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Kevin Taylor If an assured supply of oil is cut off to the West, New Zealand could again face the prospect of car-less days. The option is raised in a consultant’s report for the Economic Development Ministry that looks at an oil crunch and how the country could cope.
Comment: New Zealand’s initial response to IEA emergency consumption reduction requirements. NZ regular gasoline is currently NZD$1.45/litre, equal to USD$3.87 per gallon.
With gasoline nearly $3 gallon, there needs to be a mainstream discussion of the alternatives.
Dr Colin Campbell’s ASPO Ireland is working on encouraging action on peak oil through the Rimini Protocol. The oil depletion protocol was first proposed at the 2003 Pio Manzu Conference and will be the central theme of the next Pio Manzu Conference, Rimini, Italy on October 28-30 2005.
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“After the Crash: An Essay-Novel of the Post-Hydrocarbon Age,” is now available in print-on-demand format
Living Large, by Design, in the Middle of Nowhere / Permafrost is warming / Icy Greenland turns green / Error may have hidden warming / Ecologist: tropical life to be hardest hit by global warming
What keeps driving oil prices higher? (Q and As) / Steven Roach hedges, warns / Why is petrocollapse imminent? / Peak Oil group in Portland, Oregon / The Week in Sustainable Vehicles / The Oil Price to Be Scared Of / Energy myths and illusions
Why We Pay Too Little for Well Travelled Food / Depopulation — myth or reality? / Eco-Friendly Burial Sites Give a Chance to Be Green Forever / We Wuz Rob’d! – Rob Elam, biodiesel buff, answers Grist’s questions / Philipines: Senate roused to pass energy-saving bills / Experimental hybrid cars get up to 250 mpg / California’s leap towards Kyoto should reap rewards
“The Greens believe we need to have the mechanisms in place to deal with both a short-term emergency, such as this report envisions, and Peak Oil, where we are facing steadily rising prices over the long term and eventual shortages no matter what the price,” [Green Co-Leader] Ms Fitzsimons says.
The government’s recent move of raising prices of cooking gas has led the people in the countryside to resort to using wood for baking bread in their clay oven. … An owner of a shop in Ibb selling clay ovens used for baking bread said he was nowadays selling two to three ovens a day while before the new rise in prices of oil products he was not selling that number in a week.
