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“German military report: Peak oil could lead to collapse of democracy”

German military report: Peak oil could lead to collapse of democracy

Peak oil has happened or will happen some time around this year, and its consequences could threaten the continued survival of democratic governments, says a secret Germany military report that was leaked online.

…the report from a think-tank inside the German military warns that shrinking global [...]

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On Resource War

Calling All Future-Eaters

The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off.

 The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals.

The conquistadors, with the help of smallpox, decimated the native populations in the Americas.

Modern industrial warfare in the 20th century took at least 100 million lives, most of them civilians.

…Homo sapiens, [...]

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Oil Spill Questions of Risk and Return

In many cases what looks like risk-taking is not courage at all
it’s just unrealistic optimism

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds

Unrealistic optimism means you are taking the risk
because you don’t know the odds

Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Laureate, Economics

Could the difference between something that “may” [...]

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Why would the US Military and the IEA have contradictory oil supply outlooks?

US military warns oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 2015

…”By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 million barrels per day,” says the [Joint Operating Environment report from the US Joint Forces Command]…

It adds: “While it is difficult to [...]

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On Peak Oil: Could long term economic recovery be limited to available and/or affordable energy supplies?

Branson warns that oil crunch: Energy crisis threatens to be more serious than credit crunch

Sir Richard Branson and fellow leading businessmen will warn ministers this week that the world is running out of oil and faces an oil crunch within five years.

…Other British executives who will support the warning include Ian Marchant, chief executive of [...]

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On Oil Production, Consumption and Light Sweet and Heavy Sour Crude

1.      Before we started using it, there was about 76 cubic miles of oil on Earth, or a sphere with a diameter of 5.26 miles, about as tall as the tallest mountain on Earth, of which since 1859, we have consumed about half.

If Earth’s diameter [...]

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Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?

Why did Hitler invade Russia?

 

Why was Mohammad Mosaddeq overthrown in Iran?

 

Why did America liberate Iraq?

 

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If there’s only so much oiland unlimited currency production capacitycould energy demand exceeding supplyignite inflation?

Could economic recovery

be limited to available and/or affordable energy supplies?

 

 

Fossil fuels resemble capital in the bank

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If every new beginning is another beginning’s endwhere’s the middle?

Mexico‘s…largest oil field continues to shed output

 

Cantarell reached peak production in 2004

 of over 2 million barrels a day

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Yemen

The country’s 2.8 billion barrels of oil reserves

which fund 70 percent of the national budget

 are forecast by the government to run out

 over the [...]

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