Oil Production

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The latest video from Sustainable Earth. Includes new reports from government, the military, intelligence agencies and major NGO’s. It ends on a positive note; the reality of consequence will finally free humanity from short-term thinking.

I looked at literally dozens of reports for this short video…in the end I picked the most credible and those that summed up the prevailing thinking of the world’s best experts. Unfortunately it was impossible to include every detail; this is just an introduction to the subject. For further reading the files which make up this video are below.

Hirsch Report Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management (US Dept of Energy): http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf

Energy Trends and Implications for U.S. Army Installations(US Marine Corp): http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA440265

Global Oil Depletion (UK Energy Research Centre): http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/support/Global%20Oil%20Depletion

Coming Oil Supply Crunch(Chatham House): http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/652/

Peak Oil: A Survey of Security Concerns(Center for New American Security):http://www.cnas.org/node/26

Global Trends 2025: A World Transformed(US National Intelligence Council/Director of National Intelligence):
http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_2025_project.html

DCDC Strategic Trends 2007-2036(UK Ministry of Defence): http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/MicroSite/DCDC/OurPublications/StrategicTrends+Programme/

Global Atmosphere Watch Strategic Plan: 2008 – 2015 (World Meteorological Programme United Nations): http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/gaw_home_en.html

The Great Transition(New Economics Foundation): http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/the-great-transition

Music by Muse: Exogenesis from album Resistance http://muse.mu/

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We are entering the Peak Oil era. The growth of oil production is slowing, forcing up oil and gasoline prices, firing inflation, driving unemployment, straining our global economy, and threatening to collapse our entire system. Teacher Aaron Wissner, highlights the impacts, underlying problem, and solutions. This is part 5 of 5 in a one-hour presentation. See the full one-hour video at LocalFuture.org. Also, at YouTube, see the summary with great resources, web sites, video clips, and detailed background on Peak Oil and its impacts.

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http://www.globalchange.com. Impact of global warming on energy companies, oil companies, coal and gas use, nuclear energy and renewable energy. How oil companies will change investment patterns. Renewable energy, solar power, wind power, wave power, geothermal power generation, tidal power. Consumer pressure, activist groups and government regulation. Oil industry profits and future oil prices. Price per barrel of oil. Middle East oil producers and OPEC agreements. Production quotas. Kyoto treaty, carbon trading, carbon dioxide emissions, flaring, heat exchange and energy conservation. Refining and extracting energy use. Greenhouse gas emissions — lowering of green house gases. Shareholder pressures for climate control. Video by keynote conference speaker Dr Patrick Dixon, Futurist and author of 12 books on global trends including Futurewise and Building a Better Business. Oil companies, energy industry, global warming, carbon trading, caps, emissions, carbon dioxide, offset, offsetting, fraud, accounting, regulation, market, trade, marketing, capture, sequestration, storage, energy savings, government
Oil companies, energy industry, global warming, carbon trading, caps, emissions, carbon dioxide, offset, offsetting, fraud, accounting, regulation, market, trade, marketing, capture, sequestration, storage, energy savings, government

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There have been a lot of discussions about the high gas prices in USA the past months and what exactly should be done to curb this trend. Some politicians, like McCain, Bush, and Gingrich, are taking advantage of the situation and tries to push for the ending of a 27-year moratorium on offshore drilling along the coastlines of USA.

But offshore drilling is not a “quick fix” and it won’t help to lower the gas prices. The only ones that will profit from this are Bush and McCain’s friends in the oil industry. While people are suffering from the high gas prices the oil companies are reporting record profits after record profits.

“The United States burns 24 percent of the world’s oil, yet we only have 3 percent of the world’s oil reserves. Even if we drilled every drop of oil the U.S. has on shore or off its coasts, we will never be able to drill our way to lower oil prices or energy security. We simply burn more than we could ever drill.”

“Offshore oil drilling is not a short-term fix. It would take at least a decade to bring new leases into production. And, it will be years before exploration could begin and years after that before production would start. If any effect were to be felt on gas prices (most likely only a few pennies per gallon), that effect is decades away.”

“Offering up more of our coastline for drilling won’t lower gas prices. Since President Bush took office in 2000, the number of wells in federally leased areas has increased exponentially, yet gas prices have doubled during that same time. Yet, this type of evidence is never mentioned in the media or by proponents for offshore drilling.”

“Another reason that drilling for more oil in the U.S. won’t result in lower gas prices is because oil prices are set on the global oil market. What this means is that all oil produced around the world is sold all at the same price. There is no guarantee that we would even be using the oil that was drilled here in the U.S. And, we certainly wouldn’t get a discount just because we drilled for it on U.S. soil. We would pay the same rate as the rest of the world.”

[Source: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/offshore-drilling-it-s-not-t ]

The only things that will lower the fuel prices, create more jobs, solve the climate crisis and fix this fragile economy is to invest in clean renewable energy sources, setting strict mpg standards for all automobiles and transform our current society to a sustainable one.

Going green will fix many problems, one of them are high gas prices.

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Have you noticed, more cars, more trucks, more road building? Peak Oil deals with the recent world-wide speculation that global oil production has reached its peak and may now be in serious decline. ‘Peak Oil’ is a short atmospheric documentary film by Larry Larstead and shot in the Northern-Rivers region of NSW, Australia, and tackles the big question: What happens when the oil starts running out?

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Global oil reserves facts

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A Quick 3 minute video visually explaining Peak Oil, what oil is used for, and what the future may hold with regards to Peak Oil.

This is the culmination of my year-long thesis project looking at how Graphic Design can help communicate a complex topic such as Peak Oil.

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Someone sent me this video and all I can say is, this is the answer to the worlds energy problems.

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Video of World Oil Consumption by Country represented as foot height per barrel per day according to CIA Factbook. Rendered in Google Earth

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The conclusion of my oil depletion series. This entry presents a visual summary of global depletion. The charts combine production, depletion and a countrys total remaining oil to graphically portray where each country stands now, and where they may be headed in the future.

For more information, check out:
http:/www.econoutlook.com

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