OIL EMPIRE

THE OIL EMPIRE

An understanding of the location and quantity of petroleum in the world is of vital strategic interest to those people who either produce or consume petroleum. As Youngquist (1997) observed: �The importance of mineral and energy mineral resources cannot be overestimated. Most critical among the resources is energy. Energy is the key which unlocks all other natural resources. Without it the wheels of industry do not turn, no metals are mined and smelted. No cars, trucks, trains, ships or airplanes could be built, and if built, they could not move without energy. Without energy, houses would remain cold and unlighted, food would be uncooked. Fields could not be plowed nor planted with the ease and on the vast scale they are today by means of relatively little human labor. Military defense as we know it today would not exist. Without energy resources we would literally be back in the Stone Age. And without the use of energy and metals as we use them today, it is probable that the world�s population would be reduced at least one-half, some estimates say 90 percent.�

US OIL DEMAND, 2004: Over 20 million barrels per day, up from January 2002, when demand was about 18.5 million barrels per day, = 777 million gallons. If lined up in 1-gallon cans, they would encircle the earth at the equator almost 6 times (about 147,000 miles of cans) � every day.
U.S. gasoline consumption of 320,500,000 gallons per day (March 2005) works out to about 3700 gallons per second.

A 28-year oil price chart is given below.

(data from Energy Information Administration, chart by Gibson Consulting)

The Map below is based on data from Energy Information Administration for 2003, and includes both imported crude and petroleum products (see note and table below the map for 2001-2002). Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and Venezuela are the leading suppliers. The map shows all countries that supply 1% or more of our imports, and the countries shown total about 85% of all imports.

2004 UPDATE: US Imports total about 61% of consumption: 13.12 million barrels per day in July 2004, out of total consumption of 21.4 million barrels per day.
Oil Stats

IN THE BEGINNING...

THE OIL BROTHERHOOD

As the 1932 presidential elections began, Hitler and the Nazi party were almost broke. They were desperate for funds. And then, after meeting with the captains of industry, Hitler was suddenly flush with cash.

According to Hitler�s vice-Chancellor, Franz von Papen (34), �the most documented account of the National Socialists� sudden acquisition of funds was contained in a book published in Holland in 1933.� It was published �by the old established Amsterdam publishing house of Van Holkema & Warendorf, called De Geldbronnen van Het Nationaal-Socialisme (Drie Gesprekken Met Hitler) under the name �Sidney Warburg.�

In that book, �The Financial Sources of National Socialism� it is claimed that Hitler�s rise to power was aided directly by Wall Street bankers, industrialists, and oil companies, including Standard Oil, and John D. Rockefeller, who contributed $32,000,000 between the years 1929 to 1932.

In the opening paragraphs, the author, who calls himself �Sydney Warburg� states that: �There are moments when I want to turn away from a world of such intrigue, trickery, swindling and tampering with the stock exchange .... Do you know what I can never understand? How it is possible that people of good and honest character � for which I have ample proof � participate in swindling and fraud, knowing full well that it will affect thousands.� The New York Times (11/24/1933), was quick to dismiss the book, but in so doing, revealed its own Nazi sympathies: �Hoax on Nazis Feared.�

Feared? The New York Times, �feared� that not only the Nazis, but the publishers were �victims of a hoax.�

The New York Times was apparently a fan of Hitler, for prior to 1933, and during the same time Rockefeller and Standard Oil were contributing millions of dollars, it ran several quite positive stories about Adolf Hitler in 1929, 1930, and 1931 (35) as did the Hearst publishing empire (15).

The author of this �feared hoax� was �Sydney Warburg.� However, after the book�s publication, not only the New York Times but the Warburg family, which included Max Warburg, a director of IG Farben in Germany, and Paul Warburg a director of American IG. Farben, denounced the book. Of course, we also know that IG. Farben was a major financial supporter of Hitler, and we know the Standard Oil and the Bush-Harriman clique were in business with IG Farben (36). So, the Warburg denunciation cannot be taken completely seriously.

Nevertheless, James Warburg demanded that the book be destroyed because it contains �a mass of libelous material against various members of my family and against a number of prominent banking houses and individuals in New York.� However, Warburg then goes on to say, �I have never to this day seen a copy of the book� (37).

Within days of the book's publication, and although those who denounced it have never seen a copy it disappeared from circulation and almost all copies were quickly destroyed (36).

As detailed in Antony C. Sutton�s well documented book, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler (36), the first section of the book explains that in 1929, American banks and investors were concerned that the demands by France on German war reparations, were eating into their own profits. Thus, these American business men called a meeting in June 1929 to discuss the problem and what might be done. Those in attendance included �members of the Federal Reserve Bank and leading American bankers� including the �directors of Guaranty Trust Company, the Presidents of the Federal Reserve Banks, in addition to five independent bankers, young Rockefeller, and Glean from Royal Dutch Shell. Rockefeller� and �Carter� of Guaranty Trust Company, �dominated the proceedings. The others listened and nodded their heads.�

Antony Sutton, then goes on to report that according to Warburg�s book,

�The general consensus at the bankers� meeting was that the only way to free Germany from French financial clutches was by revolution, either Communist or German Nationalist.� Rockefeller argued that the money should go to Hitler. After some negotiation, 10 million dollars was transferred to the Nazis. During subsequent meetings, it was explained that Hitler�s storm troopers and SS, were insufficiently equipped and badly needed machine guns, revolvers, and carbines. Hitler explained that he had two plans for takeover in Germany: (a) revolution (b) legal takeover plan. Hitler is quoted as saying, �revolution costs five hundred million marks. Legal takeover costs two hundred million marks �what will your bankers decide?�

A legal takeover thus offered the best deal. Warburg passed these demands to Rockefeller and Guaranty Trust and received the following answer in reply:

�Suggested amounts are out of the question. We don�t want to and cannot. Explain to man that such a transfer to Europe will shatter financial market. Absolutely unknown on international territory. Expect long report, before decision is made. Stay there. Continue investigation. Persuade man of impossible demands. Don�t forget to include in report own opinion of possibilities for future of man.�

After further negotiations, Rockefeller and the American banking and oil interests offered an additional $15 million which would help finance the legal takeover. Revolution would be too expensive and destructive.

In the months after Hitler took power, in 1933, Warburg delivered yet another payment from Rockefeller and Carter and their associates in banking, industry, and oil, i.e. 7 million dollars (37). Although the New York Times, and the directors of IG Farben�s company that assisted in the murder of millions of men, women, and children have decried this cruel �hoax� which puts the Nazis, Rockefeller, Standard Oil, and the bankers at Guaranty in such a bad light, we do know that these men and these companies were in business with the Nazis (13). And we know that Emil Helfferich, chairman of the Bush-Harriman company, Hamburg-Amerika, was also chairman of Standard Oil�s German subsidiaries. Emil Helfferich frequently wrote out checks to Heinrich Himmler payable on a special Standard Oil account. According to U.S. intelligence documents reviewed by author Anthony Sutton (36), Helfferich was still making these payments to the S.S. in 1944 �the same S.S. which was rounding up, enslaving, and supervising the mass murder of Russians, Jews, Gypsies, Poles, etc., at IG Farben�s death camps.

THE STANDARD OIL NAZIS

�In two years Germany will be manufacturing oil and gas enough out of soft coal for a long war. The Standard Oil of New York is furnishing millions of dollars to help.� -Commercial Attach, U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany, January 1933.

