news.cnet.com - 6/24/2009
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A Boulder, Colo., group called Transition Boulder County is helping to spread the word about what communities need to do to prepare for a post-peak oil world. (Credit: Transition Boulder County)
BOULDER, Colo.--The age of peak oil is coming, and some say we're already there. So when the ...
lifeaftertheoilcrash.net - 7/1/2009
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lifeaftertheoilcrash.net —
Peak Oil is also called "Hubbert's Peak," named
for the Shell geologist Dr. Marion King Hubbert. In...
1956, Hubbert accurately predicted that US domestic oil production would peak in 1970. Source#1 Source #2 He also predicted global production would ...
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Peak Oil
grinzo.com - 7/1/2009
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grinzo.com —
Laurel Graefe, a senior economic researcher working for
the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has written an...
excellent overview of peak oil, "The Peak Oil Debate" [16page, 1.6MB PDF]. I consider this a must-read piece, as much for armchair oil experts ...
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The Fed and peak oil
blogs.creativeloafing.com - 7/2/2009
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peak oil Are we at the peak of
oil production? For the next century, my generation’s greatest...
challenge will be dealing with our energy sources. Energy is what drives everything in our society. The food we eat, the gas we put in our cars, as well as ...
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Are we at the peak of oil production? | Daily Loaf
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DrumBeat: June 24, 2009
The Oil Drum —
... Ukraine’s conflict over natural gas, Nigeria threatening to shut down its oil system, Venezuela’s current strike and Peru’s domestic unrest, Simmons said all the concerns around the world will have an “unbelievable impact on oil supplies.”
“If one of these 4 or 5 things turned really ugly, prices can go way higher than we’ve seen,” Simmons told CNBC. “And if 2 or 3 of them happen at the same time, I don’t think there’s any normal ceiling on the price of oil.”
The urgency of transitioning to a post-peak oil world
BOULDER, Colo.--The age of ...
The urgency of transitioning to a post-peak oil world
Peak Oil News —
... Transition Boulder County is the local outcrop of a growing international movement built around the concept of Transition, or getting ready for a post-peak oil world, and the concern that the effects of such an environment could wreak havoc on just about every facet of human life. I visited with Brownlee on Tuesday as part of Road Trip 2009, my fourth-annual search for the most interesting stories about energy, aviation, the military, science, space, and more in the United States. CNet News
Solutions & sustainability - June 25
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... homepage Transitioning to a post-peak oil world Daniel Terdiman, CNET ... At the heart of the so-called Transition movement, Brownlee explained, is a concept called re-localization. Because a massive spike in the cost of fossil fuel-based energy would drastically change most of our systems--food, energy, economy, employment, and so on--re-localization imagines a new era in which local communities work to meet their own needs rather than depending on a global infrastructure. In May 2008, the folks at Transition Boulder County became officially affiliated with the movement, ...
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