Peak Oil Advocacy

Discussion Points
Suggestions to include in your email (copy and paste from below):

The Problem:

1 - Geological predictions for peak oil and gas production by 2008 with terminal decline by 2010 (ASPO http://www.peakoil.net ).
2 - Growing demand + plateau in supply means rising oil prices far exceeding $US40 bbl.
3 - Terminal depletion of the resource means no return to cheap oil.

Possible Consequences:

4 - Oil supply and price volatility over the next 5 years accompanied by economic instability (stagflation).
5 - A terminal global economic decline after 2010 with possible global stock market and banking crash.
6 - Terminal recession followed by a great depression until alternative energy sources can be developed (decades away).
7 - There's only a decade to find an alternative to the internal combustion and jet engine for mass transport.
8 - Ditto the petrochemicals that supply industrial agriculture with pesticides and fertilizer.
9 - 500 000 consumer commodities including plastics, medicines etc. rely on oil as a stock feed.
10 - Rising prices for food and commodities, shortages, increasingly expensive shipping freight and air travel.
11 - Rising longer term unemployment across the board.
12 - The end of welfare, free education and Medicare.
13 - Localisation of food production, travel, work and manufacturing as vehicle use declines.
14 - Middle class poverty (the end of suburbia).
15 - Reliance on gas for electricity means a move to nuclear (arms proliferation and waste) and/or coal (global warming).
16 - Oil wars.
17 - A massive, radical and sustained change in our way of life as we transition to alternative energy sources and the economic/political order they support.

What to do:

18 - Research the problem for yourself (Energy Bulletin http://www.energybulletin.net/news.php and Google http://www.google.com/search?q=peak+oil&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 ).
19 - Contact your local, state and federal representatives.
20 - Organise to help get the message out.

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