What they don't want you to know about the coming oil crisis (I-UK)

[katty]

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What they don't want you to know about the coming oil crisis

by Jeremy Leggett
20 January 2006
The Independent (UK)
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article339928.ece

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Soaring fuel prices, rumours of winter power cuts, panic over the gas supply from Russia, abrupt changes to forecasts of crude output... Is something sinister going on? Yes, says former oil man Jeremy Leggett, and it's time to face the fact that the supplies we so depend on are going to run out

A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of an acute, civilisation-changing energy crisis. The latest wobble over disruptions to gas supplies from Russia is merely the latest in a series of reminders of how dependent our economies are on growing supplies of oil and gas. On Wednesday, Gazprom's deputy chairman was in London reassuring Britain that there would be no risk of disruption to British gas supplies in the fall-out from the ongoing spat between Russia and Ukraine over pricing. The very next day, temperatures in Moscow broke a 50-year record, plunging to minus 30C. Gas normally exported was diverted to the home front. Supplies to the West fell.

In December, Sir Digby Jones, director-general of the CBI, warned that any shortfall in gas could cause disaster for British industry. The problem, he said, was the likelihood - as forecast by the Met Office - of a particularly cold British winter. This would mean more gas burning in homes and power plants than our liberalised energy market - or its infrastructure - might be able to supply. There aren't enough pipelines from the continent to carry the imported gas that we need now that our North Sea production is dropping.

[Coastie for Truth]

1. Check out

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century by James Howard Kunstler, with either of Ken Deffeyes' books (Beyond Oil : The View from Hubbert's Peak, and Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage)

And to see how Bushie is handling it, check out PNAC's (in)famous tome, Rebuilding America's Defenses.

[Pharaoh]

2. Yes, eventually

we are all totally fucked'''''
check out the DVD "the End of Suburbia" :oil depletion and the collapse of the american dream:


it's excellent!

:dem: :dem: :dem:

[katty]

4. yes, End of Suburbia is very good

[Coastie for Truth]

5. Showed it at home

before we went to see Syriana.

[Sparkman]

3. Solar & wind energy, stored in batteries for transportation or generated &

put onto electric trolley lines for mass transportation.
Nuclear power with safe handling & disposal regimines will also help us.
BUT like Detroit and the U.S. technology industries...they'll wait on Japan or China to do the R&D.