Standard Oil also provided expertise to IG. Farben including the know how to make leaded gasoline. As detailed in an IG Farben memo: �Since the beginning of the war we have been in a position to produce lead tetraethyl solely because, a short time before the outbreak of the war, the Americans had established plants for us ready for production and supplied us with all available experience. In this manner we did not need to perform the difficult work of development because we could start production right away on the basis of all the experience that the Americans had for years.�

In another IG Farben memo Standard Oil�s assistance in procuring $20 million worth of aviation fuel and lubricants is acknowledged: �As a further remarkable example of advantageous effect for us of the contract between IG and Standard Oil, the following should be mentioned: in the years 1934 / 1935 our government had the greatest interest in gathering from abroad a stock of especially valuable mineral oil products (in particular, aviation gasoline and aviation lubricating oil), and holding it in reserve to an amount approximately equal to 20 million dollars at market value. The German Government asked IG if it were not possible, on the basis o fits friendly relations with Standard Oil, to buy this amount in Farben�s name; actually, however, as trustee of the German Government. The fact that we actually succeeded by means of the most difficult negotiations in buying the quantity desired by our government from the American Standard Oil Company and the Dutch � English Royal � Dutch � Shell group and in transporting it to Germany, was made possible only through the aid of the Standard Oil Co.�

Standard oil, Rockefeller, and the Bush-Harriman clique, not only provided financial and technological assistance to Hitler, but assisted his war effort and terror campaign to the detriment of the United States (13,36,38).

It is because of this collaboration, that the Bush-Harriman- Walker properties were seized by the U.S. government for violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act (31).

Charges of �criminal conspiracy with the enemy� were also filed against Standard Oil. However, when evidence of collusion was presented by Thurman Arnold, chief of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. government, it was pointed out by Standard that it was also selling oil and fuel to the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force. If Standard Oil were punished, America might lose a major share of its oil supply, and might lose the war.

Standard Oil not only threatened the government of the United States, but it had already orchestrated a major oil and gasoline shortage during the Summer of 1941. These artificial shortages were also investigated by the United States Congress.

As summarized by the U.S. National Archives, a �Special Committee to Investigate Gasoline and Fuel-Oil Shortages� commenced hearings on August 28, 1941. �18.89 Fear of impending gasoline scarcity along the Atlantic seaboard gripped the American public during the summer of 1941. Members of Congress were deluged with letters and telegrams from concerned constituents. In August... authorities... sought to quiet public concern. These statements failed to stop the hoarding of gasoline and the deterioration of public confidence.�

�18.90 In response to the confusing situation, the Senate established the Special Committee to Investigate Gasoline and Fuel- Oil Shortages (78A-F31) on August 28, 1941. The committee, chaired by Francis T. Maloney of Connecticut, was to investigate the shortage of fuel in the various States, the methods of delivery, and the means to ensure an adequate supply for national defense without undue hardship to the private sector.... A major focus of the committee was the petroleum distribution system.�

Recalling the terrible gas shortages which were due to a problem in the �petroleum distribution system� the government backed down and Rockefeller and Standard oil escaped punishment. The charges of �criminal conspiracy with the enemy� were dropped. However, Standard Oil did not get off the hook completely.

Standard oil agreed to release its patents and pay a modest fine. Thurman Arnold did not let the matter drop, however. He, along with Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, provided the documents detailing the collusion between Standard Oil and IG Farben, to Senator Harry Truman, chairman of the Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program. There followed a series of hearings in March 1942, �In order to disclose the truth about Standard� (13, 39).

After the hearing, the committee chairman, Harry S. Truman, characterized the arrangements between Standard Oil and IG Farben as �treasonable.� Again, however, the entire matter was dropped. Standard Oil again threatened to disrupt the U.S. war effort.

According to Mark Aarons and John Loftus (The Secret War Against the Jews), �There was a reason for Rockefeller�s escape: blackmail. According to the former intelligence officers we interviewed on this point, the blackmail was simple and powerful: The Dulles brothers (John Foster, later Secretary of State, and Allen, later director of the CIA) had one of their clients threaten to interrupt the U.S. oil supply during wartime. Standard executives made it clear that the entire U.S. war effort was fueled by their oil and it could be stopped. . . . The American government had no choice but to go along if it wanted to win the war� (39).

In May of 1942, another aspect of the treasonable relationship maintained between Standard Oil and IG Farben was brought up during testimony before a Patents Committee hearings, chaired by Senator Homer T. Bone. Even after Hitler declared war on the United States, Rockefeller and thus Standard Oil was collaborating with Nazi Germany and seeking to prevent the U.S. from manufacturing explosives and synthetic rubber (40,41,42).

Following the conclusion of the war, Standard Oil�s treasonable behavior was again brought to light by the United States Congress. During congressional hearings conducted before the Truman, Bone, and Kilgore Committees, it was concluded that �Standard Oil� had �seriously imperiled the war preparations of the United States� and that Standard Oil had colluded with IG Farben, to prevent the United States from gaining access to war-related technologies such as the creation of �synthetic rubber.�

As noted, although the most serious charges against Standard Oil were dropped, the U.S. government did seize a number of its patents, under the Trading with the Enemy Act.

However, in July of 1944, Standard Oil, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, contesting the seizure of its patents. In November of 1945, Judge Charles E. Wyzanski ruled that the government had been entitled to seize the patents.

Standard Oil appealed. On September 22, 1947, Judge Charles Clark rejected the appeal, concluding that �Standard Oil can be considered an enemy national in view of its relationships with IG. Farben after the United States and Germany had become active enemies� (40).

Rockefeller, of course, was a member of the Brotherhood. Rockefeller was also in business with other Nazi collaborators, including Prescott Bush and the Harrimans.

THE OIL BROTHERHOOD II

From 1927 to 1941, the future director of the CIA, Allen Dulles worked as lawyer and international finance specialist for Sullivan & Cromwell, a Wall Street law firm in New York. Dulles performed work for Bush, Harriman, and Rockefeller in setting up business relationships with the Nazis and with top Nazi industrialists, and served as legal counsel for Standard Oil and the Nazi�s IG Farben, who had partnered with the Rockefellers (43).

Allen Dulles played a pivotal role in promoting U.S.-Nazi corporate relations. The Nazis considered Allen Dulles to be �the most influential White House man in Europe� and Dulles had numerous meetings with top ranking members of the SS (6).

In fact both Dulles brothers (John Foster, later Secretary of State, and Allen, later director of the CIA) represented the interests of Bush, Harriman, Rockefeller, and other Nazi collaborators prior to, during and after the ending of the second world war. Whereas Allen served as a spymaster, lawyer and deal maker who brought over a thousand high ranking Nazis into the CIA and found jobs for them in the Republican party and corporate America (43,44), John Foster Dulles was on the board of IG Farben who had partnered with Standard Oil (43).

As was the case with Guaranty Trust, which provided loans to the Nazis and to the Soviet Union, Rockefeller�s Standard Oil was also in business with Hitler�s nemesis: the Soviet Union. By doing business with both fascist regimes, this guaranteed that regardless of who won the war, Standard Oil would profit. The Dulles brothers are said to have played a major role in ironing out the Soviet deal.

In 1938, oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia. The king of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud, was a supporter of Adolf Hitler. Dulles, acting as a representative of Standard Oil (as well as IG Farben) also played a major role in negotiating and gaining major concessions from Ibn Saud.

As Saudi Prince Bandar explained to PBS Frontline (45):

�America has never been a colonizing power as far as we were concerned. Our relationship with America... started in the 1930s. And when the Americans came to Saudi Arabia, they didn�t come as an invader. They came actually as a private sector, trying to help us find oil. They found the oil for us, and they�ve been our friends ever since.�

The result of these discoveries and negotiations was a joint venture between Standard Oil, Texaco, and Mobil, and the formation of the Arabian-American Oil Company (ARAMCO). King Ibn Saud and his family were promised millions in return, whereas the Arabian people received basically nothing (46).

