peak oil
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Why does the pernicious BS about ‘peak oil’ persist on the left? By William Bowles
Peak Oil? Why not Peak Water, after all, water is much more crucial to life than oil ever will be and it’s being consumed in vast quantities by the same economic system that chows oil? Continue reading
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The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti By F. William Engdahl
Behind the smoke, rubble and unending drama of human tragedy in the hapless Caribbean country, a drama is in full play for control of what geophysicists believe may be one of the worlds richest zones for hydrocarbons-oil and gas outside the Middle East, possibly orders of magnitude greater than that of nearby Venezuela. Continue reading
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PEAK OIL AGAIN…and Again and Again and Again…(Pt. 2 of 2) By Mark S. Tucker
Russian geophysicists had been building their abiotic thoughts after reading the brilliant German scientist Alfred Wegener, who, in 1915, published The Origin of Continents and Oceans, initiating the Pangaea concept as well as the idea of continental drift (we merely stole the concept here in America and tucked it away in the New Age realm… Continue reading
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PEAK OIL AGAIN…and Again and Again and Again… (Pt. 1 of 2) By Mark S. Tucker
In the 70s, Engdahl interested himself in the “oil shock” (think Naomi Klein) of the era and published his first book A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, addressing a number of factors he saw as relevant to the coming Energy Wars. Central to his discussion was, oh look!, the… Continue reading
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Video: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived the ‘Special Period’
Video: Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call “The Special Period.” Continue reading
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Are they REALLY Oil Wars? By ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH
A most widely-cited factor behind the recent U.S. wars of choice is said to be oil. “No Blood for Oil” has been a rallying cry for most of the opponents of the war. While some of these opponents argue that the war is driven by the U.S. desire for cheap oil, others claim that it Continue reading
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The Worm Ouroborus By William Bowles
It’s depressing to think on how many otherwise right-thinking people have bought into the ‘Peak Oil’ nonsense. We read for example, that of the over 60 known reserves in Iraq, only 17 have actually been exploited and it’s been calculated that the reserves far outstrip the currently exploited fields. Continue reading
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(S)Peaking of oil… again ‘Peak oil’ – Newsspeak for ‘too many poor people’ By William Bowles
Amen to Mr Simmons’ ‘predictions’. Once more I find myself returning to the subject of ‘peak oil’ as it seems that a good deal of the ‘left’, alongside all the usual suspects are peddling this Peak Oil nonsense. It seems the output of ‘peak oil’ articles is actually outstripping the output of oil. We have… Continue reading
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Warming to the subject of oil By William Bowles
In spite of all my efforts to show that ‘peak oil’ is an invention, it seems to fall on deaf ears with immense tomes landing with a thump on my virtual desktop that attempt to show that the Huppert ‘peak oil’ hypothesis is the only true and righteous path and anyone who dares challenge it… Continue reading
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Well Oiled By William Bowles
13 December 2004 — InvestigatingImperialism I had another piece ready for publication but I got a lot of feedback (50/50 in support and against) on the ‘Peak Oil’ piece that I thought needed to be addressed first. I’ll try and summarise the various views as briefly as possible. Continue reading
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The truth about ‘Peak Oil’ – The future revisited from a past that never happened By William Bowles
6 December 2004 ‘Control energy and you control nations’ – Henry Kissinger Continue reading
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The Energy ‘Crisis’: Futurology without a future? By William Bowles
According to an interview conducted by Mike Ruppert and available on the Guerrilla News Network, and which first appeared on Ruppert’s From the Wilderness website, we have already passed the point of no return when it comes to new sources of oil and gas and we’re headed for a disaster, if not next year then… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 