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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (5653)	3/20/2007 3:33:12 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 24213

A sitting federal appeals judge introduces lawyers to Peak Oil Article title: "A petroleum peak?" Judge Richard D. Cudahy, American Bar Association Of the global energy supply, 80.3 percent is hydrocarbon-based (and thus problematic for global warming); 34.3 percent of energy is derived from crude oil, while 20 percent is based on natural gas, and 25.1 percent still finds its origins in coal. With this overwhelming dependence on hydrocarbon fuels, led by crude oil, it’s not difficult to understand the recent intense interest in how long these fuels - and particularly crude oil - can be expected to be available. Opinions on this subject seem to cluster in two major schools. One group anticipates that crude oil supplies will soon be on the path to foreseeable exhaustion, while another aggregation of analysts views crude oil as virtually inexhaustible, and, of course, there are intermediate positions of every stripe. The sharply contrasting analyses of these schools of experts present a fascinating contrast, with each view tending to be associated with a different professional approach. Judge Cudahy serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. His e-mail is richard_cudahy@ca7uscourts.gov. (19 March 2007) Contributor JMG writes: Judge Cudahy often writes excellent articles for the Energy Bar Association journal. Here is a good article introducing lawyers in the ABA Section on public utilities, transportation, and communications law to the topic of Peak Oil (probably the first time in most cases), with a good analysis of the differences between realists and cornucopians (although he calls them pessimists and optimists). Alas, full text online only available to ABA utility section members (or via Lexis). Check a law library near you. energybulletin.net