The End of Oil?

H. Curtiss Leung hncl at panix.com
Sat Sep 29 06:39:27 PDT 2001


The same mathematical models that correctly predicted the peak and decline of American oil production are applied to world petroleum production, and show the peak and subsequent decline within the next 10 years:

http://www.sciam.com/2001/1001issue/1001reviews1.html

(NB: The author, Kenneth Deffeyes, is evidently quite a character: he discovered that the proposed sites for the MX missile are rich in the most toxic mineral known to man, and managed to make quite a stink about it. See http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/about-ken.html) -- Curtiss, nowhere near Michael Pugliese's level, but at least aspring to something these days

Macdonald Stainsby wrote:


> We must heed this, since we know the strategy of America is now going to
evolve
> somehow including the reconquest of the oil producing regions of the
planet.
>
> Aparently, several of the most "upstanding" media (such as the BBC) have
pointed
> out that the oil reserves are running dry right now (i.e: post 9/11).
Other
> "reputable" media have spoken of the first to go being Afghanistan,
followed by
> Iraq, followed by the joint re-occupation "green light" to Israel for the
> sounthern (name escapes me) valley of Lebanon recently liberated by the
> Hizb'allah guerilla army. That would co-incide with The Sudan being taken
by the
> Americans. I'm not interested in "decontructing" the forces at work
driving this
> war. I'm interested in calling for the end of it and hoping to marshal the
> people to that call.



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