Re: [Biofuel] Confessions of an 'ex' Peak Oil believer

2008-03-02 Thread Hakan Falk
., > > > the world's largest oil geophysical services company. The only > > > potential threat to that US control of oil just happens to lie inside > > > Russia and with the now-state-controlled Russian energy giants. > > > H. > > > > > > Ac

[Biofuel] Fwd: Re: From Alternet's reponses to:

2008-03-02 Thread Kirk McLoren
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Re: [Biofuel] Confessions of an 'ex' Peak Oil believer

2008-03-02 Thread Zeke Yewdall
ft. > > > > Up to the 1960's supposed US scientists such as Dr Frank Press, White > > House science advisor referred to Wegener as "lunatic." Geologists at > > the end of the 1960's were forced to eat their words as Wegener > > offered the only interpretat

Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-03-02 Thread Chris Burck
wow, keith, your piece brought back so many memories. they've just been tumbling in for two days now (i've got my own funny little guardia civil story). and i enjoyed your writing, too. vaguely reminiscent of thompson (or what i can remember of him). anyway, thanks for that. On 3/2/08, Erik La

Re: [Biofuel] Confessions of an 'ex' Peak Oil believer

2008-03-02 Thread John Mullan
Walking around through life with blinders on make stupid people happier. Keith Addison wrote: > We never really did get to the bottom of this, so to speak. - Keith > > - > > http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6880 > War and "Peak Oil" > > Confessions of an 'ex' Peak Oil bel

Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-03-02 Thread Erik Lane
> > My sister is traveling by rail across Spain right now. She spent > the day in Cadiz and promised to visit Granada and take photos of the > Alhambra Palace for me. I'll forward your delightful and amusing story > to her! > I spent a week in Grenada a few years back while my cousin was

Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-03-02 Thread Erik Lane
> Diesels have a really bad reputation in North America, though most > of our goods would never make it around the country without them. > Cummins, Caterpillar and Detroit make fabulous engines for class 8 > trucks that burn a LOT cleaner than their older counterparts, but that > expertise

Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-03-02 Thread Erik Lane
> Even it when's snowing, hmph. It snowed for a month and stopped > yesterday. I never saw snow until I was 25, and then I thought it was > beautiful. These days it's a bit of a struggle to see the beauty in > it, mostly it's just a PITA, everything takes longer. Not only that, > it's COLD! Yu

Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-03-02 Thread Zeke Yewdall
in > >it, mostly it's just a PITA, everything takes longer. Not only that, > >it's COLD! Yuk. > > > > > > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20080302/cc3a8723/attachment.html ___

[Biofuel] Confessions of an 'ex' Peak Oil believer

2008-03-02 Thread Keith Addison
We never really did get to the bottom of this, so to speak. - Keith - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6880 War and "Peak Oil" Confessions of an 'ex' Peak Oil believer by F. William Engdahl Global Research, September 26, 2007 Confessions of an 'ex' Peak Oil believer

Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-03-02 Thread robert and benita
pain right now. She spent the day in Cadiz and promised to visit Granada and take photos of the Alhambra Palace for me. I'll forward your delightful and amusing story to her! robert luis rabello "The Edge of Justice" "T

[Biofuel] The Link Between Toxic Chemicals and Global Warming

2008-03-02 Thread Keith Addison
If we could all climb out of our foxholes for a moment and look around, we might see a huge opportunity spreading out before us: the solutions to global warming and toxic chemicals are both being thwarted by one group of people: coal company executives and their helpmates. From: Rac

[Biofuel] Mahanoy Township, Pennsylvania, Bans Corporate Sludge Dumping

2008-03-02 Thread Keith Addison
Another Pennsylvania municipality outlaws chemical bodily trespass, strips corporations of their claim to "rights," recognizes the rights of nature, and asserts the civil rights of residents to sue corporations as state actors. From: Community Environmental Legal

[Biofuel] What Are Our Pharmaceuticals Doing To the Environment?

2008-03-02 Thread Keith Addison
People and animals excrete pharmaceuticals and their metabolites, which then find their way into the environment through a variety of routes -- treated wastewater, agricultural runoff, and biosolids and manure that are used as fertilizers. From: Chemical & Engineering News (pg. 13), Feb

[Biofuel] The Smallest of Pollutants Are Linked To Outsize Health Risks

2008-03-02 Thread Keith Addison
Scientists are increasingly concerned about air pollution's tiniest constituents -- virus-size particles produced by combustion. These ultrafines are ubiquitous near roadways and are emerging as one of the most dangerous components of air pollution, which kills an estimated 60,000-pl

[Biofuel] Iran shifts oil sales away from dollar

2008-03-02 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=45397§ionid=351020102 Iran shifts oil sales away from dollar Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:19:28 Hojjatollah Ghanimifard Deputy head of the National Iranian Oil Company for international affairs says Iran has completely dropped dollar in its oil sales. "We issue invoic

[Biofuel] Oil money is coming - and there is little the west can do about it

2008-03-02 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/01/oil.globaleconomy1 Oil money is coming - and there is little the west can do about it Energy producing countries are buying global power after decades of subjugation * Larry Elliott, economics editor * The Guardian, Satur

Re: [Biofuel] Evaluation of global wind power

2008-03-02 Thread Dawie Coetzee
Here's a link I'd originally found on this list. It is perhaps worthwhile posting it again: http://www.otherpower.com/ Indeed a matter of scale. Thanks for the Piggott link: It seems very much the same approach and character, and I see that he links to the Otherpower site. Duly favourited. -D

Re: [Biofuel] Evaluation of global wind power

2008-03-02 Thread Dawie Coetzee
Here's a link I'd originally found on this list. It is perhaps worthwhile posting it again: http://www.otherpower.com/ Indeed a matter of scale. Thanks for the Piggott link: It seems very much the same approach and character, and I see that he links to the Otherpower site. Duly favourited. -D

Re: [Biofuel] Evaluation of global wind power

2008-03-02 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Chandan, Randy and all >Looks like there is a lot of considered views in the archives >that wind turbines killing bird life is a red herring and any >discussion about it is trolling. I haven't had the time to >browse all the 165 matches Keith pointed at, but I did browse >the first 30 or so.

Re: [Biofuel] Evaluation of global wind power

2008-03-02 Thread Chandan Haldar
Looks like there is a lot of considered views in the archives that wind turbines killing bird life is a red herring and any discussion about it is trolling. I haven't had the time to browse all the 165 matches Keith pointed at, but I did browse the first 30 or so. The scholastic level does not se