 Peak Oil Passnotes: Normalising $70 Oil
(Resource Investor: Thu, 31 May) These days as prices bounce around just under $70 we are hearing politicians say that the “low price” of energy is helping dampen inflationary pressures. So is $65-$70 oil now low? What will be the next high?
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(EUActiv: Thu, 31 May) Oil is the life blood of our economies but it is also a finite, non-renewable energy source. The world currently consumes 85 million barrels of oil per day for electricity, heating, transport, chemistry and other economic activities.
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(The Hook: Thu, 31 May) Published May 31, 2007 in issue 0622 of the HooK. "If you build it, they do indeed come." That's the lesson for all Virginia to learn from the Historic Triangle around Williamsburg.
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(Gazette.Net: Wed, 30 May) The senior center now is shielded from I-270 by a small forest. That would have to go. The Millennium Trail crosses over I-270 along Gude Drive.
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(San Francisco Bay Guardian: Wed, 30 May) Why is Jim Mason fighting bureaucrats instead of working on his alternative fuel project?
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 Our blind faith in oil growth could bring the economy crashing down
(Guardian Unlimited: Wed, 30 May) Motorised transport is a form of time travel. We mine the compressed time of other eras - the infinitesimal rain of plankton on the ocean floor, the settlement of trees in anoxic swamps - and use it to accelerate through our own. Every tank of fuel contains thousands of years of accretions.
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LETTER: Cost of rejecting clean power is too high
What's behind the 'perfect storm' of rising gas prices?
