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Here is an interview with Robert Hirsch on the US Government cover up of peak
oil and its implications.
Robert Hirsch produced for the Energy Dept of the US government a report
which was ultimately put away out of sight until it was found by a California
high school and that got it out into the public domain.
http://evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=1751
The report is on Wikipeadia and several other sites.
It has been removed from the Dept of Energy site recently, although I just
saw a report that it was back on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_report
Part of his commentary is worth a moment;
The peak oil story is definitely a bad news story.
There's just no way to sugar-coat it, other than maybe to do what I've done
on occasion and that is to say that by 2050 we'll have it right and we will
have come through the peak oil recession quite probably a very deep recession.
At some point we'll come out of this because we're human beings, and we just
don't give up. And I have faith in people ultimately.
But it's a bad news story and anybody's who's going to stand up and talk
about the bad news story and is in a position of responsibility in the
government needs to then follow immediately and say here's what we're
going to do about it, and no one seems prepared to do that.
unquote
Now don't you all just smile to yourselves and say thats just the US
ignoring realtiy as unfortunately the Swedish government is the only
government in the world prepared to call a spade a bl*odi shovel !
Both the Australian government and the British government have stuck their
heads firmly in the sand with the thought that it is after the next election.
They firmly ignore all mention of it and if pressed use weasel words like
"energy security" which is trying to tie a military and political security
tag onto the problem.
Even Alan Greenspan in a BBC interview says that the current crises was
triggered by the sub-prime loans. No one asked him what triggered the
subprime loans debacle. Some economists are starting to realise it was the
shock of the sudden rise in oil prices during 2008 and that the rise in
petrol prices and food prices stopped many from paying their mortgages.
What caused the sudden rise, nothing more than a tightness in supply.
Not even a shortage.
73 Barry VK2AAB
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