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Rep. Bartlett on CNN’s “Situation Room” at ~4:30pm ET
Situation Room, CNN
CNN’s “The Situation Room” anticipates airing a story about Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and peak oil in conjunction with releasing some results from a new poll about energy today at approximately 4:30 pm Eastern.
CNN Editor’s Note: The Situation Report is a running log of dispatches, quotes, links and behind-the-scenes notes filed by the correspondents and producers of CNN’s Washington Bureau. Watch “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer on CNN 4 p.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. ET to 8 p.m. ET weekdays.
(15 March 2006)
The CNN webpage says the show Wednesday is devoted to energy and starts at 4 pm ET.
Related story at The Oil Drum.
UPDATE: EV World has just posted an audio clip of the CNN report covering Bartlett and the CNN/USA-TODAY energy poll (about 5 minutes long).
And just in from Leanan at The Oil Drum — a transcript of the report (the energy portion is about 60% of the way through the file – search for “Sesno”.
Peak oil conference in Washington DC May 7-9
University of Maryland
The University of Maryland’s Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology Program will host:
Sustainable Energy Forum 2006: Peak Oil and the Environment
Sustainable Energy Forum 2006 will bring together scientists, policymakers and advocates
from government, environmental NGO’s and civil society groups to identify the challenges and
opportunities for a sustainable energy future.
Speakers include:
Roscoe Bartlett (Congressman, 6th District Maryland)
Mona Sahlin (Minister for Sustainable Development, Sweden)
Lester Brown (Founder, Earth Policy Institute)
Herman Daly (Professor, Public Policy, University of Maryland)
James Hansen (Climate expert)
Kenneth Deffeyes (Professor, Geology, Princeton University)
Michael Klare (Professor, Peace & World Security, Hampshire College)
Daniel Lashof (Deputy Director, NRDC Climate Center)
William Catton (Professor emeritus, Washington State University)
Bill McKibben (Author, The End of Nature)
Richard Heinberg (Author, The Party’s Over)
Robert Costanza (Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics)
David Pimentel (Professor, Agricultural Sciences, Cornell University)
Charles Hall (Professor, Environmental Science, SUNY Syracuse)
Roger Bezdek (President, MIS, Inc)
David Blittersdorf (President, NRG Wind Systems
Pat Murphy (Executive Director, The Community Solution)
John Marano (Adj. Professor, Energy Systems, University of Pittsburgh)
Jack Santa Barbara (Director, Sustainable Scale Project )
Claudio Filippone (Director, UMD Center for Advanced Energy Concepts)
Megan Quinn (Outreach Coordinator, The Community Solution)
Julian Darley (Global Public Media)
Agenda / Registration / Speakers / Logistics / About Us
(March 2006)
do no harm (we have a cultural problem, not a technical one)
Jon S., Peak Energy (Seattle)
…I strongly believe that we have a cultural problem, not a technical one.
Here at the peak of available energy, immersed in a culture of waste, an industrial civilization when presented with a large problem will try to solve it with a larger problem.
For example, the imagined nuclear paradise that will “bridge us” to our abundant energy future. Huh? Manufacture poison and store it at random around the continent so as every household in America can have five televisions stored at 72 degrees Fahrenheit? Can we just conserve and switch to wind power instead?
Consider agriculture. Without cheap oil at hand, North America will hopefully take her cue from Cuba. The good white collar jobs in 2015 will all be in high yield organic farming, not “information technology”. There won’t be enough energy available to engage in risky, bullshit ventures like switchgrass ethanol on a widespread scale. The most efficient use of plant energy will be to feed the people who tend the plants.
This would seem to be beneficial in the long run for a culture. Kind of a bright green future. Some people seem to think they can do the bio-sphere better than what exists, a splice here, a glowing frog there. Maybe. I’d like to start by preserving the working system that exists.
(14 March 2006
A Peak Oil Conference for New York City: April 27-29 (PDF)
Peak Oil NYC, Local Energy Solutions LLC and the Five Borough Institute
Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma
The Conference has two goals:
1. To inform the public that energy prices are rising because of
“Peak Oil”, the point at which production stops increasing and
goes into permanent decline.
