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OIL & ENERGY
12/03/03
Bottom of the Barrel
The world is running out of oil - so why do politicians refuse to talk about it?
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12/1/03
DRAWING LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE - Part 2
The Agricultural Crises in North Korea and Cuba - Part II. Both Cuba and North Korea are "Communist" countries. Yet the people of one country are eating while the people of the other are starving. Why? In taking a deeper look, we see in Cuba a form of capitalism and private ownership centered around local communities. Forget the labels. As dwindling supplies of oil and gas are beginning to impact global food supply - about a decade ahead of predictions, the difference between eating and starving takes on a whole new meaning - even for Americans.
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11/21/03
China's rising grain prices could signal global food crisis - It's Happening Faster Than We Expected
The Agence France-Presse Is reporting that a major famine may be looming for China and that their purchases of US grain could multiply. The AFP Story does not address the serious Peak Oil and Gas issues raised by Dale Allen Pfeiffer in Eating Fossil Fuels or acknowledge that US grain harvests are falling. It does add the new wrinkle of how Global Warming (caused by burning oil and gas) continually reduces crop yields. On top of a recent CNN report announcing that soon the US will not be able to export any grain at all, it is clear that the effects of Peak Oil and Gas have begun to hit sooner than anyone expected.
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11/17/03
DRAWING LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE
Part I of a Special Two Part Series by Dale Allen Pfeiffer - We have been asked, so often, "What can the people do about Peak Oil?" Now FTW looks at the effects of drastic oil shortages in two different countries that have seen their supplies of oil and gas cut to almost nothing, North Korea and Cuba. One, North Korea, is a bitter lesson about what happens to complex systems when the oil and gas run out. Because its economy is top-down, like the US, its devastating failure to adapt is an omen for what we can look forward to, unless we change the financial incentive system and ownership in this country. On the other hand, Cuba, with rapidly increasing local ownership and control, with government decentralization and an imperative on maintaining standards of living in local areas is a model of success and the embodiment of Catherine Austin Fitts' Solari model for place-based equity and financing.
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11/14/03
Oil Demand Soaring, China to Pass Japan Next Year When World Consumption Will Use a Billion Barrels in Less Than Ten Days Time
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11/14/03
Shell Announces Closure of Refinery in Bakersfield
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10/03/03
EATING FOSSIL FUELS
by Dale Allen Pfeiffer. As CNN, The Independent and Jane's Defence Weekly acknowledge the reality of Peak Oil and Gas, admitting that actual global reserves may be 80% less than previously reported, FTW publishes the most important and frightening story in its history. Impeccable research shows that US food production is requiring more and more hydrocarbon energy to produce less and less food. Until now, no one has really reported how much oil, gas and fresh water (pumped by hydrocarbons) we need to feed ourselves and the planet and what we can look forward to as the crisis starts to hit home.
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09/02/03
IMMINENT PERIL (Part II)
In the conclusion of this two-part special series, FTW's Contributing Editor for Energy, Dale Allen Pfeiffer builds upon the wealth of scientific research describing the civilization-threatening consequences of Peak Oil and Gas by taking a look at the existing obstacles to effective change, as well as that hard look that mankind - and especially the industrialized nations - must take if the human race is to survive. He concludes that every "sacred cow" must be on the table, and that our only hope is making sustainability our number one priority.
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08/21/03
FTW EXCLUSIVE, "Behind The Blackout"
Energy Investment Banker, Government Energy Advisor and CFR member Matthew Simmons offers candid and explosive observations on the Northeast Blackout, Peak Oil and Gas and tells the truth about America's energy supplies. Will politicians rise to the challenge? Simmons says, "What that means in the starkest possible terms is that we are no longer going to be able to grow. It's like with a human being who passes a certain age in life. Getting older does not mean the same thing as death. It means progressively diminishing capacity, a rapid decline, followed by a long tail."
