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Matthew is a 90 year old guy from Geelong, VIC, Australia

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  • http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/reps/dailys/dr040906.pdf

    Rated Sep 19 • 1 review • australia, petrol, peak oil, parliamen, hansard • gov.au

    p 33 in Hansard of Australian Parliament of Monday 12 September 2006 makes mention of decreasing production of petrol in Australia, as a well as dangers of fine particulate polution from incomplete internal combustion engine combustion:

    The fourth point I want to make is in relation
    to the graph released by ABARE and
    Geoscience Australia, which we all know as
    the Bureau of Mineral Resources, shows that
    Australia had been over 90 per cent selfsufficient
    in our petrol requirements up till
    about 2002. From now on there will be a
    dramatic drop in production in Australia.
    This graph shows that over the next five or
    six years we will drop down to about 27 per
    cent self-sufficiency in oil from our current
    95 per cent. The country is running out of
    petrol and we are doing nothing about it.
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    http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/reps/dailys/dr040906.pdf

  • Unleashed: Starving for gas

    Rated Sep 13 • 2 reviews • cooking, peak oil, china, natural gas, nitrogen fertilizers • abc.net.au

    Nitrogen based fertiliser manufactured from natural gas and similar, is presently utilised in the production of most of the world's foods.

    But, peak oil is upon us, and how smoothly will we transition from oil-based food production to the style of food production that was used when the world's population was 1/3 of what it is now in 2009.

    Last month the International Energy Agency's chief economist Dr Fatih Birol told Britain's The Independent newspaper that world oil production will peak within 10 years. The average rate of decline in the world's 800 major oilfields is now 6.7 per cent a year - almost double what it was two years ago. "One day we will run out of oil. It will not be today or tomorrow, but one day we will run out of oil and we have to leave oil before oil leaves us. We have to prepare ourselves for that day,"
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    Unleashed: Starving for gas

  • Bike Commute Tips Blog

    Rated Aug 27 • 1 review • economics, transportation, cycling, peak oil • blogspot.com



    US Government is paying four and a half thousand US dollars to people to upgrade their car to something a little less fuel hungry. Pump priming. Why not, instead, pump prime making public, pedestrian and cycling traffic a more feasible, attractive and safer option
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    Bike Commute Tips Blog

  • The Transition Handbook : newint.com.au/shop : Teaching...

    Rated May 15 2009 • 1 review • environment, peak oil, climate change, transition towns, books • newint.com.au

    From the page: "'The Transition Handbook' is a groundbreaking book which shows how we can move from feeling anxious and fearful in the face of â€peak oil†to developing a positive vision and taking practical action to create a more self-reliant existence. We live in an oil-dependent world and have acted as if there was an infinite supply.

    Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but 'The Transition Handbook' shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local communities that will grow more of their own food, generate their own power, and build their own houses using local materials. They can also encourage the development of local currencies to keep money in the local area.

    Based on success stories of communities in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, the book explains how we can â€transition†from fossil-fuel based communities to ones that are more self-reliant and that encourage local food, local economies and local water harvesting and energy generation.

    The Transition movement began in the UK, where there are now more than 40 Transition Towns. This edition contains a special supplement outlining Transition communities in Australia and New Zealand, where there are now over 20 Transition initiatives."
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    The Transition Handbook : newint.com.au/shop : Teaching Resources - Reference Books : from New Internationalist, a Fair Trade Organization

  • Future Proof Kilkenny

    Rated May 15 2009 • 2 reviews • environment, peak oil, climate change, transition towns, composting • futureproofkilkenny.org



    Growing food locally, reducing our impact on environment. Positive, community building.
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    Future Proof Kilkenny

  • http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1597264997?ie=UTF8&tag=w...

    Rated May 10 2009 • 0 reviews • books, peak oil, urban planning, peter newman • amazon.com

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    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1597264997?ie=UTF8&tag=worldchangi0b-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1597264997/

  • Worldchanging: Bright Green: Choosing What Our Cities...

    Rated May 10 2009 • 1 review • environment, peak oil, community, freeways, localisation, peter newman • worldchanging.com

    From the page: "As we draw nearer to reaching the point of Peak Oil, it benefits us to imagine what our cities will look like in a world without oil. Does this conjure up images of cities turned into urban farms just to produce enough food for us all? Do we devote all our energy to growing, bartering and trading the food we grow? Or will the city become divided, with the wealthy moving to the center while higher costs of living force lower-income families to the outer-ring suburbs, where access to goods, services and transport will be limited?

