 Peak Oil Passnotes: China Has Spoken
(Resource Investor: Fri, 22 Feb) Hugo Chavez is back in the news again fighting with Exxon, but in fact that spat is just a storm in a Venezuelan coffee cup. The real reason for $100 oil is China - and unlike the argument between Rex and Hugo, it will not go away.
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 LETTER: Hubbert's second peak oil prediction is coming true
(MLive.com: Mon, 18 Feb) Regarding last week's peak oil stories, gas prices will rise again in 2008. Winter prices are normally the lowest of the year. In 2007, the lowest average U.S. price of gasoline was $2.14 per gallon (in January).
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 All contents, unless so noted, ©2008 Estes Park Trail-Gazette
(Estes Park Trail Gazette: Fri, 22 Feb) The Sustainable Mountain Living group (SML) will sponsor a series of four presentations on the topics of (1) the impending limits on world oil supplies, (2) world population growth and its consequences, (3) climate change, and (4) planning and preparing to meet these challenges.
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 News and Features for Wasilla, Alaska
(Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman: Fri, 22 Feb) Longtime Houston resident George Eric “Rick” Ventgen, 61, died from a heart attack Feb. 8, 2008, at work in Prudhoe Bay. A memorial service was held Feb. 16 at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Big Lake with a reception following.
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 Letters: Secondary-modern education
(Independent: Fri, 22 Feb) Sir: Perhaps it is churlish to find fault with Howard Jacobson's splendidly impassioned article (16 February), but I feel obliged to add that it was not just grammar-school masters and mistresses who "taught the arts of civilisation" to their pupils: their less favoured counterparts in the secondary moderns often attempted much the same in more difficult circumstances, with worse buildings, ...
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Oil rebreaks the $100 barrier - Peak Oil - OPEC production cuts
