Petro-armageddon: $500/ barrel oil in several years

So, you may or may not have read the recent article in the Belfast Telegraph "Opec warns oil prices could rocket to $500 a barrel"

Where we read:

Iran's OPEC governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi has warned oil prices could reach as high as $500 per barrel in a few years' time if the US dollar falls further and political tension worsens.

and

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As many of you know, I live in Massachusetts.  The farmers almanac says that this winter season is going to be a doozy (colder, more snows, especially in Feb).

There is some rumblings amongst the MA state gov re: "warning" people that their oil heating bills are going to be "bad" this year but I have not heard of any solutions.  I think congress just underfunded LIHEAP so dont look for federal help.  This is simply talk talk talk, where are the initiatives?

I need help envisioning how this all might play out.  

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(Cross-posted to Peaknix)

"Clop clop clop" the noise droned her to a quiet meditation as she and the horse lurched ahead of the others, a bit of a trot into some shade both she and the animal appreciated. Their makeshift wagon carried baskets, covered by white cloths, filled with aged goats cheese and fresh bread. She had pulled these toothsome grainy loaves from their earthen bread oven that morning, ducking as the poof of hot moisture blasted past the broken clay seal on the door.

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Help! I am feeling mighty grumpy and curmudgeonly because I find this whole NYC Waterfalls project by Olafur Eliasson and company (which cost $15 MILLION USD) grossly inappropriate for these times of recession, global upheaval, oil shock, and peak oil.

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(The following diary was cross-posted to Peaknix - living through the peak)

It is hard to miss what is happening in Spain these days.

With $10.00/gallon gas the following is happening right now:

• More than 90,000 truckers have been striking and blockading Spanish routes for some three days now - gas pumps have gone dry and grocery store shelves are empty
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Whats that frequent painful burning sensation you feel?  Is it keeping you up at night, does it make you go more often?  Are you self-medicating more now?

Yeah, I thought so.

So am I.... (take the jump)

Relevant info is:

Maverick Mining Co. L.L.C.
Mine #1
Powderhouse Hollow
Pikesville, KY 41501
Permit # 898-4224
MSHA# 15-18674
License# 0550

screenshots - as per on-the-scene CNN reporting

good shot with two numbers missing:

crappy shot with all numbers showing:

It has been an honor and a pleasure to know you all this past year.  It feels like we have alot of work this coming year and I cant wait to see you all tear IN TO the rethugs.  

So many juicy morsels, so little time.

When we take back Congress, well...

Hell hath no fury like a Democracy scorned.

Is that the new face of Satan?

(get the behind me, huminabah huminabah and other speaking-in-tongues tongues)

There is a web campaign of sorts afoot, miscongenitated by the illustrious (sic) and venerable (another sic) "Pro-Life Action League (triple sic) group to damage the credibility and commerce of the American Girl Doll company.  

Why, say you?

(cross posted at my blog) jump here honey-chile

Yeah yeah, some of you will comment that this has been going on for ages.. I just gotta say, its PATHETIC.  I am talking to YOU Mr. Lifson, as you pour over our comments, dry-washing your creepy little paws, looking for more "primary material" to quote. (Oh, if I had not said it yet, dude, you have GOT to get a life.. your PATHETIC).

See below for our PATHETIC boy in action.

We are amassing quite a few first-person shots of Hurricane Katrina at our photo-log site, visit and share please!

I ask for your first person shots that deal with the evacuation, hunkering down, aftermath, survival, etc.

We are also linked to the growing efforts to provide pictures of the missing to help people looking for loved ones.

A direct link to that work is: Missing Persons.

Update [2005-8-30 17:14:47 by nika7k]:Several founders and members of the South East Asian Earthquake and Tsunami blog & wiki (tsunamihelp.info), which gained worldwide attention in the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004, have remobilized on 3 continents to aid in Hurricane Katrina. Please check out our efforts at katrinahelp.info and add any useful information there!

Update [2005-8-30 17:10:7 by nika7k]: This is a screenshot I captured from CNN to show something I never thought possible, the twin spans WASHED OUT. It was always sorta scary to drive there, with the wind gusts. Video shows EMPTY cars on some of these broken segments, where are the people?

Times-Picayune Hurricane Bunker Blog

Eye on Katrina Blog

Metroblogging New Orleans

Hattie's Blog

The Irish Trojan's Blog

Update [2005-8-29 14:4:58 by nika7k]:
Latest radar out of Mobile, AL with wind vectors from this site: Weather Underground: Current Mobile Nexrad Radar Map

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Sounds sorta silly huh?  

Ok, perhaps I mean to say, I wish I could live for 300 years or so, in good health.  

Why?

Those of you that are interested, opine away.

I am a Zen Existentialist and have been, admittedly in an un-zen like way, allowing certain concepts to percolate into my philosophical thought-paths these days.

(flip it on over)

This has GOT to resonate with the conservatives who want smaller gov.  This is not about 911, not about the War on Terror (sic), this is about you and me.  I think the polls show they get it.. they need to hear

over and over and over.

In understanding this at an intuitive level, we can begin to make our own way in the current and coming trials.  What that way is will be unique to each of us.

I sense that there really is little we can do to heal our collective soul other than the following:

1. Frogmarch every single senator and representative in every state and in the US Congress out the door and into waiting buses.

2. Drive said buses to isolated containment facilities, not unlike Guantanamo Bay, and maintain 24/7 electronic monitoring on these common criminals.

3. Choose the 3rd and 4th grade girls and boys with the best grades in each state and repopulate the state and national legislatures and senates.

4. Make sure they still do their homework.
   

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