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08/21/03
BRAGGING RIGHTS
Dennis Kucinich gets a well deserved "I told you so" for remarkable integrity and a heavy price paid 25 years ago in a battle against the company that started the blackout on Black Thursday, August 14. His own words speak volumes about the current state of the union. Now if only…
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08/18/03
IMMINENT PERIL (Part I)
The Northeast power grid failure demonstrates that the environment and Peak Oil and Gas have now formed a deadly alliance. Yet detailed, even prophetic warnings and analyses of energy issues are now coming true with stark precision. FTW's Contributing Editor for Energy, Dale Allen Pfeiffer, takes a detailed look at a record that foresaw the crises we are seeing today and leads us in the direction of paths that can help address energy issues that have just begun to eat at the fabric of society. The only way out comes from a complete revision of the way society works, starting with an overriding commitment to sustainability (a reduction of consumption) and a commitment to policy, which means political leadership. The latter is perhaps more scarce a commodity than natural gas.
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08/18/03
Why Hydrogen is No Solution - Scientific Answers to Marketing Hype, Deception and Wishful Thinking
A look back at more than a year of FTW's examination of the hard science on hydrogen and why it is no solution to today's problems. A very handy reference and reality check on the mythical "Hydrogen Economy".
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08/15/03
SMOKING GUN: THE CIA'S INTEREST IN PEAK OIL (special to FTW)
Professor Richard Heinberg, author of the revolutionary new book The Party's Over, has found and dissected a newly declassified 1977 CIA report on the peak of oil production in Russia. What it reveals is a stark acknowledgment of the reality of Peak Oil for the entire planet and the fact that its implications have been of concern to the CIA for a long time.
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07/12/03
Washington, DC Emergency Natural Gas Summit Hints At Coming Crisis
When Markets Fail - America Leaps Off the Gas Cliff Without A Parachute
Environmental and Energy Activist Julian Darley Attends DOE Conference on Natural Gas and Questions Spencer Abraham. It's a mixture of myth, madness, denial and the inability of America's political and economic system to function in the real world when corporate priorities and political need drive decision making. As Peak Oil and Gas continue to intrude on the American psyche it is becoming clear that chaotic government responses may become the rule as geology and physics trump economic theory intended to support the markets.
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06/12/03
Revealing Statements from a Bush Insider about Peak Oil and Natural Gas Depletion: FTW EXCLUSIVE
Bush energy advisor to the secret Energy Task Force headed by Dick Cheney before 9/11, Matthew Simmons, spoke candidly about Peak Oil at a recent Paris conference attended by FTW Editor Mike Ruppert. The transcribed remarks of this CFR member at this exclusive conference are chilling affirmations of the only issue driving world events since 9/11.
"The uh, I think basically that now, that peaking of oil will never be accurately predicted until after the fact. But the event will occur, and my analysis is leaning me more by the month, the worry that peaking is at hand; not years away. If it turns out I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. But if I'm right, the unforeseen consequences are devastating...But unfortunately the world has no Plan B if I'm right. The facts are too serious to ignore. Sadly the pessimist-optimist debate started too late."
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06/9/03
Financial Times Reports US Natural Gas Supplies at Critical Lows
Greenspan to address economic threat posed by possible imminent shortages and brownouts.
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05/31/03
Paris Peak Oil Conference Reveals Deepening Crisis
Bush Advisor Matt Simmons who advised Cheney's Energy Task Force confirms Peak Oil is major concern of Bush Administration. Peak Oil symptoms more apparent. Recoverable reserves may be less than hoped. Natural gas shortages may appear in US this year. Hydrogen vastly overrated and not likely to offer solution.
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05/27/03
NINE CRITICAL QUESTIONS TO ASK ABOUT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES
Before jumping into the many lifeboats being offered as a replacement for hydrocarbon energy, shouldn't we see if they float? Here is a simple list of questions you can use to see if what is being promoted will take care of you, not to mention your children.
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05/27/03
CANADIAN TAR SANDS DISASTER
For all the people touting tar sands as a solution to the pending apocalypse of Peak Oil, a little experience with reality should help them understand that the books on energy are as cooked as the books of Enron, WorldCom and Halliburton. When business tells you there's plenty of oil it is only to protect the financial markets. One more time Canada gets screwed as tar sands oil production proves to be a non-cost effective and environmentally destructive concept.
