[extropy-chat] Phreak Oil

[Samantha Atkins]

I quit.   I have no time to take out the garbage you insist on heaping 
up.  I hope you enjoy the hell you help create.


On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:00 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>> From Wikipedia:
> "Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
>> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
>
> The Hubbert curve, devised by M. King Hubbert, predicts future oil
> availability.The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, or
> ASPO, is a network of scientists, affiliated with European institutions
> and universities, having an interest in determining the date and impact
> of the peak and decline of the world’s production of oil and gas, due
> to resource constraints.
>
> ASPO was founded by Colin Campbell in 2000. It is the most influential
> organization supporting the "peak oil" theory known as the Hubbert
> curve, devised by M. King Hubbert, which predicts future oil
> availability. It appears in the documentary film The End of Suburbia.
>
> Geologists from the following countries are represented in ASPO:
> Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,
> Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the
> United Kingdom.
>
> [edit]
> Mission
> 1. To evaluate the world’s endowment and definition of oil and gas;
>
> 2. To study depletion, taking due account of economics, demand,
> technology and politics;
>
> 3. To raise awareness of the serious consequences for Mankind."
>
> It is thus clear that, like the European driven hysteria about global
> warming, as a mechanism to institute US carbon taxes that will help
> fund a social welfare state in the US while purporting to be "solving
> global warming", the "Peak Oil" phenom is just another European-run
> propaganda front in the euro-socialist culture-war against low-tax
> Americans. When "Peak Oil" fails to sink in, what next? Shall we see
> claims by european scientists that hyperthermophiles are gobbling up
> all of the oil? Will we see european marine biologists protest the
> tapping of undersea oil seeps when rare and endangered species of
> Archaea are discovered surviving off of the seepage oil? Will we EVER
> see a widespread public acknowledgement by european scientists that
> Europe is solving its energy needs via nuclear power, and its nuclear
> waste problems with breeder reactors?
>
>
>
> Mike Lorrey
> Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
> It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
>                                       -William Pitt (1759-1806)
> Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com
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