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Posts Tagged ‘Peak oil’

Branson warns that oil crunch is coming within five years

He says it will be more serious than the current financial crisis.

The Lonely Ions. Peak Oil Blues

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We had us some fun, burnin’ it up like a billion little suns
Turning it day from night, yea we did it up right
It was a hydrocarbon party that was ragin’ for generations
But the Sun’s coming up now and, man, it ain’t pretty
We’re on the back-side of the peak (Hubbert’s Peak)
And it’s fallin’, fallin’, [...]

Key oil numbers distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower

The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.
This is like the economic crisis. Our government makes up imaginary numbers and pretends there is no [...]