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145

Just checking.

What’s next

So let’s predict again:
The global economy would collapse if oil hit $200 a barrel, said the top energy analyst at Germany’s largest bank. “Two-hundred dollar oil would break the back of the global economy,” Deutsche Bank AG’s Chief Energy Economist Adam Sieminski said in an interview today in Tokyo. “Next step after $200 would be [...]

135

It’s the end of the world as we know it.

Peak oil culture wars

How the World Works:

Partisan conservatives pooh-pooh peak oil (and human-caused climate change) because they think that to concede that these challenges are real and must be confronted is to acknowledge that greed is not always good, and that free market capitalism must be restrained, or at least tinkered with substantially. Peak oil and climate change [...]

125

It was predicted a few years ago, that 120 dollars per barrel would mean global recession.
Now the record is over 125.

120

Relentless.
Here’s the reason, in crystal clear Norwegian:
Verdens forsyning av råolje og kondensat var 0,265 Mb/d lavere for hele 2007 relativt 2006. For 2006 viser dataene at forsyningen var 0,268 Mb/d lavere enn i 2005. Siden 2005 er altså den globale forsyningen av råolje og kondensat redusert med 0,53 Mb/d.

Kameli

Wikipedian mukaan kuuluisan lauseen “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel” esitti sheikki Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Yhdistyneiden arabiemiirikuntien pitkäaikainen pääministeri, kuvatakseen maansa öljyvarojen riittävyyttä.
Arabian niemimaalla öljyä [...]

Amerikkalainen elämäntapa

… ei ole neuvoteltavissa:
Amerikkalainen kuoronjohtaja on ottanut järeät keinot käyttöön, jotta bensiinin hinta saataisiin laskuun.
Washingtonilainen Rocky Twyman saapui viime viikonloppuna San Franciscoon, missä hän järjesti rukoustilaisuuden huoltoasemalla.
Rukoustilaisuudessa Twyman kehotti kirkkoväkeä pyytämään Jumalan väliintuloa siihen, missä poliitikot ovat epäonnistuneet. Amerikkalaisittain kallis bensiini, lähes dollari (60 eurosenttiä) litralta, kismittää San Franciscon lahden alueella.
Eikä myöskään kestävä.

Seuraa retorinen [...]

115

Just amazing. 115.
And the food riots around the world…
I hope we soon adopt what the former foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja suggested; gasoline rationing.
This is the year when the s–t hits the fan. Amazing.
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110

The pixels are hardly dry on the 105, when we have 110.
This is turning out to be a very bumpy year.