An excellent article talking about the economics of Peak Oil via EnergyBulletin. Among some questions that were approached were: with energy prices so high, why isn't the "world" suffering from a massive economic downturn? Have firms been taking a hit at all?
Unfortunately, due to its West-centrism, it fails to acknowledge that the high prices have effectively destroyed semi-developed countries such as
Zimbabwe, and is working against some countries
exporting oil such as
Indonesia and
Qatar due to outdated domestic policies regarding subsidies.
Coping with high oil prices
by Nikos Tsafos
Please note that these posts aren't meant to create anxiety or arouse a sense of apocalypticism (i.e., the world is ending very soon). Rather, peak oil is virtually guaranteed to create massive problems (and already has) with much of the third and developing world, which in turn means greater exploitation, greater nationalism and protectionist policies, an increasingly larger wealth distribution gap.
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Pulled off
The Oil Drum. I recommend reading the additional links in the post.
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2006/7/4
(Note: Sorry if you couldn't read this properly. If you click here and scroll to the bottom, you should be able to read the whole question and available answers.)
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2006/4/18
I went to a Methodist church when I was young. However, during my college years, having no convictions about the truths of any one creed, I "experimented" with other churches, to which I finally have declared no formal denomination. Moreover, during that period I questioned my faith intensively, heavily debating atheists on the
alt.atheism newsgroups and challenging me to sharpen my understanding of the philosophical concepts of
epistemology and
ontology, which both came after some research about theistic and atheistic scientific arguments.
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