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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328270/A-Britain-STILL-belongs-aristocracy.html Don't know if anybody has been watching the ITV drama Downtown Abbey, a brillant Edwardian era period drama but this article is very interesting, the toffs still own a awful lot of our country. In the longer-ru...

The 'Industrial Economist' states Saudi Arabia produces almost 6 MMBD, which is much higher than the second-highest oil producer (the Caspian sea) at less than 4 MMBD. As Saudi Arabia is regarded as a politically unstable country, would they use wars and blackmail to demand more money for their oil ...

Baria, many people around the world still live in poverty and lack the resources and education to know or do anything about the peak oil crisis.

Is the nuclear industryreally the way forward? I thought Nuclear powerstations were dangerous for many reasons. One is the amount of waste they produce clearly is not beneficial for the environment and two, they are surely large targets for terrorism?

Thanks for referring me to the website, there were some interesting disadvantages to raising the oil prices.
It seems we have to choose between helping the economy and helping the environment.

'emordnilap' - I did not mean the government should invest profits into improving the environment. I'm certain they would never do such a thing. What I meant was that by raising the price of oil, people would save energy more, as gas would be even more expensive, and so, precious. This reduction in ...

[quote="adam2"] The American sheeple are largely oposed to oil storeage as it takes up tax dollars, and raises near term prices by increaseing demand. There are regular calls to release oil from storeage to reduce gas prices.[/quote] Surely it's a good thing to raise gas prices. If gas is ...

Is the answer to 'peak oil' really to inflate prices?
Will we really stop using oil, which many of us cannot live without as it seems like a necessity, even if there is an extortionate price of oil?

It is obvious that 'peak oil' has already happened, so why doesn't the US, and other countries, spend more time and money on storing oil?

The mission of Roadmap 2050 is to provide a practical, independent and objective analysis of pathways to achieve a low-carbon economy in Europe, in line with the energy security, environmental and economic goals of the European Union. The Roadmap 2050 project is an initiative of the European Climat...

[quote]Last week, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was forced to apologise after wrongly claiming most of the Himalayan glaciers would vanish within 25 years. The warning, which appeared in the IPCC's 2007 report, turned out to be taken from a news story from New Scientist magazine...

and secondly, there wasn't just a 'single line' of the report that was wrong, more like several things that were wrong: exaggeration of tropical storms, the recession of glaciers and 'manipulations' of data so to cause panic in making climate change seem almost completely man-made. My second point i...

my point is we can't accept things without really knowing the scale of it. Yes, greenhouse gases warming the earth's temperature is real, but the exaggeration in the IPCC's reports would ultimately cause undue panic. The amendment of the IPCC's report helps [quote]...restore some much needed balance...

[quote]Last week, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was forced to apologise after wrongly claiming most of the Himalayan glaciers would vanish within 25 years. The warning, which appeared in the IPCC's 2007 report, turned out to be taken from a news story from New Scientist magazine...