[dinopello]

He's talking about hydrogen at the moment.

[coyote]

This is great coverage!

[hippiegunlover]

Thanks for the heads up, I only caught the last 20 minutes, but normally I'm stuck reading the transcripts.

I am surprised that he points out that most experts think oil will peak by 2016, and points out that there is a margin of error so we could peak much sooner, and that the Hirsh report says we need OVER 10 years to adjust before peak happens.

[Mechler]

As of 10:07 EST they've moved on to budget issues...

[MonteQuest]

Can you say...[spoil]Peak Oil[/spoil]

I loved the way he used his visual aids to get "the word" out!

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coyote', 'T')his is great coverage!

[thorn]

Text of his talk:

Feb 8th Po talk

[AnniCat]

also available here

[thorn]

Some interesting quotes:

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')I am a conservative. My wife says she thinks that there ought to be
some relationship between conservation and conservatives. Does that make sense, Mr. Speaker?

[thorn]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Congressman Roscoe Bartlett to Mark First Anniversary of Peak Oil Special
Order Speeches with his 16th Special Order Speech about Peak Oil.
On Tuesday, March 14, 2006, Via C-SPAN:

Washington, DC - Congressman Roscoe Bartlett will mark the first anniversary of his first Peak Special Order speech with his 16th Special Order speech on that topic. The estimated start time will be between 7:30 pm Eastern and 8:30 pm Eastern. C-SPAN will broadcast it LIVE on cable and the Internet.
Streaming video on C-SPAN can be accessed on the Internet at linkThe C-SPAN toll-free number for copies of floor speeches is 1-877-662-7726.

[dinopello]

Bump.

It's on now. He's talking about corn.

He also was reading from the Corps of Engineers report that was recently discovered.

[thorn]

Text:
http://www.xecu.net/thorn/PO/PO-March14-2006.html

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A number of competent forecasters project peaking within a decade. And now to that list has been added the Army Corps of Engineers. Others contend it will occur later, few in this category. Prediction of the peaking is extremely difficult because of geological complexities, measurement problems, pricing variations, demand elasticity, and political influences. Peaking will happen, but the timing is uncertain.

Oil peaking presents a unique challenge. This is a startling statement. The world has never faced a problem like this. Maybe that is why our government has not claimed ownership of either the Hirsch report or the study by the Corps of Engineers. As a matter of fact, they have asked for a new study. The results of these are so startling, Mr. Speaker, and they indicate that we should have a number of years ago begun addressing this problem, and to make sure that we need to invest time, energy, and money and so forth that is going to be required if we are going to make this transition.

I understand the desire of the administration to make sure that this is real so that now they have commissioned another study by the National Petroleum Council. If they are looking at the same data these other two studies looked at, they should reach the same conclusion. It is not like the Department of Defense is not doing anything, because the Department of Defense Under Secretary for Acquisition Technology and Logistics and the Office of Force Transformations is sponsoring a new interagency monthly series of seminars entitled ``Energy, A Conversation About Our National Addiction.'' And they are borrowing the President's word from his speech when he said we are ``addicted'' to oil.

By the way, recovering from addiction to most things requires some trauma, and I think that there will be sufficient trauma here in breaking our addiction to oil. The Department of Defense is the single largest buyer of fuel in the United States, so I am really glad that they have initiated this series of seminars. The first speaker is Jim Woolsey, and I think the second month I will be the speaker at this series of discussions.

[thorn]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')4:30 pm Eastern today -- Rep. Roscoe Bartlett and new energy poll on CNN's The Situation Room

CNN's The Situation Room: anticipates airing a story about Congressman
Roscoe Bartlett and peak oil in conjunction with releasing some results
from a new poll about energy today at approximately 4:30 pm Eastern.

CNN Editor's Note: The Situation Report is a running log of dispatches,
quotes, links and behind-the-scenes notes filed by the correspondents and
producers of CNN's Washington Bureau. Watch "The Situation Room" with Wolf
Blitzer on CNN 4 p.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. ET to 8 p.m. ET weekdays.

[RonMN]

SHOOT! I wont get home that early

[Free]

Thanks for the heads up!

Will be interesting to see how Wolf Blitzer will try to spin this or if he even gets it. I despise him, he is either totally dumb or a shill, or both.

But Roscoe Bartlett will hammer the message home I hope, he is a great PO-envoy and educator!

[UncoveringTruths]

Good stuff. Either we plan now or we face the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

[Shadizar]

It wasn't a bad segment. The polls surprised me! It seems not everyone has their head in the sand.

It certainly showed more about Rep. Bartlett than I've seen. That man has my utmost respect.

-Shadizar

[azreal60]

I asked my aunt to tape it. I take it, as with all the Bartlett stuff I've seen, it's worth the look?

[eastbay]

He said the best possible outcome will be a worldwide economic recession (or did he say 'depression'??) and the worst outcome will be the four horsemen of the apocalypse, war, famine, disease, and death.

He didn't say when it would start. But it certainly won't wait long.

[nero]

It concentrated on Bartlett and was quite respectful. I didn't notice it mentioning a time scale except for Roscoe saying that he was probably ok but that he worried for his children and grandchildren. I don't think the average viewer will see the implication that a 70+ year-old's children are probably in their 50s and 40s!