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Call for international submissions to Australian Senate Inquiry
Bruce Robinson, ASPO-Australia
ASPO-Australia convenor, Bruce Robinson, urged people worldwide interested in Peak Oil to lodge personal and collective submissions to the Australian Parliament (Senate) inquiry into Peak Oil.
Two pages of summary points is a recommended length, with additional references, links and appendices of other submissions and papers. However, a shorter note or a longer submission would also be useful. Submissions can cover global or national issues, including what Governments in general have a duty to do.
Due by 24th February to rrat.sen@aph.gov.au Later submissions may possibly be accepted.
See www.ASPO-Australia.org.au or the Senate committee’s page.
Inquiry into Australia’s future oil supply
Terms of Reference: Australia’s future oil supply, with particular reference to:
1. Projections of oil production and demand in Australia and globally and the implications for availability and pricing of transport fuels in Australia;
2. Potential of new sources of oil and alternative transport fuels to meet a significant share of Australia’s fuel demands, taking into account
technological developments and environmental and economic costs;
3. Flow-on economic and social impacts in Australia from continuing rises in the price of transport fuel and potential reductions in oil supply;
and
4. Options for reducing Australia’s transport fuel demands
(21 February 2006)
Energy roundtable features Heinberg and Kunstler (AUDIO)
Jim Puplava, Financial Sense Newshour
RICHARD HEINBERG – Journalist, Editor, & Author
“Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World”
JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER – Author
“The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century”
(18 February 2006)
More audio interviews just posted on Global Public Media:
Richard Heinberg
Kevin Danaher (, co-founder of Global Exchange, and author and editor of numerous books exposing the human cost of the economics of globalization)
Anti Economist League elaborates on EROEI
Paul Bieleski, Anti Economist League
Comment from reader Paul Bieleski, Nelson NZ:
You are correct to point out the need for an adequate EROEI, but there are two factors to be considered when determining if a project is energy profitable. We need to consider the energy invested and therefore the energy return over time. My indicator is energy return on energy invested in capital (EROEIC) and is the return per annum of the energy invested. % per annum. The reciprocal is the energy payback period. Its companion figure becomes energy return on energy invested in production (EROEIP) which is the figure you are familiar with. In addition we should consider the ELOT (energy loss on transport) which is the % of energy consumed in transporting the energy say 1000kms.
I have some comments in my website www.tasman.net/ael/oil.htm which you might like to see.
From the About Us page:
The Anti Economist League was set up in 1995 as a non-profit organisation. The aim was to expose the invalidity of economist’s dogma and eliminate the role of economists in public policy making…
The League was set up by Paul Bieleski, a retiree … he took up a career in computing, working for 15 years with IBM and then lecturing at Massey University in Computer Science…. he went back to University, doing some units in Economics. The economics education conflicted with the nature of science, hence ultimately deciding that economics is so phoney, that it needed exposing as a fraud.
(19 February 2006)
The main target of Bielaski’s website seems to be the neo-classical economists who now dominate academia. The classical economists like Adam Smith, Ricardo, Marx, and Malthus have a different set of assumptions. -BA
Polish peak oil sites
Kava, Ropa naftowa
Reader “Kava” writes:
I am running a first Polish peak oil website.
I suppose you don’t speak much Polish :), so just to describe: the site contains introduction to the peak oil topic, descriptions of alternative energy sources and a community forum. There’s also a directory of peak oil links in English.
The addresses are:
http://www.oilpeak.pl
http://directory.oilpeak.pl
http://forum.oilpeak.plI suggest calling the site “Peak oil Poland”, or (as I always do it) to call it in Polish “Ropa naftowa” which simply means “oil”.
(19 February 2006)
