Peak Oil at the State House (Massachusetts)

The Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Representative Frank Smizik, hosted a meeting on Peak Oil at the Massachusetts State House on Monday, March 31. The hearing room was standing room only and there were Reps and Sens from Belmont, Boston, Somerville, Falmouth, and Arlington. This was in preparation for the establishment of a Massachusetts Peak Oil Caucus.

Presentations were by Richard Lawrence, Co-Founder, ASPO-USA (Association for the Study of Peak
Oil), Roger Bezdek, President of Management Information Services, Inc. and one of the co-authors of the Hirsch Report on Peak Oil [pdf alert], John Kaufman, member of the Portland, Oregon Energy Task Force, Senator Bob Duff and Representative Terry Backer from the Connecticut General Assembly, co-Founders of the Connecticut Legislative Peak Oil & Natural Gas Caucus.

This was a meeting of the minds. You could call it preaching to the choir. I call it choir practice. The number of interested citizens in the room probably confirmed for the legislators that there was public interest in the issue, or at least I hope so.

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