By 1944, Standard Oil had twice artificially created oil shortages as a means of gaining leverage over the U.S. government. Based on the discoveries made in Saudi Arabia, the Standard oilled cartel successfully lobbied the U.S. Senate, which in turn proposed that the U.S. government should finance the construction of oil pipelines and oil refineries so as to meet future energy needs. With the assistance of the Dulles brothers, this proposal soon became a program to assist Standard oil and ARAMCO in the Persian Gulf.

In February and March of 1944, the �Special Committee Investigating Petroleum Resources� began hammering out the details.

As summarized by the United States National Archives: �18.94 In February 1944, the Petroleum Administrator for War, Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, announced that the Arabian-American Oil Co. would construct a refinery to produce petroleum war products for the Allied Nations, and that the U.S. Government would construct a petroleum pipeline from the Persian Gulf area to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and would obtain a crude oil petroleum reserve of one billion barrels in the Gulf area.� Because of interests pertaining to �national welfare and security� this Special Committee also agreed to �the disposal of Government-owned pipelines and refineries as surplus properties, tidelands oil, and other issues related to petroleum supplies.�

In other words, after twice being held hostage by Standard Oil, the U.S. government agreed to give �Government-owned pipelines and refineries� to this Standard oil-led cartel, and to fund the creation of new pipelines and refineries in Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. government and the oil cartel headed by Standard Oil, were now in business with the �royal family� of Ibn Saud. Saud and his family began receiving millions of dollars in payments as their reward for selling out so cheaply (46).

Roosevelt, it is said, had been considering bringing charges of treason against Dulles, Bush, and Rockefeller following the conclusion of the second world war. However, Roosevelt�s death put a stop to that. Not only did these traitors get off scott free, but the Dulles brothers also received handsome rewards, Allen becoming the first director the CIA, and John, the Secretary of State.

Nevertheless, although faded by time, and despite the purposeful destruction of incriminating records, the facts remain the same: Prescott Bush, the Harrimans, Rockefellers, the Dulles brothers, and Ibn Saud, had partnered with a terrorist Nazi regime at war with the United States. The Saudi royal family, the Bush family, the Harrimans, Rockefellers, American banks, American Oil, and America�s political elite, went into business with Nazi terrorists who murdered tens of millions of innocent, men, women, and children, including tens of thousands of Americans. They partnered with a terrorist regime that was at war with America for three interrelated reasons: money, oil, and power.

Decades later, after Bush was elected vice-president and then President, he, the Saudi royal family, and the CIA, would provide tens of millions of dollars in support of yet another terrorist organization that would declare war with the United States, this one ostensibly headed by Saudi multi-millionaire, Osama bin Laden. As we shall see, doing business with gangsters, thugs, and terrorists who preach death to America, and who kill Americans, is a Bush family tradition (4,47).
Brotherhood
Death's Head

Oil Origins & Peak

The Oil Empire

The public's most widely known piece of geological knowledge--how petroleum and natual-gas deposts formed on Earth---is quite false. Petroleum's origins are dramatically different than what people believe.

All petroleum is abiotic in origin, coming from abiogenic processes with hydrocarbon development occurring in the Earth's mantle. According to the late Colonel Prouty, "Petroleum is not a 'Fossil' fuel with a surface or near surface origin. It was made to be thought a 'Fossil" fuel by the Nineteenth Century Oil Producers to create the concept that it was of limited supply and therefore extremely valuable. This fits with the 'Depletion' allowance philosophical scam.", Prouty also wrote that the notion that petroleum is a 'fossil fuel' came "Right out of the Rockefeller bible."

"During one of our C.S.I.S. "International Nights" (1978) the Common Market Energy boss, M. Montibrial of France, told us that while petroleum was being marketed then for $20.00 per barrel or more, it cost no more than 25 cents per barrel at the well-head. There is our petroleum problem! We were paying more than $1.50-$1.60 per gallon, one 42nd of a barrel, at that time. Interested folks need to learn more about the Chartered Institute of Transport, and not waste their time with OPEC, the "Cover" story. Those who pumped the Pennsylvania wells "dry" during the late eighteen hundreds saved what they had for those better days." - L. Fletcher Prouty

In fact, no one with any credibility can deny that fact. It has been demonstrated in the laboratory and verified with unchallenged mathematical models. It is a fact. The 'fossil fuel' theory, on the other hand, cannot be verified and is disputed by, at the very least, a large community of American, Soviet and Ukrainian scientists. Since abiotic petroleum is not disputed and is verifiable, the logical presumption, until proven otherwise, is that all the natural gas and petroleum in commercial use, and in the ground, and in storage tanks, and anywhere else, is abiotic oil and gas.

The Rockefeller Corporate Oil majors have sold fraudulently priced items as well as cheated on generations of their corporate taxes (due to tax write off 'depletion allowances', which they knew were lies). This abiotic oil story is perhaps the largest underground (no pun intented) scam story of the past 200 years: an ongoing corporate success of pricing abiotic renewable oil to act out an artificial scarcity, combined with all the related ideologies required to sell that motif of artificial scarcity, and all the millions they have made and still make on the fraud, and all the tax dollars they have stolen, etc.

During the "Energy Crisis" of the 1970's the U.S. Railroad industry became a member of the "Federal Staff Energy Seminar" program started by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, sponsored by Georgetown University. That began in Jan 1974 and continued for four years. It was designed to discuss "the working of the United States national energy system, and new horizons of energy research." Among the regular attendees were such men as Henry Kissinger and James Schlesinger.

Professor Thomas Gold is one of the great scientific thinkers of our time, and claims there are within the Earth virtually limitless stores of energy in the form of gas and oil as yet untapped. This energy is of non-biological origin and there is far more of it in the Earth than geologists have ever imagined -- and IT IS ACCESSIBLE!

Millions of Americans learned in grade school that oil deposits originated in the age of dinosaurs, when vegetation in lush forests was buried and subjected to high heat and pressure. Those extreme conditions supposedly transformed the hydrocarbons in vegetation into the hydrocarbons of petroleum. There's not a shred of evidence from chemistry, geology, or any other science to support the theory.

Oil and gas deposits on Earth are primordial. That means they came with the planet. They were part of the original raw material that formed the sun and planets, and deposited deep below Earth's surface when the planet formed 4.5 billion years ago. Some of the oil gradually oozes upward from these original deposits 100 to 200 miles below the surface and collects where oil drillers can reach it.

Even more intriguing is evidence that several oil reservoirs around the globe are refilling themselves, such as the Eugene Island reservoir � not from the sides, as would be expected from cocurrent organic reservoirs, but from the bottom up.

I don't think anybody's arguing that gas couldn't be generated from the mantle, however many still don't accept the organic origin of petroleum found in large, commercial accumulations.

It appears then that today's Peak Oil crowd has some pages in their propaganda playbook that were lifted directly from the Club of Rome, which raises the obvious question: what exactly is the Club of Rome?

Who is it that has handed Michael Ruppert and company the baton?

The initial membership list of the Club of Rome, as it turns out, contains some interesting [American Nazi] names:

DAVID ROCKEFELLER: Bilderberger, cofounder of the Trilateral Commission, former chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, scion of the world's most prominent oil dynasty, and all-around bad guy.

JOHN J. McCLOY: Former advisor to the Mussolini regime who had the honor of sitting in Adolf Hitler's private box at the Berlin Olympic games; later served as High Commissioner of Germany, during which time he signed an order freeing the majority of the Nazi war criminals that had been convicted at Nuremberg; still later, served on the infamous Warren Commission.

