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The Associated Press (AP) has just put out a story on the peak oil report released today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The story will be published by dozens or hundreds of newspapers and news sites.
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Highlights from the just released GAO report on peak oil: “Uncertainty about future oil supply makes it important to develop a strategy for addressing a peak and decline in oil production.”
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Reps. Roscoe Bartlett and Tom Udall will hold a new conference Thursday to discuss the release of an embargoed GAO report on peak oil. The report will reveal the U.S. is particularly vulnerable and the U.S. federal government is unprepared to respond to severe consequences from an increasing risk of significant disruptions to world oil supplies from peak oil and other factors.
“What does the energy crisis teach us? That it’s hard for meaningful change when few think there is a problem,” MIT author Meg Jacobs said. The challenge today, as much as it was then, is to “create a market and momentum for new ways of thinking about energy.”
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An attack could have cataclysmic implications for the region, for the world economy, and not least for the oil import-dependent and nearly bankrupt US.
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