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 _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24205