    If we start now, we can choose what we want our cities to look like in the future. We can make them the resilient, sustainable centers of culture, justice, art and creativity that we hope they will become.

    Author and Professor Peter Newman is asking us to imagine and then get to work building these urban centers. His book and talk, both titled Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change, ask audiences to honestly look at what will happen to our cities when we reach Peak Oil. During his 90 minute presentation last night at Seattle's City Hall, Newman explained to the full house how peak oil will soon change reality as we know it; and how if we choose to make it so, we can take this challenge as our opportunity to create a functional, just and sustainable world.

    Picturing a future where we do nothing resulted in some frightening scenarios: ones where we are barely getting by and injustice is running rampant. But, as Newman explained, picturing a future in which we respond to the challenge by building resilient cities results in images of a flexible and supportive, flourishing society.
    So, in 2001, under the direction of Seoul's Mayor Lee Myung-bak, a plan was developed to tear down the freeway and to restore the river. The project was completed in 2005 after.jpg
    In order to build the new resilient city of the future, Newman said that â€oewe need to stop building extra urban road capacity and urban scatter; we need to start building electric renewable cities with much greater localism in the economy and infrastructure.”

    â€oeWe need both at the same time," Newman said. "Or they will undermine what we need to do together.”"
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    Worldchanging: Bright Green: Choosing What Our Cities Will Look Like in a World Without Oil

  • Energy Bulletin

    Reviewed May 10 2009 • 17 reviews • energy industry, peak oil, transition towns • energybulletin.net

    Excellent clearinghouse of peak oil commentary and relevant media.

    Highly recommended.
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    Energy Bulletin

  • Peak Oil Premonitions: How I Learned To Survive Peak Oil

    Rated May 10 2009 • 1 review • blogs, peak oil, saltwatermatt • blogspot.com

    What an honour: my Saltwatermatt Stumbleupon blog has been mentioned (noted, though, to be a bit "left wing") alongside the most excellent energybulletin.net [energybulletin.net]
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    Peak Oil Premonitions: How I Learned To Survive Peak Oil

  • Short Changed by Explanation for Petrol Prices | Phil...

    Rated Mar 27 2009 • 1 review • transportation, oil supply, phil hart, society, peak oil • philhart.com

    From the page: "MEDIA RELEASE: TUESDAY 29th MAY 2007

    Everybody is feeling a little short changed when it comes to petrol prices.

    But Phil Hart, from the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil, is not upset with the price at the pump. Instead, he is wound up by the economists and their explanation that high prices are the fault of refineries in the United States. While there is a grain of truth to that argument, the US has for a long time required imports to make up for a shortfall in refining capacity.

    To meet insatiable demand, Asian refineries are crying out for oil but producers in the Middle East can't keep up, Hart says. â€oeCrude oil production is lower than at any time in the previous two years so somebody has to lose out. We are amongst the winners because, so far, consumers have been prepared to pay the price”.

    In Asia, crude oil has reached $79 a barrel, just three dollars shy of record highs. There should be no surprise that we are repeating last year's pain at the petrol pump. â€oeRefinery constraints in the US are one aspect of a tight petroleum supply chain, but the main contributor to high petrol prices is a faltering supply of crude oil”, says Hart.

    While Hart is not prepared to call this 'peak oil' just yet, as production might recover to post marginal gains over the next year or two, the message is clear. â€oeThe world's fast depleting oil resources will not allow for the kind of continuous growth in supply that economists are counting on”.

    â€oeHigh prices are the market signal that we urgently need transport and city planning that will reduce our oil dependence. Suggesting that high prices are temporary misleads the public and allows governments to delay difficult decisions”.

    Notes:
    # World discovery of oil peaked in 1964 and has been declining ever since.
    # Each year since 1983 we have consumed more oil than we have discovered.
    # We now find just one barrel of oil for every three that we consume.
    # Production of oil in Australia peaked in 2001.
    # Australia's oil vulnerability is increasing: In just five years, 50% of Australia's consumption will need to be met through imports."
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    Short Changed by Explanation for Petrol Prices | Phil Hart - Astronomy, Photography and Peak Oil