Crude-oil quandary causes concern

[DuctapeFatwa]

The growing signs that Russia may pull out of the proposed US$2.5 billion Sino-Russian crude oil pipeline has raised great concerns among the Chinese partners of the project.

..Russian Energy Minister Igor Yusufov said Russia is studying the construction of a US$5 billion to US$7 billion oil pipeline to its Pacific coast to export East Siberian crude to the United States and Asian customers, such as Japan.

The proposal, which is favoured by Japan, conflicts with China's earlier scheme to build a direct link from Angarsk in East Siberia to Daqing in Northeast China.

Experts warned that a collapse of the Sino-Russian pipeline project would damage the relationship between the two neighbouring countries, both economically and politically. China had pinned high hopes on the crude oil pipeline after the two countries signed a non-bidding agreement for the project last March. The trunkline would allow China to ship 700 million tons of Russian crude through the pipeline to China over the next 25 years....

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200402/24/eng20040224_135684.shtml

[Barrett808]

1. FTW: OIL SHORTAGES LOOK CERTAIN BY 2007; LNG TO THE RESCUE?

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/

[mhr]

2. Peak Oil Is Here - Links For The Curious And Concerned

Websites of interest include:

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Home.html
http://globalpublicmedia.com/
http://www.oilcrash.com/
http://www.wolfatthedoor.org.uk/
http://www.durangobill.com/Rollover.html
http://www.asponews.org
http://www.gulland.ca/depletion/depletion.htm
http://www.dieoff.org/
http://www.oilanalytics.org/
http://www.greatchange.org/
http://www.oilcrisis.com/
http://www.after-oil.co.uk/
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/
http://hubbert.mines.edu
http://www.museletter.com/archive/cia-oil.html

Books:

Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
by David Goodstein

The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
by Richard Heinberg

Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage
by Kenneth S. Deffeyes

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight : Waking Up to Personal and Global Transformation
by Thom Hartmann

The Oil Factor: How Oil Controls the Economy and Your Financial Future
by Stephen Leeb, Donna Leeb

News Groups:

Energy Resources
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources/

Alas Babylon
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlasBabylon/

Running on Empty
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmpty2/

[KayLaw]

3. That's a lot of reading

I have read several, thought, and am still looking for information on how to prepare as an individual. I've looked into Peak Oil discussions on survivalim sites, but, for some weird reason, many of those people deny the theory and get cranky when it's brought up.