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Current and former elected officials will debate a proposed international agreement to avoid global conflict over the world’s depleting oil supplies during a conference at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon on 19 May 2005.
From farm to plate, the modern food system relies heavily on cheap oil. Threats to our oil supply are also threats to our food supply. As food undergoes more processing and travels farther, the food system consumes ever more energy each year.
OPEC, the source of about 40 percent of the world’s oil, is letting inventories accumulate by ignoring its own output quotas, which are “now obsolete,” the group’s President, Sheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah, said yesterday.
From Washington to New Delhi, Caracas to Moscow and Beijing, national leaders and corporate executives are stepping up their efforts to gain control over major sources of oil and natural gas as the global struggle for energy intensifies. Never has the competitive pursuit of untapped oil and gas reserves been so acute, and never has so much money as well as diplomatic and military muscle been deployed in the contest to win control over major foreign stockpiles of energy.
The Arab-South America summit in Brasilia may herald the start of a new diplomatic circle. Central to that could be a new geo-political axis, an axis of non-aligned oil interests. Some of the countries attending the summit are leading players in the world of oil and energy.
Depletion key to investment outlook / Confiscation of gold? / US Rep.Bartlett continues warnings / Doubts about 4Q supply / Oil exploration & development costs ‘increased considerably’ 2003-04 / Costs of traffic congestion in US worsen
The third Special Order speech on Peak Oil to the US Congress by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett. This time Bartlett opens with a quote by Matt Savinar of the popular website LifeAfterTheOilCrash.net. [updated 10 May with graphics]
The EU has banned the import of US corn feed. The new embargo has further strained a trade relationship already tense over genetically modified food, Airbus subsidies, and the weapons embargo against China.
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CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first
signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream — the
mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe
from freezing.
KUALA LUMPUR : Higher oil prices are creating major problems for Asian countries which subsidize fuel costs, threatening economic growth if the subsidies are kept in place and consumer outrage if they are not.
More than 200 people attended a one-day conference in Edinburgh on 25 April 2005 to hear five leading experts discuss the implications of the approaching peak and decline in global oil supplies.
