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- The war on drugs. A book review of “Chasing the scream”
- Peak crude oil did not happen in 2018. But we are still running out of time
- Sheriffs have too much power
- Book review “They poisoned the world: Life & death in the age of Forever Chemicals”
- John Howe on one child per woman: still too high to stay under limits to growth curves
- Ted Trainer: The radical implications of a zero growth economy
- Part 5 Raven Rock. Hidey holes for government and military officials to carry on democracy after nuclear war destroys the planet
- Become a Bison rancher
- Part 4 Raven Rock. The government abandons plans to aid the public, only the government to survive
- Prisoners are treated worse than slaves in America
- Part 3 Raven Rock. The government’s plans for after a nuclear holocaust
- Part 2 Raven Rock. The U.S. government’s plans to save civilians from nuclear war
- Legal & Illegal Immigration numbers must drop to carrying capacity
- Part 1 Intro. Raven rock: the story of the U.S. governments secret plans to save itself after a nuclear war and let the rest of us die
Category Archives: GOVERNMENT
The Hidden Costs of Oil. U.S. Senate hearing 2006.
[ This post has excerpts from the 2006 U.S. Senate hearing “The Hidden Cost of Oil”. It is a timely reminder, now that gasoline prices are low and peak oil off the radar, that we are nowhere near the American … Continue reading
Posted in Caused by Scarce Resources, Military, Peak Oil, U.S. Congress Energy Dependence, U.S. Congress Energy Policy
Tagged energy policy, oil dependence, peak oil, war
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Climate change impacts on transportation 2008 U.S. Senate hearing
Senate 110-1199. June 24, 2008. Climate change impacts on the transportation sector. U.S. Senate Hearing. Excerpts from this 135 page document follow. DANIEL K. INOUYE, U.S. SENATOR FROM HAWAII The transportation sector is a major indicator of the overall economic … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Transportation, Transportation Infrastructure, U.S. Congress Transportation
Tagged climate change, energy, transportation
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Oil shocks and the potential for crisis U.S. House 2007
Preface. There have been two oil shockwave “oil crisis stimulations”, summaries of both from 2005 and 2007 are below. Oil Shockwaves confront a mock U.S. cabinet with highly plausible geopolitical crises that trigger sharp increases in oil prices. Participants must … Continue reading
Posted in Military, Oil Shocks, U.S. Congress Energy Dependence
Tagged cafe standard, military, oil dependence, oil shock, shockwave, SPR, strategic petroleum reserve
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Methane hydrates are still decades away. U.S. House hearing 2009.
[ The U.S. Department of Energy says: “At today’s gas prices, there are no economically recoverable deposits…and the commercialization of methane hydrates is likely to be several decades away….Although the size of the global methane hydrate resource is estimated to … Continue reading
Posted in Methane Hydrates, U.S. Congress Energy Policy
Tagged gas hydrate, methane hydrates
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Achieving U.S. energy independence with our “neighbors” oil
[ The main U.S. interest becoming more energy independent by getting oil from our “neighbors” Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, and Canada, while at the same time minimizing growing Chinese and Russian attempts to get their oil and other natural resources. … Continue reading
Posted in U.S. Congress Energy Policy
Tagged energy independence, energy security, oil
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Schlesinger predicts investments in 2006 will cause oil glut and denial of peak oil in future
Energy Security and Oil Dependence. Two Senate hearings from 2006. In these two 2006 hearings (excerpts below), there is a constant refrain of our dependence on oil, yet now, many congressional hearings are about our energy independence. Apparently congress has … Continue reading
Posted in Peak Oil, U.S. Congress Energy Dependence, U.S. Congress Energy Policy
Tagged biden, biofuels, copulos, dependence, energy, energy policy, ethanol, grumet, khosla, oil, peak oil, schlesinger, woolsey
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Oil Dependence and what to do about it. Senate hearing 2007
[ In recent years there have been so many hearings proclaiming energy independence that I thought I should publish more sessions where Congress admits to a dependency on oil. The same old solutions and ideas appear: drill baby drill, ethanol, … Continue reading
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Is the U.S. so energy independent we should export crude oil?
[ This is one of several House of Representative sessions discussing energy independence and whether to revoke the energy policy and conservation act of 1975 ban on crude oil export. The only time so far I have ever seen a … Continue reading
Posted in U.S. Congress Energy Independence
Tagged energy independence, export oil, oil
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Why aren’t net energy and Energy Returned on Invested the basis of U.S. energy policy?
[ David Murphy doesn’t answer this question, but does give the history of EROI and more importantly, what this means for oil production and society. If we are going to spend money on fossil alternatives, wouldn’t it make sense to … Continue reading
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Tagged energy policy, EROEI, EROI, net energy
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