2. To discuss realistic, sustainable local responses to the situation.
Speakers & Panelists
Over 30 authors, energy experts, ecologists & sustainability specialists including:
Catherine A. Fitts President of Solari, Inc.
Derrick Jensen Author, The Culture of Make Believe
Michael Klare Author, Resource Wars and Blood & Oil
James Kunstler Author, The Long Emergency
Geoff Lawton Permaculture Consultant & Teacher, Permaculture Research Institute
Faith Morgan Filmmaker, Cuba – Artificial Peak Oil: Transformation of a Society
Dale Allen Pfeiffer Geologist and Science Journalist
David Pimentel Prof. of Ecology and Agricultural Sciences, Cornell Univ.
Michael Ruppert Author, Crossing the Rubicon
Matt Savinar Author, The Oil Age Is Over
Additional speakers:
Steve Andrews, Albert Bartlett, John Bosak, Michael Brownlee, Karen Cianci, William Clark, Melanie Ferreira, Manna Jo Greene, John Howe, John Ikherd, Andrew McKillop, Pat Murphy, Aaron Naparstek, Dimitry Orlov, Megan Quinn, Paul White and many more…
Website: www.energysolutionsconference.org
Related: Preparing New York City for the Coming Energy Crisis by Dan Miner of Peak Oil NYC .
(March 2006)
Where do we go from here – I’m in Oregon
Jan Lundberg, Culture Change Newsletter #124
As I end my Oregon tour of speaking about petrocollapse and culture change, I have a mixed feeling about what’s going on in the world as it relates to the lives of those anticipating great changes just ahead. Some folks I have met on this trip have said they look forward to my thoughts on what I found in Oregon.
…Although I saw, listened and learned in Oregon for one month, and tried to impart what I know about petroleum and activism, now I’m less certain about our collective prospects than I was a month ago when I gave three presentations in Los Angeles. What have I been certain of? Nothing you don’t know: modern society has achieved astounding consumption levels of energy, created unimaginable levels of pollution and climate change, and we are faced with an unrepentant regime in Washington DC that relies on violence and fear in order to tighten political and economic control. Sustainable living is still suppressed and “uneconomic” up against the force of the market.
Then there’s what I am perhaps uniquely certain of. Few know the workings of the petroleum market and how it will play on the effects of Peak Oil, and how petroleum dependence reaches beyond transportation, agriculture and U.S. militarism. Petroleum dependence also translates into cultural traits and people’s psychological states. I took note of this in my years of activism and learning about sustainable living. I’ve explored my potential for experiencing nature more directly in part by incorporating what might be needed and useful (or unnecessary and useless) for individual, community and global survival. In my talks and writings I pass along these tidbits and ideas.
(9 March 2006)
Jan just posted Petrocollapse: your basic wake-up call plus caveat (March 14)
Pickens sees $5 per gallon gasoline worldwide
Ron Jenkins, Associated Press via Centre Daily
OKLAHOMA CITY – Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens suggested Tuesday that the short-term solution to oil supply and demand problems is high gasoline prices at the pump – perhaps $5 per gallon.
In a speech to civic clubs, Pickens, a native of Oklahoma, said demand for oil is about 85 million barrels a day worldwide, about the same as both supply and refining capacity.
In the foreseeable future, he said, production is coming down at the same time demand will be growing. He said China had doubled its demand for oil in 10 years and the demand will continue to grow.
Pickens, the founder of Mesa Petroleum Co., said demand is so tight that if Iran pulled one million barrels of oil off the market “you’ll have $75 (a barrel) oil in 24 hours.”
Because of the tight supply and demand situation, countries like Iran have as much clout on prices as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had a decade ago, he said.
He reeled off the names of several countries that could have such an impact, including politically turbulent Venezuela, the third biggest exporter of oil to the U.S. behind Canada and Mexico. Mideast countries account for about 25 percent of the nation’s oil, he said.
“It’ll happen. This is the truth. This is fact. I’m not talking fiction here,” he said of the possibility of a dramatic spike in already high oil prices soon.
(15 March 2006)
Related: comment on The Oil Drum by Jeffrey J. Brown, about Pickens and in support of a gas tax.
