[permaculture] [SANET-MG] Which energy? || How to Beat, Climate Change & Post Fossil Fuel Economy

J Kolenovsky garden at hal-pc.org
Sun Mar 12 14:30:19 EST 2006


Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. thank you. Thank you! I wish I could 
write in iambic pentameter.

I was about to explode, get real violent or anything else to satisfy my 
questions about Peak Oil. I know you didn't write on Peak Oil but just 
about wrote of evryelse that relates to permaculture, so I jumped on the 
rear of the caboose at a whistle stop.

I went to Elders and Deacons who work for Big Oil and when I asked them 
about Peak Oil, thet would not say a damn thing. No yay, no nay, no 
nasty 4 letter words (Oops, wrong ethnic profile). 4 letter words 
applied to when asked about Peak Oil, neighbors, friends, associates, 
parents and friends of associates,  ex-girlfriends. petroleum lawyers, 
ad infitum, etc and so-on.
What the --- is going on??? I mean is the a higher power that is 
shouting these mouths. I feel the facts are there. I don't if all the 
facts are verifiable, but I've only been reading for about 3 months.

Another subject. Yesterday in Austin, the movie Oil Crash Movie World 
Premiere debuted.

http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/

Please join us for the world premiere of Oil Crash the Movie at the SXSW
film festival on March 11th at 2:00 PM at the Austin Convention Center.
We will be holding a press conference at 11:30 AM, March 11th, in the
Press Suite at the Austin Convention Center.  We look forward to seeing
you there.  Attached is the press release and flyer for Oil Crash.

A film millions of years in the making...     WORLD PREMIERE AT SXSW 
FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday March 11, 2006
2 PM Convention Center Auditorium
   OilCrash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists 
Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our 
civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with 
geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film 
visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but 
logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily 
available oil, must be completely reimagined and overhauled.
   The idea that the world’s oil supplies have peaked, or will soon, is 
gaining mainstream currency. Robert B. Semple, Jr., associate editor of 
the New York Times editorial board, writes in the paper’s March 1 online 
edition:
   “The Age of Oil — 100-plus years of astonishing economic growth made 
possible by cheap, abundant oil — could be ending without our really 
being aware of it. Oil is a finite commodity. At some point even the 
vast reservoirs of Saudi Arabia will run dry. But before that happens 
there will come a day when oil production ‘peaks,’ when demand overtakes 
supply (and never looks back), resulting in large and possibly 
catastrophic price increases that could make today‘s $60-a-barrel oil 
look like chump change. Unless, of course, we begin to develop 
substitutes for oil. Or begin to live more abstemiously. Or both. The 
concept of peak oil has not been widely written about. But people are 
talking about it now. It deserves a careful look — largely because it is 
almost certainly correct.”
   Semple concludes: “These [are] not doomsday scenarios from conspiracy 
theorists, but hard scientific facts backed by serious research.”
   You needn’t be a conspiracy theorist to see a connection between 
America’s current obsessions with the Middle East and national security, 
and the world’s looming oil crisis. The frenzied search for alternative 
sources of energy now being pursued by the largest multinational energy 
corporations makes it clear they also believe a crisis is fast 
approaching. Each day’s headlines, whether the subject is Iraq or South 
America, sheds new light on the issue.
   Producer Basil Gelpke explains: “Suddenly, seemingly unconnected news 
about Katrina and Rita hitting the Gulf Coast’s oil refineries; 
the ongoing war in Iraq; the nuclear ambitions of Iran; the populist 
politics of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela; the appalling corruption in most 
oil producing countries; the de facto nationalization of Yukos in 
Russia; the steep rise in costs of everything oil-related; and even 
increasing share prices of companies involved in solar, wind and nuclear 
energy all pointed in the same direction. Oil is running out, and nobody 
is ready for the cataclysm that is bound to follow.”
   The film includes in-depth, thought-provoking interviews with 
Matt Simmons, Colin Campbell, David Goodstein, Matt Savinar and many 
others. Shot on location at oil fields from Texas to Azerbaijan, 
with original music by Daniel Schnyder and Philip Glass, the film 
provides not only questions, but possible solutions to the most 
perplexing and important economic, environmental and public policy issue 
of our time. One year ago, in a report commissioned by the U.S. 
Department of Energy, Robert L. Hirsch challenged the notion that the 
free market can solve the onrushing emergency:
   „The world has never faced a problem like Peak Oil. Without massive 
mitigation more than a decade before the fact, the problem will be 
pervasive and will not be temporary. Previous energy transitions (wood 
to coal and coal to oil) were gradual and evolutionary; oil peaking will 
be abrupt and revolutionary.“


Kindest Regards,

Basil Gelpke
512.450.8411 mobile
Ray McCormack
512.450.8422 mobile
Linda Litowsky
512.750.3303 mobile, please call Linda for interviews.

There's another movie coming up:

http://www.peakoil.net/Documentary.html - these guys don't answer e-mail 
. Must be roadies filming is Europe. Man o man. Must be the life.

http://www.peakoil.net - very good site

http://members.home.nl/peakoil/introduction.html - ditto

http://www.energybulletin.net/ - holy poop. Really bad dude. I read 
daily. Great stuff.

Mtruck has stickers about Peak Oil, I have glow in the dard letterst 
that say Peak Oil and I have an electric scrolling message license plate 
frame that get a heckofalot attention.

"I love to change the world, but I don't know what to do, so I leave it 
up to permies. Everywhere is jarheads and angels, levees and bald, tell 
me where is sanity?"

JK


-- 
J. Kolenovsky, 2003 Honorable Mention Award, Keep Houston Beautiful
ô¿ô - http://www.celestialhabitats.com - environmental resource
ô¿ô - http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/
ô¿ô - http://www.peakoil.org and http://www.endofsuburbia.com -
          start becoming attuned to the "new lifestyle" ahead of you
ô¿ô - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/personal.html - personal




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