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Sustainable oil? ". . .An intriguing theory now permeating oil company research staffs suggests that crude oil may actually be a natural inorganic product. . ." Pretty neat, if true.

Just taking care of my oil buddies. (CBS) It's no secret that when it comes to the mounting cost of security for all high-risk terrorist targets, like nuclear power plants and railroads, there simply isn't enough Homeland Security money to go around. But, as CBS News Correspondent Mika...

http://maxblumenthal.blogspot.com/2004/05/midge-decter-drunk-on-truth-serum.html 2003 National Humanities Medal winner, Rumsfeld hagiographer and neoconservative beauty queen Midge Decter has never been so lucid: "We're not in the Middle East to bring sweetness and light to the world. We're...

Oil price surges, Bush refuses to release reserves Uhhh... How? Considering, I don't think that releasing the oil reserves is going to bring the prices down- I agree with Ali Rodriguez when he says it's due to speculation, I'm just trying to figure out - as usual - what the f*** Bush is on...

A recurring topic here (when it can bump the Middle East off the map) is the debate on oil—especially using the term “peak oil” to indicate the coming crisis, while others argue that oil is still plentiful and new resources can be tapped. An article in the Huntsville Times Sunday 2 May by...

To say that there is a lot of doom-saying on the internet would be a dramatic understatement. The most convincing "doomsay" I have found is related to the current energy crisis. Many people, including a number of respected geologists, believe that 5 billion people will die after oil production...

From The Tennessean: http://tennessean.com/business/archives/04/04/49542537.shtml?Element_ID=49542537

Now I may have been in a drunken haze at the time but I sort of remember that before the war we were told that the cost of the whole thing would be recouped thru Iraqi Oil profits................Then we were asked to pony up a gazzillion dollars for Iraq. I was wondering. Do we still have plans...

Shell Cuts Reserves as U.S. Probe Widens http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040318/bs_nm/energy_shell_dc_4 LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch/Shell cut its oil and gas reserves for the second time this year on Thursday in a fresh blow to investor confidence, as U.S. regulators...

Does anyone have information about the effect the war in Iraq had on the prices of crude oil from Jan 2003 (ramp-up) to around August-September? Almost all articles I can find are speculative and dated pre-May 2, 2003.

Got a link to this on another board. Life after the oil crash On the face of it, it comes off as kind of conspiracy theorist nutty, and any research seems sketchy. But I'm the very defintion of inexpert on this (and many other things). Thoughts from those who know something about this...

According to goofy opinions by some in this forum (Grammatron, Segnosaur, RF, Ziggy, crackmonkey, Tony 'the Texas Baloney', etc.) the war in Iraq is mainly not about profits to a few (just a few) U.S. interests; according to these goofy opinions, the war in Iraq is mainly about 'liberating'...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/international/middleeast/05OIL.html From the article (you will need to register to read in full): "October 5, 2003 Report Offered Bleak Outlook About Iraq Oil By JEFF GERTH ASHINGTON, Oct. 4 — The Bush administration's optimistic statements earlier this...

I here the latest spike in gas prices is due to some refineries being closed for 5 minutes cause of the blackouts. Is that the big problem with our gas? the lack of refineries??? We always here that we NEED to drill in ANWAR or off the Cali coast but what good would that do if theres nowhere...

I was just thinking about how oil is organic matter, deep in the earth, decomposed, ect. when I wondered: Would there be a way to tell what life the oil came from? What species, specifically?

Why is Wolfowitz's coming forward with all these statements all of the sudden?

There were those naysayers who said that the U.S. war on Iraq was secretly all about gaining access to Iraqi oil. Now we know that this is false. See article. "The United States and its allies asked the U.N. Security Council on Friday to approve a resolution lifting sanctions on Iraq and...

http://www.discover.com/may_03/gthere.html?article=featoil.html Is this too good to be true?

There's an article in the May 2003 issue of Discover magazine about a process for converting pretty much any form of garbage (meat processing waste, used tires, platic bottles, human waste) into oil. According to the article, the new process can do this economically. They claim they will hit...