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05/15/03
SAUDI ARABIA, WEST AFRICA -- NEXT STOPS IN THE INFINITE WAR FOR OIL
FTW Predicted Saudi Destabilization Nine Months Ago. As venerable progressive icons like Pacifica radio's "Democracy Now" belatedly discover the inconsistencies and lies of 9/11, the moves for the next conquests are already in play. Deployment of US troops for the Iraqi invasion was also the preparation for the seizure of Saudi Arabia's reserves, the largest in the world. And the smaller but more accessible prizes of West African reserves have become predictably threatened by rebel uprisings and - Surprise! - al Qaeda. Peak Oil is confirmed yet again.
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05/11/03
House Ties US Investment in Mexican Oil to Immigration
Mexico Outraged – More Proof of Peak Oil as the Empire Bludgeons Its Way to Control Dwindling Reserves.
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05/01/03
U.S., U.K. Waged War on Iraq Because of Oil, Blair Adviser Says
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04/29/03
DEBUNKING MAINSTREAM MEDIA'S LIES ABOUT OIL
FTW Contributing Editor for energy Dale Allen Pfeiffer deconstructs Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel Yergin's recent San Francisco Chronicle story about world oil reserves and oil politics. It's not difficult to prove that we are all being misled, once you know the right questions to ask. Everything that's happening is about oil, and the facts – understandable by any American - are there to prove it.
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04/20/03
DID A 1965 TV SHOW FORETELL PEAK OIL?
Was it just a writer's fantasy? Or did they know something...
FTW takes a fun peek into a time when TV shows actually had plots.
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04/16/03
CRUNCHING NUMBERS
With Saddam removed, a sobering look at U.S. energy and economic prospects confirms a long-term campaign and dashes hopes for a quick economic recovery - The U.S. has no Intention of leaving Iraq and Iraqi looting and destruction of infrastructure may be a part of the U.S. plan - OPEC backs the U.S. into a corner - Global production as a weapon of war - A major warning shot gets fired across the administration's bow.
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04/10/03
MIKE RUPPERT TO ATTEND PARIS CONFERENCE ON PEAK OIL
FTW Editor Mike Ruppert to attend May Paris Conference of Oil Industry Experts on Peak Energy Issues. American journalists and scholars encouraged to attend.
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04/4/03
BBC CONFIRMS "PEAK OIL" AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE PLANET
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03/31/03
PLAN COLOMBIA: THE PENTAGON'S SHELL GAME
Clearing the Land for the Oil Companies - Veteran journalist Peter Gorman, no stranger to FTW, takes a look at one of the next conquests coming for the Empire, oil-rich Southern Colombia. Gorman finds a massive depopulation and deforestation campaign using chemicals that, when burned, produce Hydrogen Cyanide – the same gas used in Nazi Concentration Camps. Not surprisingly, the carnage is horrifying. AS IRAQI OIL BECOMES MORE ELUSIVE, COLOMBIAN OIL BECOMES ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT.
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03/07/03
U.S. INTENTIONS
FTW’s Contributing Editor for Energy, Geologist Dale Allen Pfeiffer reveals that the Bush administration was aware of Peak Oil and what it meant before taking office. He also takes a hard look at the condition of Iraqi oil fields and blows away the Wall Street fantasy that a U.S. occupation of Iraq will produce a quick fix for the markets and world oil supply – As NATURAL GAS prices triple around the country Pfeiffer also confirms (again) what FTW has been saying for a year. Natural Gas depletion may tank the U.S. economy in a one-two punch along with oil prices.
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01/30/03
EMPTYING THE LARDER
The First Real Pains of Peak Oil and Natural Gas Depletion Are Hitting Home in the U.S. As Ranchers Pick Up Rifles and Oil Stocks Hit 27-Year Lows.
Can $3.00 Gasoline Be Far Behind?
