"The American empire is an energy junkie in its death throes, "

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_198.shtml


World at tipping point; oil peak arrives



The American empire is an energy junkie in its death throes, punching for new veins and final fixes, knowing that the supplies of its drug of choice -- cheap oil -- are virtually depleted.

According to geologist Kenneth Deffeyes, author of Beyond Oil: The View from Beyond Hubbert’s Peak, this long-anticipated world oil peak is now -- Thanksgiving 2005. The holocaust of imperial thrashing -- epitomized by the Bush administration’s Peak Oil-fueled criminal atrocities -- promises to intensify, along with the denial and cover-up.

Confirmation of Peak Oil crisis is everywhere. Oil supplies may be lower than OPEC wants to admit. The second largest oil field in the world, situated in Kuwait, is running dry. The US trade deficit just hit another all-time high.

Yet in the US, we have witnessed the spectacle of rising stocks, in response to temporary and artificially manipulated low gas prices created only by the tapping (and possible depletion) of strategic reserves.

As Mike Ruppert and the From The Wilderness team point out, in the course of their continuous tracking of Peak Oil-related news: “Even today the US media glibly lies and misleads about falling oil prices while failing to tell the American people that most of its domestic production is still shut in or that the 'falling' prices are simply a result of tapping the strategic reserves of this and other IEA countries. Both of those 'artificial' market influences will end shortly . . ."
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the article ends with: "The jig is up."
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the article also said:

"The Gulf Coast’s energy infrastructure is not even close to repaired, and some damage is permanent."


has there been any news reports about the Wilma/Rita oil damage being permanent?

people should take time out to think about how future life will be and how they will handle it.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. How much alternative energy research could have been done with the

billions that have been spent in Iraq?

[donsu]

2. I hear you

every day that goes by is too late

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Yep. We are being sucked down the drain....

[Vogon_Glory]

4. A Gee Dubya Bush Legacy--Eight Years of Research Lost

One of many sorry 'legacies' left behind by Gee Dubya Bush's Duck Soup Posse administration will be eight years of opportunities for alternate energy research will have been lost, thanks to Gee Dubya's and Veep "Lon" Cheney's supporting the petroleum industry's status quo.