Sharon March 1st, 2007
You might want to take a look at this:
http://www.platts.com/Oil/News/6360268.xml?p=Oil/News&sub=Oil&src=energybulletin
It looks like a GAO (government accounting office) report is going to say that the majority of the oil experts in the US believe not just that peak oil is a reality, but we’re there now – that back in May of 2005, we reached what is probably the highest production levels of oil we will ever have, and prices will continue to rise and availability will continue to drop.
This is important news – an independent congressional research office has documented that a. the oil industry is being intentionally opaque and b. that there is good reason to believe that we have crossed the peak threshold.
That does not mean that we’ll run out of oil – but it does mean that the conflict between rising world demand and reduced availability will be a real and troubling one.
Sharon
Sharon March 1st, 2007
I think everyone who reads this blog should read George Lakoff’s essay on what an invasion of Iran really means: http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0228-28.htm. It is important for those of you who don’t read him regularly to realize that Lakoff is not a crank – he’s a serious scholar, and he’s picked up on something that most Americans would prefer not to notice – that what our nation is in danger of doing in Iraq is beginning a nuclear war. We will be the first nation in history to use nuclear weapons as unprovoked aggressors. It is horrifying enough that the US is using depleted uranium in Iraq and Afghanistan – the consequences of DU are serious for both the people of Iraq and for our own soldiers. But, covertly, what is being discussed right now is the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program – and the country – by using a nuclear weapon against another nation.
And every man, woman and child who allows it, who does not throw their time and energy and money into stopping these people from nuking another nation, who does not tell every person in power who will listen, “No – we will not be the people who begin nuclear wars,” has tacitly acquiesced to an act of evil, and a loss of moral authority we never will regain.
Stop it. Say the words. Say “take the nuclear option off the table.” Publicize this reality everywhere – if we can stop them from bombing at all, so much the better, but let it be known far and wide that we’re still Americans, and there are still things of value that American people refuse to do, evils we refuse to consider. Call. Write. March. Yell. Stop it.
Sharon