Green Options » hormuz http://greenoptions.com/tag/hormuz Posts tagged 'hormuz' Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:47:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Micheal Klare on New World Order based on Oil http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/18/micheal-klare-on-new-world-order-based-on-oil/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/18/micheal-klare-on-new-world-order-based-on-oil/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:47:07 +0000 The Dave Room http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/18/micheal-klare-on-new-world-order-based-on-oil/ Yesterday evening I went to hear a sobering talk in Berkeley by Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, Michael Klare. Klare suggests in his newest book, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, that we are now facing a new world order in which power transfers to net energy exporters (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Russia, Kazakhstan) from net energy importers (e.g., the United States). He believes oil will peak between 2012 and 2015 at somewhere around 95-100 million barrels/day. Regardless of whether oil peaks then, he says supply will not be able to keep up with demand much longer.

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From http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=76003

Klare points out that China will soon have the world’s largest fleet of automobiles - in decade or so - as they are following our model of auto-centric development. He had hoped that China would leapfrog oil to more sustainable mobility solutions but that is not happening.

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