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Benoit Thevard – Europe facing peak oil – European Parliament
Benoît Thevard presents the conclusion of the report “Europe facing peak oil” at the European Parliament in November 2012. This study, commissioned by the MEP Yves Cochet, aimed to clearly redefine the contours of the oil situation, to place them in the current geopolitical and economic contexts, and to consider the potential impact on Europe.
Download the report ‘Europe facing peak oil”:
http://www.peakoil-europaction.eu/
4 Comments on "Benoit Thevard – Europe facing peak oil – European Parliament"
BillT on Mon, 1st Apr 2013 1:08 pm
The EU is about over. An experiment that failed. Now we wait to see how the play ends. But, I think it will be a horror ending, certainly not a comedy. Although there does seem to be an unusual number of clowns involved. I’m enjoying the show. I think it is due to play on Wall Street in the near future. Japan is also in the tour.
I don’t think it would be well received in Asia where everything is still growing. Even the Philippines recently got an Investment Grade BBB from the rating agency and those euros and dollars will come flooding in. We are in line for at least 6% growth this year with about 4% inflation. Not bad for a small country. And the exchange rate has stayed the same, about 40 Pesos to the USD. My haircut is still $1.25 and much better than I got in Philly for 10 times that. I tip the barber $2.50 extra as he does an excellent job. I still save over $10 compared to Philly.
Arthur on Mon, 1st Apr 2013 1:40 pm
“The EU is about over. An experiment that failed. Now we wait to see how the play ends. But, I think it will be a horror ending, certainly not a comedy. Although there does seem to be an unusual number of clowns involved. I’m enjoying the show.”
Ignoring your confession that you “enjoy” other people suffering (what says that about your character?), you do not make it clear why the EU would fail. So far countries are lining up to join, so dream on
BTW, 92 million is not exactly a ‘small country’, with a staggering population density of more than 300/km2, trapped on an island. Why on earth would you choose that as a ‘survival destination’.
“We are in line for at least 6% growth this year”
According to wikipedia, that’s 6% growth for an average income of 4000$, that is 1/10th of a western income. Whooptido, I am impressed. You do know that babies growth faster than adults, do you?
And the fact that dollars and euro’s are flowing in is not exactly a sign that the west is coming down, they just have too many surplusses to invest in places where labour is still cheap.
You seem to enjoy your neo-colonial status, where your retirement dollars have a higher EROEI, so to speak, than in Philidelphia. But when the shtf in the west you do realize that the flow of retirement dollars towards the Philipines will stop as well and you will be like a Cypriot in the overdrive. I will promiss you not to enjoy it.
BTW, the Philipines will be one of the first death zones, worse than Egypt and on the same level as North-Korea and Afghanistan and Ethiopia, according to this map
http://www.edwardrcarr.com/opentheechochamber/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Food-Security-A-2011-map-007.jpg
Run Bill, while you still can. Survival in the Philipines is about the stupidest idea imaginable. You will get a free haircut allright.
J-Gav on Mon, 1st Apr 2013 5:54 pm
For me, Europe is neither ‘over,’ nor a particularly good place to be, unless you know enough like-minded people and have enough money to buy a nice plot of unpoisoned, arable land and to fit it out properly with a permaculture project. Few have that option. Europe is not dead, it’s unravelling, like so many places soon will be and some more quickly than others – Egypt,Yemen,Eritrea, Afghanistan etc. What’s the pecking order in a gradual collapse?
As I said, if I had my druthers, I’d be on a communal farm somewhere in southern Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky or southwestern or southcentral France – but I don’t have my druthers so I’ll just have to remain the unwilling spectator that I am over the upcoming, no doubt “interesting” years, with no place to hide …
Arthur on Mon, 1st Apr 2013 9:19 pm
The best places to be are the somewhat different ‘Green Zones’, displayed on the map:
http://energyskeptic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/German-peal-oil-food-security-map.bmp
Stay with your own (ethnic) group, and maintain your ‘social capital’, as Dmitri Orlov recommends. Start a vegetable garden with a few friends who are like you ‘in the know’ about the energy situation. Anybody can do that. Read about and practice food preservation.
Use skype in the video mode and get slowly used to this kind of communication, so it can partially replace long distance visits in the physical realm.