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 [Liberty and Prosperity for Today] Jersey Joe Pennacchio on Energy Policy: The United States has enormous amounts of oil in shale reserves, more than Saudi Arabia has in crude oil. Oil shale reserve estimates range from 1.5 to 2.6 billion barrels of refineable oil.

 [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] DrumBeat: March 14, 2008: Saleri, current president and CEO of Houston-based consulting firm Quantum Reservoir Impact, and former head of reservoir management for the Saudi oil consortium known at Saudi Aramco, "The world is not running out of oil anytime soon." In Saleri's Wall Street Journal editorial dated March 4, "The World Has Plenty of Oil," he states, "My view, subjective and imprecise, points to a period (when peak oil production occurs) between 2045 and 2067 as the most likely outcome."

[Freightscene.com] ATA Urges SPR Solution to Fuel Crisis: In urging President Bush to open up the SPR to ease the burden on truckers and the industry, Graves also expressed concern the rising energy prices has on the over-all economy. “We are very concerned that out-of-control energy prices will greatly magnify our current economic slowdown and delay our economic recovery,” said Graves.

 [Joshua Davis Photography] Barack Obama and His 12 Years Legislative Experience: Obama introduced a bold new plan that brought Republicans and Democrats, CAFE supporters and long-time opponents together in support of legislation that will gradually increase fuel economy standards and offer what the New York Times editorial page called “real as opposed to hypothetical results.”

 [The Fin] Globalization 3rd Essay: While it has successfully lowered the emissions of automobiles and trucks, the overall number of vehicles on the roads increased by 178% between 1970 and 2005, and is increasing at a rate of 2-3% each year (EPA.gov). The growth of suburbs in post-World War II America, the creation of the interstate highway system, and the proliferation of jobs to new parts of the country has caused the United States to become very dependent upon the automobile.

[The Progressive Mind-II] Agenda for the North American Summit: People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

 [Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: The United States and China, the two biggest producers of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases from fossil-fuel burning, sought to assure other nations that they, too, take global warming seriously and will provide what help .

 [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Peak Oil Overview - March 2008 (Pdf and Powerpoint available): OTOH, if you believe he's an authority, it's worth noting that he (as well as Deffeyes, Goodstein, and Simmons) said explicitly that he thinks that renewables are perfectly viable - he just wants to make clear that the transition is a very large project, and needs to start now.

[All Car Info] Electric and Plug-In Hybrid cars: Visit his business blog at http://www.plug-in-hybrid-cars.com.for free and useful information about hybrid cars and trucks. Bio-Fuels Myth Or Reality The United States is currently in an uproar over the price of automotive fuel. ...

 [Tarique kamal] Technology and Society: The chapters in this section provide a survey ofrenewable and non-renewable energy technologies and discuss the issuesand challenges of economic growth within the domains of sustainableenvironment. The first chapter ”˜Fossil Fuel Fundamentals’ provides aglobal perspective of fossil fuel resources and explores the issues ofenergy production and consumption, America’s dependence on fossil fuel,and the advantages and disadvantages of fossil fuels.

 [Yeqing's bookshelf] The Chinese: from Yellow Peril to Green Peril?: For example, Elizabeth C Economy, one of the leading Western experts on China’s environment and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, has argued explicitly in Foreign Affairs that China needs to sacrifice economic growth in favour of environmental protection: ”˜Why is China unable to get its environmental house in order? Its top officials want what the United States, Europe and Japan have: thriving economies with manageable environmental problems.

 [rodolphepilaertroots] NIGERIA ANTHROPOLOGIE, ethnologie , sociologie, africa ...: The digital campuses will serve as hubs for digital cities whose success will fuel a regional rollout.” Initiated by Nam Mokwunye, a 2007 Reuters Digital Vision Fellow, Stanford University, California. http://udcnigeria.com/ ...

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