AVERELL HARRIMAN: Skull and Bonesman and high-level political operative through several presidential administrations; together with members of the Dulles family and the Bush/Walker family, established various business entities engaged in providing funding to Nazi Germany, even after the United States had entered the war.

Katherine Graham: Longtime publisher of the Washington Post and longtime CIA asset, who advocates secrecy in press and government, and once said, while speaking at the CIA's Langley, Virginia headquarters: "We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."

What if oil were in fact virtually inexhaustible�would this be good news? Not in my view. It is my opinion that the discovery of oil was the greatest tragedy (in terms of its long-term consequences) in human history. Finding a limitless supply of oil might forestall nasty price increases and catastrophic withdrawal symptoms, but it would only exacerbate all of the other problems that flow from oil dependency�our use of it to accelerate the extraction of all other resources, the venting of CO2 into the atmosphere, and related problems such as loss of biodiversity. Oil depletion is bad news, but it is no worse than that of oil abundance.

Given the ongoing runup in global petroleum prices, the notion of peak oil hardly needs defending these days. We are seeing the phenomenon unfold before our eyes as one nation after another moves from the column of �oil exporters� to that of �oil importers� (Great Britain made the leap this year). At some point in the very near future the remaining nations in column A will simply be unable to supply all of the nations in column B.

In short, the global energy crisis is coming upon us very quickly, so that more time spent debating highly speculative theories can only distract us from exploring, and applying ourselves to, the practical strategies that might preserve more of nature, culture, and human life under the conditions that are rapidly developing.

We have been deliberately lied to for decades about the source and availability of the substance that is the very life-force of modern industrial society.

World Oil Market and Oil Price Chronologies: 1970 - 2005

This chronology was orginally published by the Department of Energy's Office of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Analysis Division. Updates for 1995-2005 are from the Energy Information Administration. Please click here for the latest monthly chronology.

Sustainable Oil vs Peak Oil

Addressing the theory in circulation that oil is not solely of organic origin, but that there may be another mode of origin as well from deeper in the crust, involving magma.

The theory of peak oil, which is the belief that global oil production has reached the "turning point" of when the world has produced "the most oil it will ever produce in a given year and, after that, yearly production will inexorably decline," is not subscribed to by all. In fact, many believe that we have oil in sufficient quantities for some time to come.

"Control energy and you control nations" � Henry Kissinger

There is a substantial body of evidence to support this theory. That does not negate, however, the quest for getting away from dependence on fossil fuels. The greenhouse gasses produced by the burning of such will continue to be a pressing matter that must be addressed. Now that the world has achieved a consciousness about how we treat our planet, this news that we are not so far from depleting our oil reserves is a welcome breath of fresh air, removing some of the panic effect that can foster unrest.

Supporting Evidence

Oil being discovered at 30,000 feet, far below the 18,000 feet where organic matter is no longer found.

Wells pumped dry later replenished.

Volume of oil pumped thus far not accountable from organic material alone according to present models.

In Situ production of methane under the conditions that exist in the Earth's upper mantle. (PhysicsWeb; Sept. 14, 2004)

No Narrow Profit Margins

Big Oil's obscene profits - Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, announced a 32 percent boost in second-quarter profits, the third-largest increase in company history. Royal Dutch Shell, the world's third-largest oil company, reported second-quarter profits up 34 percent. British Petroleum's were up 29 percent. ConocoPhillips, America's third-largest, reported profits that skyrocketed by 51 percent. (Cincinnati Post; Aug. 4, 2005)

Expounding the Theory

Stalin and Abiotic Oil - Or How Ruppert's 'Peak Oil' Pile is Gaining Tonnage; by Dave McGowan (Educate Yourself; March 5, 2005)

Russia Proves 'Peak Oil' is a Misleading Scam - In 1970 the Russians started drilling Kola SG-3, an exploration well which finally reached a staggering world record depth of 40,230 feet. Since then, Russian oil majors including Yukos have quietly drilled more than 310 successful super-deep oil wells, and put them into production. Last Year Russia overtook Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest single oil producer, and is now set to completely dominate global oil production and sales for the next century.

Article: Sustainable Oil? - presents theory and evidence that oil is not solely of organic origin. (Rense.com; July 10, 2004) a reprint of Sustainable Oil (WorldNetDaily; May 25, 2004)

Data: In situ Production of Inorganic-Derived Petroleum - Scientists in the US have witnessed the production of methane under the conditions that exist in the Earth's upper mantle for the first time. The experiments demonstrate that hydrocarbons could be formed inside the Earth via simple inorganic reactions -- and not just from the decomposition of living organisms as conventionally assumed -- and might therefore be more plentiful than previously thought. (PhysicsWeb; Sept. 14, 2004)

Peak Oil: Can 3D Exploration Postpone The Peak? - Ability to find reserves more readily may postpone the "peak" phenomenon; general discussion of "peak oil" factors. (MSNBC; Sept. 23, 2004) (Alt Energy Blog)

Follow-up: More Evidence For Sustainable Oil - (Rense.com; July 10, 2004)

Fear and Irrationality in the Oilpatch - Profit-taking and stock prices rise and fall, but fears seem to be unfounded. Is the oil shortage real? Facts are hard to come by, and philosophical arguments rage. (PESN; July 11, 2005)

PhysicsWeb - Science gets hot under the crust

Thomas Gold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Book: "The Deep Hot Biosphere - The Myth of Fossil Fuels" by Thomas Gold, Ph.D. (originally published 1999)

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peak_oil:_we_have_oil

THE PEAK OIL SCAM

"This much is known, "the loudest warnings about the predicted peak of world oil production came from Petroconsultants." (Deffeyes, 2001: p. 7)

In a late 1998 merger Petroconsultants became IHS Energy Group, a subsidiary of Information Handling Services Group (IHS Group), a diversified conglomerate owned by Holland America Investment Corp., IHS Group's immediate parent company, for the Thyssen-Bornemisza Group (TBG, Inc.). In the 1920s George Herbert Walker and his son-in- law, Prescott Bush, had helped the Thyssen dynasty finance its acquisitions through Union Banking Corp. and Holland-American Trading Corp. (Wikipedia, 2003). Until his death last year, Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, the nephew of the Nazi steel and coal magnate, was one of the world's richest men.

There is no reason for radical ecologists to join debates over the esoteric timetables for the decline of world oil production, which should be bracketed as irrelevant to the socio-political imperative of democratizing the economy and creating a new energy infrastructure that is based on post-capitalist norms of sustainability, sharing and community democracy. We must find ways of making the urgency of that transformation a motivation in people's lives and in their self-conscious anti-ideological politics. The dangers posed by global capitalism to human life and nature itself are all too real. We need to reject the posing of imminent danger as panic, as Chicken Little's alarm over the Falling Sky.

Peak Oil Put On
Don't buy into the hype!
Ruppert vs. Hopsicker, Thorn

Anti-"Peakers"
Anti-"peakers" are those who do not subscribe to "peak oil" theory, among which are found:

M.A. Adelman
William Bowles
Michael C. Lynch
David McGowan
Peter R. Odell
Walt Contreras Sheasby

THE PURPOSE OF PEAK OIL SCARE

The financial elite have discussed a world tax at their annual Bilderberg meetings for years now. But since they couldn�t come right out and implement such a tax upon us, they side-skirted the issue and levied an indirect �surcharge� via skyrocketing oil prices. Thus, I concluded that �peak oil� has come to represent a hidden global tax thrust on consumers far-and-wide, especially Americans.

The Secret Relationship Between Israel and Oil: What the US Media Hides.

