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Headlines : EnvironmentUS report acknowledges peak-oil threat
A new government sponsored report discusses peak oil. The report discusses the impacts of reaching peak oil in the United States. The report recommends that the governments intervene to prevent the chaotic results of not being prepared for the end of the oil age.
[Posted By Ted]Republished from Aljazeeera.net
It has long been denied that the US government bases any policy around the idea that global oil production may be in terminal decline.
But a new US government-sponsored report, obtained by Aljazeera.net, does exactly that.
Authored by Robert Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling and titled The Peaking of World Oil production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management, the report is an assessment requested by the US Department of Energy (DoE), National Energy Technology Laboratory.
It was prepared by Hirsch, who is a senior energy programme adviser at the private scientific and military company, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).
They work extensively on defence and geopolitical issues for clients, including many for the US government.
Advisory roles
Among current job openings at SAIC are positions at Fort Benning (formerly School of the Americas) and a private military contract to help retrain the Albanian air force in Tirana.
Hirsch has held a wide variety of positions in the US energy hierarchy including senior energy analyst at the Rand Corporation, through to a presidentially appointed assistant administrator for solar, geothermal and advanced energy systems.
He has also previously worked for the US Department of Energy on numerous advisory committees, including the DoE Energy Research Advisory Board.
This new report follows…
Posted by Ted
Former submarine sailor, now a peace warrior. I am 28 years old and currently seeking a Physics and Mechanical Engineering B.S. I am currently enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I serve as the Secretary for IVAW-Madison and am the WI...
Bio-Diesel is the answer. Move the main energy supplies within the state that uses them (farms, garbge, waste oil.) Have local prosessing plants and cut off the big boys. Help the trade defict, and the enviroment.
Bio diesal by itself can not solve the problem. There is not enough biomass on the earth to realistically support a world where oil is replaced by biodiesal especially with the increasing demand. What is needed is a fundamental structure change in society from growth based economy to a sustainable economy.
I agree with Tyler, but can’t help thinking (since I live in wine country) – what if all those grapes were hemp…
I can’t help thinking that too, but for entirely different reasons.
No, Oil Peak itself is the answer. For almost two decades I’ve been screaming that our society can’t last, as-is. We use too much, give back too little, and have no connection to the supply chain that feeds us our cheap crude, allowing us to spend $15-$25 on gas to get to a job that pays us $15-$20 a day. We screamed that the system needed to change. Well, soon, it will need to. Those of us who have spent all our time on the internet screaming about it will starve alongside the plebians we’ve assaulted in our words. Those of us who have finally gotten so disgusted with the society we’ve tried to change that we’ve dropped out and started really living outside the system will survive, because after the oil peak, all that will be left todo is plant cornfields in our suburbs. like it or not, Americans are survivors, and we’ll live. But the system we live in, which includes the corperations we all bellow against will not. Therefore, we win. Our only resposibility lies in making sure we and our familys and our communities make it through okay. Mine will, get working on yours.
“The worldfaces “a permanent oil shock” and will have toadjust to sustained high prices in the next two decades, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday in the starkest official warning yet about the long-term outlook for energy supplies. Predicting surging demand from emerging countries and limited new supplies from outside the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries after 2010, Raghuram Rajan, IMF chief economist, said: We should expect to live with high oil prices.