Global Fuel Crisis

[Marcus]

SECRET GLOBAL FUEL CRISIS


The greatest crisis that civilisation has ever faced is also one of the
best-kept secrets of our time. The American, British, Russian, and various
European governments, have consistently downplayed, concealed and lied about
the global fuel crisis.

Put simply, it is now almost impossible to produce oil and gas at a rate
that can meet the enormous and growing demands of major Western cities.
Consumption of electricity and fossil fuel is higher than ever before and
shows no sign of falling.

This may at first sound like an environmental problem, or a problem for big
business. It is not. Niether is it a call for you to save energy: it
probably wouldn't make any difference now. The fuel crisis is our problem:
yours and mine. A global population of the present size cannot be sustained
and drastic changes are inevitable.

POWER CUTS:

If you live in a city then you could find yourself without food, water,
electricity, transport, heat, or light at any moment and for any length of
time. (Could this be the real reason why Americans are being urged to
stockpile water, food and batteries? Certainly it seems like a good
idea given the uncertainty and the extent of the fuel crisis: it is far
more likely to effect Americans than any terrorist attack, no matter
how large.)

Western governments including the United States and Britain already have
been forced to use fuel from huge emergency stockpiles held in secret
locations. But they have been powerless to prevent the first huge city power
outages which struck the New York; then London; followed by similar city
power outages in Denmark and Sweden; and then Italy, Switzerland, Austria
and France. The effects only lasted a few hours, but each case was the
biggest power failure in the history of the affected country. These massive
power cuts were separated by a matter of days. The governments were only
practicing this time. This is just the beginning."

http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=0423

This is more serious than just a lack of light or TV for a couple of hours,
or a few days with no fuel for your car in the pumps. The shockwaves of the
secret global fuel crisis could begin dismantling civilisation as we know it
not in 50 or 100 years but right now, long before fuel supplies actually
start to run out. There is no quick fix, no solution, no viable
alternative fuel that we can switch our cities on to.
It is not that there is no fuel left: we may not face that problem for
another few decades (although when it happens there will be little that we
can do.) The problem today is that the rate at which we consume oil and gas
threatens to exceed the available rate of supply. At peak times and
under certain conditions the supply is already unable to meet the
demand. This shocking fact is not publicly acknowledged by any major
Western government. It is a very closely guarded secret indeed.

The effect of the supply-demand imbalance is the same as if the oil and gas
reserves were actually running out: civilisation as we know it cannot exist
without fuel.

There are signs in abundance that something is seriously wrong. Various,
often contradictory official reasons are being given. Is there more to the
headlines than meets the eye?

INTERNATIONAL POWER CUTS CHAOS:

US & Canada Power Cut Chaos:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3152903.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3152985.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3152687.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/pho ... 152591.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3162371.stm

Britain Power Cut Chaos:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3155081.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sout ... 191761.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3199784.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3154001.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3419771.stm

Northern Ireland Power Cut Chaos:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3292763.stm

Italy & Switzerland Power Cut Chaos:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3147810.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3023908.stm

Denmark & Sweden Power Cut Chaos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3132332.stm

Georgia Power Cut Chaos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3413651.stm

CONTINUING FUEL AND ENERGY PRICE RISES:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2788139.stm

CALIFORNIAN ENERGY CRISIS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3133635.stm

NEW TRAFFIC CHARGES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3317197.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3362683.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3401023.stm

(The UK is just the test bed. The US & Europe are next.)

UK FUEL CRISIS:

http://theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=449
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3144368.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3238897.stm

UK FUEL PRICES:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3137132.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3125634.stm

VENEZUELA OIL EXPORT CRISIS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2693183.stm



OIL-PRICE RISES IN MAJOR OIL-COUNTRIES:
"Iraqis are suffering such a serious fuel shortage they will have to get
emergency imports, even though their country has the world's second largest
oil reserves."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 017277.stm

Nigeria: ""The government is just trying to trick us," a despondent taxi
driver told the BBC while standing in a one hour long queue for fuel in
Lagos."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3159584.stm


THE OIL WARS:

http://www.thedebate.org/

On their own these issues look suspicious at best. The official
cover-stories just do not add up. Multiple explanations contradict
each other. Together these problems raise the specter of a secret global
energy crisis and this is just the beginning.

Warnings have been and will be found in the widespread powercuts that have
already begun to plague Western cities. For many decades such large-scale
powercuts have been unheard of. Now powercut after powercut has effected the
West's most prolific users of electrical power, again and again and will
continue to do so over the next decade.

Warnings were to be found in the Afghanistan oil war. They were to be found
in the Iraq oil war. They will be found in the Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia
oil wars to come: [ http://www.thedebate.org ]

Oil: Thirty years of turmoil:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3202174.stm

Dwindling supplies of natural hydrocarbon fuels are forcing an acceleration
in the process of globalising oil-producing Middle-Eastern countries like
Iraq, Syria and Iran. This forced globalisation is being delivered by the
use of military force. Military force has also been used to secure
Afghanistan, which enabled the building of the vital Centgas Caspian Sea oil
pipeline.

(Can UK participation in the oil-wars be explained by the hidden extent of
the fuel crisis?)

http://theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=449

The latest report on Syria from the US Energy Information Administration
states that Syria's oil production peaked in 1996, and that they could
become a net importer by 2005. How many oil producing economies have a
similar profile?

THEY ALL DO:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/syria.html
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/nations
http://www.oilcrisis.com

At the very least the West should expect further restrictions & price
increases for fuel and for activities which use fuel, such as motoring and
the consumption of electricity:


"Is the UK about to run out of cheap natural gas supplies?"