As Campbell tells us, it is the U.S. media (which is largely controlled by Zionist forces) that determines who is �influential.� In the case of �peak oil,� Dr. Colin Campbell, a gloom-and-doom oil company front-man, has suddenly become an opinion-shaper in newspapers across the country.

Campbell reports, �Dr. Campbell is at the center of a small but suddenly influential band of contrarians known as the �peak oil� movement. Their general thesis is that the world is running out of oil quickly.� In addition, it is "because the media, which is run by pro-Israel forces, want people like Dr. Campbell to be in the spotlight.� The reason, of course, is that, �Dr. Campbell�s views help support the pro-Israel agenda of that suddenly influential band of contrarians known as the Neo-Conservatives.� And, of course, �The Neo-Conservatives are mostly Zionist Jews� who almost completely direct America�s foreign policy.

Hence, Campbell writes, peak oil �is being pushed forward by mostly pro-Israel forces for their own narrow agenda that has nothing to do with the vast majority of the American people�s interests.�

All one has to do is examine the United Nations� sordid Agenda 21 policy papers to realize that what they ultimately want to do is control human behavior via non-elected �visionary boards� and planning commissions. To do so, it is imperative that they brainwash each and every one of us into believing that we�re running out of oil, and only THEY are capable of determining how the world�s natural resources are distributed and used. In fact, this is a quote directly from the United Nations which highlights their arrogance: �It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nations.� In other words, to insure that their New World Order framework is properly erected � with the cornerstone being Zionist control over the Middle East � then nations such as the United States must willingly surrender their sovereignty to these Globalists

So, here is what purpose the "peak oil" scam has served:

(1) a hidden Bilderberg global tax via skyrocketing gasoline prices
(2) justification for our Neo-con/Zionist foreign policy in the Middle East
(3) total control of human behavior via the UN's Agenda 21
(4) a very glaring distraction for 9-11 investigators and activists

Peak Oil U.N.-Zionist Scam
$10/Barrel
Peak Oil Int'l Banking Scam
Lyndsey Williams
Dave McGowan

THE OIL RESERVE FALLACY: Proven reserves are not a measure of future supply [C. 2003 By Bill Kovarik]

The Middle East does not have two thirds of world oil reserves, as the oil industry claims, but only two thirds of one type of reserve. According to the US Geological Survey, the Middle East has only half to one third of world oil reserves. There is a large supply of oil elsewhere in the world which is available at only slightly higher prices.

The second item argues that the debate over drilling in Alaska's ANWR is a red herring, and questions whether US domestic oil reserves may be greater than the statistics seem to represent:

Water, Water Everywhere (but not a drop to drink)
[Author: Michael C. Lynch, President, Director Petroleum Services February 27, 2004 - Released: 3/6/2004]

No Evidence of Saudi Oil Reserves Peaking

The Saudis do not produce many of their fields because they have abundant producing capacity without them for example. Also, Saudi Arabia is not intensively explored and has large areas with petroleum potential that are virtually undrilled. (Matt responded that he was referring to aerial magnetic surveys.) it was also pointed out that Matt�s reference to 1975 field reserve estimates were not relevant: the fields he referred to had already produced more than was estimated as proved reserves in the 1970s, reflecting reserve growth from better reservoir modeling, more drilling, and the use of advanced technology. (Indeed, in responding to a remark about the so-called �spurious reserve additions� in the 1980s, when many OPEC members raised their reported reserve levels without explanation, they responded that they had gone years without revising them even as their own expectations of recovery increased, and had merely decided the time was right to report them more accurately.)

There literally seems to be no evidence that the Saudi oil fields are facing any unusual challenges or that Saudi production will be constrained in the future by anything other than policy. All of the concerns appear to be instances where the most pessimistic interpretation has been chosen, such as fields not operating because of technical difficulties rather than weak demand. The use of vague language (�tired� fields, �challenges�) rather than specifics about efforts and costs indicate that this is one more instance of Malthusian bias.

More arguments against the "fossil fuel" theory:

From The End of Fossil Fuels by Thomas Brown

Here's an endorsement of the Russian abiotic theory from Peter O'Dell, emeritus professor and former director of the center for international energy studies at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973

Some "peak oil" writers have opined that the crisis of 1972-73 was a kind of "rehearsal" for what is supposedly in our very near future. It is startling to consider, in light of this, the evidence that that crisis was likely a completely contrived affair.

In "A Century of War -- Anglo American Oil Politics and the New World Order" (1992), petroleum industry expert and economist F. William Engdahl presents evidence that the 1973 OPEC "oil shock" and the accompanying oil "shortage" were secretly planned by the highest levels of the US and British elites, with Henry Kissinger playing a key role: http://earth.prohosting.com/~jswift/engdahl.html

A concise summary of the entire book can be found here: http://how-the-world-really-works.prosperitydoctor.com/a-century-of-war-5.html

Corroboration of Engdahl's account was provided a few years agb by Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, who was Saudi Arabia's OPEC minister at the time:

'I am 100 per cent sure that the Americans were behind the increase in the price of oil. The oil companies were in in real trouble at that time, they had borrowed a lot of money and they needed a high oil price to save them.'

He says he was convinced of this by the attitude of the Shah of Iran, who in one crucial day in 1974 moved from the Saudi view, that a hike would be dangerous to Opec because it would alienate the US, to advocating higher prices.

'King Faisal sent me to the Shah of Iran, who said: "Why are you against the increase in the price of oil? That is what they want? Ask Henry Kissinger - he is the one who wants a higher price".'

Yamani contends that proof of his long-held belief has recently emerged in the minutes of a secret meeting on a Swedish island, where UK and US officials determined to orchestrate a 400 per cent increase in the oil price.

Story from The Guardian

It must be noted that is not only proponents of abiotic theory who argue that the "peak oil" argument is over-hyped. Michael Lynch has emerged as a frequently-cited contrary voice.

Closed Coffin: Ending the Debate on "The End of Cheap Oil" A commentary by Michael C. Lynch, Chief Energy Economist, DRI-WEFA, Inc.

The past five years have seen a renewed debate on the issue of oil supply and the possibility of a near-term peak in production and the concomitant adverse economic consequences. A number of articles have stated that discoveries over the past thirty years have been only a fraction of consumption and that according to the Hubbert Curve method, world oil production is close to a peak. What few people realize is that these arguments are based entirely on a very particular technical argument, and recent evidence has highlighted its fallacy.

[...] while we need be concerned about quite a number of issues related to petroleum supply -- depletion, change in reserve growth, concentration of production in politically stable areas -- a possible near-term peak in production (conventional or otherwise) is not one of them. It takes a lot of nails to close a coffin, but the size and quality of these will hopefully ensure that it remains closed.

The New Pessimism about Petroleum Resources: Debunking the Hubbert Model (and Hubbert Modelers) by Michael C. Lynch

More research that punches a big hole in the Peak Oil hysteria:

Peak Oil scam promotes urgent world depopulation
Peak Oil is a fraud based on ignorance of Russian and Ukrainian Science
The 'Peak Oil' Team Sends in a Second Stringer
Mr. Peak Oil responds but avoids the core issue
Peak Oil is a Zionist Scam
Peak Oil News Briefs

There are very large number of people out there trying to promote this scam through books, articles, lectures, films, television and talk radio. In America, Michael Ruppert of From the Wilderness is apparently the lead disinformation meister of this flimflam.

