We recently reported on accusations that 911 was a conspiracy. Some people think the real reason we invaded Iraq was not 911, but oil. Now Greg Palast writes in The Guardian that the Iraq war IS all about oil, but according to Palast, we didn’t invade Iraq three years ago in order to have more oil, we went to war so we’d have less (and the oil companies would have higher profits).
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We’ve all heard about oil geysers, spurting up suddenly out of the ground, but nine-foot-high geysers spewing natural gas have suddenly sprung up in Oklahoma, and geologists aren’t sure why.
Tony Thornton writes in The Oklahoman that, according to a local geologist, these are caused by gas leaking out of natural rock fractures, although he has never seen geysers like this before. When a gas bubble is freed from its reservoir, it rises. The gas expands as it rises, causing the geyser. It dissipates quickly once it hits the air. There’s not much that can be done to control them. It’s a shame when natural gas is wasted this way instead of being sold.
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Vermonters will decide at their Convention on Independence, which will be held in the House Chamber of the State House in Montpelier on Friday, October 28th, 2005. This will be the first statewide convention on secession in the US since North Carolina voted to secede from the Union on May 20, 1861, starting the Civil War. The problem this time isn?t slaves, it’s big government, big business and the oil shortage. Vermont was an independent republic from 1777 to 1791?could it become that again? The keynote speaker at the convention will be James Kunstler, author of “The Long Emergency,” who was a recent guest on Dreamland.
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Consumers beware: oil and gas prices may double our even triple this winter, according to Matthew Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. James Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency (a recent Dreamland show) agrees.
A cold winter has been predicted. Like most energy experts, he thinks gas prices are actually cheap, despite the fact that commuters are still reeling from price hikes at the gas pump. But oil is a precious and limited commodity and should be price accordingly so that it is no squandered. In a speech in Ottawa, Simmons said that gas prices “need to go a lot higher.”
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