US Dept of Energy office supports Peak Oil theory

international | consumer issues | other press Monday December 20, 2004 15:19 by redjade

you know you're paranoid when the US Government agrees with you....

US Dept of Energy office supports Peak Oil theory

An office of the US Department of Energy addresses - and supports - Peak Oil research in this unusually frank document entitled Strategic Significance of America’s Oil Shale Resource. Produced by the DoE's Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, it disregards the overly optimistic oil production projections of the DoE's own Energy Information Administration. It references instead the research of Colin Campbell, Jean Laherrère, Kenneth Deffeyes, Matthew Simmons and other so called 'pessimists' in one of the first serious official documents supporting the thesis of an imminent oil peak. (In fact a later version of one figure included in the report was first published here on EnergyBulletin.net by Werner Zittel and Jorg Schindler.) The report looks towards the US's shale deposits as a potential source of fuel for the future

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