Thursday July 21, 2005 
Thursday July 21, 2005
US Congressman Bartlett speaks out again on Peak Oil
peakoil.com -> xecu.net, lifeaftertheoilcrash.net :
Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, if you go to your computer this evening and do a Google search for peak oil, you will find there a large assortment of articles and comments. Like every issue, you will find a few people who are on the extreme, but there will be a lot of mainstream observations there. One of the articles that you will find there was written by Matt Savinar. Matt Savinar is not a technical person. He is a lawyer, a good one, and he does what lawyers do. He goes to the sources and builds his case ...
... Mr. Speaker, the challenge that we have now is to reduce the amount of energy we are using so that there is a surplus of the available energy to make investments in the alternatives that we are going to have to turn to as we run down Hubbert's peak.
I think that our country, Mr. Speaker, needs something like a melding of the Manhattan Project, the urgency of the Manhattan Project and the commitment that we had in putting a man on the moon. Short of that, Matt Savinar could be correct when he said, "Dear Reader, civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon."
One of the great attributes of being in America is that we are entrepreneurs. We do very poorly at avoiding crises. We do very well at responding to a crisis. We now are approaching a crisis. I think the Federal Government and the Congress needs to take the lead in challenging our people, our entrepreneurs, our creative spirit, to address this problem ...
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See also :
1. Congressman Bartlett - Peak Oil Speech
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Hey Peakoilers!
Where U at?
Posted by Fatherof4 on July 22, 2005 at 11:50 AM SGT #
C'mon Low.
Singapore needs to represent.
Land your Balloon
Posted by Fatherof4 on July 23, 2005 at 01:42 PM SGT #
Oh, all right, all right. I'll go take a lookie ... :)
Posted by lowem on July 23, 2005 at 11:46 PM SGT #