"Gas is the UK's main source of electricity generation, with 39% of the
market, compared to a share of less than 1% in 1990, according to official
industry figures. The UK is now the world's third largest consumer of
natural gas, after the US and Russia."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3401083.stm


"In a few years time, when the life blood of Western civilization is no
longer readily available, it will be to late to adapt. The strong nations
will take fuel from the weak nations in a futile final struggle for
survival. But the writing is on the wall, and the collapse of civilization
as we know it is inevitable. The oil wars have already begun." (Acheson
Intelligence Group).

WHY NOT JUST CONVERT TO RENEWABLE ENERGY?
When oil and gas cease to be a feasible source of energy we cannot just
convert to renewable fuels like wind and hydrogen. There is no converter-kit
that would enable your car to run on hydrogen. There is no magic
converter-kit for power stations either: if it was simple to convert then we
would all have converted long ago. There are insurmountable obstacles to the
widespread use of renewable energy as an alternative to oil and gas.

To produce sufficient wind or tidal-generated electricity to replace oil and
gas fuel we would need to replace our cities, fields and planes with wind
farms and our coastal towns and harbours with tidal power stations. We would
need to pave the deserts with solar panels. Trillions upon trillions of new
generation units would need to be built, installed and connected to power
grids. This would be impossibly expensive and would take up too much room.

As supply increasingly outweighs demand, the price of oil rises, inflating
the profits of those who hold and sell it. The oil companies whose income
relies on the oil trade, the oil price and the global demand for oil, have
prevented any real progress in the search for alternative fuels. They have
blocked serious attempts to replace their product in both the political and
the scientific arenas.

These are the organisations that fund Western leaders like President George
W Bush. They command enormous wealth, power and influence.

Oil & The Bush Cabinet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/ ... 138009.stm

Bush & Big Business
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/ ... 306777.stm

In addition to political funding the oil corporations also provide more
funding (and hence control) of energy research, than anybody else could or
would contemplate: they have no choice. Without total control over the
alternatives to their core product they would go out of business. Currently
no alternative power can be produced without impossible cost and effort.
This is largely a result of the oil-corporations' monopoly, control and
hidden restrictions on serious research.

THE SOLUTION:

There is no quick solution. There are just too many people using too much
power too fast and it may already be too late: we cannot be certain because
of the secrecy that surrounds the global fuel crisis in most Western
countries. The military takeover of oil countries may reduce the impact of
the crisis in the medium-term, at the cost of increased violence and
instability. But the inevitable damage to the oil-infrastructure of the
countries we attack means that oil-war is no quick fix. The continuing
growth of fuel consumption, compounded by the fact that fuel will one day run
out, means that there can be no long-term solution. Other than a drastic
cull of the population in the civilised world, shutting down the machinery
of civilisation and forcing the survivors to farm their own food, there is
no sure way to preserve civilisation as we know it. (These measures would be
unlikely to go down well with voters. Perhaps such measures should be
carried out by governments in secret, using a series of disease outbreaks
for example. Perhaps governments have already considered such measures.)

Those within government and the fuel industry who are aware of the problem
would only damage their own interests by addressing the problem and making a
genuine attempt to reduce our dependance on fossil fuels. The oil companies
cannot just stop their drive for profits: Shareholders would revolt; companies
would collapse. Politicians cannot act either because they rely on
the oil corporations for a very large portion of their funding. It is not
just the oil industry that is forced to resist efforts to address the
crisis. Many other industries - notably the energy and transport
industries - could not survive emergency measures like massive price
increases, which could otherwise be our only hope of preventing the
global fuel crisis. Now it is too late.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Not much unfortunately. It may be prudent to stockpile bottled water, tinned
foods, batteries, torches and blankets. But how much? Enough for a week or
enough for your grandchildren? Nobody can be sure when or where the next
power outages will occur, or how long they will last, because the truth is
being distorted and concealed. (Perhaps this could be likened to wartime
propaganda designed to prevent mass-hysteria.) Cutting our consumption of
fuel and power may not now improve the fuel crisis. Unless you are
interested in preserving the environment one could argue that you should
enjoy the privilege of fuel and power consumption while you still can. Above
all it is important that the world be made aware. Now you are aware and you
can choose to make others aware. Be ready and help others to become ready.
The secret global fuel crisis is a grave reality. Preparedness and the truth
may be all we have.



ACHESON INTELLIGENCE GROUP

[Lachie]

Thanks for that article Marcus. I'm more worried about this than about the cataclysms... also check out http://www.fromthewilderness.com for an excellent series of articles explaining this crisis we are about to face.

Lachie

[Vesko]

Thanks, Marcus! Thankfully you've sent it to me before.
It seems possible that oil and gas depletion might not occur. Have you read the posts in the Science and Technology forum under the topic "Origin of Natural Gas and Oil/Petroleum"?

[Rezo]

there are some who say the fuel crisis is actually a plot to centralise control of oil resources - specifically involving a bild. agenda involving a hegelian dialectic which deliberately is set into motion, so that public sentiment desires 'security' and the same power involved profits from controlling who does and does not get oil, whiile all the while it is polluting.....

a. get people to want to have clean fuels

b. associate clean technology with security

c. provide security for power but not people

d. rationalize that said security is good and safe, yet hoarding oil that actually is plentiful

e. say that clean coal technology is fine, and alternative fuels are actually dirtier!

link: http://davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr70.html

I'm not sure on this, but the whole problem reaction solution scheme is going on a lot these days, IMHO.

[Vesko]

Rezo, thank you very much for the informative post giving a new perspective!