No problem. It's one of my many interests. Thank goodness I work at a job that I can surf the internet for personal research when it isn't busy.

One of the great benefits of sites like Videosift is that we get to combine our efforts together and bring all kinds of interesting things to each other's attention. With a little individual time and effort for sharing, we all benefit as a group and as individuals.


>> ^calvados:
^Curio: Very cool, thank you for all that!

Peak Oil is a confabulation-Watch for more and more of these reports, being piped into the weak minds of media sponges as a daily staple, not unlike the emphasis on a global response to so-called global warming and climate change issues, then follows the justification for the gasoline prices reaching record highs, as oil soars in the next year to over 140 dollars a barrel.....

People will believe what they are drilled with-we are being played daily...

Great sift. I got some websites added to my favorites and found a group in my area.

He talks about just the US imports. I think an important issue also is that you have many countries (China pops to mind immediately) that are very aggressively competing for the existing oil supply.

I disagree with the speaker's point about Peak Oil being the driver of inflation for the dollar. I think that the government printing more money when they need/want it is the primary source of the devaluation of the dollar. But if you want to talk about inflation, you should look at the Middle East. Since their oil standard is the dollar, they are the ones that have been experiencing the inflation instead of the US. I read in the Economist that they had been experiencing inflation in the mid-20% per year. In fact the UAE switched its oil standard to a "Currency Bucket" that includes other currencies in an effort to decrease the out-of-control inflation. Of course, no doubt due to pressure, 70% of that bucket is still the dollar.

Here are some websites that may be of interest (focused around building local community):
Financial: http://www.solari.com
Local currency: http://www.riverhours.org/
Local currency: http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/
Example of city farming: http://pathtofreedom.com/
Biointensive farming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biointensive/
Buy local food (US): http://www.localharvest.org/
PBS NOW episode (growing local food): http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/344/index.html

From video:
Post oil groups: http://relocalize.net/
Energy news: http://www.energybulletin.net/

Oh yeah, here is the US can eliminated oil imports: http://www.videosift.com/video/TED-Talks-Amory-Lovins

that's because peak oil is a confabulation, and you two are poor suckers in a thick herd of millions....

choggie, I don't see hope in any of your rants.

These are the best of times because we're on a gas guzzling induced high. The one-two punch of peak oil and climate change are about to knock our socks off, but I'm not one of those Luddite-anarchists who thinks we should give up the ghost and go back to horse-and-buggy times.

I've seen this, worth watching, nice insight into day-to-day dealings of the oil industry and market

edit: i lied mistook it for some other docu on peak oil, but i'm watching this right now, good post

farhad you're as bad as the corporate facist regime which needs to tumble. what happened to free speach er... tags?

it's cool though as long as people listen to both sides and make a rational choice on their own. (god I wish that actually happened.)

QM if you think the economy is good right now you must believe in trickle down economics and hubbert's '56 peak oil projections.

any country where an individual in lower middle class(me) pays near 25% tax rate but the bomb making military companies get their already low 14% cut to 7% during a time of extreme boom for them isn't a place that fosters the economy of the people.

not to mention our dollar which in a not-very-well-thought -out plan to increase exports was purposefully devalued over the last 6 years.

yeah the economy is great....

Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The END of SUBURBIA explored the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet enters the age of Peak Oil.

In ESCAPE From SUBURBIA director Greg Greene once again takes us “through the looking glass” on a journey of discovery – a sobering yet vital and ultimately positive exploration of what the second half of the Oil Age has in store for us.

Through personal stories and interviews we examine how declining world oil production has already begun to affect modern life in North America. Expert scientific opinion is balanced with “on the street” portraits from an emerging global movement of citizen’s groups who are confronting the challenges of Peak Oil in extraordinary ways.

The clock is ticking. ESCAPE From SUBURBIA asks the tough questions: Are we approaching Peak Oil now? What are the controversies surrounding our future energy options? Why are a growing number of specialists and citizens skeptical of these options? What are ordinary people across North America doing in their own communities to prepare for Peak Oil? And what will YOU do as energy prices skyrocket and the Oil Age draws to a close?

http://escapefromsuburbia.com/

Peak oil?
What do liberals know?!?
The only thing liberals have been right about recently are the Iraq war, global warming, the housing market, Medicare, Social Security....;)

Did I just get called a communist?

