German-Based Energy Watch Group: Oil Production Peaked in 2006
October 22nd, 2007From the article:
“When I was an adviser to government, I proposed that we set up a taskforce to look at how fast the UK could mobilise alternative energy technologies in extremis, come the peak,” he said. “Other industry advisers supported that. But the government prefers to sleep on without even doing a contingency study. For those of us who know that premature peak oil is a clear and present danger, it is impossible to understand such complacency.“
It’s not impossible to understand at all, once you realize that energy scarcity is a big, fat red herring. It’s scarcity of everything else that’s the real problem, with top soil and water being the main concerns. Our general failure to grasp “the concept of enough” doesn’t help either.
Put yourself in the shoes of the elite for a moment.
What’s the easiest way to eliminate—or delay the onset of—all of the other scarcity issues while maintaining most of your status, privilege and control?
Kill off.
There appears to be no contingency plan because the people in polite circles who look at these issues refuse to see it.
They won’t roll out the clean technology because it doesn’t solve the other—very real—scarcity problems! Browse through the Kill Off category on Cryptogon. There’s a contingency plan, alright. It’s a combination of clean, green fascism and genocide.
Via: Guardian:
World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown.
The German-based Energy Watch Group will release its study in London today saying that global oil production peaked in 2006 – much earlier than most experts had expected. The report, which predicts that production will now fall by 7% a year, comes after oil prices set new records almost every day last week, on Friday hitting more than $90 (£44) a barrel.
“The world soon will not be able to produce all the oil it needs as demand is rising while supply is falling. This is a huge problem for the world economy,” said Hans-Josef Fell, EWG’s founder and the German MP behind the country’s successful support system for renewable energy.
The report’s author, Joerg Schindler, said its most alarming finding was the steep decline in oil production after its peak, which he says is now behind us.