Michael Ruppert & The Peak Oil Scare:

Michael Ruppert

Michael Ruppert and From The Wilderness has emphatically taken the side of Bush energy advisor Matthew Simmons in a debate over Saudi Arabia's oil reserves, held at the elite US think-tank CSIS:

A Tale of Two Planets: A Report on the Conference Future of Global Oil Supply - Saudi Arabia" [Held at CSIS, Washington DC, February 24th 2004 by Julian Darley]

A few questions: given that Washington is now increasingly filled with war-cries against Saudi Arabia, and it is an open secret that one policy being considered is the destabilization of Saudi Arabia followed by a partition into two states, with the US taking control of the oil-rich eastern section as part of a general regional strategy to control oil, isn't it worth just a little skepticism about what is coming out of an elite think-tank like CSIS (whose roster includes Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski), especially when any discussion of supposed Saudi overestimation of oil reserves has such an obvious political impact?
Background on CSIS:
The Saudi response:

"The difference between natural gas and oil is that oil flows down a bell curve, so that you have to expend more energy as you as you go off the cliff to get lower quality, lesser quality oil, the light sweet crudes at the top, we drain the big fields but now we've got to go deep, pump in steam, pump in water to get sour oil, every barrel of oil becomes not only harder to find, it becomes more expensive to produce. Natural gas, it just flows, phooo, until there's no more pressure and we go off a cliff...we're off the cliff."

�worldwide production of oil will peak soon, possibly within this decade. Clear evidence is showing that it peaked actually in 2000, as Saudi Arabia peaked, that would be followed by declining availability of fossil fuels that could plunge the world in global conflict as nations struggle to capture their piece of a shrinking pie.� - �Out of Gas� by Goodstein

Michael Ruppert a CIA Mole?

"Black Psyop at Russian School Controlled by Wall St." (http://joevialls.altermedia.info/myahudi/beslanpsyop.html)

"Though the "Peak Oil" scam currently being peddled by Mike Ruppert and others has absolutely no validity in global terms, it does make sense if viewed as deliberate Wall Street propaganda. The world as a whole has massive oil reserves on tap, with more continuing to flow from up from the earth's mantle, but American oil reserves cannot at present meet American demand, due primarily to a lack of investment in new domestic oil drilling and production infrastructure. Thus when Ruppert and others claim "The world is running out of oil", the accurate underlying truth of the matter is that "America alone is running out of oil".

The same holds true for the parallel propaganda claim that "World oil production had peaked, and can no longer keep pace with global energy requirements". In reality world oil production as a whole has not peaked, but the world as a whole is no longer prepared to provide America with one out of every two gallons of gasoline it refines every day of every year, especially not on the strength of worthless Federal Reserve promissory notes. Therefore this particular piece of 'Peak Oil' propaganda can be interpreted as meaning, "The world is no longer prepared to keep pace with, or provide, America's excessive energy requirements."..

The Tragic Fall of Mike Ruppert
Hey Ruppert: 9-11 is NOT Dead!
Mike Ruppert: 9-11 Saboteur
Mike Ruppert Unmasked
Mike Ruppert's Depopulation Agenda
10 Unanswered Questions
Mike Ruppert Unmasked Video

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The only two people, that I am aware of, with any sizeable readership who have been trying to expose this outrageous lie are Dave McGowan through his newsletters and Joe Vialls.

REFERENCES

David McGowan: 9-11 Revisited - a Three Part Play

Act 1 - 9/11 Overview
Act 2 - Pentagon (1)
Act 2 - Pentagon (2)
Act 3 - WTC Deliberate Explosion (1)
Act 3 - WTC Deliberate Explosion (2)

Dave McGowan Articles:

Popularization of "Peak Oil" comes from Club of Rome! Ruppert's Heroes Disown Oil Stance (Mar. 14, 2005)
Stalin And Abiotic Oil (Or How Ruppert's 'Peak Oil' Pile is Gaining Tonnage) (Mar. 7, 2005)
Dave McGowan Newsletter #70: Beware the 'Peak Oil' Agenda (Oct. 14, 2004)
Dave McGowan Newsletter #66: When 'Peak Oil' Met The 'West Nile Virus' (Sep. 2, 2004)
Dave McGowan Newsletter #64- Whoa, Dude! Are We Peaking Yet? (Aug. 22, 2004)
Dave McGowan Newsletter #59: Oil News Briefs (Apr. 13, 2004)
Dave McGowan Newsletter #57: The 911 Conference in San Francisco (Apr. 5, 2004)
Dave McGowan Newsletter #56: The Debate Continues (by proxy) (Mar. 24, 2004)
Dave McGowan Newsletter #55: Who Is Really Behind the 'Peak Oil' Scare? (Mar. 19, 2004)
Dave McGowan Newsletter #54: Ruppert Responds! (Mar. 18, 2004)
Dave McGowan Newsletter #53: The 'Peak Oil' Team Sends in a Second Stringer! (Mar. 16, 2004)
Dave McGowan Newsletter #52: Mike Ruppert v The Center for an Informed America

Joe Vialls Articles:

Russia Proves 'Peak Oil' is a Misleading Zionist Scam

Articles on Michael Ruppert:

Michael Ruppert: Front Man for Illuminati Depopulation Agenda (Dec. 12, 2004)

The Mysterious Michael Ruppert (Jan. 28, 2005)

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The fact that 'Peak Oil' is an entirely manufactured construct does not mean that the doomsday scenarios painted by the 'Peak' crowd will therefore not become our new reality. This is not just another scam to further pad the pockets of the oil industry and other financial elites. The stakes are much higher than that. Much higher.

In order to clarify my position on 'Peak Oil,' it would be instructive to briefly review the areas of agreement, and the areas of disagreement, that I have with those who are selling the scam.

The Peakers claim that 'Peak Oil' is the single most important issue that we are facing today. I agree with that assessment (but not because 'Peak Oil' is a valid concept).

The Peakers claim that much of America's military might has been directed in recent years at conquering the key oil and gas producing regions of the world. And that is obviously quite true. Central Asia and Iraq have been seized, Venezuela has suffered through constant meddling by the CIA, the Sudan has been targeted for a future assault, and Saudi Arabia and Iran have been subjected to saber rattling.

But the Peakers also claim that these military ventures have been motivated by America's desire to seize what will soon be the last drops of the world's precious reserves of oil -- and that is entirely untrue.

The Peakers claim that we will very soon be facing a world where chaos reigns supreme -- a world of war, famine and death on a scale unknown in recorded human history. And that does, in fact, appear to be the case. And we're not talking about the distant future here, folks; we're talking about the very near future.

But the Peakers also claim that this global "die off" will be a regrettable, but quite natural, and entirely unavoidable, consequence of the world's oil taps running dry. And that is the really big lie. That is the lie that will very soon be used to rationalize the killing off of hundreds of millions, possibly billions, of the world's people. There are, you see, simply too many people in the world who, by merely being alive, are standing in the way of the aspirations of the global elite.

The people that the 'Peak Oil' pitchmen are fronting for are deadly serious about selling 'Peak Oil' to the masses -- and not just in theoretical terms, as a cynical ploy to raise prices and increase profits. No, it has become clear that the real goal is to actually cut off most of the world's oil supplies under the ruse that the oil simply no longer exists. The desired result is massive social unrest, widespread famine, and endless war. The majority of the world's people will not survive. Those that do will find themselves living under the overtly authoritarian form of rule that will quickly be deemed necessary to restore order. And if you think that we here in America are exempt, you are sadly mistaken.

In order to pull off this stunt, all the world's major oil producing regions must be solidly under the control of the U.S. and it's co-conspirators, otherwise known as 'allies.' In other words, the puppet-masters have to control all the major oil taps, so that they have complete control over the flow of oil -- or lack of it. And that, in a nutshell, is the real reason for America's recent military ventures. The goal, you see, is not to steal Iraq's oil, or the oil in the 'Stans, or in the Sudan, or in Venezuela, or anywhere else. We don't want to take their oil, because the truth is that we don't really need it (http://www.oilandgasreporter.com/stories/090101/cov_opinions.shtml). What we want to do is sit on the taps so no one else can get to the oil.

