"It is now 10 years that the coalition of the willing, err… peaking
(US peak 1970, UK peak 1999, Australia peak 2000) invaded Iraq. This was
not just an oil war. It was a peak oil war. GW Bush and Cheney were
oilmen. In his famous 1999 oil-is-not-leisurewear speech Dick Cheney
identified the Middle East as the place where the “prize lies”. While
Saudi Arabia was at peak or approaching peak, Iraq had under-produced
oil for 20 years and production in the 90s was capped by UN sanctions
because of Saddam ruling Iraq. The idea was to get at Iraq’s “easy”
pre-peak oil to push the global peak a couple of years into the future. But oil wars don’t solve any problems, they only create new ones."
Zum Artikel von Matt Mushalik, erschienen auf Crude Oil Peak (16. März 2013) »
"In 2004 the agency predicted, for example that Saudi oil production
would reach 22-million barrels by 2025 -- an overestimation that defied
geology: now IEA forecasts that Saudi production will sit at 11-million
barrels by 2025.)
EIA's attitude seems to be that 'you should
rely on us because we are telling you the truth, and governments around
the world trust the IEA ... Nor can unconventional resources reverse some ugly geological truths:
extreme hydrocarbons cost more money, burn more energy and take more
time to develop. Even with the best of luck, U.S. oil production in 2020
(10 million barrels a day) won't surpass projected Saudi figures (10.8
million barrels a day). So a temporary oil boom based on
hydrocarbons as extreme as bitumen and shale gas won't turn America into
a new Saudi Arabia or deliver energy independence ... I find it very hard to understand how IEA can smile and say 'Don't worry, be happy'."
Zum Artikel von Prof. Kjell Aleklett, erschienen in The Tyree (20. März 2013) »
"We end up spending more and more in trying to extract resources of various types ... China has been mentioned as being a shale oil-producer possibly, but they are very water-deficient. And how they will find water to do fracking is very uncertain ... We need cheap oil and other energy resources in order to make our current economic model work ... You can keep manufacture in government jobs as long as you want, or as long as you print money, but when you look at these private jobs and their wages that they generate, they seem to stagnate or decline as soon as oil prices get high. And really the time when whe were generating good increases in wages is back when oil was the equivalent of $30 a barrel or less in 2012 dollars. So we really need very cheap oil. It's not just a little bit lower priced oil, it's a lot lower priced oil ... Credit has reached a limit ... It can't really grow if wages aren't growing, so I think this is a big, limiting factor on where we are going right now ... I'm not sure that there's anything you really can do ... We can't collect enough taxes ... And the population just won't put up with it ... Washington would like us all to
believe that 'were are all gonna have electric cars tomorrow', 'we can keep on motoring' and that our problem, at most, is, well, our liquid fuel supply-situtation, 'but we will get it fixed with a few more battery-operated cars and windpower' or whatever the thing of the day is."
Zum Interview mit Gail Tverberg, erschienen im Keiser Report (12. März 2013) »
"We get answers that don't answer, we get explanations that don't explain and we get conclusions that don't conclude ... The collapse of human industrial civilization is well underway, it's not coming back. The short version is 'infinite growth on a finite planet is not possible'. It has to do with energy. Peak oil [has been] totally ignored. They are trying to sell us stuff about recovery. Nobody believes it ... It's been well know, well predicted and now very much confirmed that global oil production was going to peak. And it did [in] late of 2005 ... There's no other cheap energy replacement to replace oil, and all of this nonsense about shale oil is a lie ... Money has no power to do anything, printed money, the dollar. You can't eat it, you can't put it [in your reservoir]. It's a symbol. Money represents the ability to do work, but energy is the ability to do work ... Obviously, we have a serious problem that we're not dealing with, the media is ignoring that."
Zum Interview mit Michael Ruppert auf Media Mayhem (28. Februar 2013) »
"Rather than destruction by environmental crisis (“climate change”) or
economic crisis (“peak oil”) we face an intricately linked combination
of the two (“extreme energy”). This is not to deny the importance of
either climate change or peak oil, but they not only have the same cause
but are happening in the context of each other, so neither can be
viewed in isolation ... As our society’s unsustainable consumption of energy depletes easier to
extract resources, it is driving the exploitation of evermore extreme
and damaging energy sources. From fracking to the push to build a string
of new biomass power stations which will devour the world’s remaining
forests and the plans for a wave of new, more dangerous, nuclear power
stations, energy extraction is becoming much more destructive ... This path leads to a world where energy extraction dominates the
economy, and the majority of the population lives in its shadow."
Zum Artikel & zum Video von Frack Off, erschienen im Ecologist (28. Februar 2013) »
"Schiefergas ist also nichts anderes als eine Überlebenshilfe für die
Dinosaurier des ausgehenden Ölzeitalters. Möglich, dass sie ihr eigenes
Ende damit vielleicht ein wenig hinauszögern. Der Traum vom billigen Gas
im Überfluss könnte jedoch auch in den USA bald ausgeträumt sein. Was
bleibt, sind zerstörte Landschaften und gigantische ökologische
Zeitbomben im Untergrund. In Deutschland besteht noch die Chance, das zu
verhindern."
Zum Artikel von Jürgen Döschner, erschienen auf tagesschau,de (27. Februar 2013) »
