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Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 2]

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luxe115 (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Would this be an indication of why it was so important to have a presence in Iraq? We need oil, an invasion of Saudi Arabia was, of course, out of the question. But if you look at the size of Iraq on the map in terms of available oil, wouldn't it make sense to capitalize on their instability? No one wants to be imperialistic, but what do we do? Do we lose for the sake of losing?
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Search Wikipedia for The Great Game and you'll see that the strategic war for dominance in Central Asia has been going on for more than a century. You've mentioned a key player: Saudi Arabia. Alike Kuwait, a regime of the Brits. Kuwait funded Iraq's war with Iran (remember the nationalization of BP and the coup that followed). After the war, Kuwait declined Iraq's request to condone its debt... Americans have already lost the Imperial game, that's why you've bailed out China. It's Oil AND Gas.
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The USA has done absolutely nothing about it, because they have COMPANIES running the oil production instead the NATION running it. The interests of companies are opposite to the ones of nations. While companies don't suffer when oil gets scarce (prices go up, profits for a few people goes up), nations (aka the "normal" people) are suffering greatly. Companies are dictatorships, not democracies. If your country worships "The Corporation", you're already living in a dictatorship.
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I find it appalling that only 1181 people has seen this video so far, and that likely most of these people already know about peak oil.
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Congressman Bartlett found his audience on YouTube. Thank God for YouTube and the way it allows this important message to be disseminated thru the internet. Besides, needed changes won't come thru the intervention of the House of Rep. which is constituted mostly of windbags (Bartlett being the one exception). It's up to the people to get the message and vote with the way they spend their money, constantly having energy efficiency on their mind. If the masses get the message, things will change.

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[May 8th, 2008, U.S. House of Representatives] Congr...
[May 8th, 2008, U.S. House of Representatives] Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and Peak Oil, back together for the x[th] time.

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Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtkq5D...
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2M-_5...
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6hzZ1...
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 4]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbReYd...
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 5]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbm7Fd...

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After that, the last half which reasonably would be more difficult to get, was more difficult to get and production was slower. And so he rationalized that if he could add up all of the little oil fields in the
United States and make a good prediction as to how many more we would find, he could have one big bell curve which is basically the shape of that curve, and he could then predict when the United States would reach its maximum oil production. He was right on target.

Using that same technique, he predicted that the world would be peaking in oil production about now. Now I say that we have known this for 28 years. I say that because by 1980 it was very obvious that M. King Hubbert was right about the United States. We were already well over the peak and sliding down the other side of what is called Hubbert's peak. What did we do? We have done as a world, as a country, absolutely nothing to prepare for the inevitability that M. King Hubbert would probably be
right about the world because he was right about the United States.

Now as the next chart shows, the two entities which track oil production and consumption, and it is essentially the same thing, very little oil is stored in the world compared to the amount that we use, that is the EIA, the Energy Information Administration, a part of our Department of Defense, and the IEA, the International Energy Association, both of those track very well the production of oil. And you can see they have the production of oil about flat for the last 3 years.

Now when I first came here, and I think that was 43 times ago, I think this is the 44th time I have been to the floor, when I was here in 2005, oil was about $50 a barrel, a little over $50 a barrel. Using the predictions of M. King Hubbert, I with some confidence have been saying now for these 43 times, 44 times including tonight, that we were going to get here, that the world was going to reach maximum oil production.

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