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pstarr said:
Can anyone point me to the source of these numbers on Peak Oil
I think you can find anything published by the EIA here:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/internation ... #IntlTradeWhat I am saying is the a pre-peak bottleneck of any kind may alert folks to their predicament. As you have all so persuasively pointed out, it may be trigger for, let us say, a significant government response.
This may be one of the reasons why the Bush administration has been so quite on the oil predicament. The first thing people will do when they understand the situation is to “
run in circles, scream and shout”. The second thing, that they will most probably do, is something really stupid. Lastly, when all else fails, they will stop and think. When that happens, Uncle Sam is in serious s**t and the Federal Government knows it! ! Just think of the wailing and gnashing of teeth in Washington when all those overpaid bureaucrats realize that they may lose their big fat pensions, triple AAA health insurance, that no regular person out side of Bill Gates could afford, and their prepaid life insurance.
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