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12/10/02
Venezuelan Crisis indicates U.S. oil price spikes and recession imminent
Americans who are asking what they should do here at home to stop the tyranny should take a lesson from the people of Venezuela. One of America's largest oil suppliers is about to stop deliveries. AL GIORDANO AND NARCONEWS BREAK THE MEDIA CARTEL WITH ACCURATE REPORTS FROM CARACAS.
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12/30/02
VENEZUELA: INTERVENTIONS 'R' US
A column by FTW energy expert Dale Allen Pfeiffer.
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12/5/02
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING – Dale Allen Pfeiffer discloses a hidden reality behind the new war fever in U.S. foreign policy. Over the last 24 months, in spite of billions in commitments and research, drilling results have shown that the great Caspian/Central Asian oil bonanza is a bust. Even the majors are pulling out of the region. Coming oil shortages are now more certain and severe, and the oil in Iraq and Saudi Arabia is more important than ever.
ALSO – Bursting Hydrogen’s Bubble – As awareness of Peak Oil starts to sink in the government is trying to sell people that hydrogen will save everyone at the last minute. It’s a scientific myth. See why.
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10/28/02
Wheels Come Off U.S. War Plans For Iraq. Administration Making Riskier, More Volatile Moves to Begin "All or Nothing" Gamble for Iraqi Oilfields.
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10/23/02
FTW Exclusive Interview: Colin Campbell on Oil. Perhaps the World's Foremost Expert on Oil and the Oil Business Confirms the Ever More Apparent Reality of the Post-9-11 World.
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10/11/02
The Unseen Conflict
War Plans, Backroom Deals, Leverage and Strategy -- Securing What's Left of the Planet's Oil Is and Has Always Been the Bottom Line
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09/25/02
IS CHINA THE ENDGAME FOR OIL?
A disturbing new analysis by FTW Contributing Editor for Energy Dale Allen Pfeiffer.
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08/08/02
IS THE EMPIRE ABOUT OIL? Some critics have steadfastly argued that the events of 9-11 and since have nothing to do with oil but rather with containment of Russia. By ignoring the obvious and resorting to personal attacks they have missed the obvious. FTW's Dale Allen Pfeiffer, a geologist, puts things in perspective on the eve of a major war in the Middle East.
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07-17-02
PIPELINEISTAN
by Dale Allen Pfeiffer - A Detailed Study of the Record Since 9-11 Shows That Pipeline Construction is Moving Ahead at Full Tilt.
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6/21/02
Leaping of the Natural Gas Cliff -- more evidence of coming oil and gas shortages by Dale Allen Pfeiffer. Plus a word about the foolishness of Ethanol.
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04-04-02
Oil and Recession. World Oil Production May Have Already Peaked. We May Have Ten Years of Rapid Up and Down Oil Prices Before the Big Crunch Hits. There is NO Abiotic Oil. Why Do Bush and Cheney Have Private Homes in Texas and Wyoming That Are Fully Prepared for What May be Coming?
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04-4-02
The Elephant in the Living Room (Part I) - John Ashcroft has serious conflicts of interest around two grand juries investigating two of his biggest 2000 campaign donors, ExxonMobil and BP Amoco. He recused from Enron but not in this case. Both Companies Got Into the Still Secret Energy Task Force Headed by Dick Cheney. The Charges Have to do with Kazakh Oil That the Majors Couldn't Get to Market. When the Crimes Were Committed Dick Cheney Sat on the Kazakh Government's Oil Advisory Board.
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1-29-02
 What Next. The Coming Oil Crisis Will be Worse Than You Expect. Scientific research material supports plausibility of a plan to murder 3-4 billion people.
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12-18-01
 THE BACKGROUND IS OIL
A global oil crisis that cannot be postponed or evaded is upon us. Geologist Dale Allen Pfeiffer explains -- in layman's terms a context for recent events that makes the inexcusable actions of the Bush administration understandable. Some groups will do anything to avoid letting go of power, including killing millions of people. Whos next?
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