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Must Watch Australian Report on Peak Oil

Submitted by Denis Tegg on 17 May 2011 - 2:20pm | updated 17 May 2011 | Blog entry

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Catalyst programme has just broadcast the best peak oil documentary in recent times. In just 12 minutes it covers many of the essential points, and is a great way to get yourself up to speed on peak oil. Please take the time to watch it, and share this Youtube link and the ABC Catalyst link with your networks, and with anyone you believe is unaware of, or in denial about peak oil. » Read more

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Michael C Ruppert interviewed on National radio

Submitted by seemorerocks on 13 May 2011 - 5:00pm | Blog entry

Chris Laidlaw has recorded an interview with MIchael C Ruppert on the Sunday programme.

This interview is being broadcast on National radio (101 FM) on Sunday, 22 May after the 10.00 news.

If you miss the interview it will be available as a podcast on http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday » Read more

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Inflinite growth paradigm meets end of cheap energy

Submitted by seemorerocks on 11 May 2011 - 11:38am | Blog entry

As a non-economist I don't often pay much attention to graphs of economic activity.

However, I saw an article that really caught my attention, so have posted this on my blog www.robinwestenra.blogspot.com

I apologise, I wasn't able to work out how to bring the article with the graph over to this site.

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New Zealand Joins Peak Oil Club - IEA

Submitted by Denis Tegg on 20 April 2011 - 4:35pm | updated 20 Apr 2011 | Blog entry

re-posted from my blog - oilshockhorrorprobe » Read more

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Blogspot for information on Peak Oil and climate change

Submitted by seemorerocks on 7 April 2011 - 6:57pm | Blog entry

I have set up a personal blog site so that I can express my views on all the things relating to Peak Oil and climate change that are ignored by government. media etc.  This means occasionally venting my spleen.

I hope that members of Transition Towns will have a look.

http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/

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Ideology Trumps Common Sense

Submitted by Denis Tegg on 22 March 2011 - 12:56pm | Blog entry

It's said a picture is worth a thousand words. Take a look at these graphs and see if you can make any sense of the government's response to oil prices rising and it's transport policy. Damned if I can. (hat tip to Auckland Transport blog and frog blog)

Traffic volumes on State Highways have not increased since 2005. » Read more

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Oil Price Response Plan For New Zealand Ignored

Submitted by Denis Tegg on 17 March 2011 - 1:27pm | updated 17 Mar 2011 | Blog entry

Prime Minister John Key's only response to rapidly rising oil prices has been to say "the government is powerless - there is nothing we can do". Not so. » Read more

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Question to the minister of Finance: "What steps, if any, is he taking to reduce New Zealand’s economic vulnerability that stems from dependence on oil?"

Submitted by Rimu on 16 March 2011 - 3:25pm | Story

Incase you needed proof that National doesn't get it, can't get it and will never get it. Attached is the research article from NZTA that Gareth Hughes cites. It's not bad.

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Do Saudis have spare capacity? And why your standard of living hinges on it.

Submitted by Denis Tegg on 10 March 2011 - 2:21pm | Blog entry

The conventional response to a supply disruption like from Libya is -- no worries, the Saudis have heaps of oil and can immediately pump more to take up the slack. But do they? And what happens to oil prices if they can't?

Many astute oil experts have grave doubts about the Saudis much vaunted spare capacity. This is vital because Saudi Arabia is the world's largest producer, and up till now has been able to influence the world price by opening the oil taps. » Read more

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As seen on TV - Breakfast Show

Submitted by James Samuel on 9 March 2011 - 4:45am | updated 09 Mar 2011 | Blog entry

A great opportunity came chasing after me yesterday, when Paul from TVNZ tracked me down to invited someone from Transition Towns to go on the Breakfast Show on Wednesday morning to talk about the Transition Towns response to rising fuel prices. I hesitated briefly. Here was a chance to raise the bar on the conversation, above simply rising fuel and food prices (which are intimately interlinked).

So in case you can't (or didn't) see the 7:10am breakfast show here's what I am hoping to bring to the conversation.

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