Hoarding is exactly what the government is doing right now by filling the SPR, and frankly it's the best thing that could happen. It drives prices up. High prices encourage demand destruction. They also finance new well development. The hoarded oil gives us a buffer to fall back on once shortages become more prevalent. High prices are what we need in order to adapt to what's coming, and the sooner they happen, the better.
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject: Power Play - 3 Part Series
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Energy, the most vital commodity on the planet, dominates our lives. It drives economies, makes rich nations richer, and underpins the lifestyles of those fortunate enough to have access to it. With contributions from leading scientists, politicians, industrialists, and energy experts around the world, Power Play examines every aspect of the Energy game: the basic raw materials: coal, gas and oil, where they originate, how we acquire them, who controls them, how we use them, and, ultimately, how they may have to change in the not-too-distant future. In pursuit of this Power Play travels worldwide from Paris to Beijing, across the deserts of Arabia and into the heart of Manhattan beneath the permafrost of Siberia and on to the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic to piece together a portrait of the world’s most dynamic commodity. Belatedly, we have come to realize that the excessive use of fossil fuels may be taking the world to the brink of catastrophe. If global warming is real, then the threat it poses is increasing daily. Power Play takes a close-up look at the world of oil and gas, one of the richest and most powerful of global industries. The political muscle it wields is formidable. Governed by real politics, in this world the financial stakes are unimaginably high and moral niceties sometimes relegated to a back seat. But we may be reaching a parting of the ways with an energy source that powered us through most of the 20th century. Looking to the future, Power Play considers the alternatives on offer: nuclear, hydrogen, solar, water, and wind power. Can they effectively replace reliable old stalwarts? Will the drive through the 21st century be just as productive, yet healthier and cleaner than in the past?
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Power Play - Choking in the Fast Lane
Powerplay traces the development of oil as the primary commodity of our day, from the crude oil and kerosene of the 1800s through the automotive revolution and the enormous energy demands of today’s military. The 2lst century finds oil the power of nations, and its’ power all-pervasive. The western world teeters on the brink of a new geopolitical energy race; what are the political, social, and ecological implications?
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Power Play - Fossil Fuel
Our fossil fuel addiction is no longer healthy; the implications for planet earth are nightmarish, but the replacement of fossil fuels may mean a golden opportunity. Transitional cars may run on hydrogen; solar, wind, hydroelectric & coal-driven sources of power will help reduce the catastrophic greenhouse effect and ease the stranglehold of the oil-producing countries. Currently one third of the world has no access to commercial energy; said Gandhi “The world has enough for everybody’s NEED but not enough for everybody’s GREED.”
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Power Play - Energy
Global temperatures slowly but surely rise; the polar ice caps melt, the oceans surge irresistibly over the lowlands of the world, and the heightened inadequacy of world food supply and production leave millions starving and more vulnerable than ever to diseases. Is humanity responsible for this ecological nightmare? Is it too late to avert the suicide of our species? “Energy” covers the frightening possibilities and the troubling accusations of a world gone fossil-fuel mad.
Three part educational video for senior high/college students.
Now being torrented at ..... http://conspiracycentral.net:6969/ _________________ Let us make him who shall nourish and sustain us. What shall we do to be invoked; to be remembered in the earth.
We have tried with our first creatures but we could not make them venerate us.
So let us try to make obedient respectful beings who shall
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