Peak Oil in the News

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Peak Oil News Thursday February 15th 2007

Oil Has Peaked, but Where's the Data? Analyst Asks
(Planet Ark: Tue, 13 Feb) LONDON - One of the leading exponents of the peak oil theory that reserves have gone beyond maximum production and entered irreversible decline urged the world's oil industry to build a data base to prove whether he is right.

Cheap Oil Not Going Anywhere Soon, Author Says
(National Geographic: Wed, 14 Feb) An oil industry insider, suggesting that petroleums past is a guide to its future, explains his disdain for oil doomsday scenarios.

The Ghawar Oil Field: How Much Is Left?
(Ohmynews: Wed, 14 Feb) In recent years, a number of prominent oil industry insiders have raised pointed questions about the stated proven reserves still remaining in Ghawar. Matthew Simmons, one of the world's leading...

Peak Oil Passnotes: Russian About Going Nowhere
(Resource Investor: Fri, 09 Feb) Oil is being buoyed by a series of upside fundamentals but it would be unwise to think we are back in another bull market just yet.

Drawing a blank on housing
(Stuff: Tue, 13 Feb) Swathes of inner Christchurch are being transformed by the march of the modern townhouse. MATT PHILP looks at how the rash of high-density development might shape the city of the future.

Activist: Oil crisis requires drastic changes in Madison
(The Capital Times: Mon, 12 Feb) Local activist Jan Sweet envisions a city without cars, or at least a compromise - a hybrid city, which would function like a hybrid car and conserve oil.

Lessons from Cuba
(Vail Daily: Sun, 11 Feb) When Cuba lost over half of all its oil imports after the fall of the Soviet Union, experts predicted disaster, but the country soldiered on as farmers and urban gardeners, scientists and engineers banded together to find alternate solutions.

Earth Year 2007: What can one person do? Invest in the future
(Corvallis Gazette Times: Sun, 11 Feb) A story in the Feb. 2 Gazette-Times reported: "The world's leading climate scientists said global warming has begun, is 'very likely' caused by man, and will be unstoppable for centuries." This is not a surprise, global warming or climate chaos has been observed since the late 1800s.

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