"This
is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue
pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to
believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep
the rabbit-hole goes." -- Morpheus, The Matrix
The truth about oil
comes out of the closet, what "The Courier Mail" isn't head lining . . .
Bill Clinton, 28th March 2006 - London Business School - "We may be at a point of peak oil production. You may see $100 a barrel oil in the next two or three years." Click on pic
Reuters, 7th June 2006 - "Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, offered a grim view on Wednesday of the world's rising vulnerability to high crude oil prices, saying he was sceptical that oil producers could pump enough crude to meet future demand." Click on pic
How will this effect . . .
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Your kids . . . ? |
Your home . . . ? |
Your car . . . ? |
Your hip pocket . . . ? |
In Brisbane on the 23rd of August 2006 these men can tell you more . . . And click here for event details
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Richard
Heinberg (Professor, University of California), Author of "The Party's
Over" & "Power Down"
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David Holmgren, Author of "Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability" |
 24 Nov.'05 - Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC), "Catalyst - Real Oil Crisis" - A 13 min
science segment aired by Australian TV. Transcript &
sound/vision. Key
quote:- "What
would happen if the world were to start running out of oil? Conventional
wisdom says we’ve got 30 years, but there’s a growing fear amongst
petroleum experts it’s happening much sooner than we thought – that we
are hitting the beginning of the end of oil now. So how soon will the oil
run out, and can we stop our economy collapsing when it does? How prepared
are we for the real oil crisis?" Click here
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 29th August 2005, ALP State Member for Hervey
Bay Andrew McNamara (& Chair of Queensland's "Oil Vulnerability Task
Force"), gives a key
interview on falling global oil supplies.
Key
quote:- "Last
Christmas a friend of mine gave me a book to read, it was
Richard Heinberg's book on Peak Oil, and I found it
quite startling. Like most members of Parliament I read a lot of stuff,
and some of it's good and bad, but this one really made me sit up. And I
thought because it's well written doesn't mean it's right, but if it is
right it's got amazing implications, so I started talking to different
people. A physicist I know in my part of the world, in Hervey Bay, Ian
Richards is someone I respect and I said 'What do you know about this?'
And he said 'Yeah, it's absolutely true.'
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 A
submission
to the current senate inquiry into "Australia's
future oil supply and alternative transport fuels" by Engineers
Australia, the peak professional body for engineers Australia-wide.
Key quote:-
"In
particular, Engineers Australia is concerned that the risks arising from
economic factors are not being treated with sufficient urgency. Far
too much of the discussion of oil is devoted to the illusory precision of
when peak oil will occur. Suffice it to say that it will occur and
within the next ten years, give or take a few years. The substantive
issue is that oil prices remain high and major world authorities believe
that they will go on increasing."
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 2005,
a "Peak
Oil Caucus" is formed in the USA House of Representatives, and a
"Peak Oil Bill" is filed on the 24th October 2005. Key
quotes:- "Expressing
the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States, in
collaboration with other international allies, should establish an energy
project with the magnitude, creativity, and sense of urgency that was
incorporated in the `Man on the Moon' project to address the inevitable
challenges of `Peak Oil'." and
"The
United States, in collaboration with other international allies, should
establish an energy project with the magnitude, creativity, and sense of
urgency of the `Man on the Moon' project to develop a comprehensive plan
to address the challenges presented by Peak Oil." And here's the testimony of Republican Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (Co-Chairman of the House Peak Oil Caucus), before "The Sub-Committee on Energy & Air Quality - United States House of Representatives, 7th December 2005." Key quote:- "I believe global “Peak Oil” presents our country with a challenge as daunting as the one that faced the astronauts and staff of the Apollo 13 program. Contingency planning, training, incredible ingenuity, and collaboration to solve the problem brought the Apollo 13 astronauts back home safe. The U.S. government must lead and inspire Americans’ unmatched ingenuity and creativity to end our unacceptable and unsustainable energy vulnerability and to prevent a worldwide economic tsunami from global “Peak Oil.” Back to the top
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 Find out more about a key USA Government Report (2005),
on global oil supplies:-
Wikipedia
entry Summary
Full
report Key
quote:- "The peaking of world oil production
presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management
problem. As peaking is approached, liquid fuel prices and price volatility
will increase dramatically, and, without timely mitigation, the economic,
social, and political costs will be unprecedented. Viable mitigation
options exist on both the supply and demand sides, but to have substantial
impact, they must be initiated more than a decade in advance of
peaking."
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 A key presentation
to the British House of Commons by senior oil scientist/geologist Colin
Campbell Key
quote:- "The
title of my talk is The Imminent Peak of World Oil Production. I
would like to provide the evidence. It is of course a very large subject.
There are colossal economic and political consequences. Indeed the very
future of our subspecies – Hydrocarbon Man – is at stake. But I
think that you are better qualified than I to assess these matters. I will
therefore concentrate on the technical assessment. My qualifications
for taking up your time are that I have spent the last 45 years studying
the subject both directly and indirectly. I have evaluated hundreds of oil
prospects around the world. I have drilled many dry holes and even made a
few discoveries. I have observed the oil industry from many angles,
including its senior management. I have published two books and several
papers on oil depletion."
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 An article
on oil depletion by Rudolf Rechsteiner (current Member of the Swiss
Parliament) Key
quote:- "The
International Energy Agency IEA is a world champion in wrong predictions,
and their scenarios do not fit reality."
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Richard Heinberg & David Holmgren - "Oil
Depletion & Permaculture"
Date & time:- Wednesday 23rd August 2pm to 4pm Place:- Lady Thiess room, Customs House, 399 Queen Street, Brisbane CBD Organisers:- Brisbane Institute Contact:-
(07) 3220 2198 or rsvp@brisinst.rog.au More details (& RSPV on-line):- Click here
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Speakers:- Richard Heinberg & David Holmgren - "Peak Oil & Permaculture" Date & time:- Wednesday 23rd August 2006. Doors open 6pm Place:- BTTA Centre, 86 Green Terrace, Windsor, Brisbane, Queensland Tickets:- Bookings open in July Organisers:- Northey Street City Farm Contact:- H & H Event Co-ordinator (07) 3857 8775 nnorthey@bigpond.net.au More details:- Click here
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