2nd Annual Houston Peak Oil Conference, 8/13

[PDittie]

(We attended the first conference last year; watched "End of Suburbia" for the first time. Talk about getting your attention...)



Second Annual Peak Oil Mini-Conference
Houston, Sunday August 13 1 p.m. -- 5:15 p.m. (Registration begins 12:30 p.m.)

First Unitarian Universalist Church, 5200 Fannin at Southmore in the Museum District of Houston

$10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Space is limited, so please pre-register at the website. Discuss "How can we cope with peak oil?" with:

** Jeffrey J. Brown, independent geologist in the Dallas area, author of "What the mainstream media are not telling you about the run-up in oil prices" and "Texas and lower 48 oil production as a model for Saudi Arabia and the world"
** Alan S. Drake, a consulting engineer, former accountant, and professional researcher based in New Orleans and author of "The electrification of transportation as a response to the peaking of world oil production".
** Karl Pepple, City of Houston, Director of Environmental Programming
** Fred Yebra, Austin Energy, Director of Demand Side Management
** Chris Boyer, Vice President of Houston Renewable Energy Group, a non-profit organization for citizens.

See Conference Agenda (.pdf) for a list of workshops. Sponsored by: Houston Peak Oil Progressives, First Unitarian Universalist Church Community Involvement Committee, Oil Patch Democrats, Houston Climate Protection Alliance and Harris County Green Party.

[4dsc]

1. I wonder if this event will be well attended

after all that is happening up in Alaska.. Or will the sheeple continue to sleep..

[PDittie]

2. There were over a hundred attendees last year

and gasoline was about $2.25 a gallon then (this was a couple of months before Katrina gave ExxonMobil an opportunity to increase their profits to three billion dollars a month).

Three billion dollars a month in profit. That ought to be all the reason we Texans need to elect an Attorney General who will go after Big Oil.