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  • From: J Kolenovsky <garden@hal-pc.org>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] [SANET-MG] Which energy? || How to Beat, Climate Change & Post Fossil Fuel Economy
  • Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:30:19 -0600

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 re&#64257;neries; 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 &#64257;lm includes in-depth, thought-provoking interviews with Matt Simmons, Colin Campbell, David Goodstein, Matt Savinar and many others. Shot on location at oil &#64257;elds from Texas to Azerbaijan, with original music by Daniel Schnyder and Philip Glass, the &#64257;lm 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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