale. Or maybe they decided to give their elbows a rest and pull your leg instead.

:evilgrin:

[Dead_Parrot]

14. Nah. If it's at the UN it must be true

[NickB79]

16. Oil reached $150/barrel last year. What are they waiting for?

There is no logical reason why, at a time of such high prices, these reserves weren't tapped by now.