First of all, the question of God, and his acceptance or not is subjective to each individual and as such each is allowed to make up their minds. I do not question or argue against that, I will wholeheartedly admit that I am not entirely clear on it either.

However I question religious presence when it comes to issues of national policy and the liberty of its citizens. As for what Dag said...

All the examples you put forward so far have one significant common thread the existence of a higher political order imposed on a population through the systematic elimination of any opposition. The higher political order does what is most beneficial to it's further existence, it eliminates all possible opposition through violent force flying whatever idealogical concept best suits their needs. In Nazi Germany there was the Night of Long Knives, the burning of the Reichstag, and of course the genocide of jews included political dissenters, communists and homosexuals.

In Stalinist Russia it was called the NKVD during World War 2, where the paranoid Stalin would regularly conduct purges to eliminate any possible dissent from the military and the populace. Stalin did not trust his own intelligence thinking it was all lies, thus Russia's response to Germany's invasion was so slow. Then the KGB came that watched over the entire population, again purging any possible dissent.

Exactly where atheism and theism reside in these two engines of war and control I don't really see. Neither Hitler or Stalin cared about religion, they cared about power and control, it's not like they were astronomers mapping space for the benefit of man's evolution, their research focused on war exclusively, there was no correlation between atheism and belief in science and their power over the people. It was fear, control and propaganda. Hitler himself is quoted as saying that he is not here to elevate man but to make use of his weaknesses, he exploited the weakness of a battered nation placing their blame on a political ideology (communism), a race (jews) and anyone else (homosexuals, anarchists and so on) he thought unfit for his vision of a 1000 year Reich.

Never have I proposed that we use science in any such manner, what I see is theism being used time and time again throughout history as a way to placate the population in various endeavors of conflict. I believe religion is beneficial to human development, and I have been brought up as such, however I do not see it's place in the offices of goverment in the conduct of policy. Either as a tool to placate the populace into supporting an unjust war through fear or to sell a political candidate as something he really is not. What God fearing man sends his men to die when he clearly didn't get the facts right but somehow the intelligence is cherry picked but we don't talk about it? And Bishops? Are they so high and mighty? What of the sexual scandals?

Even if the religious texts are from God, clearly his main mantra about you know loving everybody even if they are different is not followed by those who pretend to be devout Christians. There is no God in Iraq marching for the US. What the administration did is use religion and it's supporters to win the Whitehouse twice. This administration doesn't care about family values, or abortion, or stem cells or healthcare. It's machine was engineered to capture the gut feelings of all voters, to activate them, this is how an election during a war on two fronts and questionable economic status was voted on family values, topics like abortion and homosexuality.

Was it really as important as the conduct of military foreign policy under the banner of freedom? The escalation of military forces in Iraq (150,000 currently) with additional 20,000 coming in. Which is dismal to say the least and huge military gamble, there is no additional reserve after that number, and after there is the draft. US forces are engaging fleeing forces from Somalia, in similar operations carried out in Afghanistan. All this to assure a viable source of Oil for the US in the short future as oil reserves reach peak oil levels after which less and less barrels of oil will be produced. Blah blah blah This is all covered in the excellent History of Oil sift

My issue isn't with religion as with it's application as a political tool. That is the proper definition of Secularism, being the ideology that holds that religious issues should not be the basis of politics, it's only extremists who hold that religion has no place in public life for that is an issue for each person to decide for themselves on their own.

zudo,

I have trouble suffering fools. You watched 30 seconds and are more of an expert than ABC! Bravo. Sure, you have no facts, and probably are wrong, but hey you've got a keyboard.

The guy's email headerhad an IP that was sent from and that happened to be from a DCI Group computer. Now reporters look up stuff and found out that one of DCI's biggest clients is... (drumroll) Exxon-Mobil

It's not hard to assume that a PR company putting out an viral video on YouTube made to look all amateurish isn't trying a subversive astroturf campaign. This wasn't some bored lobbyiest who happens to have a passionate hobby of making YouTube crap. If you have watched TV lately, you probably watched a huge ad campaign run my Exxon to whitewash their image and put out even more astroturf. The message being put out is that Al Gore is boring and full of it, and there is nothing to worry about. Sounds like the message I would try and put out if I was worried about people finding out about Peak Oil.