The Peakers have claimed that the Central Asian adventure - launched with the invasion of Afghanistan, but certainly not limited to Afghanistan - has largely been a bust. We have all heard the spin: the hoped-for reserves aren't there, what has been found can't be extracted economically, the grand plan simply didn't pan out, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Frankly, I find all of that a little hard to believe. After all, hasn't Central Asia been the subject of intense interest and study by geologists and the petroleum industry for the last century or so? You would think that the lords of oil were operating on more than just a hunch when they drafted this gameplan. And I couldn't help noticing that the United States has established a massive military presence in the area, and it looks very much like it was designed to be a permanent military presence. If the oil and gas aren't there, then what exactly is it that our troops are standing guard over?

At least one researcher has doggedly claimed that the Central Asian and Middle Eastern military ventures are but a prelude to military confrontations with Russia and China. But that hardly seems to be the case. It does not appear as though there is any urgent need for 'regime change' in Russia or China, since the West seems to already have 'friendly' regimes in place in both countries. And I have to add here that if the ruling regimes of Russia and China really are enemies of the United States, they will undoubtedly go down in history as the stupidest enemies of all time for watching approvingly as the United States entrenched its military machine in their backyards on the most transparent of pretexts.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, I believe that the Central Asian adventure has been wildly successful. True, the West hasn't reaped the bounty of the region's oil and gas reserves -- but I don't think that was ever the goal. To the contrary, I think the U.S. has done exactly what it set out to do: deny anyone else the opportunity - by force if necessary, and it will become necessary - to exploit the area's resources.

Also contrary to conventional wisdom, I believe that the Iraq adventure has also been successful. Again, the goal was not to steal Iraqi oil; the goal was to shut down or severely limit the flow of Iraqi oil, and that goal has obviously been accomplished. Indeed, some reports have held that American troops (and American mercenaries) are responsible for at least some of the pipeline bombings and other attacks on the Iraqi oil infrastructure.

Interestingly, Michael Ruppert began one of his recent "Peak is the Word" rants with an ominous quote attributed to an "Anonymous Middle Eastern Participant at the Third Conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas - Berlin, May 2004." The quote, which Ruppert presents without comment, reads as follows:

"The one thing that every Middle Eastern leader, manager, and planner who dreams of holding his country together fears now, is that there will be a widespread uprising, inspired by the perceived victory against Spain after Madrid, and Spain's withdrawal from Iraq, that it might prompt much of the Muslim world to start attacking oil facilities everywhere. This is the way they see that has worked to defeat the West and to avenge their grievances. May God help us all if that happens."

(http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/062104_berlin_peak.html)

This statement, if taken literally, is patently absurd -- beginning with the Bill O'Reillyesque claim that the 'terr'ists' somehow scored a victory in Spain, and continuing through the astounding leap of faith required to equate manufactured attacks on commuter trains to widespread attacks on oil facilities. The only way that the uncredited statement makes any sense at all is as a tip-off that the CIA's future playbook is packed with false-flag terr'ist operations directed at critical oil facilities -- especially in countries that haven't yet been convinced that their vast oil reserves don't really exist.

In order to carry out the 'Peak Oil' agenda, the powers-that-be need to have all the major oil producers on board. Some of them have been on board all along. Some have to be recruited through military force (Iraq, for example). Some will be compelled to join the team through covert operations (e.g., Venezuela). And some are being brought on board through threats, intimidation, and saber rattling.

The two most sought after recruits, of course, are Russia and Saudi Arabia, since they are the world's two top oil producing nations. As of this past April, Saudi Arabia apparently hadn't yet received the latest memos on 'Peak.' Much to the consternation of Ruppert and his handlers, Saudi officials announced on April 28 that the Kingdom's estimate of recoverable reserves had nearly quintupled! (The article below says "tripled," but the math isn't that hard to do.) [1.2 divided by .261 = 4.9....Ken]

the 'Peak Oil' scare is to expose what appears to be a massive, well organized effort to hijack the 9-11 skeptics movement and refocus that movement's energy on promoting a big, and very dangerous, lie.

Michael Ruppert and 9/11

"I LIKE MANY AMERICANS AND MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD HAVE SERIOUS LINGERING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE COLLAPSE OF THE TWIN TOWERS, WHAT IT WAS THAT ACTUALLY STRUCK THE PENTAGON AND WHAT � IN THE NAME OF GOD � IT WAS THAT CAUSED THE COLLAPSE OF WTC 7, A BUILDING THAT HAD NOT EVEN BEEN STRUCK DURING THE ATTACKS." - Michael Ruppert [Speech at the Commonwealth Club]

Mr. Peak Oil responds but avoids the core issue http://www.gnn.tv/users/user.php?bid=2195 **********************************************************

The Peak Oil Argument...

"In Your Face" by Michael Ruppert

Michael Klare, who wrote a book called �Resource Wars.�
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0805055754/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-7003772-1093530#reader-link

�The Cheney report is very guarded about the amount of foreign oil that will be required. The only clue provided by the [public] report is a chart of net US oil consumption and production over time. According to this illustration, domestic oil field production will decline from about 8.5 million barrels per day (mbd) in 2002 to 7.0 mbd in 2020, while consumption will jump from 19.5 mbd to 25.5 mbd. That suggests imports or other sources of petroleum� will have to rise from 11 mbd to 18.5 mbd. Most of the recommendations of the NEP [National Energy Policy, May 2001] are aimed at procuring this 7.5 mbd increment, equivalent to the total oil consumed by China and India .
-- Professor Michael Klare �Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy: Procuring the Rest of the World's Oil� Foreign Policy in Focus, January 2004

We're at a place where if we take it from somebody else, we are literally taking it from somebody else. Regardless, Oil is King on Planet Earth as the number one money maker next to drugs, the dominant king must control all the oil, as that is where the power lies.

The argument for Peak Oil aside, all one has to do is follow the oil to see the reason for the season of modern warfare and geo-political philosophy.

7 pages of records from the National Energy Policy Development Group were surfaced as a result of a FOFA or freedom of information suit filed by the Sierra Club and some of those pages included maps. [ http://www.judicialwatch.org/071703.c_.shtml ]

Michael Ruppert had people take the maps and assemble the oil fields maps into one single map.

This is what they were talking about in Vice President's Cheney's energy task force along with lists of who had development contracts, that literally boiled down to if we invade, who can we get to go along with us to form a collation of the willing if we offer them a piece of the pie and who absolutely cannot afford to endorse a US invasion of the region and that's exactly the way it played out.

In other words, what they were discussing in May was a mirror of what happened after the Iraqi invasion.

The area disclosed from the maps out of the National Energy Policy Department Group show a distinct plan.

When you take the areas key locations, you have 60% of all the recoverable oil on planet Earth. 60% of all the oil is in an area that fits easily into Texas. 6 out every 10 barrels left remaining for this planet is there but it takes 6 weeks to get a drop of oil from that region into an American gas-tank.

This map was known more than 2 years before we invaded Iraq. Iraq is now invaded. Now if you look at the military deployment around the region and you go back and look at that map again, you see we have absolutely encircled the oil and that was the plan, that was the plan from December 11th, it is the plan that has been executed.

