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This reminds me of Saudi's recently stated objectice to cut production to shore up oil prices. I understand that Shell/BP have said that production this year will be flat in order to meet with safety legislation. It may be (sort of) amusing to see if any other oil producers come up with 'reasons' to...

I'm an experienced nurse with a variety of qualifications under my belt, yet I'm finding it increasingly difficult to find (NHS) work at present. The government states money is tight, but my friend (who is not PO aware, though I have tried) believes there are plently of funds but the government want...

On first reading this stuff is pretty chilling. Then I was actually kinda heartened. One thing that struck me is that being in a country that suffers economic collapse is so much worse if the general citizenary has easy access to fire arms. Here in the UK we are simply not going to have the scale of...

this seems like a fun game.

oil will reach 80$ a barrel early next year, around mid-february, within 48 hours of St Valentines day.

Thanks. I feel better now. No, really..

I don't think we're quite home and dry yet. There has been a similar spike in applications for North Sea drilling permits and this probably is the kind of desperate scramble i'd expect just-past-post-peak.

Will your job weather the peak? Modern medicine has become virtually an off shoot of the petrochemical industry- can you imagine an anaesthetist or a GP without resort to modern drugs? Or syringes? I tend to the view of the 'long emergency' where medicine will be initially prioritised with a winding...