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| 'ENERGY UPDATE' BULLETINS | |||
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| MORE ENERGY INFORMATION THE LOOMING GLOBAL ENERGY CRISIS PEAK OIL AND ENERGY CRISIS NEWSBITES SOLAR ENERGY NEWS Solar Breakthrough - World Peace And The Death Of The Internal Combustion Engine
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| Contact | ''We Need A New Way Of Thinking' - Consciousness-Based Education |
| "This comfortable world, as we have known it, is coming to a
crucial turning point. And energy, specifically the cost and
security of energy supply, lies at the apex of this turning point.... So, while some of the problems, such as Kyoto, have had much
attention, others, such as the long-term security of energy supply upon which our
prosperity has depended, have been neglected. Now, suddenly, new risks are appearing on
the horizon. There are new dangers that could alter our quality of life over the next 20
years. They could put at risk the comfortable social order we have created for ourselves,
to which most of the rest of the world has been conditioned to aspire. A key factor in the
changing balances of world energy is Russia.... So perhaps we should heed some distant
storm warnings. Perhaps we should be concerned when
Russia and China seem to be coming to recognise the scale of opportunity that a strategic
partnership can offer them in terms of energy security and global influence? And when the US Department of Energy forecasts that, by 2020, the annual
shortfall in Opec oil production, against global demand, will exceed the biggest-ever
production of Saudi Arabia, the traditional swing producer. And when we expect
Canadian gas exports to the US to dwindle and shortly cease because of the
need for energy for the processing of tar sands.... What we believe to have been the
definitive triumph of the Western democratic way over the sterile misery of the Soviet
system may be turning out not to have been the victorious end of the Cold War after all,
but just one battle in an unending struggle for global power and influence. The key weapon in the battle lines now being drawn is energy. Even if market forces prevail in setting costs of oil and gas, it seems
clear that having so heavily depleted its own relatively low-cost hydrocarbon reserves,
the OECD will have no influence over the supply or over the very much higher future costs
of that supply." Energy question may spell end of the good life for the West London Times, 27 December 2005 |
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