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This website reveals that within the next year or two (at best):
- Oil extraction from wells will be physically unable to meet global demand (the evidence is from the oil industry itself).
- Alternative energy sources like nuclear and natural gas will fall far short of compensating for expected shortages of oil. There is simply not enough time to convert over to them.
- Massive disruptions to transportation and the economy are expected from about 2005-2007 onward as the global decline of petroleum begins.
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Most significant effects:
- Gradual, permanent cut-off of fuel for transport and for industrial machinery. Global trade will greatly decline.
- Agriculture (massive food shortages) depends heavily on fertilizers and chemicals made from oil.
- Shortages of 500,000 other goods made from oil.
- Therefore, reduction of virtually all business and government activity. Very serious unemployment.
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The actual price of oil today: see www.orionfutures.com.
This site has about 1000 A4 pages of information covering these issues.
To start your journey of discovery I suggest you first read the following articles…
You will find more essays browsing the sections of this site, accessible through the menu bar at the top of every page.
(A little Italian flag flashing in the menu, indicates that an Italian translation is available for that page.)
I apologise that the information is disturbing. But comfort yourself that you gain big advantages by learning about it early, and being able to prepare to live more simply on much less energy.
Apart from reducing your vulnerability to the energy decline, the next thing to do is tell others. (Carefully) talk to your family and friends. Lobby your local councillors and other organisations.
There is a lot of preparing to do, so don’t fret too much, get busy!
Good luck.
Robert Atack
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The New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and her Government have been informed of these facts.
They seem to lack the courage or commitment to truth to make public this information, with its potentially destabilising political, economic and social implications.
Unlike the patient whose doctor may choose to spare them the deadly diagnosis, many of us would prefer to know the truth and some idea of likely consequences.
I am now in my 6th year of sending them this information.
— Robert Atack
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The Statement the media
missed!
«because we’re probably not too far short of peak production,
if we’re not already there»
— Helen Clark, 18-04-2006
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«But the real issue last week was about biodiesel
and the world running out of fossil fuels. That was the point of the photo op, and I
went there to make that point, it is the world walking the plank quite frankly, not
Don Brash.»
— Don Brash, Leader of the National
Party (for now); Morning Report National Radio 5/06
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«You’re quite right. Shell Oil International is working on the
assumption that between 2005 and 2010 world oil demand will outstrip the capacity
of the wells to supply. Then the price will really go up. So get your bike out!»
— Jeanette Fitzsimons;
E-mail, 23-03-2000 2:29 AM
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PM agrees with Robert
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POLITICAL PARTIES REACTION
TO PEAK OIL
After nearly 6 years of this group informing politicians from all parties about
Peak Oil, they would have to be very stupid or outright liars to deny knowledge of
these facts. It seems the further right you go the more wrong they are.
Independent of “Oilcrash.com”, Derek Wilson has been trying to inform this
government and opposition parties about the imminent peak in oil supplies.
Here are some of his efforts.
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| What some other Political parties around the world
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«That means by 2010 we will need in the order of an
additional fifty million barrels a day.»
Vice-President
Dick Cheney 1999,
while Chairman of Halliburton
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Feeling alone,
no one listening to you?
Visit a local group at Discussion groups.
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Wanting to get a copy
of the whole site?
More infos here.
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In addition to this website and what it is saying I would like to say that all political parties are conning us and I wouldn’t vote for any of them. Apart from a small glimmer of hope from the Maori Party, all the other parties have treated the ramifications of peak oil with treasonable contempt, by either ignoring it altogether or understating the disaster we all face. Passing draconian laws is their way of placing the necessary controls on this society before resource depletion really kicks in. This is their way of trying to maintain their positions, when the reality is they will not even be able to answer the phone.
Hang on for an interesting 2008. |
| – Robert Atack |
Last update: 29th March, 2008
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