[KevO]

Al Gore's film 'An Inconvenient Truth' is wrongly named.
It should be 'A Convenient Truth' because that's exactly what it is. Governments are now taxing us and will continue to tax us under the 'Climate Change' banner. They do this because we will all reluctantly accept the taxes for a greener future for our children. The taxes and ever growing petrol price will eventually force us to use less energy and let's face it, the number 1 global talking point is Climate Change.

But this is not the reason, primarily, that the governments are doing this. Don't misunderstand me, Climate Change is real and it does look like that it's pretty much our fault, but it's not the reason.
The reason is 'Peak Oil. Everything that is happening now, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, to name the famed three is about 'Peak Oil' - so Climate Change is indeed a convenient distraction from the real issue.

The Green movement is aware of Peak Oil but afraid in some cases to shout about it as it still isn't in the realm of mainstream thinking. Matt Simmons, the CEO of the world's largest investment bank has recently announced that we are now at a global peak in oil production, In other words we have got more out of the ground that is left to get.

We, as a world, currently consume approx 86 million barrels per day, we are producing approx 86mbpd. With the growth of China and India and the ongoing increased consumption of the West, it may be time to address this issue far more urgently since there is no alternative.

To run the transport system of the UK on Hydrogen would need more generating capacity than we have at present. There would need to be 90,000 wind turbines which would cover an area, if they were free of towns the size of Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Solar panels would need to cover an area the size of Norfolk and Derbyshire combined, every inch of it, not just roofs! Alternatively you could opt for a further 67 nuclear power stations with the capacity of Sizewell B. We currently have 10. America would need 430 new ones. To replace all the world's petrol consumption with bio fuels, Ethanol would take 350 million hectares and fifty years. Perversely, Africa has the biggest potential for growing bio fuels. To convert to Bio diesel, just under 400 million hectares would be needed and to match a yearly 3% oil depletion we would have to plant 11 million hectares every year. The target is to have a total of 5 million hectares by 2010.
None of these bio fuels will transfer to jet fuel.

The rate of discovery is getting lower each year. We now consume three barrels of oil for every one discovered. If a field was discovered that held 860 million barrels, that's 10 days worth when all is said and done.

Stephen Tindale, director of Greenpeace, is fully aware of Peak Oil but said in 2005, 'if it turned out that the peak oil thesis was wrong, and we'd been using it, then that would undermine and discredit other things we had been saying'.
So Peak Oil is not a secret, is just not being talked about or more importantly prepared for.

Many towns in the UK, and last month Bristol, have converted to a 'Transition town' readying themselves for post peak. Ben Brangwyn from the Totnes group will present a way forward for Glastonbury this Saturday at Tor Leisure from 10.30 to 4pm, to address what Glastonbury can do.

It would be pertinent if people read up on this huge subject themselves. There is no better starting point than at
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Index.html

and to check the Transition Town info at
http://www.transitiontowns.org/

[Newsseeker]

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Matt Simmons, the CEO of the world's largest investment bank has recently announced that we are now at a global peak in oil production, In other words we have got more out of the ground that is left to get.

[KevO]

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Matt Simmons, the CEO of the world's largest investment bank has recently announced that we are now at a global peak in oil production, In other words we have got more out of the ground that is left to get.

[Newsseeker]

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Matt Simmons, the CEO of the world's largest investment bank has recently announced that we are now at a global peak in oil production, In other words we have got more out of the ground that is left to get.

[KeeperC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KevO', 'M')att Simmons, the CEO of the world's largest investment bank

[Gazzatrone]

Was trying to convey the very same message a few weeks ago KevO, in this post of mine Carbon Footprint Conspiracy. A Convenient Truth?, before it got hijacked by some gimpy Troll called green achers.

[KevO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gazzatrone', 'W')as trying to convey the very same message a few weeks ago KevO, in this post of mine Carbon Footprint Conspiracy. A Convenient Truth?, before it got hijacked by some gimpy Troll called green achers.

[cudabachi]

Nice work KevO, though I have to disagree that the climate change we´re experiencing today is "pretty much" man´s fault.

While I do believe that human activity can have an impact on the earth´s climate, I think that there´s not enough scientific evidence yet to prove that it´s mostly man´s fault.

Let us know if you get some responses to your efforts in the local paper.

[Gazzatrone]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KevO', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gazzatrone', 'W')as trying to convey the very same message a few weeks ago KevO, in this post of mine Carbon Footprint Conspiracy. A Convenient Truth?, before it got hijacked by some gimpy Troll called green achers.