by BabyPeanut » Tue 29 Nov 2005, 17:44:19
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NeoPeasant', 'I') did read the transcripts of the first two speakers.
James Rodney Schlesinger was United States Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1974 under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He became America's first Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter.
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James R. Schlesinger Testimony (link)[/url]
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To be sure, we have certain short-term problems to which I shall presently turn. More importantly, we face a fundamental, longer-term problem. In the decades ahead, we do not know precisely when, we shall reach a point, a plateau or peak, beyond which we shall be unable further to increase production of conventional oil worldwide. We need to understand that problem now and to begin to prepare for that transition.
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