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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (73194)	7/14/2006 8:22:11 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 361382

Heading your way... Santa Barbara Prepares for Peak Oil by Dr. Philip Grant, cofounder of the Santa Barbara Ecological Education Coalition and executive coordinator of the Institute of Reverential Ecology; and Sri Subramanian, a fellow at For the Future. Today something extraordinary is happening in Santa Barbara. Local business leaders, public officials, and environmental activists are meeting to discuss solutions to the ever-increasing demand for oil in the face of dwindling reserves. Dubbed “peak oil,” this crisis seems irresolvable at the national and state levels. As motorists in Santa Barbara struggle to economize at the pump, our political leaders are unable to develop a national and state energy policy that lessens reliance on big oil, instead continuing to subsidize all manner of oil-guzzling practices independent.com