X-Message-Number: 24205
From: "Mark Plus" <>
Subject: More reasons to get to North America, while you can
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:33:49 -0700

Oil Prices Threaten European Air Traffic Growth
http://news.airwise.com/stories/2004/06/1086259949.html

Is the world's oil running out fast?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3777413.stm

East Asia Makes Plans for Oil Emergency
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/8861045.htm

Oil Anxiety Hits A Slippery Slope
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_24/b3887040_mz011.htm

Meanwhile, the claims that we still have "plenty of oil" are invalidated by 
thermodynamics. Trying to extract net energy from resources like Albertan 
oil sands is pretty much pseudoscientific, like trying to build a perpetual 
motion machine:

energy return on energy invested, or EROEI
http://www.abelard.org/briefings/energy-economics.asp#eroei

Regards,

Mark Plus

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