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Today’s Prophetic Noahs and Paul Reveres Sound Alarms / Oil Doomsday is Nigh, Tar Sands Not a Substitute / Qatar to revolutionise diesel market / Bush energy policy: So stupid, it’s painful

Powerdown – back to Eden? / USEIA’s unbelievable optimism / Kunstler: The Rapture / End of the Age of Oil / Strategic Conundrum Of India’s Oil Pipeline Projects / Trading oil for biomass / Bush’s energy solution / Five Arab countries and Turkey to be linked via power grids / Afghan ‘pipe dream’ draws closer to reality / Less-polluting hybrid locomotive begins operation

Push for release of oil & gas production data / Farm costs up 10% / Cheney clings tight to Energy Taskforce records / Construction of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline nearly complete / Nova Scotia: Fewer gas stations, fewer tourists? / UK Oil Co’s fear Windfall tax / Whitehouse wants oil price at $25 a barrel

Nuclear can’t replace oil imports / ‘Last chance for civilisation’ / Brewing biofuels in the kitchen / Saudi oil infrastructure boobytrapped? / Rural gas stations feel the squeeze / Subsidised oil products hurt Indian oil Co’s / Philipinnes inflation driven up by oil / Australia plans ‘terror shield’ for oil platforms

Pr. Aleklett interviewed on Undercurrent radio / Chavez: Oil Firms Owing Taxes Must Pay Or Leave / OPEC Head blames high prices on ‘psychological worry’ / Cities, Skyscrapers and Energy / Ethanol boost in Minnesota fuel heads closer to law / Markets At A Glance Peak Oil – Are We There Yet?

Oil and gas depletion workshop in Lisbon May 19-20 / James Kunstler on Art Bell show May 8 / UK plans huge nuclear power program / UK Secretary of Environment opposes nuclear / Who will pay for UK’s nuclear program?

Getting prepared for PO – no immediate blot on the horizon / Building the hydrogen boom in Iceland / Largest solar power station in Portugal / Recovering from lignite / Bush energy proposals critiqued / Green car blogger answers transport and fuel questions / Seattle “Beyond Oil” conference May 14

Radical youth journal espouses PO / “End of Suburbia” scares, inspires N. Calif. audience / Rep. Bartlett sets another precedent / Energy policy is “So stupid, it’s painful” says Molly Ivins / Will wood help fill US energy needs? / Oil discovery in Utah / Oil projects may get less scrutiny / Blair’s next war / Nations seek to ‘save oil in a big hurry’ / JPMorgan Chase pledges sustainability

Global energy – how much remains? / Interview with Jan Lundberg / MP3 of Pres. Carter’s energy speech / Energy crisis 1974 in Science magazine / May ASPO newsletter / Salon debunks energy independence / worst case scenario – Peak Oil America / July Playboy uncovers PO / T. Boone Pickens on PO / Oil problems in Venezuela / NY Times hesitant about nuclear / UK Greens warn that Labour will bring nuclear / Rising call: Cut US oil imports / US wants “Clean Coal” / more

Beginning in the mid-1980s, Greenpeace, and much of the environmental movement, made a sharp turn to the political left and began adopting extreme agendas that abandoned science and logic in favour of emotion and sensationalism.