China is the end game from oil.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/111403_oil_demand.html

February, LA Times: �China just passed Japan as the second largest oil importing nation on the planet� and their consumption is exploding. Chinese auto sales just went up 100% in 1 year and the rub is that Wall Street's financial markets will die if there is no market in China to buy computers, automobiles, factories to take our jobs to sell to the Chinese people, so we can't live with them and we can't live without'em. But that's the end game and it's becoming extremely clear especially as China starts increasing military aid to West African nations.

"Eating Fossil Fuels"

The world consumes 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy for every calorie of food that we eat. You take away the hydrocarbon energy, you take away the food. All fertilizers are made from natural gas, all pesticides are made from petroleum, all food crops are irrigated by electricity generated by burning natural gas or oil or coal, some cases atomic power, some cases, small cases hydro-electric. But China has already reaching a food crisis [ http://earth-policy.org/Updates/Update39.htm ] and CNN Lou Dobbs just a few months ago reported that the bread basket of the world, the US and Canada, will soon no longer be able to export grain. Why? Because our topsoil has become so eroded that it is like a sponge unto which we pour chemicals to grow food and we ain't going to be able to feed the world anymore. Now how do you think the world's going to feel about it if we're stealing all their natural resources and we're not even sending out grain anymore?

THE MAP This is a map Michael Ruppert produced from Zbigniew Brzezinski's book �The Grand Chessboard,� [ http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/zbig.html ] published in 1997 and the broader circle, the outside one, from a map in 1997 was where Brzezinski said the next world conflict was going to occur.

This map shows West Africa since 9/11 and everyplace there has been an outbreak of terrorist or subversive activity there is an oil well. There's new oil development everywhere US Army special forces have been deployed since 9/11.

Now Africa is a drop in the bucket compared to, in terms of reserve numbers, compared to the Middle East, but the difference is that it takes 6 weeks to get a drop of oil from the Persian Gulf into your gas-tank, it takes 2 weeks to get a drop of oil from Nigeria into your gas-tank and isn't it strange that all the focus after the Spanish bombings is now moving toward Moraco.

Moraco is also on the map, up on the upper west coast of Africa, where Kerr-McGee, Halliburton and oil companies have just secured major new leases for smaller fields to develop.

Terrorism goes exactly where the oil is!

London Times: �America came to Exploit Boom in Africa's Black Gold�

Voice of America (funded by the CIA) [May, 2003]: �US Nato Allies may focus on Africa Predicts NATO Senior Commander, General James Jones�

Jones announced that NATO is shifting it's focus to West Africa. That's right before the US Navy gave Nigeria 6 US warships. We're going to West Africa to fight and now we come to Haiti.

Haiti's up there on the left of the island of Espanola. Haiti is an exact midpoint between the southern coast of Florida and Venezuela. We can't invade Venezuela unless we control the whole island. We have military bases in Puerto Rico, some in the Dominion Republic, but the US would never engage in a military occupation with an indigenous Latin American or French population that's hostile to US interests next to Cuba, behind the supply lines to invade Venezuela. That is why immediately after we had the coup d'e-tat in Venezuela.

Hugo Chavez said, �if America makes one move to Venezuela I'll shut off their oil immediately.� Now you take that oil away from the United States then the US economy collapses, there's no elasticity. It's not a matter of how much oil you take out, it's the fact that if you take out, you know an ounce of a system that's already at capacity the whole system collapses.

There was a story from the Venezuela Times how the Chinese government was in Venezuela negotiating to buy all of Venezuela's oil. http://tinyurl.com/3d7tr

- Saudi Arabian reserves have probably peaked. Matthew Simmons, the worlds largest energy investment banker had suggested that Saudi Arabia had peaked.
- Iran peaked in 1987. Iran is importing gasoline now.
Science Monitor, Feb. 26th [ http://tinyurl.com/3avu5 ]:
�that the United States has now started construction of 93 new coal fired power plants.� Coal!

You know the stuff greenhouse gas, the stuff that kills us, the stuff does global warming and in Paris we had this dialogue with a very nice guy from the Global Commons Institute who was a very big green activist and he had admitted that peak oil would probably kill us before greenhouse gases do and we both said. Ahh! Unless the United States reverts to coal, which is the only energy we can get.

James Kenneth Galbraith (son of John Galbraith) wrote in November of 2002:
�The real economic cost of Bush's empire building is two fold, it diverts attention from pressing economic problems at home and it sets the United States on a long term imperial path that is economically ruinous. Nor is Bush's strategy necessarily irrational in-so-far as it effects oil in the short run, with a new Iraqi government. The United States will gain a client state that is prepared to help keep the oil price within the band that both the US consumers and the remaining US oil producers can tolerate.�

Notice he said remaining, they're dropping out, cause there's no oil.

�Low enough so as not to fatally drain purchasing power from the former, high enough so as not to immediately ruin the latter. Given that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney commitment to unlimited oil consumption, this will prove useful in putting off the day of reckoning, as total world oil production declines, creditable scientific evidence suggests that this may start happening quite soon. The Middle East's share of remaining reserves will rise. So to will the potential for cartel control and price manipulation. A robust US military presence in the oil fields directly or by proxy will naturally make higher oil prices less of a danger. This is part of the appeal of the war with Iraq. First private business investment in the United States has fallen virtually to capital replacement level.�

That's called life support when you're speaking economically.

�Second, the recession in consumer spending cannot be put off forever, American households are still being crushed by debt. Third, state and local government budgets continue to implode, reasonable estimates now show 50 billion dollars in deficits at the state level and the losses are surely almost as large at the local level. Fourth, we have economic affects of the decline of our financial markets which have already lost more than 8 trillion dollars in normal shareholder value since their peak in 2000. To some extent these losses are due to the corruption of certain major corporations including several, not at least Halliburton, that are closely tied to the military petroleum complex. It is a straight-forward fact that if global oil production starts to decline but US consumption does not, everyone else will be required to cut purchases and usages of oil. But how can oil prices be held stable for American's yet made to rise for everybody else? Only by a policy of continuing deprecation in everyone else's currency. Such a policy of dollar hegemony amid worldwide financial instability, of crushing debt burdens and deflation throughout the developing world is perverse.�

�Will not experience even a gradual exposure to the changing energy balance. We will therefore never make the investments required to adjust, even eventually to a world of scarce and expensive oil. In the end therefore that world will arrive much more abruptly than it otherwise would shaking the fragile edifice of our oil economy to its foundations and we will someday face a double explosion of anger against our arrogance and of actual shortage and collapsing living standards when the confidence of investors in the dollar finally gives way.�

M. King Hubbert, who was the first pioneer to tell the us about peak oil who has been vindicated and validated so many time over the years, wrote so succinctly in his first book he said, �until you change the way money works you will change nothing.�

A senior mega powerful Dutch economist at the peak oil conference at the French Institute of Petroleum said with all seriousness, �it may not be profitable to slow the effects of decline.�

In english that means is, they can find no way of making money by saving human life and averting famine, disaster, war and armageddon and if they can't find a way to make money they won't do it. That's the world we live in, these are the choices we have to face, so as we play this game of 9/11 we must truly understand what the stakes are that we are facing, not as a country, not as anything else but a species, a species.

The world has chosen to embark on a path that is the worst Nazi nightmare ever seen. It will be bloody, it will be violent, it will involve population reduction by the most brutal venial underhanded methods.

Michael Ruppert gave a groundbreaking speech at the "Commonwealth Club" in San Francisco on Tuesday, August 31. The PDF file of the speech is downloadable here.
The speech is long, but a must read for anyone interested in the future of the United States, Peak Oil, 9/11, the 2004 election, and related topics. There are very few journalists digging up credible new information about 9/11, but this speech -- a teaser for Ruppert's upcoming book -- is full of critical information that should be on the front page of every newspaper on the planet. It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of this information.

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