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To: SiouxPal who wrote (65681)	4/30/2006 3:19:56 AM
From: zonkie	Respond to of 362368

How long did it take you to figure out that junior would make a terrible president. It took me about 15 minutes of research in 1999 to figure that out. Even though it was obvious that he would be terrible and most likely the worst and most dishonest president of all time I never in my wildest dreams thought he would be as bad as what he is. The part I got wrong is that enough people would be fooled by him to get him elected. I know he has never really been elected but enough people were fooled that he was able to slip in on a strictly partisan vote of the supreme court the first time and cheat their way in the second.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (65681)	4/30/2006 8:29:33 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362368

The sexy facts are that we already have so many concrete replies to relying on oil for power. Read 'em off: Wind (that's here now) Solar (that's here now) Ocean currents (not workable yet) Biomass (that's here now) Unfortunately, the unsexy thing about all these is that it takes time to convert, and I'm not sure we have all that much left anymore. It took 100 years to build up the car/truck fleet we have now. You can't just wave a wand and convert everything to another fuel overnight.I think it took Brazil 30 years to get an alcohol powered fleet. You can't wave a wand and fill the Midwest with windmills. You can't chant a spell and make enuf solar panels available for the world. If the dialog now had been 10 years ago, we would stand a chance. As it is, time is now an enemy. Like I said, we should have listened to Carter. Instead, we (not me, of course) applauded when Ray Gun took Carter's solar panels off the WH and let all the programs expire. Bad for business to go renewable, eh? What's good for General Motors is good for the USA. Even bankruptcy.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (65681)	4/30/2006 8:49:38 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362368

Time, time, time, see what's become of me... This just came into my inbox from Google. The article is at Raise The Hammer. At yesterday's Peak Oil presentation to Hamilton City Council, Richard Gilbert mentioned a little-reported event that may mark the day that the earth tipped past its oil production peak. Amazingly, a search of news reports turned up virtually nothing. I eventually tracked down the original report from Platts Oilgram News: Saudi Aramco announced on April 10, 2006 that Saudi Arabia's mature oilfields "are expected to decline at a gross average rate of 8 percent a year without additional maintenance and drilling." The Aramco spokesperson explained that the company is attempting to offset those declines with "remedial activities" including drilling new wells in existing fields and opening up new fields. But get this: the spokesperson went on, "This maintain potential drilling in mature fields combined with a multitude of remedial actions and the development of new fields, with long plateau lives, lowers the composite decline rate of producing fields to around 2 percent." The last time I checked, a two percent decline is still a decline. If this is correct, then Saudi Arabia may be past its peak in oil production. Saudi Arabia is responsible for approximately one eighth of the world's oil; as Saudi Arabia goes, so goes the world. theoildrum.com