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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 11/16/2004, you wrote:

> I've been reading extensively on the looming energy crisis (that most 
> Americans are totally unaware of and wouldn't care about if they were!) 
> and found this interview on the Guerrilla News Network. I've been reading 
> Adam Porter's stuff on the alJazeera website for some time and this is 
> interesting. As Bette Davis would say, "fasten your seatbelt, it's gonna 
> be a bumpy ride."

Read "The Prize" by Daniel Yergin.  It is not about peak oil but about how 
we got into this position in the first place.  In the 30s Harold Ickes was 
telling everyone how cheap oil was the foundation of US and much of western 
culture and economics.

Peak oil is coming and it will not be an easy ride.  No amount of 
expenditures on Hydrogen or new CAFE laws will do much more than moving the 
date out a few years.

Don Bowen
Awl Knotted Up Woodworking
Valley Center, CA             http://www.braingarage.com