Home
D&D
Music
Banner Archive

Marvel Comics Timeline
Godzilla Timeline


RSS

   

« Fear for your favorite Avenger | Main | Encouraging crazy people »

How's That Solar Panel Project Going?

Better get cracking on powering your house with renewables.

The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact.

The energy crisis outlined in a Joint Operating Environment report from the US Joint Forces Command, comes as the price of petrol in Britain reaches record levels and the cost of crude is predicted to soon top $100 a barrel.

"By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 million barrels per day," says the report, which has a foreword by a senior commander, General James N Mattis.

...

The Paris-based International Energy Agency remains confident that there is no short-term risk of oil shortages but privately some senior officials have admitted there is considerable disagreement internally about this upbeat stance.
...

But there are signs that the US Department of Energy might also be changing its stance on peak oil. In a recent interview with French newspaper, Le Monde, Glen Sweetnam, main oil adviser to the Obama administration, admitted that "a chance exists that we may experience a decline" of world liquid fuels production between 2011 and 2015 if the investment was not forthcoming.

Link

I believe the "investment" Sweetman is speaking of here is extracting crude from the tar sands in Canada.

According to Greenpeace, extracting crude from the tar sands both increases pollution and destroys the land itself so that it can't support forestry or farming. Meh, It's only Canada.

By min | April 20, 2010, 1:07 PM | Liberal Outrage


Comments

Why isn't this the top story on every news site on the internet?