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To: mistermj who wrote (3967)	11/1/2006 6:36:52 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10087

What's so lame? That is an absolutely pathetic response to the subject of peak oil. I reckon, if that is hating America, this guy must be a few numbers higher on the Richter Scale, cuz he cops to a national drug problem; the shame of it; in front of the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, the Congress, and the world. My, my. “America is addicted to oil," Bush said as he sought to drive the election-year agenda in his annual State of the Union address. msnbc.msn.com =============== Geology is non partisan. 'Matthew Simmons has been a key advisor to the Bush Administration, Vice President Cheney's 2001 Energy Task Force and the Council on Foreign Relations. An energy investment banker, Simmons is the CEO of Simmons and Co. International, handling an investment portfolio of approximately $56 billion. He has served previously on the faculty of Harvard Business School. Among Peak Oil researchers he is known for two seemingly contradictory things: being a staunch supporter of George W. Bush and his policies and probably the only outspoken insider to talk openly about Peak Oil." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Revealing Statements from a Bush Insider about Peak Oil and Natural Gas Depletion Message 21367672 ====================== Peak Oil Presentation in the US Congress by Roscoe Bartlett Conservative (way conservative, I think; it really doesn't matter to me) Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, Chairman of the Projection Forces Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, gave an hour long presentation on Peak Oil to the US Congress on Monday. This is the full transcript. We hope to get a hold of the graphs used by Mr. Bartlett and will update this article to include them if they come to hand. energybulletin.net Bartlett was tested out of high school the fall of his senior year and began attending Columbia Union College at age 17 where he majored in theology and biology and minored in chemistry with the intention of becoming a minister. Considered too young for the ministry after receiving his bachelor's degree, Bartlett was encouraged to attend graduate school at theUniversity of Maryland at College Park. He studied anatomy, physiology and zoology earning a Master's degree in human physiology. Bartlett was then hired as a U-MD faculty member and taught anatomy, physiology and zoology while simultaneously earning a Ph.D. in human physiology... Wow; I didn't realize he was a phsyiolgist; me, too. Thought he was in physics. ================ Suddenly, Peak Oil, appears to have an agenda yep... The Politics of Survival by Kurt Cobb It is a sign of the times that a former energy analyst turned radical advocate for depaving the world would be quoted on the floor of the U. S. House of Representatives by a self-described "very conservative Republican" congressman while the congressman lectured the country about the dangers of world peak oil production. Just so you don't think this was a fluke, I give you exhibit number two: An investment banker who specializes in energy--a Bush supporter and a member of Vice President Dick Cheney's infamous energy task force--recently wrote a piece about the impending Saudi oil shock for Counterpunch, a left-wing, muckraking newsletter that is proud of its "radical attitude" and its freedom from corporate influence. What we are witnessing is the collapse of the politics of left and right and the replacement of those politics with what I call the politics of survival. Those who come to understand the gravity of our energy situation quickly abandon their previous political views and instead focus pragmatically on how we can make a successful energy transition. They do so because they know the cost of failure is too high a price to pay for ideology. In the politics of survival ideology counts for almost nothing. Pragmatic plans count for everything. Message 21454807