If you're intereste in learning more about Campbell's theories, visit
the following website: http://www.oilcrisis.com/campbell/
His 1997 book "The Coming Oil Crisis" was an interesting read.
Peter Anderson wrote:
THE GUARDIAN (Gr. Britain)
The end of oil is closer than you think
Oil production could peak next year, reports John Vidal. Just kiss your
lifestyle goodbye
John Vidal
Thursday April 21, 2005
The one thing that international bankers don't want to hear is that the
second Great Depression may be round the corner. But last week, a group of
ultra-conservative Swiss financiers asked a retired English petroleum
geologist living in Ireland to tell them about the beginning of the end of
the oil age.
They called Colin Campbell, who helped to found the London-based Oil
Depletion Analysis Centre because he is an industry man through and through,
has no financial agenda and has spent most of a lifetime on the front line
of oil exploration on three continents. He was chief geologist for Amoco, a
vice-president of Fina, and has worked for BP, Texaco, Shell, ChevronTexaco
and Exxon in a dozen different countries.
"Don't worry about oil running out; it won't for very many years," the
Oxford PhD told the bankers in a message that he will repeat to businessmen,
academics and investment analysts at a conference in Edinburgh next week.
"The issue is the long downward slope that opens on the other side of peak
production. Oil and gas dominate our lives, and their decline will change
the world in radical and unpredictable ways," he says.
Campbell reckons global peak production of conventional oil - the kind
associated with gushing oil wells - is approaching fast, perhaps even next
year. His calculations are based on historical and present production data,
published reserves and discoveries of companies and governments, estimates
of reserves lodged with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, speeches
by oil chiefs and a deep knowledge of how the industry works.
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If he is correct, then global oil production can be expected to decline
steadily at about 2-3% a year, the cost of everything from travel, heating,
agriculture, trade, AND ANYTHING MADE OF PLASTIC RISES [capitalization
added]. And the scramble to control oil resources intensifies. As one US
analyst said this week: "Just kiss your lifestyle goodbye."
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FOR FULL ARTICLE:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5175212-110373,00.html
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