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If I am a consumer, and I am, and I put gasoline in my tank, what does it matter that it comes from light, sweet crude (conventional such as Ghawar or unconventional such as Bakken) or heavy oil (such as Venezuelan extra heavy or South Belridge heavy) or was created from syncrude constructed from n...

Here's the link to the programme: -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011ttff

Just been listening to Money box live on Radio 4 - they advised fixing your energy bills this weekend while you still can.

Just fixed mine to March 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13699952

"It seems to me that with crude prices as high as they are, most members are already producing as much as they possibly can," said Tom Bentz, director at BNP Paribas commodity futures.

Sounds like peak oil to me

Unlike those nervous GPs because "Stitching up wounds caused by accidents is not deemed to be part of a GP's role so any GP who undertakes such work would be laying themselves open to being sued if anything went wrong eg if they missed a tendon or nerve injury". It would be interesting to...

My question remains as to why highly qualified and highly paid GP's get away with passing simple injury patch ups on to an A+E, and incur huge extra costs to the system, rather than roll up their sleeves and do it themselves? One very good reason is litigation. Stitching up wounds caused by acciden...

That's not to say that the majority of doctors couldn't suture a wound in an emergency if they had to though (except perhaps psychiatrists )

Most GPs wouldn't suture a wound caused by an injury. GPs generally do minor surgery - ie they remove lumps and bumps and stitch up wounds they made themselves! But for "accidents" and "emergencies" the A&E Dept is the correct place to go.

Is there really such a thing as abiotic oil??
These crazies who don't "believe" in peak oil "believe" in this abiotic oil stuff.
I never learnt about it at school

There won't just be rationing of food, water, fuel, power, but importantly also rationing of healthcare. You just need to look at what's happening in Japan following the earthquake, tsunami & nuclear disaster to see what will happen with rationing - sick, elderly & disabled people are litera...

And from the BBC: -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12809568

(Bit of a doomerish title they've chosen for this piece - "Yemen:Beginning of the end?" )

(Edited - I missed out the question mark!)

I've come across a quite a few websites saying that the 11th March day of rage has been postponed: - http://www.businessinsider.com/investment-strategy-for-saudis-day-of-rage-2011-3 http://www.buzzfeed.com/upi/saudi-day-of-rage-protests-postponed-sxr http://greenislamicowl.blogspot.com/2011/03/saudi...

If this day of rage does go ahead tomorrow I have a feeling it's all going to end very horribly

http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/articl ... ay-of-rage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12594032

Meanwhile a Facebook site calling for a "day of rage" in Saudi Arabia on 11 March has seen its number of subscribers increase from 400 to 12,000 in recent days

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From the latest ODAC newsletter: - " Just because output was lower in 2009 than 2008 does not necessarily mean the fall was geologically imposed. We think oil production was lower in 2009 than 2008 because of lower demand caused by the recession, itself caused in part by the spike in the oil pr...